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Ernest Renan

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The latest news, information, and announcements from the Physics Department
Apr 21, '25:
Biophysics: Because Life is Weird
Fall 2025 - Phys 383: “Special Topics in Biophysics”. Pre-req Math 201 or equivalent; co-req Phys 242 or equivalent -or- with the permission of the instructor.
Apr 01, '25:
Physics Club students attended Cosmic Pathways/SPS Conference
Dec 05, '24:
Prof. Azriel Genack and his group published the paper "Ohm's law lost and regained: observation and impact of zeros and poles," in December 2024. The work was a collaboration with students  Israel Kurtz and Zhou Shi, and postdoctoral fellow Joshi Krishna.
DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2406.05112
Oct 20, '24:
Prof. So Takei’s paper, co-authored with his former postdoc Dr. Subrata Chakraborty, is now published as a Letter in Physical Review B and was selected for Editor’s Suggestion. "Controlling orbital magnetism of band electron systems via bath engineering,” Phys. Rev. B 110, L140405 (2024)
Aug 27, '24:
A book “Quantum Optics of Light Scattering” with Prof. Lisyansky as a lead author is recently published by Springer in Springer Series in Optical Sciences
Aug 27, '24:
Professor Keaton Bell is a recipient of a National Science Foundation grant “Collaborative Research: The Seismic Technique for Accurate White Dwarf Parameters” (08/24 - 07/27)
Aug 27, '24:
A Physics Department team led by Professor Tim Benseman (also Profs. Almeida, Genack, Kuskovsky and Miri) was awarded $492,000 for a “Wide-range FTIR spectrometer for photonics research and education” by Department of Defense (DoD) Research and Education Program for Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority-Serving Institutions (HBCU/MI).
Mar 23, '24:
Prof. Azriel Genack and his group published the paper "Velocities of transmission eigenchannels and diffusion," in Nature Communiations in March 2024. The work was a collaboration with former students Yiming Huang and Zhou Shi, and with postdoctoral fellow Asher Maor.
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-46748-0
Dec 20, '23:
Prof. Euclides Almeida is a recipient of Department of Defense, HBCU/MI grant “Extreme Nonlinear Metamaterials Based on Hybrid Light-Matter States” (June 2023-May 2027).
Sep 28, '23:
Professor Miri is a recipient of a grant for “Instrumentation for Developing Universal Programmable Photonic Integrated Circuits for Analog Information Processing” by the Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP), Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), 08/2023 - 07/2024.