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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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• Georgetown Physicists Participate in USA Science and Engineering Expo

  On October 23rd and 24th Professor Blair and his lab members participated in the first USA Science and Engineering Expo on the National Mall. Their exhibit was titled, "Squishy Science: The W

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