Lead author Naiyuan (James) Zhang publishes a paper together with his advisor, Professor Jia Li.

Ph.D. students Farrah Simpson, Rutendo Jakachira and Refilwe Tanah Bua were featured in USA Today's Black History Month Special Edition.

The Caribbean Philosophical Association’s 2024 Frantz Fanon Award for Outstanding Achievements in Science, Philosophy and Leadership Goes to Stephon Alexander

Brown Physics kicked off an exciting joint venture on January 16, 2023 with the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) and the Simons Flatiron Institute: the Winter School in Computational Physics!

Register for our free AI Winter Workshop, January 16-19.

The Department of Physics Colloquia feature outstanding guest speakers from all over the world presenting cutting-edge research. Our students in particular are encouraged to attend, although the seminars are open to the public.

Arrive early to claim your seat at these not-to-be-missed events!

Colloquia are held on Mondays at 4:00 p.m. in BH168, with exceptions noted below. Refreshments are served at 3:45 PM.

Celebrating a career spanning five decades, the Physics Department honored Professor Chun-I Tan for his service to Brown

Professor Emeritus of Physics Herbert Fried passed away at the age of 94 on November 18, 2023.

As part of the Perimeter Institute Public Lecture Series, Stephon Alexander explains how the search for answers to deep cosmological puzzles parallels jazz improvisation.

For the Love of Physics: A Celebration of Music, Art and Nature

The Physics Department will feature Professor Roberto De Renzi in a Special Colloquium on Monday, November 13, 2023, at 2 PM.

Physics PhD student Rutendo Jakachira received a 2023 Google Fellowship in Health Research and secondary area in Algorithmic Fairness for her research on pulse oximetry. Congratulations, Rutendo!

Physics Alum Cengiz Pehlevan, Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), has been selected to receive a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation.

The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics will be announced on Tuesday, 3 October, 11:45 CEST at The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm.

Brown University is pleased to announce the Provost’s STEM Postdoctoral Fellow Program.

"Effects of charge doping on Mott insulator with strong spin-orbit coupling"

R. Sekhar Chivukula, Distinguished Professor of Physics at UC San Diego and the chair of the Executive Committee of the Division of Particle Physics (DPF) at the American Physical Society (APS), recently announced the funding of the Division of Particle Physics (DPF) Meenakshi Narain Mentoring Award in honor of former Department Chair Meenakshi Narain.

Interim Chair Gang Xiao is delighted to announce that Jia (Leo) Li has been appointed as the Richard and Edna Salomon Assistant Professor of Physics.

Professor Vesna Mitrović announces with congratulations that her advisee, Ph.D. student Ilija Nikolov, won a scholarship grant from the University of Bologna to work in Bologna for two months.

The Physics Merit Fellowship is a departmental fellowship awarded to a senior graduate student(s) and provides funding for one semester the next year. We asked the 2023 - 2024 recipient, Xianlong Liu, to tell us about his research involving matrices.

Ph.D. Student Calvin Bales was recently awarded a prestigious 2023-2024 STEM Chateaubriand Fellowship.

The Department of Physics gathered this week to thank Interim Department Chair Professor Gang Xiao for his service to the department after former chair Meenakshi Narain’s passing in January. Interim Provost, Professor of Engineering and the Sorensen Family Dean Emeritus of Engineering Lawrence E. Larson was also on hand to show gratitude and support for Gang’s leadership.

Zezhu Wei received the 2023 – 2024 Dissertation Fellowship Award from the Department of Physics. Zezhu discusses his research below.

The Physics Department has established an annual award for distinguished alumni of the department. Recipients are nominated based on their contributions in any field of work and awards are presented at the yearly commencement ceremony.

The Physics Merit Fellowship is a departmental fellowship awarded to a senior graduate student(s) and provides funding for one semester the next year. In her own words, Erin Morissette, a 2023 – 2024 awardee, tells us about her research.

The Physics Department caught up with Joseph Hall, Sc.B. Mathematical Physics and Contemplative Studies candidate, who talked with us about his experiences as a physics student at Brown.

Congratulations to Taylor Knapp, Sc.B. in Astrophysics!

As early as 2030, engineers and robots from Earth could begin construction on FarView, an astronomical observatory that would expand over 200 square kilometers of the Moon’s surface—almost entirely using materials mined from the Moon itself.

Physics concentrator Lucas Brito was recently awarded a prestigious Goldwater scholarship. Goldwater Scholarships are awarded to second- or third-year students planning research careers in mathematics, the natural sciences or engineering.

Brown Physics is pleased to announce that Kaley Brauer and Nora Shipp were recently honored with Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral awards from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

The US Department of Defense announced that Jia (Leo) Li is among awardees Under the Defense Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (DEPSCoR) for his work on emergent quantum phenomena in van der Waals 2D materials.

On Monday, April 24th, Professor Emeritus of Physics and Professor of Physics (Research) Humphrey J. Maris received the inaugural Brown Technology Innovation Impact Award. 

The Physics Department is pleased to announce that Daniel Li was honored with a Graduate Student Leader of the Year Award by the Student Activities Office (SAO) in the Leung Gallery of the Campus Center on May 3rd. Daniel was one of three recipients of the award for 2023.