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Sam Fulton awarded the Harold C. Case Scholarship

The Harold C. Case Scholarship is awarded to outstanding Boston University rising seniors.  These scholarships recognize scholarly accomplishment and potential as well as extra-curricular activities which contribute to the University. Sam would like to thank his research advisors Ed Kearns and Alex Sushkov as well his academic advisor Shyam Erramilli for all their help and […]

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

We are so proud of our very own Indara Suarez for the exceptional work she has done to earn one of three inaugural I.D.E.A.L. (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Access, Leadership) awards.  These awards celebrate the impactful efforts of individuals and groups whose contributions exemplify recognizing and responding to inequity, exclusion, and marginalization through thoughtful and innovative […]

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, […]

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