A BETTER WAY? Derek Stein, a Brown University physics professor and researcher, examines equipment that is used in a new mass spectrometry technique that makes the analysis of materials much more accurate and efficient. The technique developed at Brown could have far-reaching implications, including in areas of health care.

AI Winter School: Hosted by the Brown University Center for the Fundamental Physics of the Universe.

Ph.D. student Ilija Nikolov was awarded the Best Poster Prize at the 824. WE-Heraeus Seminar on Electronic Order in Kagome Metals for his poster presented December 8 – 12 at the Digital Hub Logistics in Hamburg, Germany, Hamburg a “hotspot for quantum materials and quantum technologies.”

Provost Francis J. Doyle III announced that Brenda Rubenstein, Associate Professor of Chemistry and Physics, has been named the Director of the Data Sciences Institute (DSI), effective July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2028

After winning a Nobel Prize, celebrated Brown physicist Leon Cooper made a big pivot from electrons to neurons and, for 40 years, galvanized the campus around brain science.

Brad Marston was featured on a recent podcast episode titled "Waves of Change: Quantum Physics and Climate Science."

Introducing 𝗕𝗿𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲!

𝗕𝗿𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 Co-Chairs Kevin McLaughlin and Karin Wulf introduced the initiative to the Brown community this morning, including launching a website launch to “mark the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States through a multi-year exploration of the important role that university research and teaching plays in advancing open and democratic societies.”

A decade after the discovery of the “amplituhedron,” physicists have excavated more of the timeless geometry underlying the standard picture of how particles move.

A three-member team in the 1950s cracked a mystery that had baffled thinkers such as Albert Einstein.

Nobel laureate and professor emeritus at Brown Physics, Leon Cooper's impact on generations of students and mentees cannot be calculated

The distinguished physicist, who taught at Brown for more than five decades and was awarded the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physics for developing the theory of superconductivity, died on Oct. 23.

He shared the 1972 physics prize for showing how some materials could convey electricity without resistance. He also did pioneering research in neuroscience.

Brown University astronomers captured stunning images of a once-in-a-lifetime comet and vibrant auroras across the skies above Rhode Island.

Brown University is a leading research university distinguished by its student-centered learning and deep sense of purpose. Our students, faculty, and staff are driven by the idea that their work will impact the world.

A ‘mini moon’ joins Earth’s orbit: Brown astronomers explain
The small asteroid will orbit Earth for two months.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks."

Brown University Professor of Physics Dmitri Feldman was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in the Division of Condensed Matter Physics for 2024.

On Monday, September 30, the Physics Department faculty hosted University Communications Manager & Writer for the Physical Sciences, Juan Siliezar, for Physics Writer-in-Residence Day, a day of 1:1 faculty meetings and lab tours.