Prof. Hahm co-wrote an ACS Nano VI editorial, ‘Women in Nanotechnology: Toward Better Materials through Better Understanding of Low-Dimensional Systems’ with Prof. Ana de Bettencourt-Dias.
August 7th, 2018
Archived News & Events
Vikram Rathee Wins the Postdoctoral Speaker Award from the APS Topical Group on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
March 9th, 2018
Vikram Rathee has won the Postdoctoral Speaker Award from the APS Topical Group on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics at this year’s March Meeting for his talk “Insight into Shear Thickening…
Prof. Richard Weiss to present at 41st. SBQ Annual Meeting and receive a JBCS tribute
June 1st, 2018
Prof. Richard Weiss has been invited to present at the 41st. SBQ Annual Meeting, which will be held from May 21 to 24, in Foz do Iguaçu. Prof. Weiss will also receive a Journal…
Prof. Olmsted Co-Authors Paper in Nature Physics
December 13th, 2017
December 11, 2017 — A paper co-authored by Georgetown College physics professor Peter Olmsted has been published in the journal Nature Physics. The paper, “Frustration and thermalization…
Georgetown-Indian Institute of Science Initiative in Soft Matter Workshop
August 30th, 2017
A two-day workshop on a diverse range of soft matter subjects was held on 25-26 August 2017 under the sponsorship of Georgetown’s India Initiative and the I(SM)2. It was attended by six…
Active Materials Project Summer School
June 1st, 2017
Professor Hahm Wins Main Campus Research Achievement Award
October 28th, 2016
Adsorption of proteins on patterned surfaces
September 1st, 2016
New ISM Member joins Georgetown Department of Chemistry
August 1st, 2016
Nagarjuna Gavvalapalli has joined us from the University of Illinois@Urbana Champaign. He is in the Chemistry Department and provides expertise in synthetic macromolecular chemistry. To push…
Workshop on Dense Colloidal Suspensions Held at ISMSM.
June 18th, 2016
A Workshop on Dense Colloidal Suspensions was held Thursday/Friday 16-17 June 2016). You can read about it. You can view the program for the…
A Crack in the Mystery of ‘Oobleck’—Friction Thickens Fluids
April 22nd, 2016
By revealing missing details behind the odd behavior of a science-fair favorite—a soupy mixture known as “oobleck” that switches back and forth between liquid and solid— scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Georgetown University could help to end a long-running scientific debate and improve processes ranging from pouring concrete to making better body armor.…
USA Science and Engineering Festival
April 20th, 2016
The 4th USA Science & Engineering Festival was held April 16-17, 2016 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. Well over 700 people visited the Georgetown University had a booth covering Biology, Physics and Chemistry, including making ice cream using liquid nitrogen!…
Novel insight into the mesoscale texture of cement hydrates
February 22nd, 2016
Workshop on "Rheology of Dense Particulate Suspensions"
February 6th, 2016
MASM Meeting at NIH, 29 January 2016
November 18th, 2015