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Upcoming Events

Matias Zaldarriaga: "Cosmology into the next decade"

  • Oct 03
  • 3:30 PM
  • SCI 109
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Oct 04

Dries Sels: Simulating kicked Ising dynamics with tensor networks on sparse graphs

  • 3:30 PM
  • SCI 352
Oct 05

HEE Seminar (CMS)

  • 3:30 PM
  • PRB 595
Oct 06

Scott Collier: 3d quantum gravity and Virasoro TQFT

  • 11:00 AM
  • PRB 595

Department News

The Brink: Alex Sushkov Wins Award to Drive Extraordinary Contributions to Experimental Physics

August 24, 2023
David Campbell

David Campbell Awarded SigmaPhi Prize

July 24, 2023

Sam Fulton awarded the Harold C. Case Scholarship

July 18, 2023

Indara Suarez receives inaugural CAS I.D.E.A.L. award

May 11, 2023

Anders Sandvik and researchers from D-Wave publish Nature paper on quantum annealing

April 20, 2023

BU Physics is Hosting APS Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWiP) in January 2023!

August 18, 2022
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