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Astrophysics / Atomic & Molecular / Biophysics / Condensed Matter / Nuclear & Particle / Nonlinear and Complex Physics / PER

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Paschalis Gkoupidenis Wins Sherwin I. Seligsohn Innovation Award - Electrical and Computer Engineering Congratulations to Paschalis Gkoupidenis, joint associate professor with #NCStateECE and the Department of Physics, on winning the inaugural Sherwin I. Seligson Innovation Award for his work in develo...

Congratulations to Paschalis Gkoupidenis on winning the inaugural Sherwin I. Seligson Innovation Award for his work in developing organic, brain-inspired electronic.

Learn how his organic neuromorphic systems earned him the inaugural Sherwin I. Seligsohn Innovation Award. ➡️: ncst.at/ZVc550Xyq4C

12.12.2025 21:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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📢 SAVE THE DATE: On Dec 18 @ 7pm we will have our annual Nobel Prize talk at the NC Natural Sciences Museum!

Drs. Weijian Chen and Xiang Li will talk about macroscopic quantum effects and how this leads to new technology, including quantum cryptography, computers and sensors.

tinyurl.com/5yxh72v3

21.11.2025 17:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

US universities have either separate physics and astronomy departments, or a single department with a combined name.

NC State has a long-standing strength in astrophysics & astronomy - with 9 faculty in this area - so this change accurately reflects our departmental programs.

19.11.2025 21:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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📢 It is now official:

The Department of Physics will now be the
– Department of Physics and Astronomy – !

The change reflects the wide range of research topics covered in the department, from the very small to astronomical scales. ⚛️ ↔️ 🔭

19.11.2025 21:20 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Join the colloquium today from 4-5pm in Riddick 325! Dr. Michael Rubinstein from Duke University will discuss “The Loops of Life”! | More info:
physics.sciences.ncsu.edu/event/physic...

17.11.2025 15:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Assistant professors Nate Ennist (left) and Xingcheng Lin (right) presented their work at the recent Carolina Biophysics Symposium.

13.11.2025 15:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Tuesday next week we will have our second Science on Tap presentation!

Prof Kurt Marsden will be talking about how zebrafish is helping us learn more about our own brains!

Join us at Lywnnwood Brewing Concern, Nov 11 at 7pm for beer, food and great science!

07.11.2025 18:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Note the change of location ➡️ 2010 Biltmore Hall
This will be a joint colloquium with the Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences department.

02.11.2025 15:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Don’t miss out on the colloquium next Monday from 4-5pm in 2010 Biltmore Hall!! Dr. Vashan Wright, from University of California San Diego and Scripps Institute will discuss “Searching for Evidence of Water in the Martian Crust”. | More info:
physics.sciences.ncsu.edu/event/physic...

02.11.2025 15:51 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Join the colloquium next Monday from 4-5pm in Riddick 325! Dr. Danielle Speller, from Johns Hopkins University will discuss “Making the Invisible Visible: Searching for New Physics at the Laboratory Scale.”! | More info:
physics.sciences.ncsu.edu/event/physic...

24.10.2025 19:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Congratulations to alumni Bruce Sherwood and Ruth Chabay for earning the 2026 Hans Christian Oersted Medal from the American Association of Physics Teachers (@aapthq.bsky.social).
More info: tinyurl.com/ynt2j3e2
#Physics #PER #AAPTAwards

23.10.2025 14:45 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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Don’t miss out on the colloquium next Monday from 4-5pm in Riddick 325!! Dr. José Alvarado, from University of Texas in Austin (@utphysics.bsky.social) will discuss “Adaptability Through Control in Robotic and Active Systems”. | More info:
physics.sciences.ncsu.edu/event/colloq...

17.10.2025 17:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Congratulations to Prof. Melissa Dancy, who has been honored as an 2025 APS Fellow!!
#Physics #PER

14.10.2025 15:29 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Don't miss the first Science on Tap series at Lynnwood Brewing next week on Tuesday, Oct 14, from 7-9pm.

Prof. Kasey Wagoner will be talking about how scientists are making measurements that give insights into how the universe started.

10.10.2025 14:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Join us for the colloquium this Today from 4-5pm in Riddick 325!! Dr. Carl Rodriguez (@carlrodriguez.bsky.social) from UNC Chapel Hill will discuss “Growing Big Black Holes in Dense Star Clusters”. | More info:
physics.sciences.ncsu.edu/event/physic...

06.10.2025 15:17 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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Congratulations to our trainees from the Belmonte and Elting (@mwelting.bsky.social) labs
- Reem Hakeem
- Abhisha Thayambath (@abhisha-thayambath.bsky.social)
- Joe Lannan (@josephlannan.bsky.social)
for receiving all 3 best poster prizes at the last Triangle Cytoskeletal Meeting!!

03.10.2025 14:21 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Don’t miss out on the colloquium Today from 4-5pm in Riddick 325!! Dr. Igor Andreoni, from UNC Chapel Hill will discuss “Discovery of Energetic and Multi-messenger Transients in the Era of Rubin Observatory”. | More info:
physics.sciences.ncsu.edu/event/physic...

29.09.2025 17:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Don’t miss out on the colloquium Today from 4-5pm in Riddick 325!! Dr. Matthew Green, from North Carolina State University will discuss “COHERENT Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering at the SNS”. | More info:
physics.sciences.ncsu.edu/event/physic...

08.09.2025 15:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Join us for an extra colloquium this Wednesday from 4-5pm in Riddick 325!! Dr. Andrey Tarasov from North Carolina State University will discuss “Factorization and perturbative QCD in the era of Electron-Ion Collider”. | More info:
physics.sciences.ncsu.edu/event/physic...

26.08.2025 16:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Don’t miss out on the colloquium this Monday from 4-5pm in Riddick 325!! Dr. Julio Belmonte, from North Carolina State University will discuss “Mesoscale Computational Biophysics: From Cytoskeletal Percolation to Tissue Mechanics”. | More info:
physics.sciences.ncsu.edu/event/colloq...

25.08.2025 01:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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his Monday we recognized the excellent work of two of our students with the Russel Philbrick Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant or Teaching Assistant.
-Christian Trasher for his dedication and leadership in PY131
-Mustafa Ture for his discovery of solitonic superfluorescence at room temperature

22.08.2025 14:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Happy #FDOC, #Wolfpack! We’re wishing all new and returning students the best of luck in their physics classes this semester!

18.08.2025 19:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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North Carolina Space Grant Selects 2025-2026 Graduate Research Fellows North Carolina Space Grant congratulates its 2025-2026 graduate research fellows. Twenty two graduate students will conduct science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) research to benefit NASA, c...

🎉 Congratulations to Eduardo Castellanos — selected as a 2025–26 Graduate Research Fellow by NC Space Grant
! 🚀 His project explores the rheology of proton-rich astrophysical gas — pushing the frontiers of space science. 🌌🧪

🔗 ncspacegrant.ncsu.edu/2025/07/15/n...

24.07.2025 16:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Galactic Mystery: How “Ice Cubes” Survive in the Milky Way’s Blazing Bubbles - National Radio Astronomy Observatory A team of astronomers has made a surprising discovery using the U.S. National Science Foundation Green Bank Telescope (NSF...

🧊✨ Galactic mystery unlocked!!
Astronomers have figured out how icy gas clouds—like cosmic "ice cubes"—survive the scorching outflows from the Milky Way’s center.
Amazing work from the Bordoloi group!🔭
🔗 tinyurl.com/musam7dw
#MilkyWay #GalacticCenter #Astrophysics

09.07.2025 14:19 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

⚛️ 🧪 Major discovery from Gundogdu’s Lab!
Postdoc Melike Biliroglu and PhD student Mustafa Türe, working with an international team, demonstrate solitonic superfluorescence in hybrid perovskites at room temp—paving the way for scalable, high-temp quantum tech.
🔗 tinyurl.com/5cxs6ypp

28.05.2025 20:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Join us today for our annual McCormick Symposium, which highlights the achievements of the undergraduate physics students.
3pm - Poster session at Riddick Hearth
4pm - Award ceremony at RD 325

21.04.2025 18:52 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Congratulations to undergraduate alumna Logan White for being awarded the #NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program!!
The award supports outstanding graduate students who are pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees.

15.04.2025 18:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Don’t miss out on the colloquium next Monday from 4-5pm in Riddick 301!! Dr. Geraldine Cochran, from Ohio State University, will discuss “Rethinking What it Means to be Underprepared in Physics”. | More info:
physics.sciences.ncsu.edu/event/colloq...

07.04.2025 15:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Today is NC State Day of Giving!! #GivingPack

Your donation to the Physics Department Enhancement Fund will go towards supporting our faculty and students as we offer extraordinary opportunities in physics education and research.

Make a donation at:
go.ncsu.edu/dayofgiving.physics

26.03.2025 15:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Check this late-breaking talk by postdoc Carmen Lee from ‪@karenedaniels.bsky.social‬ lab at the APS Global Physics Summit!

19.03.2025 22:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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