Archive: News Story

• Former postdoctoral fellows Marko Petrovic and Manuel Weber publish nonequilibrium work in Physical Review X

  Professor Freericks led a group including former postdoctoral fellows Marko Petrovic and Manuel Weber on a project that simulates materials with electrons coupled to their lattice vibrations after they have been illuminated by intense laser beams that drive them into a nonequilibrium state.

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• Professor Freericks publishes article on quantum computing in Nature Communications

  Professor Freericks completed a project on showing how to use a linear-response formalism to calculate Green’s functions on quantum computers.

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• 2023 REU student Joseph Noonan publishes his research in the American Journal of Physics

  Joseph Noonan, a student in the 2023 REU program, completed a research project with Prof. Freericks on determining a general methodology for calculating wavefunctions algebraically in quantum mechanics.

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• Prof. Emanuela Del Gado and ISMSM-NIST Fellow Dr. Mauro Mugnai Publish Paper in ScienceAdvances

  Prof. Emanuela Del Gado and Dr. Mauro Mugnai (ISMSM-NIST Fellow) in collaboration with TU Eindhoven, have developed groundbreaking synthetic gel materials that mimic the dynamic properties of biologi

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• NSF CAREER Award Secured by Dr. Gen Yin

  Professor Gen Yin, Physics, received a CAREER award of $600,000 from the National Science Foundation for a five-year project to study how to detect and manipulate the hidden spin orders in antiferromagnets for various device applications.

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• Physics PhD Student Amjad Alqahtani Wins Best Poster Award at MRS Fall Meeting

  Physics PhD student Amjad Alqahtani was selected for a Best Poster Award at the 2024 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting.

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• Profs. Heidi Elmendorf and Jeff Urbach Publish Paper in PNAS Nexus

  An interdisciplinary team of researchers, led by Georgetown faculty members Biology Professor Heidi Elmendorf and Physics Professor Jeff Urbach recently published a paper in PNAS Nexus.

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• Mak Paranjape elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors

  Professor Mak Paranjape has been elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors for his exceptional contributions to innovation

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• Prof. Emanuela Del Gado Elected DSOFT Vice Chair

  Prof. Emanuela Del Gado has been elected as Vice Chair of the American Physical Society’s Division of Soft Matter (DSOFT).

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• Recent grants awarded to physics faculty

  Several members of the department faculty have received new external grants in recent months.

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