Anders Sandvik and researchers from D-Wave publish Nature paper on quantum annealing
Anders Sandvik and researchers at D-Wave Quantum Inc have published groundbreaking results showing that quantum-criticality in systems with complex ground states can be observed in a programmable device at unprecedented scale – with more than 5000 qubits realizing a quantum spin-glass model. The paper, published in Nature, is available here. A press release from D-wave, […]
BU Physics is Hosting APS Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWiP) in January 2023!
CUWiP will be held at BU on January 20-22, 2023. Visit the website for more info. Application accepted August 29 – October 10 here.
Zeynep Demiragli wins NSF Career Award and CMS Young Researcher Prize
Professor Zeynep Demiragli of BU’s Physics Department has won both an NSF Career Award and the CMS Young Researcher Prize. With the NSF award, Zeynep plants to explore signatures with one or more jets and an overall momentum imbalance to discover and characterize dark matter particles and use the Higgs boson as a tool for […]
Indara Suarez Receives DOE Early Career Award
Professor Indara Suarez of BU’s Physics Department has just received a five-year, $750,000 Early Career Award from the Department of Energy. The goal of the award is to bolster the nation’s scientific workforce by providing support to exceptional researchers during the crucial early career years. Indara’s project, “Discovery in the 4th Dimension: Shining Light on […]
Professors Roberts, Miller and Carey’s work on recent g-2 experiment featured in BU Research.
Professors Lee Roberts, Rob Carey and Jim Miller’s work on the Fermilab experiment has recently announced new results. The Fermilab experiment, called Muon g-2, detected particles called muons behaving slightly differently than currently accepted physics theories would predict. The results, announced earlier this month, confirm similar findings from a 2001 Brookhaven National Lab experiment. To […]
Pankaj Mehta promoted to Full Professor
Congratulations to Pankaj Mehta, who has been promoted to the rank of Full Professor. Mehta’s research explores theoretical problems at the interface of physics and biology; large-scale, collective behaviors observed in biological systems emerge from the interaction of many individual components. Congratulations Pankaj
Anders Sandvik receives the Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics
Professor Anders Sandvik has been selected as the 2021 recipient of the Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics “for the development of the stochastic series expansion algorithm, and for numerous creative applications of this method to the study of quantum phase transitions.” For more information about the prize, please read the article on the APS website. Congratulations, Anders!
Ed Kearns wins the 2021 W.K.H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics
BU Physics professor Ed Kearns has been selected as this year’s winner of the W.K.H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics “for pioneering and leadership contributions to large underground experiments for the discovery of neutrino oscillations and sensitive searches for baryon number violation.” He shares the prize with Henry Sobel of UC Irvine. Please check out […]
Sid Redner awarded Leo P. Kadanoff Prize
Former BU Physics chair and professor emeritus Sidney Redner has been awarded the 2021 Leo P. Kadanoff Prize “for leadership in transcending traditional disciplinary boundaries by applying and advancing deep concepts and methods of statistical physics to gain novel insights into diverse real-world phenomena.” To read more about the Prize, please check out the APS website. […]
Physics Teaching guidelines for Fall 2020
The Department has recently put tother a proposal for teaching in Fall 2020. If you have any questions on a specific course, please contact the course instructor.