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Prof. Freericks selected for the Slater Lecture Series of the Quantum Theory Project at the University of Florida
James Slater Professor Freericks will give three lectures at the University of Florida from October 22-24, 2019. He is selected as the 2019 Slater Lecturer. Slater Lecturers are from the field of
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Physics Faculty Win DC space Grant
A group of physics faculty (Cothran, Del Gado, Freericks and Van Keuren) were recently awarded a grant from the District of Columbia Space Grant Consortium (DCSGC).
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College Science Professors Pedal for a World Free of MS
Jeff Urbach, photographed by Team Georgetown teammate Peter Olmsted, at the start of their three-day ride along the C&O canal towpath from Cumberland to Georgetown in May. Jeffrey Urbach, Professo
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Shichen Wang and Kara Googins Receive TA Awards
Graduate students Shichen Wang and Kara Googins received the 2019 Outstanding Physics Teaching Assistant Award for their exemplary service as PHYS-101/102 teaching assistants during the 2018-19 acade
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Prof. Freericks part of a Quantum Leap Challenge Institute conceptual grant team led by the University of Florida.
Prof. Freericks is part of a team developing a proposal to create an institute in quantum biology with quantum computers centered at the University of Florida. The NSF recently funding this conceptua
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Prof. Freericks has his Quantum Information Science grant renewed by the National Science Foundation
NSF has funded a grant to examine reservoir engineering in Penning trap-based quantum computers. Experiments will take place at NIST in Boulder, Colorado, with theory work taking place at Georgetown.
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Postdoctoral researcher Oleg Matveev’s work on ultrafast thermometry is published in Physical Review Letters
One of the recent advances in experimental physics are ultrafast pump/probe experiments that pump a large amount of energy into a material over very short time scales (the time for light to move
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Alumna Who Discovered Evidence of Dark Matter Inspires Global Symposium
June 28, 2019 – A symposium honoring Vera Rubin (G’54), one of the most important American astrophysicists of the 20th century, took place this week at Georgetown, where she received a Ph.D. and bega
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2019 Mayer Scholarship Recipient
The Department of Physics is pleased to announce that Luke St. Marie is the recipient of the 2019 Professor Walter G. Mayer Endowed Scholarship, which supports a graduate student pursuing a Ph.D.
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Alumnus Max Lefcochilos-Fogelquist publishes work based on undergraduate thesis
Max Lefcochilos-Fogelquist (C’17) is first author on the article “Substrate-induced suppression of charge density wave phase in monolayer 1H-TaS2 on Au(111)”
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