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Prof. Claudia de Rham, Imperial College, London, returns to CWRU sharing insights from ‘The Beauty of Falling: A Life in Pursuit of Gravity’
World renowned physicist and author Claudia de Rham, Professor of Theoretical Physics at Imperial College, London, and Adjunct Professor of Physics at Case Western Reserve University, will be on campus this week for a public lecture and book signing on Friday April 18 from 7 pm to 8:30 pm....
2024 Michelson Postdoctoral Prize Awarded to Chapin Korosec, PhD – MPPL Lectureship Begins April 7
Chapin Korosec, PhD, York University, Toronto, Canada, has been named the winner of this year’s MICHELSON POSTDOCTORAL PRIZE, and will spend one week in residence during the week of April 7, 2025, on the Case Western Reserve University campus. This year marks the 26th annual MICHELSON POSTDOCTORAL PRIZE LECTURESHIP,...
Professor Fileviez Perez Interview at the Galileo Galilei Institute
See Professor Pavel Fileviez Perez' interview at the Galileo Galilei Institute (GGI) for Theoretical Physics. Pavel spent three months as a Simons Fellow at the GGI in Florence, Italy. See video here. See 'Congratulations to Professor Pavel Fileviez Perez, Simons Fellowship Awardee' here.Â
CWRU Physics’ Glenn Starkman, Craig Copi & Collaborators in Quanta magazine’s ‘Cosmologists Try a New Way to Measure the Shape of the Universe’
See feature story here Is the universe flat and infinite, or something more complex? We can’t say for sure, but a new search strategy is mapping out the subtle signals that could reveal if the universe had a shape' EXCERPT: Is the universe infinite, Aristotle asked in 350 BCE, “or is this...
CWRU collaboration features Physics Professor Pino Strangi & team’s breakthrough diamond semiconductor research, reporting plasmons in boron-doped diamond; quantum applications
Diamond continues to shine: new properties discovered in diamond semiconductors (as seen in The Daily) Diamond, often celebrated for its unmatched hardness and transparency, has emerged as an exceptional material for high-power electronics and next-generation quantum optics. Diamond can be engineered to be as electrically conductive as a metal, by...
Lydia Kisley wins DOE early Career Award
As seen in the College Bulletin   The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded Lydia Kisley in the Department of Physics a 2024 Early Career Award. With this five-year, $875,000 grant, Kisley and her collaborators are seeking to understand the process of separating and extracting rare-earth elements—essential for green technologies—by imaging...
