Wanzheng Hu receives funding for DOE Early Career Award
Wanzheng Hu recently received a supplemental funding to her five-year DOE Early Career Award, bringing the total funding amount to $929,769. This project aims at ultrafast and bidirectional manipulation of ordered phases in quantum materials using laser excitation of optical phonons. The objectives include ferroelectrics and multiferroics, and light-induce synthetic states of matter in perovskite […]
Naomi Gonzalez named Clare Boothe Luce Scholar
Summer student Naomi Gonzalez has been named a Clare Boothe Luce Scholar for summer 2024. To see the Clare Boothe Luce Scholars from previous summers, visit the UROP website.
Dillon Brout appeared on radio show “Science Friday” on Friday, May 17th
Assistant Professor Dillon Brout appeared on the national show “Science Friday” on public radio on Friday, at 2:40 PM, May 17. In Boston, WBUR airs the show. If you did not catch the show live, here is the link to the PodCast https://www.sciencefriday.com/episodes/may-17-2024/ Great job, Dillon!
Congratulations to Professor Demiragli and Professor Suarez!
Professor Indara Suarez and Professor Zeynep Demiragli have been promoted with Tenure! Congratulations to Professor Demiragli and Professor Suarez!
Professor Andrei Ruckenstein: Distinguished Professor in Arts & Sciences
Dean Stan Sclaroff has announced the selection of Professor Andrei Ruckenstein as one of the inaugural cohort of Arts & Sciences Term Distinguished Professors. Congratulations to Professor Ruckenstein! CAS Names Inagural A&S Term Distinguished Professors
Press release regarding the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) and BU Physics contribution
Professor Jim Rohlf writes: This is to call your attention to a press release from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) today (https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2024/04/04/desi-first-results-make-most-precise-measurement-of-expanding-universe/) regarding the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). DESI has just submitted its first papers on cosmology which include several interesting new measurements that help clarify our understanding of the constituents and dynamics of […]
Professor Martin Schmaltz receives Humboldt Research Award
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has just informed our President and our Dean that our colleague, Martin Schmaltz has been selected to receive a Humboldt Research Award. Here is what Birgit Lindner has sent on behalf of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation: *** This award is conferred in recognition of the award winner’s entire academic […]
Professor Irving Bigio’s AI powered skin cancer detection device featured on Boston TV news
Based on Prof Bigio’s pioneering inventions in Elastic Scattering Spectroscopy DermaSensor company site: dermasensor.com CBS news broadcast: cbsnews.com/boston/video/new-ai-powered-device-could-help-detect-skin-cancer/ Congratulations, Prof Bigio!
Dillon Brout explains Dark Energy on TV … and co-organizes a hackathon
Our own Professor Dillon Brout explains Dark Energy on TV. Don’t miss the interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCXnanhogI8 And also co-organized a Cosmology Hackathon, which was a huge success: https://iaifi.org/hackathon.html Congratulations, Professor Brout!
The Brink: Alex Sushkov Wins Award to Drive Extraordinary Contributions to Experimental Physics
Read the article on BU’s The Brink.