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Denisse Córdova Carrizales Receives 2023 LeRoy Apker Award

October 24, 2023

Denisse Córdova Carrizales '23 has been recognized with the 2023 LeRoy Apker Award for developing a new method to intercalate Li into thin films of indium tin oxide.

Denisse graduated from Harvard College with a B.A. in physics with honors. After a year working on fusion energy policy and education, she will start a PhD at MIT's Nuclear Science and Engineering Department. While at Harvard under the guidance of Prof. Julia...

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Argüelles-Delgado Awarded 2023 Packard Fellowship

Argüelles-Delgado Awarded 2023 Packard Fellowship

October 16, 2023

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation announced today the 2023 class of Packard Fellows for Science and Engineering. Prof. Carlos Argüelles-Delgado is among 20 innovative early-career scientists and engineers who will each receive $875,000 over five years to pursue their research. 

Since 1988, the Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering have encouraged blue-sky thinking by providing maximum flexibility through unrestricted funds that can be used in any way the Fellows choose, including paying for necessities like child care. This flexibility allows Fellows...

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Khalaf, Paban Join Harvard Physics Faculty

July 5, 2023

The Department of Physics welcomes two new faculty members: Eslam Khalaf, as Assistant Professor of Physics, and Sonia Paban, Senior Lecturer on Physics and Senior Research Scientist in Physics. Both Prof. Khalaf and Dr. Paban were previously faculty members at University of Texas at Austin.

Prof. Khalaf, originally from Egypt, received his Ph.D. summa cum laude from Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research Stuttgart, Germany, and continued as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard, in Prof. Vishwanath's group, from 2018 to 2022. A ...

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Prof. Dvorkin Promoted to Full Professor

June 16, 2023

The Department of Physics is delighted to announce the promotion of Cora Dvorkin to Professor of Physics with tenure.

 

Congratulations, Prof. Dvorkin!

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Argüelles-Delgado Receives National Science Foundation CAREER Award

May 1, 2023

Congratulations to Prof. Carlos Argüelles-Delgado for receiving the NSF CAREER Award, which supports junior faculty "who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through research and education, and the integration of these endeavors in the context of their organizations' missions." The awards, presented once each year, include a federal grant for research and education activities for five consecutive years.

The Abstract for Prof. Argüelles-Delgado's award reads as follows:

Particle physics has progressed over the last century by...

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Winners of 2023 Student Prizes

Winners of 2023 Student Prizes

May 1, 2023

On May 1, 2023, the department celebrated the achievements of our undergraduate and graduate students with awards presentation:

Jack T. Sanderson Memorial Prize in Physics
for graduating seniors with the highest GPA among concentration courses

  • Avery Parr

Carol Davis Prize
Awarded to a Physics concentrator in recognition of their efforts to build a...

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Two Lectures by Steven Chu

April 24, 2023

STEVEN CHU

William R. Kenan Jr. Professor, Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology and of Energy Science and Engineering
Stanford University
1997 Nobel Prize in Physics

Monday, April 24, 2023, @4:30pm
Jefferson Lab 250 

Colloquium: "Entropy, molecular motors, and non-thermal equilibrium statistical physics"

The transport of molecular cargos in neuronal cells is analyzed in the context of new developments in entropy and statistical physics. Our development of very bright optical...

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Tau Appearance from High-Energy Neutrino Interactions

Tau Appearance from High-Energy Neutrino Interactions

April 14, 2023

Many upcoming neutrino experiments aim to detect extragalactic neutrinos with energies thousands of times higher than ever seen before. These neutrinos contain valuable information about the most energetic — as well as some of the oldest — processes in the Universe. Tau neutrinos, one of three known flavors of neutrinos, have been the main focus of most next-generation neutrino experiments due to properties that make detecting them at high energies easier.

In the cover paper of the latest Physics Review Letters, postdoc Alfonso Garcia Soto, upcoming G1 Pavel...

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