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Physics major wins poster award
Leah Chen, a sophomore physics major, recently won third place in a video poster competition at the DC space grant consortium annual meeting.
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Students Attend Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics
Four physics students and Prof. Amy Liu participated in the 2023 Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWiP). Sponsored by the American Physical Society, CUWiP is designed to encourage undergraduate women to continue in physics.
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Profs. Blair, Del Gado, and Urbach win a 3 year grant from the National Science Foundation
Profs. Blair, Del Gado, and Urbach won a 3 year grant of $691,996 from the National Science Foundation for a combined experimental and computational investigation of the role of microscopic rotations, fluctuations, and friction in an important class of particle gels.
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Prof. Kai Liu Elected Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors
The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) just announced that Kai Liu, Professor and McDevitt Chair in Physics at the Georgetown University, has been elected to the 2022 class of NAI Fellows.
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3D nanomagnetism: there is plenty of room at the top
In a study just published in Nano Letters, Prof. Kai Liu’s group and collaborators, led by Dr. Dhritiman Bhattacharya, have demonstrated the potential of 3D interconnected nanowire networks to be used as neuromorphic computing elements.
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Students present at regional APS conference
Several Georgetown physics students presented their research at the annual meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Section of the American Physical Society, held at Penn State University Dec 2-4.
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2022 Outstanding Teaching Assistants
Graduate students Orelle Bulgin and Wayan Fontaine-Seiler were named 2022 Outstanding Teaching Assistants by the physics department.
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Physics major wins award
Sophie Taylor, a junior physics major, was the winner of the best poster award in the “Condensed Matter/Materials Science/Nano-Science/Surface” category at the recent PhysCon conference in Washington DC.
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In memory of Wesley N. Mathews Jr. (1937 – 2022)
Wesley N. Mathews, Jr. was a member of the Department of Physics for over 50 years. He passed away on August 22, 2022 at the age of 85. Wes was a remarkable person. He loved many things including physics, nature, and people. But above all, he loved to tell stories about the adventures in his life. And he had many. So very many.
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Experimental test of the topological stability of magnetic skyrmions
In a study just published in Nano Letters, Prof. Kai Liu’s group and collaborators, led by Dr. Gong Chen, have observed a topological evolution of skyrmions during the chirality switching from one handedness to the other.
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