Anushya Chandran Named 2018 Sloan Research Fellow
Assistant Professor Anushya Chandran was recently named a 2018 Sloan Research Fellow. The two-year fellowships are awarded annually to 126 researchers for their unique potential to make substantial contributions to their field of work. Chandran’s research focuses mainly on quantum many-body theory and non-equilibrium systems. Congragualtions Anushya for recognition! You can read more here at BU Today: […]
Boston University work on DESI project featured in press release.
Work done by the Ahlen group and the Scientific Instrument Facility (SIF) at BU have been featured in a press release by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument or DESI project. The SIF at BU and the Ahlen group, which consists of Professor Steve Ahlen and grad student Yutong Duan, and have contributed to the production […]
Boston University Physics to Host Non-thermal Quantum Systems Conference from March 11th to March 15th
From March 11th to March 15th, BU Physics will be hosting the Non-thermal Quantum Systems Conference. This conference, located in the Rajen Kilachand Center, will emphasize short talks, long open discussion periods and a large number of junior participants including speakers. This BU-CUNY workshop continues in this tradition and aims to bring together a group […]
David Bishop named as 2017 Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors
Congratulation to Professor David Bishop for his election as a 2017 Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors! The academy recognizes for his “highly prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development, and the welfare of society”. Professor Bishop was also […]
Congratulations to Prof. David Bishop on becoming Director of CELL-MET
Nanosystems Engineering Research Center for Directed Multiscale Assembly of Cellular Metamaterials with Nanoscale Precision: CELL-MET – A National Science Foundation Research Center Synthesizing Personalized Heart Tissue for Clinical Use The NSF Engineering Research Center in Cellular Metamaterials – CELL-MET – is designed to stimulate translation of research to practice by facilitating worldwide corporate, clinical, and […]
First International Summer Institute on Network Physiology (ISINP 2017)
Research Professor Plamen Ch. Ivanov initiated and directed the First International Summer Institute on Network Physiology (ISINP 2017) at the Lake Como School for Advanced Studies, Italy. Attended by participants from 16 countries, the event laid the foundations of a new interdisciplinary field at the interface of physics, biomedical engineering and medicine to understand health […]
Sulak wins DPF Instrumentation Award
Congratulations to Prof. Larry Sulak for being recognized with the American Physical Society Division of Particles and Fields Instrumentation Award. Larry presented a review of his seminal contributions to the water Cherenkov technique at the DPF meeting prize ceremony on August 4. Larry is seen here with DPF chairperson Marcela Carena. Photo crdits: Reider Hahn, […]
Remembering Bernard Chasan, Emeritus Professor of Physics
Bernard (Bernie) Chasan, emeritus professor of physics, passed away in Boston on July 24th. Born in 1934 in Brooklyn, NY, he graduated from Columbia College and earned his PhD in physics from Cornell University. Chasan joined Boston University’s physics department in 1962 and immediately became an integral member of the faculty. He was described by […]
Student Researchers Present at 19th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium
Daniel Smith (CAS ’18) describes his work analyzing positive kaon interactions in liquid argon. Congratulations to all of our student researchers who presented at the 19th Annual Boston University Undergraduate Research Symposium: Jessica Allan (mentor: Sulak), Assembling and Preliminary Testing of the CMS GE1/1 Chambers at CERN Owen Burek (mentor: Rohlf), Live Data Monitoring at […]
Physics welcomes three new faculty in fall 2016
New faculty, L-R: Anushya Chandran, Chris Grant, and Chris Laumann This fall we welcome three new assistant professors to the department: Anushya Chandran joins our condensed matter theory group. She studies quantum mechanical systems in which disorder “localizes” particles, as well as the non-equilibrium behavior of quantum mechanical systems. As a secondary student she earned […]