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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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• 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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