News: AEP
Selected news pieces highlighting accomplishments of the School of Applied and Engineering Physics faculty, students and alumni.
Mong fellowship advances neuroimaging collaboration
The discovery made by two doctoral students could have future implications for human health, setting a path for research into understanding brain function. Read more
CHESS celebrates 75 years of synchrotron light
Researchers at CHESS examine proteins that reveal new ways to fight cancer, battery cells that enable a charge far beyond current capabilities and structural materials that enable space travel to improve with lightweight, yet more structurally sound components. Read more
AEP Senior Leo Moon Wins CURB Award
“Estimating ground states for large, frustrated quantum-spin systems (systems between magnetic interactions whose spins are not oriented to profit from the interaction with its neighbors) is of interest in quantum matter research, “ says Moon. “Solutions such as Variational Quantum Eigensolvers (VQE) that use a quantum circuit are one solution, but unless the exact ground energy is known, there is no method to evaluate the VQE's performance. “To solve this problem, I used simulations (simulating quantum circuits in a classical computer), to verify that the Hamiltonian Reconstruction distance... Read more
AEP Student wins Goldwater Scholarship
Abhi Sarma, an undergraduate research student in professor Peter McMahon's lab who is doing quantum-computing-algorithms research, just recently won a Goldwater Scholarship. Read more
AEP students win NSF Graduate Research Fellowships for 2022
Erin Fleck studies experimental condensed matter and material physics to understand why materials behave the way they do. She has been in Professor Lena Kourkoutis’ group since her freshman year doing electron microscopy. After graduation, she will pursue a Ph.D. in Applied Physics at Stanford University. Chloe Washabaugh’s research focuses on quantum transduction. She has worked in professor Greg Fuchs’s group since her freshman year, translating quantum information stored in molecular qubits to its physical environment and vice versa. After graduation, she will pursue her Ph.D. at the... Read more
Engineers pave way for next-gen deep ultraviolet lasers
Cornell engineers have created a deep-ultraviolet laser using semiconductor materials that show great promise for improving the use of ultraviolet light for sterilizing medical tools, purifying water and sensing hazardous gases. Read more
$10M gift boosts quantum science at Cornell
A $10 million gift from David W. Meehl ’72, MBA ’74, will grow the roster of faculty, students and equipment needed to study the mysterious behavior of matter at atomic and subatomic scales, strengthening the university’s position as a leader in quantum science and technology. Read more
Four assistant professors win 2022 Sloan fellowships
Assistant professors Pamela Chang, Antonio Fernandez-Ruiz, Daniel Halpern-Leistner and Peter McMahon have won 2022 Sloan Research Fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Read more
Three from engineering win Navy Young Investigator Awards
Three assistant professors from Cornell Engineering have been selected from more than 220 applicants to receive Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program awards, which recognizes academic achievement and potential for significant scientific breakthrough. Read more