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• Freericks group publishes research on quantum behavior of periodically driven interacting materials.

  Research completed with a visiting graduate student from Germany (Mona Kalthoff) and her advisor in Germany (Gotz Uhrig) has recently been published in the high-profile journal Physical Review Letters.

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• Eleni Hughes to participate in 2019 Expanding Horizons program

  Eleni Hughes has been selected to participate in the 2019 Expanding Horizons: Ewha-Luce International Seminar (ELIS) for women in STEM.

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• Faculty presenting invited talks at the 2019 APS March Meeting

  Three Georgetown faculty members will be presenting invited talks at the 2019 March Meeting of the American Physical Society

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• Jim Freericks (Physics) Answers: How Do You Engage Students—with no background in the sciences—in Quantum Mechanics?

  Jim Freericks (Physics) recently worked with CNDLS to design the MOOC, “Quantum Mechanics for Everyone”

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• 2019 REU Program

  The Georgetown REU Site in Materials Physics is accepting applications for summer 2019.

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• Prof. Emanuela Del Gado Elected as APS GSOFT Executive Committee Member

  Prof. Emanuela Del Gado has been elected as an GSOFT Executive Committee Member. GSOFT is a APS Topical Group on Soft Matter. The Executive Committee for GSOFT provides assistance and guidance to all

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• Prof. Freericks Elected as AAAS Fellow

  Professor James Freericks of the Department of Physics has been named a fellow at the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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• Prof. Liu is theme leader of a newly funded SMART research center on Spintronics

  A new research center named Spintronic Materials in Advanced infoRmation Technologies (SMART) with focus on novel materials for advanced computing systems has been funded by the Nanoelectronic Computing Research (nCORE) consortium.

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• Prof. Freericks publishes research on a “quantum Cheshire cat” in prestigious journal Physical Review X

  When quantum materials are highly excited by ultrafast lasers, the electrons exchange energy with phonons, and eventually, the system relaxes back to equilibrium at a well-known temperature. But the

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• Prof. Freericks receives two grants for quantum information science as part of the Department of Energy’s recent $218 million initiative.

  The Department of Energy has announced $218 million in funding for work in quantum information science. Georgetown is the lead for a project in the Basic Energy Sciences directorate with North Caroli

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