Archive: News Story

  • Newly Tenured Faculty Members

    Congratulations to Professors Daniel Blair and Rhonda Dzakpasu, both of whom were promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure in July 2014.

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  • Vatican astronomer delivers commencement address

    Guy Consolmagno, S.J., astronomer, teacher, physicist, researcher, and Jesuit, delivered the 2014 Georgetown College commencement address. In a speech urging graduates to never be afraid of the truth, and to never think that their comprehension of the truth is finished or complete, he wove in comments on dark matter, magnetic susceptibility, integration by parts, and extraterrestrials!

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  • ARCS scholarship

    Physics Ph.D. student Bryce Yoshimura has been selected as a Metropolitan Washington Chapter of Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (MWC/ARCS) Foundation Scholar for 2014-2015. Bryce is conducting theoretical research in the Freericks group on using ion trap quantum simulators to study frustrated quantum magnetism. The ARCS Foundation advances science and technology in the United States by providing financial awards to academically outstanding students studying to complete degrees in science, engineering, and medical research.

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  • Oxford-bound student reflects on Georgetown experience

    Science, Technology, and International Affairs major Andrew Choi (SFS’14) says one of his most memorable moments at Georgetown came less than two weeks before Commencement – getting his picture placed on the department of physics’ wall of majors. “No one actually thought I was going to finish the equivalent of the physics degree in two years,” he explained. “But just two days ago I had the privilege of putting my picture up there.” A full profile of Andrew is available here.

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  • Graduate student work published in Physical Review Letters

    Part of Wen Shen's graduate dissertation work was recently published in Physical Review Letters, one of the most prestigious Physics journals. The work examined the behavior of charge density wave ord

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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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