Archive: News Story

• Visit from St. Kevin’s College, Melbourne, Australia

  The physics department recently hosted a group of 40 high school students from St. Kevin’s College in Melbourne, Australia.

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• Escape the Lab!

  Students from local schools engaged in an Escape the Physics Lab challenge during the 2024 GUMSHOE Discovery Summit.

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• REU student Anna Mazhar publishes work as a cover article in Symmetry.

  Anna Mazhar collaborated with Prof. Jim Freericks and Jeremy Canfield on a research project detailing a new way to solve for quantum wavefunctions of bound-state energy eigenstates called the single-shot factorization method.

  Categories: News Story, Research, Undergraduate

• New DEPSCoR Grant to Support Neuromorphic Computing Efforts at DC Universities

  Prof. Kai Liu is part of a team from DC universities led by George Washington University that has recently received a $1M Defense Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (DEPSCoR) capacity-building grant from the Department of Defense

  Categories: News Story, Research

• Undergraduate physics majors publish their research

  Georgetown undergraduate students Sophie Taylor and Yuri Chung and REU student Sam Becker were recent co-authors on a paper that appeared in the journal Heliyon.

  Categories: News Story, Research, Undergraduate

• Professor Emanuela Del Gado has been invited to become Affiliate of the Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics of the University of Edinburgh.

  Professor Emanuela Del Gado has been invited to become Affiliate of the Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics.

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• Recently Published Graduate Students’ Paper Selected as Cover Story Article

  Physics graduate students Eli Adler and Thy Le are the first and second authors of a recently published paper.

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• Peter Olmsted and Amy Liu elected to APS Council

  Peter Olmsted and Amy Liu have been elected to the American Physical Society’s Council of Representatives.

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• The Georgetown chapter of the Society of Physics Students (SPS) recently won a 2023-24 Future Faces of Physics Award from the National SPS

  The Georgetown chapter of the Society of Physics Students (SPS) recently won a 2023-24 Future Faces of Physics Award from the National SPS. Georgetown’s proposal, developed by physics majors Amada Paris (C’25) and Cecilia Ochoa (C’24), was focused on organizing events to bring together students, faculty, and staff for a discussion on how to improve the culture at Georgetown physics and physics as a whole.

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• Kayla Winters (C’24) Presents at 76th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics

  Kayla Winters (C’24) recently presented at the 76th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics (DFD) in Washington, DC.

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