Shounak De, PhD, was awarded a highly prestigious KITP Fellowship, which allowed him to spend this spring semester at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara, where he was mentored by Nobel Laureate David Gross. Advisor: Anastasia Volovich

Scientists need hobbies. The grueling work of navigating complex theory and the politics of academia can get to a person, even one as laid back as Brown University professor and astrophysicist Stephon Alexander. So Alexander plays the saxophone, though at this point it may not be accurate to call his avocation a spare time pursuit, since John Coltrane has become as important to him as Einstein, Kepler, and Newton.

Brown faculty to confer highest honor on preeminent scholars in physics, public health

Francine Jackson is a Lincoln resident, an astronomer, a teacher, a conservationist, a history buff, and, believe it or not, now the name of an asteroid.

For as long as she can remember, Jackson said she’s been fascinated by the sky, the stars, and the history they carry.

“A few years ago, I ran into someone I went to high school with in a parking lot. I probably hadn’t seen her since we were teenagers, but she told me she immediately recognized me because when I got out of my car, I looked straight up at the sky, and that was something she always remembered me doing,” Jackson said.

Physicists use machine learning to find out how layered gases and metals melt.

Warren Galkin graduated from Brown University with an ScB in Physics in 1951. He went on to graduate from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with an MBA. He spent three years in the Navy as an engineering officer, followed by nineeen in the reserves. He retired as a lieutenant commander. Warren began working at Natcos, a company in which his father started in 1917. Along with the work of his brother and sister-in-law, Natco became an international company with factories in China, Canada, and three U.S. states. Later, Warren became vice chairman of the board of Natco.

Physics Fundamentals' Exploratorium 2025 Demonstration Day event hosted over 50 students from across Brown and Providence for hands-on physics exploration.