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New Faculty Members
The physics department is pleased to welcome two new faculty members.
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Summer 2014 Hichwa Fellowship
Andrew Stromberg (C’15) has been awarded the Hichwa Family Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship for 2014
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Mayer scholarship winner
The Department of Physics is pleased to announce the inaugural winner of the Professor Walter G. Mayer Endowed Scholarship to support a graduate student pursuing a Ph.D. in experimental physics.
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Georgetown physicists discover highly sought for quantum liquid
For nearly 70 years, physicists have speculated whether quantum fluctuations in two- or three-dimensional spin or boson systems can destabilize ordered phases. The resulting phase would then be a "qu
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The Eighth Mid-Atlantic Soft Matter workshop (MASM8)
The eighth installment of the Mid-Atlantic Soft Matter workshop (MASM8) will be held at the NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR) on the 9th of December from 8:50am - 5:50 pm. To learn more about t
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Georgetown physicists help demonstrate photon coalescence from distinct sources
The development of practical devices for quantum computation will likely require interconnecting different types of subcomponents. Single photons are a promising means for this interconnection, but p
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Senior thesis leads to scientific publication
Recent Georgetown Physics graduate Mark Jreissaty (A.B. 2011) has turned his award-winning Senior Thesis into a scientific publication in the prestigious American Physical Society journal Physical Re
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Biopolymers help visualize mechanical strain
Georgetown Physicists Prof. Daniel Blair and Richard Arevalo, in a collaboration with scientists at the Technische Universität München (TUM) have unlocked a sixty year old mystery about the way polym
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Physics Major named Mitchell Scholar
The US-Ireland Alliance has named Georgetown Physics major, Derick Stace-Naughton, a Mitchell Scholar. The George J. Mitchell Scholarship program was created more than 10 years ago and has quickly be
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Georgetown Physicists Propose a Method to Create Atom Lasers in Optical Lattices
Publishing in Physical Review Letters (editors' suggestion), former Georgetown postdoctoral fellow Itay Hen and Prof. Marcos Rigol proposed a method to dynamically generate coherent matter waves in s
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