NC State Physics

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...

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

⚛️ 🧪 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

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

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.

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...

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

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

Sciences Student Josh Ott Presented With Astronaut Scholar Award The scholarship is among the largest merit-based monetary scholarships awarded to STEM students.

Congratulations to physics undergraduate Josh Ott for being selected a 2024 Astronaut Scholar!! These merit-based scholarships are given to exceptional STEM students who intend to continue pursuing research and advance their field after graduation.
+Info: tinyurl.com/bdcwpfvt

Today we will host a joint colloquium with the department of mathematics. Join us at 4:14 in SAS 1102 to hear Dr. Mason Porter from UCLA talk about “Quantum Networks”. More info:
math.sciences.ncsu.edu/2025/02/04/c...

Join us for the colloquium this Monday from 4-5pm in Riddick 325!! Dr. Mariangela Lisanti from Princeton University will discuss "Galaxies as Probes of the Particle Physics Nature of Dark Matter"! | More info:
physics.sciences.ncsu.edu/event/physic...

Join us for the special colloquium this Wednesday from 4-5pm in Riddick 325!! Dr. Ruediger Picker, from TRIUMF (@triumflab.bsky.social), will discuss “Progress towards the TRIUMF ultracold neutron facility and neutron electric dipole moment experiment”.

Congratulations to Aaron Titus for being chosen as one of the 2 college's nominees for the Outstanding Teacher Award. More info: provost.ncsu.edu/ofe/awards-a...

Join us for the first colloquium of the year this Monday from 4-5pm in Riddick 325!! Dr. Shengwang Du, from Purdue University, will discuss “Distributed Quantum Computing with Shared Quantum Gate Processing Unit”. | More info:
physics.sciences.ncsu.edu/event/physic...

Join us tonight at 7pm to learn more about the recent Nobel Prize in Physics!! Dr. Xipeng Shen will talk about how scientists combined physics and computation to revolutionize #ArtificialInteligence. This free event for the general public will consist of lecture followed by Q&A from the audience.

Congratulations to physics undergraduate Lilly Ahrens (John Blondin lab) for receiving an honorable mention at the last American Astronomical Society meeting for her work on how turbulence changes the classical Hoyle-Lyttleton accretion theory. #AAS244
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Congratulations to Sebastian König for being selected as one of this year's Goodnight Early Career Innovators. The program recognizes and rewards ternure-track assistant professors who demonstrated early productivity in STEM education, research and innovation.
More info: ift.tt/z8QYHIu

SAVE THE DATE: On Dec 19 we will have our annual public talk about the recent #NobelPrize in Physics. Prof. Xipeng Shen will be talking about how physics and computing were combined to revolutionize #ArtificialIntelligence. Join us at the DailyPlanet Cafe to learn more about the science behind AI.

Don’t miss out on the colloquium today from 4-5pm in Riddick 301!! Dr. Lu Bai from Penn State University will discuss "Studying Chromosome Conformation and Dynamics Using Chemically Induced Chromosomal Interaction". | More info:
physics.sciences.ncsu.edu/event/physic...

Don’t miss out on the colloquium this Monday from 4-5pm in Riddick 301!! Dr. Silke Henkes from Leiden University (@@unileiden.bsky.social) will discuss "Flow, fluctuate and freeze: Modeling collective cell motion using soft active matter". | More info:
physics.sciences.ncsu.edu/event/physic...

📢 JOB ALERT: We are hiring!!
Our department has 2 open assistant prof positions right now.
- Life-Sciences-Level Physics Course Coordinator
- Engineering-Level Physics Course Coordinator
For more information check the link:
jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/207...

Don’t miss out on the colloquium today from 4-5pm in Riddick 301!! Dr. Sebastian König, from North Carolina State University, will discuss "Nuclear Physics in a Box (and Other Stories)". | More info:
physics.sciences.ncsu.edu/event/rpt-co...

Join us for the colloquium today from 4-5pm in Riddick 301!! Dr. Richard Longland, from NC State University, will discuss "The Long Wait for T Coronae Borealis - How Nuclear Physics Informs Our Understanding of Astrophysical Phenomena".
More Info:
physics.sciences.ncsu.edu/event/rpt-co...

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