I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students.
News
The latest news, information, and announcements from the Physics Department
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)
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.
Sep 28, '23:
Professor Miri (lead PI), in collaboration with colleagues from Georgia Techa and UCF, have been awarded an NSF FuSe-REG grant “Enabling Photonic Computing Engines through Hetero-integration”, 10/2023 - 09/2026.