Elena Aprile, a physics professor at Columbia who is leading the world’s most sensitive search yet for dark matter, will receive the American Astronomical Society’s 2019 Lancelot M. Berkeley − New York Community Trust Prize Berkeley Prize. The award comes with $8,000 and an invitation to give the closing talk at AAS’s winter meeting in Seattle in January.
Aprile leads the XENON dark matter experiment, one of several efforts to detect the weakly interacting massive particles, or WIMPs, thought to make up dark matter, an invisible substance believed to make up…
The most recent paper of Angelo Esposito, Rafael Krichevsky, and Alberto Nicolis, "The mass of sound", was featured in New Scientist this August. In the paper, the colleagues calculated the interaction between sound and gravity, proving that sound waves carry gravitational mass.
The article can be found here
"The mass of sound" can be found here
The most recent paper of Angelo Esposito, Rafael Krichevsky, and Alberto Nicolis, "The mass of sound", was featured in New Scientist this August. In the paper, the colleagues calculated the interaction between sound and gravity, proving that sound waves carry gravitational mass.
The article can be found here
"The mass of sound" can be found here
Professors Abhay Pasupathy, Tanya Zelevinsky, and Tim Halpin-Healy were each elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) by the APS Council of Representatives. The number of APS Fellows elected each year is limited to no more than one half of one percent of the membership.
Pasupathy citation: "For the innovative use of scanning tunnelling spectroscopy to elucidate the physics of electronic order in quantum materials"
Nominated by: APS Division of Condensed Matter Physics (DCMP)
Zelevinsky citation: "For pioneering…
Dmitri Basov, Professor of Physics and Director of Columbia’s Energy Frontiers Research Center, will receive the 2019 Kenneth J Button award of the Infrared, Millimeter and Terahertz Society. The prize was awarded in recognition of Professor Basov’s ``seminal contributions in quantum materials physics through infrared spectroscopy and nano-optics”. The prize comes with a medal, a cash award and the invitation to deliver a plenary lecture at the 2019 meeting of the Society.
Professor Basov’s laboratory at Columbia develops and uses new nano-optical measurement technqiues…
Arthur Ashkin (CC 1947) has won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his groundbreaking research in laser physics.
Professor Brian Metzger was awarded the 2018 New Horizons Breakthrough Prize in Physics.
Professor Tanya Zelevinsky has received The American Physical Society 2019 Francis M. Pipkin Award.
The next generation in ground-based gamma-ray astronomical instrumentation took a major step forward with the inauguration on January 17, 2019, of a full-scale prototype 9.7m Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope (SCT) as a pathfinder for the Medium Size Telescopes (MSTs) of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), studying gamma rays in the energy range from 100 GeV to 10 TeV via the imaging atmospheric Cherenkov technique. The SCT employs an aplanatic two-mirror optical system to simultaneously increase the field of view to 8 degrees and significantly improve the imaging resolution via reduction of the…
Columbia Professor Brian Metzger has been awarded the 2019 Rossi Prize by the High-Energy Astrophysics Division (HEAD) of the American Astronomical Society. He shares the prize with Daniel Kasen of Berkeley for “their theoretical predictions of electromagnetic emission from radioactive nuclei produced in neutron star mergers.”
The High-Energy Astrophysics Division (HEAD) of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) awards the Rossi Prize annually for a significant contribution to high-energy astrophysics, with particular emphasis on recent, original work.
More information canbe found…
Jennifer Barnes, a postdoctoral research fellow working with Brian Metzger at Columbia, was awarded the 2019 High-Energy Astrophysics Division (HEAD) of the American Astronomical Society Dissertation prize for her dissertation. Entitled “Radiation Transport Modeling of Kilonovae and Broad-Lined Ic Supernovae”, this work established the "radiative signatures of mergers between two neutron stars or a neutron star and black hole, as well as the radiative signatures of jet-driven supernovae produced by collapsing massive stars."
More information canbe found on the A&S web page …
Professor Sebastian Will has received a 2019 NSF CAREER award for the creation of a “Two-dimensional quantum fabric of ultracold dipolar molecules”. The five year grant for $780,000 supports the development of a novel experimental platform based on ultracold molecules at nanokelvin temperatures that will be assembled atom-by-atom from ultracold atoms. The platform will allow quantum simulation of complex many-body quantum systems and the exploration of fundamental organizing principles of matter in parameter regimes that were inaccessible so far.
The NSF Faculty Early Career Development…
Elena Aprile will give the Donald R. Hamilton Lecture at Princeton University April 11 at 8:00 PM (McDonnell A01)
Details can be found here.
"The Xenon Project: At the Forefront of Dark Matter Direct Detection"
What is the Dark Matter which makes 85% of the matter in the Universe? We have been asking this question for many decades and used a variety of experimental approaches to address it, with detectors on Earth and in space. Yet, the nature of Dark Matter remains a mystery. An answer to this fundamental question will likely come from ongoing and future searches…
The XENON collaboration has just publicly announced the discovery that xenon-124, an isotope of the element Xenon, is fundamentally unstable. Its half-life is a whopping 1.8 × 10²² years: more than one trillion times the present age of the Universe.
More details on the discovery can be found here, and the Nature paper can be found here.
Dmitri Basov has been selected to receive a Department of Defense (DoD) Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship. The highly competitive fellowship is the DoD's flagship single investigator award for basic research, and is named in honor of Dr. Vannevar Bush, the director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development after World War II. This fellowship program aims to advance transformative, university-based fundamental research.
Dmitri is one of 10 distinguished scientists to receive the award this year. Each fellow will receive up to $3 million over the 5-year fellowship term…
The 2019 High Energy and Particle Physics Prize, for an outstanding contribution to High Energy Physics, was awarded to the CDF and D0 Collaborations for the discovery of the top quark and the detailed measurement of its properties.
The full citation is available here.
Columbia University was a founding member of the D0 experiment at Fermilab. Professors Gustaaf Brooijmans, John Parsons, and Mike Tuts were all on the D0 experiment and share the prize.
Associate Professor Brian Metzger has been named a Finalist in the 2019 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists. The Blavatnik National Awards received an unprecedented 343 nominations from 169 academic and research centers across 44 states – a record in all three categories.
The annual Awards, established by the Blavatnik Family Foundation and administered by the New York Academy of Sciences, recognize and support America’s top young scientific innovators in Life Sciences, Physical Sciences & Engineering, and Chemistry. The three National Laureates, to be announced in June…
Professor Zelevinsky, jointly with Harvard University, has been awarded a $1,000,000 grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation for the proposal "Creation of ultracold exotic gases via laser cooling and precise dissociation of molecules".
The W.M. Keck Foundation was founded with the goal of generating far-fetching benefits for humanity. Following the ideals of the founder, the Foundation's programs support outstanding science, engineering and medical research.
More details on the foundation can be found here.
Professor Cory Dean has been named a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).
President Trump announced the recipients of the PECASE, which is the highest honor bestowed by the United States Government to outstanding scientists and engineers who are beginning their independent research careers and who show exceptional promise for leadership in science and technology.
Established in 1996, the PECASE acknowledges the contributions scientists and engineers have made to the advancement of science, technology, education, and mathematics (STEM) education…
Professor Georgia Karagiorgi has been awarded an NSF collaborative grant for the research titled "WoU-MMA: Development of an Advanced Data Selection System for the DUNE Far Detector".
Through this award, which includes support from the NSF Windows on the Universe Program, the Columbia group will initiate the development of trigger and data acquisition strategies that can provide a guide for DUNE detection of low energy electron neutrino interactions in liquid argon. This includes the use of machine learning techniques for triggering, an approach which has recently been demonstrated to be a disruptive…
Professor Sebastian Will and Professor Ana Asenjo-Garcia together with Professor Nanfang Yu (Applied Physics) have received a $2M collaborative research grant for the project "Enhancing Quantum Coherence by Dissipation in Programmable Atomic Arrays.” The project has been awarded within the National Science Foundation’s Quantum Idea Incubator - Transformational Advances in Quantum Systems (QII-TAQS) program and is one of the first to be chosen for federal funding in quantum research since the announcement of the National Quantum Initiative Act that was signed into law last December.
Out of…
Dr. Alexander Kerelsky and Dr. Rafael Krichevsky each successfully defended his dissertation.
Alexander Kerelsky
"Atomic scale structure of tunable flat bands, magnetic defects and heterointerfaces in 2D materials."
Dissertation Sponsor and Research Advisor: Professor Abhay Pasupathy
Rafael Krichevsky
"Low-energy dynamics of condensed matter from the high-energy point of view."
Dissertation Sponsor and Research Advisor: Professor Alberto Nicolis
Dr. Hanjie Liu and Dr. Jiqun Tu each successfully defended their dissertation.
Hanjie Liu
"Measurement of F2n/F2p, and the A=3 EMC effect in deep inelastic electron scattering off tritium and helium nuclei."
Dissertation Sponsor and Research Advisor: Professor Emlyn Hughes
Jiqun Tu
"Scale lattice QCD simulations towards strong and weak coupling limits."
Dissertation Sponsor and Research Advisor: Professor Bob Mawhinney
Dr. Chih-Hsi Lee and Dr. Aaron Sternbach each successfully defended their dissertation.
Chih-Hsi Lee
"Quantum Metrology with a Molecular Lattice Clock and State-Selected Photodissociation of Ultracold Molecules.”
Dissertation Sponsor and Research Advisor: Professor Tanya Zelevinsky
Jiqun Tu
"Dynamics of quantum materials at the nanoscale.”
Dissertation Sponsor and Research Advisor: Professor Dmitri Bassov
Dr. Kenneth "Rainer" Corely successfully defended his dissertation:
"Detection, data analysis, and astrophysics of gravitational waves.”
Dissertation Sponsor and Research Advisor: Professor Szabi Marka
We are pleased to announce that a new accolade, Fellow of the American Astronomical Society (AAS), has been established to honor members for extraordinary achievement and service. David Helfand, Brian Metzger, and Jerry Ostriker of Columbia are included among the initial group of more than 200 Legacy Fellows designated by the AAS Board of Trustees. These include past recipients of certain awards from the AAS or its topical Divisions, distinguished AAS elected leaders and volunteer committee members, and previously unrecognized individuals with long histories of outstanding research, teaching, mentoring,…
On April 1, 2020, the National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Columbia University/Nevis Labs a $75M multi-year Major Research Equipment and Facilities Construction (MREFC) grant to Professors Brooijmans, Parsons and Tuts (PI) to build and manage the construction of key components for the upgrade of the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. (For more details click here).
The upgrades supported by this grant and others will be completed in 2025 and will allow the international ATLAS collaboration to address some of the outstanding questions in particle physics such as elucidating…
Professor Elena Aprile was featured in the April 7, 2020 edition of the NY Times. The article is on the impact of the Coronavirus and her XENON Dark Matter experiment at the Gran Sasso Underground in Italy.
Professor Elena Aprile has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Founded in 1780, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences honors excellence and convenes leaders from every field of human endeavor to examine new ideas, address issues of importance to the nation and the world, and work together, as expressed in our charter, “to cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the interest, honor, dignity, and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people.”
Professor Aprile has led a more than 15 year effort to detect Dark Matter. She has…
Dmitri Basov joined Columbia in 2016 as the Higgins Professor of Physics. Currently, he serves as the Director of Energy Frontier Research Center in Programmable Quantum Materials and as the co-Director jointly with Andrew Millis of the New York City - Max Planck Society Center in Non-equilibrium Quantum Phenomena. At Columbia, Dmitri Basov has established a laboratory focused on nano-optical studies of quantum materials.
Andrew Millis joined the Columbia Physics Department in 2001 after appointments at Bell Laboratories and served as Chair from 2006-2009. He also co-Directors the…
Brian Humensky and Reshmi Mukherjee's groups, in collaboration with researchers from other institutions, have detected gamma rays from the Crab Nebula, the "standard candle" of gamma-ray astronomy, using a prototype Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope. Demonstrating the viability of the key technologies used in this innovative telescope opens the door for their use as astrophysicists study some of the most energetic and unusual objects in the universe. This work is part of an international effort, known as the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), which aims to construct the world’s largest and most…
Scientists from the international XENON collaboration announced today that data from their XENON1T, the world's most sensitive dark matter experiment, show a surprising excess of events. The scientists do not claim to have found dark matter. Instead, they say to have observed an unexpected rate of events, the source of which is not yet fully understood. The signature of the excess is similar to what might result from a tiny residual amount of tritium (a hydrogen atom with one proton and two neutrons), but could also be a sign of something more exciting -such as the existence of a new particle known…
Cory Dean, PhD (Columbia University) – Cory Dean kicked off a revolution in experimental physics. Working with a unique class of two-dimensional materials called van der Waals (vdW) heterostructure materials—very thin materials made of single atomic layers stacked and held together by weak forces—Dean’s breakthrough experimental techniques sparked a completely new field of study known as “twistronics”. His work has enabled the exploration of new areas in quantum physics, including superconductivity, topology, and magnetism.
Brian Metzger, PhD (Columbia University) – Where does…
Professor Brian Metzger is the first Blavatnik National Awards Laureate from Columbia. The awards specifically recognizes Brian’s work on the origin of gold among his many other theoretical discoveries. For more details please click here.
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Professor Sebastian Will has been awarded a $1M National Science Foundation (NSF) Convergence Accelerator award, leading a collaboration to develop a next-generation quantum simulator. The project team includes collaborators from Columbia University, principal investigator Sebastian Will, co-principal investigators Alex Gaeta and Nanfang Yu, and others; Brookhaven National Lab, co-principal investigators Layla Hormozi and Gabriella Carini, and others; City University of New York; Flatiron Institute; and industry partners from Atom Computing, QuEra, IBM, and Bloomberg.
For more details see press…
The US Postal Service announced that they will issue a postage stamp in honor of Chien-Shiung Wu this year. Chien-Shiung spent most of her career in the Columbia Physics Department.
For more details, please check out the USPS website.
New findings suggest enigmatic object in our Galaxy was formed during an ancient two-star collision that eventually led to one merged star.
See Full Article here
Brian Greene, a Professor of Physics at Columbia who is renown for his research in superstring theory, has recently been recognized as one of the Top Influential Physicists Today by AcademicInfluence. AcademicInfluence is a new site that uses artificial intelligence to scan the internet's largest databases to map lines of influence. AcademicInfluence has created a profile for Brian Greene which can be inspected for more information.
Jack Steinberger, who served on the Columbia faculty between 1951 and 1971 and was known for his pioneering research into elementary particles, passed away on December 12 at the age of 99. Professor Steinberger shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics with Leon M. Lederman and Melvin Schwartz "for the neutrino beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino”. A brief autobiography is posted here and an obituary here.
Columbia-Physics is invited to participate in a Team-Up Project focused on “Building and implementing a framework and action plan that focuses on African American physics and astronomy undergraduate student outcomes”. The Columbia-Physics Team consists of graduate students Emily Caitlin Tiberi and Colin Adams, the President of Spectra Anjali Reena Verma, and faculty Rachel Rosen, Gustaaf Brooijmans, and Dmitri Basov.
Columbia News crunched the numbers to take a look back at the most-read stories on their website for every month of 2020. Their January 2020 story pertains to research in quantum materials in Physics.
Cory Dean, Brian Metzger and Dmitri N. Basov are among the most Highly Cited Researches in 2020. They are recognized as "true pioneers in their fields over the last decade, demonstrated by the production of multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in the Web of Science™" .
Read more about the value of these high citations on the Columbia Spectator.
Physics World recognized the following three Columbia Physicists:
(1941); Second series of rare-earth elements: Maria Goeppert Mayer (research scientist at Columbia, unsalaried due to nepotism rules)
(1949) Anomalous magnetic moment of the electron: Julian Schwinger, Columbia Physics BA (36) and PhD (39) (this work explained the measurements of Columbia faculty member Polykarp Kusch)
(1957) Parity violation in weak interactions: Tsung-Dao Lee, Columbia Physics Faculty member, in collaboration with Chen-Ning Yang
The First Day of Issue Ceremony for the Chien-Shiung Wu Stamp will be held on Thursday, February 11th, 2021 at 11:00 a.m. EDT. It will be hosted on the USPS facebook and twitter account. Professor Brian Greene will be present to explain the significance of Chien-Shiung Wu's discovery at the stamp event for those interested. More information can be found at the USPS event website.
Read about its implications on the Columbia news site or read the research paper directly.
Chien-Shiung Wu is a pioneering physicist who changed the way scientists viewed the structure of the universe. To learn more about her life story, check out the Columbia News Article and this Science article. Check out the official commemoration details here.
Ana Asenjo-Garcia is an assistant professor of physics whose research focus is on theoretical quantum optics and its intersection with quantum information and condensed matter physics. Read more about the award on the Official Columbia News Site.
Columbia 2021 Goldwater Scholars in Physics
Chiu Fan Bowen Lo
Institution Name: Columbia University in the City of New York
Field of Study: Physics and Astronomy
Career Goal: I plan to obtain a PhD in Condensed Matter and conduct research in topological and geometric aspects of condensed matter physics. I will also teach and mentor students as a university professor.
Mentor(s): Hoi Chun Po, Alex McLeod, Dmitri Basov
Andrew Sullivan
Institution Name: Columbia University in the City of New York
Field of Study: Physics and Astronomy
Career Goal: Ph.D. in Physics. I hope to…
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James McIver will start his group in non-equilibrium dynamics of quantum materials in July 2022.
To celebrate National Immigrant Heritage Month, Columbia remembers Michael Pupin, or Mihajlo Idvorsky Pupin, Columbia College Class of 1883, member of the Columbia physics faculty from 1890 until his death in 1935, and inventor of coils to facilitate long-distance telephone calls.
Raquel Queiroz at Weizmann Institute has accepted an assistant professor position with Columbia Physics and will start her appointment in January 2022.
The "Enrico Fermi" Prize 2021 of the Italian Physical Society has been awarded ex-aequoto two distinguished scientists: Elena Aprile, of the Columbia University of New York, and Patrizia Caraveo, of the Italian National Institute of Astrophysics, "for their remarkable contributions to the study of the Universe with different observables and techniques”. Enrico Fermi served as a professor at Columbia Physics department between 1939-1945.
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Brian Greene is professor of Physics and Mathematics @ Columbia and is a co-founder of World Science Festival. His latest book release, Until the End of Time, can be found here.
Steven Weinberg who shared the 1979 Nobel Prize for Physics for his theoretical contributions to the Standard Model of particle physics, died on 23 July aged 88. After earning PhD at Princeton in 1957, Steven Weinberg has held an appointment at Columbia for two years before moving on to Berkeley and then to Harvard. While at Columbia he wrote a seminal article on 'Charge Symmetry of Weak Interactions' followed by his paper a decade later where he described how the electromagnetic force and the weak force can be treated as a single electroweak force.
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The XENON/DARWIN and LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) collaborations have now joined forces to work together on the design, construction, and operation of a new, single, multi-tonne scale xenon observatory to explore dark matter. The detector will be highly sensitive to a wide range of proposed dark matter particles and their interactions with visible matter. Over the last 20+ years, experiments using liquefied xenon targets have delivered world-leading results in the global quest for direct dark matter detection. This next-generation detector aims to continue the pursuit.
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The figure shows the loss of magnetic flux by a spinning black hole surrounded by plasma, in agreement with in agreement with the "No-hair theorem" of general relativity. The flux is emitted in the form of plasmoids, which may lead to observable astrophysical signatures. Read the article here
The scientific goal of Ana Asenjo-Garcia's career development plan is the theoretical discovery and development of novel methods for controlling quantum optical phenomena in ordered atomic arrays, and the advancement of their potential as light-matter interfaces. Alongside these scientific goals, Ana will develop a comprehensive educational and outreach plan, including a joint Columbia-IBM Quantum summer school and an outreach program at a nearby Harlem high school. Congratulations, Ana! Very well done!
Max Planck-NYC Postdoctoral Fellowships
The Max Planck-NYC Center for Nonequilibrium Quantum Phenomena offers high profile, two-year postdoctoral positions for outstanding young scientists with research interests in the nonequilibrium aspects of experimental and theoretical quantum physics and the desire to closely collaborate with research groups at our partner institutions: Flatiron Institute in NY, Max Planck Institute for Structure and Dynamics in Hamburg and Max Plank Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz. The positions may be sponsored by any Columbia faculty member with appropriate…
Read about Professor Georgia Karagiorgi's work here.
The article can be read here
Read the article on Columbia News. The link to the workshop in question can be found by clicking the picture below.
We mourn the passing of Professor Myriam Sarachik, Distinguished Professor in the Division of Science at CCNY at the City College; Barnard class of 1954 and Columbia PhD 1960. Among Professor Sarachik’s essential contributions to physics are her experimental discovery of the Kondo effect, the clarification of the physics of the metal-insulator transition, and foundational work on quantum tunneling in molecular magnets. Her work was recognized by the Oliver Buckley prize of the American Physical Society and by membership in the National Academy of Sciences. She served as President of the…
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Congratulations to the APS Spring 2022’s prize and award recipients which recognize outstanding achievements in research, education and public service!
Read about it on Columbia News here.
Check out the lectures given by Dr. Elena Aprile hosted by the Simons Center at Stony Brook here. There are three talks, two of them are shown below.
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Congratulations Ana! Read about Ana's career on Columbia News and check out the official AFOSR announcement here
Check out the details on the website here.
Lenfest faculty represent the highest achievements of research, teaching, and service to Columbia. The list of awardees can be seen here
Check out the Columbia News article here
We mourn the passing of Sven Hartmann, pioneer in quantum optics and the theory of strong light-matter interactions, who joined the physics faculty in 1962
A more detailed memorial notice can be found here.
Read about the Programmable Quantum Materials Energy Frontiers Research Center's advancements to controlling quantum physics here.
Read the full story on Columbia News here
In Nature Astronomy, a Columbia-led team from the US and UK describes their discovery of the highest energy X-rays from Jupiter, and explains their origin in electrons that were emitted by Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io and accelerated in the Jovian magnetosphere. This was a very Columbia-centric paper. Authors Chuck Hailey, Kaya Mori and Melania Nynka all received their Ph.Ds in physics from Columbia, while Amani Garvin (Physics), Gabriel Bridges (Physics), Shifra Mandel (Physics) and Ben Hord (Astronomy) all received their undergraduate degrees from Columbia. Bridges and Mandel are 2nd year…
Dear friends and colleagues,
We mourn the loss of Aron Pinczuk, Professor of Applied Physics and Professor of Physics at Columbia University, who passed away on February 13, 2022. Professor Pinczuk touched the lives of many as a mentor, colleague and friend with his joint appointments in the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics and the Department of Physics and as a member of the Columbia Nanoinitiative (CNI).
Professor Pinczuk was a leader in the field of resonant light-scattering from solids, with a focus on correlated electronic states in two dimensional materials. He…
Check it out at the link here: https://designlab.physics.columbia.edu
Columbia Physics is pleased to announce that Kerstin Perez has accepted a Professorship with Columbia Physics, and will start her research group at Columbia in July of 2022.
Kerstin’s lab is interested in using cosmic particles to look for beyond the Standard Model physics. In particular, evidence of dark matter interactions. Her work focuses on opening sensitivity to unexplored cosmic signatures, with impact at the intersection of particle physics, astrophysics, and advanced instrumental techniques.
As he graduates, the Physics and Math double major reflects on his time at Columbia and research experiences in a quantum lab.
An old machine shop in Pupin Hall has a new life as a makerspace for scientists to imagine the future of physics.
Columbia welcomes its first participants in the postdoctoral program to New York this year. Here, they discuss their careers and interests in quantum phenomena in two-dimensional materials.
Ph.D. student Guanhao Sun successfully defended his dissertation titled, "A symmetry's tale: from the material to the celestial". Well done Guanhao and congratulations!
Join us for Ph.D. candidate Tianyu Zhu's dissertation defense tomorrow, July 27 at 12 pm.
Dissertation title: "The Path to the Search for Rare Event Signals in XENON1T and XENONnT Dark Matter Experiments"
PhD student Tianyu Zhu successfully defended his dissertation "The Path to the Search For Rare Event Signals in XENON1T and XENONnT Dark Matter Experiments". Congratulations Tianyu!
Ph.D. student Kiley Kennedy successfully defended her dissertation "The Late Light Show with Long-Lived Particles: A Search for Displaced and Delayed Diphoton and Dielectron Vertices at the LHC". Congratulations Kiley!
Join us for Ph.D. candidate Kiley Kennedy's dissertation defense Wednesday, August 10 at 10 am EST in 705 Pupin Hall.
Dissertation title: "The Late Light Show with Long-Lived Particles: A Search for Displaced and Delayed Diphoton and Dielectron Vertices at the LHC"
Mentor: John Parsons
The U.S. Department of Energy renews Columbia’s Energy Frontier Research Center with a four-year $12.6 million grant.
John F. Clauser, who received his PhD from Columbia University in 1969, was one of three scientists awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday.
The Ernest Kempton Adams lecture series, which first brought European leaders in physics and mathematics to the university more than 100 years ago, continues Monday, October 17, with a talk on one of the oldest branches of physics from Sir Michael Berry.
Air Serbia has announced it is due to receive its next widebody aircraft in the next few days, revealing yet another special livery for this new Airbus A330-200.
Kerstin Perez joined Columbia from MIT this summer, and is using cutting-edge techniques to identify the particle nature of dark matter.
To a lecture hall of 100 students, faculty, staff, and visitors, the Columbia University Department of Physics successfully launched the 1st Annual Chien-Shiung (C.S.) Wu Memorial Lecture, drawing outstanding reviews for distinguished speaker Dr. Elena Aprile.
This special honorary colloquium was held in honor of C.S. Wu, a distinguished particle and experimental physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project and taught and conducted research at Columbia University.
Columbia Physics continues to be a trailblazing force in the field of Cosmology with the announcement that a team led by Physics PhD student Sam Goldstein was named the 1st place winner of the 2022 Buchalter Cosmology Prize. The award-winning research also included contributions from Columbia Post-Doc Oliver Philcox, Professor Lam Hui, Assistant Professor Colin Hill, former Columbia PhD student Angelo Esposito and former Columbia PhD student Max Abitbol.
The recent edition of Nature (volume 613) included a breakthrough discovery by Columbia Grad student Apoorv Jindal (first author), Professors Cory Dean, Abhay Pasupathy, and collaborators.
Learn more about this outstanding detection, explored in the article “Coupled ferroelectricity and superconductivity in bilayer Td-MoTe2”, in an in-depth overview by the Columbia Quantum Initiative.
A Profile by Shimon Sarkar
Columbia University Department Physics is excited to introduce our new Lecturer in Discipline Eric Raymer! Eric’s role will focus on various aspects of introductory physics teaching and will contribute to the culture and continuous evolution of the Undergraduate Physics Program.
A Columbia University undergraduate in Physics has been awarded the Churchill Fellowship, with provide funding and support for outstanding students pursuing one-year of graduate study in science, mathematics or engineering at the University of Cambridge. Administered by the Winston Churchill Foundation of the United States, the award is designed to recognize students with the demonstrated capacity to advance the evolution of these fields of study.
A Profile by Paulette Del Valle
Columbia University Department of Physics is excited to introduce our new Lecturer in Discipline Becky Grossman! Becky’s role will focus on various aspects of introductory physics teaching and will contribute to the culture and continuous evolution of the Undergraduate Physics Program.
In this week’s issue of Nature, Columbia quantum physicists Tanya Zelevinsky and Sebastian Will explain newly discovered resonances in ultracold molecular gases and discuss their impact on future research in molecular quantum science in their paper "Ultracold molecules find the sweet spot for collisions".
For the Full Article please click HERE.
The award honors early career scholars demonstrating exceptional scientific research and potential future contributions
The Lenfest Award is the highest honor bestowed to individual faculty by Columbia Arts & Sciences
Professors Uemura and co-recipient Richard L. Greene are first winners since 2022
Research team's findings in Nature present unprecedented markers of a potential supersolid phase in graphene
The program recognizes students who demonstrate both intellectual ability and a commitment to others
The prize honors "theoretical work that has provided significant insights on the nature of superconductivity and has led to verifiable predictions"
Even if they had to conduct their experiments in the dark
Physics faculty member Sebastian Will joined fellow panelists from Columbia and Stony Brook to enlighten Congress about the importance and future of quantum science
With the publication of their paper on Unitarity Flow Conjecture in PRL, Professor Sebastian Mizera's research group demonstrates unexpected connections between renormalization group flow and unitarity
In Professor Will's second Nature paper of the year, his team builds on successes in transforming ultracold gases of sodium–cesium (NaCs) molecules into BECs
Columbia physicists navigate the "neutrino fog" in award-winning dark matter search
The award in fundamental physics is granted by the Breakthrough Prize Foundation, based on nominations from the public and a selection committee that includes previous winners
The award recognizes graduate student instructors from across the University's disciplines and campuses who demonstrate exceptional commitment and innovation in teaching
In a follow-up conversation with Professor Hill, recent recipient of the 2026 New Horizons Prize, he reflects on his research, influences, and goals as a physicist
We bid farewell to a beloved colleague, whose work and warmth touched the lives of so many in the physics community and beyond. Thank you, Allan, for being such an inimitable part of Columbia Physics.
She praises the university's "spirit of discovery" in her first communiques to the Columbia community -- and the Department of Physics and Astronomy makes some surprise cameos