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• Physics faculty elected to leadership positions in APS units

  Professors Daniel Blair and Amy Liu have been elected to leadership positions in units of the American Physical Society.

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• Online quantum course named one of the best of 2017

  Quantum Mechanics for Everyone, a massive open online course developed by Prof. Jim Freericks, has been selected by Class Central as one of the best online courses of 2017.

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• Sona Najafi Wins Spring 2018 Conference Travel Grant

  Sona Najafi has won the Graduate School's Spring 2018 Conference Travel Grant. The grant will provide Sona with funds for travel expenses to attend the 2018 American Physical Society conference.

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• Undergraduate student Thomas Kiely publishes article in Physical Review A

  Undergraduate Thomas Kiely has recently published part of his undergraduate thesis as a regular article in Physical Review A, one of the premiere physics journals. Thomas’ research is on quantum spins and magnetism and examined the relationship between one quantum model for magnetism called the XY model and another called the transverse field Ising model.

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• Ayan Mandal Receives Gates Cambridge Scholarship

  Ayan Mandal (C’18) has been awarded the prestigious Gates Scholarship for graduate studies at the University of Cambridge.

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• Prof. Amy Liu Receives Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching

  First presented in 1996, the Georgetown College Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching is designed to honor outstanding achievement in the teaching of undergraduate students. These awards are presen

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• Georgetown’s Designing the Future(s) Initiative

  Prof. Rhonda Dzakpasu featured in article on Georgetown’s Designing the Future(s) Initiative

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• Isabel Binamira presents research at Transportation Research Board Meeting

  Physics major Isabel Binamira (C’18) presented her research on the impact of autonomous vehicles at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board.

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• Prof. Olmsted Co-Authors Paper in Nature Physics

  A paper co-authored by Georgetown College physics professor Peter Olmsted has been published in the journal Nature Physics.

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• 2018 REU Program

  The Georgetown REU Site in Materials Physics is accepting applications for summer 2018.

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