The Tenth New England String Meeting was held at Brown on Friday, April 28.

On Monday, April 24, 2023, Assistant Professor of Physics Jonathan Pober, an experimental astrophysicist and world leader in cosmology, received an Early Career Research Achievement Award, Physical Science at the Celebration of Research at Sayles Hall.

The Physics Department is pleased to announce Jonathan Pober's 2023 Early Career Research Achievement Award.

The American Humanist Association (AHA) announced that Stephon Alexander will be awarded the prestigious Isaac Asimov Science Award at the AHA’s 82nd annual conference Crossroads and Collective Futures, in Denver, Colorado on May 6, 2023.

Seven Questions with Danielle Germann, National Science Foundation (NSF) Fellowship Recipient

Dean of the Faculty Leah Van Wey announced that Vesna Mitrović, L. Herbert Ballou University Professor of Physics and Engineering, will assume the position of Chair of the Department of Physics on July 1, 2023.

Physics PhD student Shayan Lame successfully defended her thesis "Electrokinetic Noise Driven Dynamics of DNA Molecules and Dynamics of Nanoparticles in Diffusivity Gradients" on Friday, March 24th.

Michael Toomey successfully defended his thesis "Theoretical and Computational Explorations of Beyond ΛCDM Cosmology” on Friday, March 24th, 2023.

The Physics Department is pleased to announce that Brad Marston was selected for the Kavli Foundation Special Symposium at the American Physical Society's (APS) March Meeting.

Watch Brad Marston discuss his talk on waves of topological origin for the Kavli Symposium at the APS March Meeting.

To all Department of Physics women who are postdocs and undergraduate, master’s and PhD students: this is your opportunity to be featured in the next Physics Fundamentals project!

Professor James Valles' research is recognized in China Science Daily as being among China's top ten breakthroughs in science and technology in 2022.

The Brooke Owens Fellowship—a nationally-acclaimed nonprofit program recognizing exceptional undergraduate women and gender minorities with space and aviation internships, senior mentorship, and a lifelong professional network—announces its Class of 2023 Brooke Owens Fellows.

Professor Vesna Mitrovic opened the 2023 CUWiP at Brown on Friday evening with introductory remarks, including a reflection of Dr. Meenakshi Narain’s impact on women in physics: “There isn’t anybody better that you should aim to be like.”

It is with deep sadness that we inform you that our colleague and friend, Meenakshi Narain, passed away on January 1, 2023. Meenakshi joined the Brown University Department of Physics faculty in 2007 and served as the first woman to chair the department beginning on July 1, 2022.

New experimental findings bolster Stephon Alexander's 2006 theory that suggested that Chern-Simons gravity could also potentially solve one of the biggest mysteries in cosmology: why our universe contains more matter than antimatter. Alexander's theory predicted that the Chern-Simons interaction could have yielded a relative abundance of left-handed gravitons, which would, in turn, preferentially create left-handed matter over right-handed antimatter.

The Fall 2022 edition of Imagine, Brown University's Department of Physics magazine, is here. In this issue, you will learn about the latest cutting-edge research being done in our department, as well as stories about our students, alumni, and more.

The Particle Astrophysics Group in the Department of Physics at Brown University will have an opening for a postdoctoral research associate starting July 1, 2023 or earlier if desired.

The Nanoscale Physics and Devices Lab led by Professor Gang Xiao in the Department of Physics at Brown University is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate to perform research on spintronic physics and devices.

The Center for the Fundamental Physics of the Universe (CFPU) in the Department of Physics at Brown University will have an opening for a postdoctoral research associate starting July 1, 2023, or earlier if desired.

Read Wired's story on some of the deepest problems faced by physicists today, which includes a profile of Brown Professor of Physics and self-described “deviant by default," Stephon Alexander: "The Unnatural Future of Physics."

Assistant Professor of Physics Jia (Leo) Li published "Zero-field superconducting diode effect in small-twist-angle trilayer graphene" in Nature Physics. Co-authors include Phum (Gene) Siriviboon Sc.B. '22, and Brown Postdoctoral Research Associate Jiangxiazi Lin.

Physics Demonstrations manager Angella Johnson has begun publishing an ambitious series of educational videos on YouTube that draw on her experience in demonstrations, the knowledge of Physics faculty members, and professional expertise throughout the university.

Brown University Professor of Physics Stephon Alexander discusses everything from Dark Matter to Public Enemy to the future of physics with Janet Babin on The Wall Street Journal's The Future of Everything podcast.