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Prof. Olmsted Co-Authors Paper in Nature Physics
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 in an
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Georgetown-Indian Institute of Science Initiative in Soft Matter Workshop
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 professors f
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Active Materials Project Summer School
The Active Materials Project summer school will run from Sunday, June 11th through Thursday, June 15th, 2017 on the Campus of Georgetown University. The event will bring together graduate students wi
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Techniques to measure and exert forces in micro Newton range – Applied to genetic model organisms
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Professor Hahm Wins Main Campus Research Achievement Award
Professor Jong-In Hahm, Associate Professor of Physics and member of the Institute, has been awarded the Distinguished Research Award for the Main Campus. Professor Hahm will receive the university’s
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Adsorption of proteins on patterned surfaces
Research efforts led by Professor Jong-in Hahm, recently published in ACS Nano, 2016, 10 (8), pp 7705–7720, DOI: provide new insight into controlling the adsorption configuration, backbone alignm
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New ISM Member joins Georgetown Department of Chemistry
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 t
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Workshop on Dense Colloidal Suspensions Held at ISMSM.
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 workshop here.
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A Crack in the Mystery of ‘Oobleck’—Friction Thickens Fluids
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.
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USA Science and Engineering Festival
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!
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