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Imaging Viscous Flow of the Dirac Fluid in Graphene

It sounds like pure sorcery: using diamonds to observe invisible power swirling and flowing through carefully crafted channels. But these diamonds are a reality. [Harvard Physics Associate Mark J. H....

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8th Annual Harvard Physics Department Postdoc/Research Scholar Retreat, Sep...

WHEN:  September 17, 2020 WHERE:   ZOOM, please register  The retreat this year will be virtual via Zoom! Please register at link below. Our Plenary Speaker is our own Sheldon L. Glashow, Higgins...

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Quantum Science Center: A Partnership to Drive the the Development of New...

Professors Amir Yacoby and Prineha Narang (SEAS) have partnered with 15 institutions across the national lab, academia, and private industry landscapes to realize the potential of quantum information...

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Mundy Receives Packard Fellowship

On October 15, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation announced the 2020 class of Packard Fellows for Science and Engineering. This year Prof. Julia Mundy is one of 20 innovative early-career...

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Probing light-driven quantum materials with ultrafast resonant inelastic...

Ultrafast optical pulses are an increasingly important tool for controlling quantum materials and triggering novel photo-induced phase transitions. Understanding these dynamic phenomena requires a...

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Superspreading Events Without Superspreaders

Is a study posted on medRxiv, Prof. Mara Prentiss and two former Harvard physics students, Arthur Chu and Karl Berggren (MIT), analyzed transmission of COVID-19 using five well-documented case...

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Guenette Awarded a 2020 Synergy Grant by European Research Council

Prof. Roxanne Guenette, with colleagues Juan José Gómez Cádenas (Donostia International Physics Center) and Fernando P. Cossío (the University of the Basque Country), have been awarded a 2020 Synergy...

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Medal for Exceptional Achievement in Research: Topology and other tools in...

Reviews of Modern Physics published an extended version of a talk by Prof. Bertrand Halperin, given at the March 2019 meeting of the American Physical Society, upon received the 2019 APS Medal for...

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Prof. Lukin Received the OSA Charles Hard Townes Medal 

Mikhail Lukin, has been selected as the 2021 recipient of The Optical Society (OSA) Charles Hard Townes Medal in honor of his pioneering theoretical and experimental contributions to quantum nonlinear...

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Congratulations to Professors Carlos Argüelles-Delgado and Roxanne Guenette,...

Professors Roxanne Guenette and Carlos Argüelles-Delgado have been selected as 2021 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellows in Physics.  Awarded annually since 1955, Sloan Fellowships honor extraordinary...

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Prof. Mundy to receive Star-Friedman Challenge for Promising Scientific Research

Congratulations to Prof. Julia Mundy on her receipt of the 2021 Star-Friedman Challenge for Promising Scientific Research for her proposal, “An Interfacial Platform for Faultless Quantum Computing.”...

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Prof. Xiaowei Zhuang Receives the 2021 Lurie Prize in Biomedical Sciences

Foundation for the National Institute of Health (FNIH) has awarded Prof. Xiaowei Zhuang the ninth annual Lurie Prize for her revolutionary work developing super-resolution microscopy and genome-scale...

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Detection of a particle shower at the Glashow resonance with IceCube

Sixty years ago, a postdoctoral researcher at what is now known as the Niels Bohr Institute in Denmark named Sheldon Glashow proposed a hypothetical interaction between electron antineutrinos and...

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2021 Graduate Award Recipients

Congratulations to Harvard Physics 2021 Graduate Student Award Recipients:Frederick Sheldon Traveling Fellowship: Anthony BadeaGoldhaber Award (experiment): Nicolò Foppiani, and Zeyu HaoGoldhaber Award...

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Prof. Mundy Receives 2021 Early Career Research Program Award from DOE

Prof. Julia Mundy is one of 83 scientists from across the nation selected by Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science to receive significant funding for research as part of DOE’s Early Career...

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Kang-Kuen Ni Promoted to Full Professor with Tenure

Congratulations to Prof. Kang-Kuen Ni on her promotion to Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and of Physics, with tenure, effective July 1, 2021! Ni left Taiwan in 2000 for the University of...

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Prof. Demler Awarded 2021 Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics

Prof. Eugene Demler was awarded this year's Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics by the Joachim Herz Foundation, the Wolfgang Pauli Centre, and the University of Hamburg. The prize, which is awarded...

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Prof. Argüelles-Delgado Receives a 2021 IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in...

IceCube collaborator and Harvard physics professor Carlos A. Argüelles-Delgado is the recipient of a 2021 IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Astroparticle Physics. Young Scientist Prizes recognize the...

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Harvard Launches PhD in Quantum Science and Engineering

Harvard University announced today one of the world’s first PhD programs in Quantum Science and Engineering, a new intellectual discipline at the nexus of physics, chemistry, computer science and...

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Steven Weinberg – A Reminiscence

by Howard Georgi Theoretical physics lost one of its most brilliant, thoughtful, influential and durable practitioners when Steven Weinberg died in July at the age of 88.  Steve came to MIT in 1969...

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