Archive: News Story
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Undergraduate student interviews
Meet some Georgetown undergraduate physics majors as they talk about their motivations for studying physics, their research interests, and their experiences in the Georgetown physics department.
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Novel insight into the mesoscale texture of cement hydrates
Research by Prof. Del Gado, which appeared this month on PNAS early edition, has provided new understanding of cement hydrates' mesoscale texture, a crucial step to connect the fundamental scales to the macroscale of engineering properties in cement and concrete.
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Workshop on "Rheology of Dense Particulate Suspensions"
A workshop on “Rheology of dense particulate suspensions” will be held at Georgetown University, 16-17 June 2016.
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Graphene quantum dots pave a new way to light detection
Dr. Abdel El Fatimy and Prof. Paola Barbara in the Department of Physics, in collaboration with Dr. Kurt Gaskill’s group at the Naval Research Laboratory, have developed a novel type of graphene nanodevice to detect millimeter and submillimeter wavelength (terahertz) radiation with extraordinary sensitivity.
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Faculty member discusses the physics of Star Wars
Physics faculty member Patrick Johnson participated in the video series “Georgetown Talks Star Wars,” in which professors from around campus apply their scholarly expertise to analyze all things Star Wars.
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2016 REU Program
Undergraduate students are invited to apply for the physics department’s 2016 REU program. During this 10-week summer program, participants engage in a focused research project in materials physics, working closely with a faculty mentor.
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Professor Olmsted invited to speak on additive manufacturing at the National Academies
Peter Olmsted spoke at the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering Workshop on Predictive Theoretical and Computational Approaches to Additive Manufacturing.
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Industrial Leadership in Physics program featured in Symmetry magazine
The physics department’s Industrial Leadership in Physics graduate program is featured in an article in the online magazine Symmetry.
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Physics professor receives $1M grant from Templeton Foundation
Daniel Blair, together with collaborators Pranab Das of Elon University and Zvonimir Dogic of Brandeis University, has been awarded a $1M grant from the Templeton Foundation to study the science and philosophical implications of active matter in living cells.
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Quantum Mechanics for Everyone
Jim Freericks has been awarded a grant to create a massive open online course (MOOC) on Quantum Mechanics for Everyone.
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