Assistant Professor, Applied and Engineering Physics Academic focus: Condensed matter physics, quantum materials, ultrafast/nonlinear optics, thin films and interfaces Research summary: My research... Read more
Yandong Li is a Ph.D. student in Prof. Gennady Shvets’ group who focuses on topological photonics, a new field that is inspired by condensed-matter physics and explores how to robustly control the... Read more
Winner of the Emerging Researcher Best Paper Prize from JOSA B, a prize that recognizes "a student or early-career researcher (within five years of earning their highest degree) who is the first author of a paper that a committee of JOSA B editors judges to be outstanding," Yi-Hao Chen will receive his award in October 2022. Read more
Congratulations to our graduating class of 2022! View and download graduation day photos taken by our staff photographer on our Flickr site, or purchase this photo (and others) taken by our... Read more
When Zui Tao was in elementary school in Hefei, China she was obsessed with magic. She practiced tricks every day and performed a magic show each year at her school’s New Year Festival. But that all... Read more
How do bacteria continue to evade death by antibiotics? Guillaume Lambert applies physics to the task of discovering how. A physicist by training, Lambert uses his physicist’s tool kit to pursue... Read more
What’s Next in Computing? Exploring the Possibilities What do pharmaceutical drugs, rechargeable batteries, and solar cells have in common? They share the potential to reap great benefits in design... Read more
The Microscopy Society of America (MSA) Distinguished Scientist Award is presented to a preeminent senior scientist with a longstanding record of achievement during their career in the field of... Read more
Donald M. Tennant, B.S. ’73, is the Director of Strategic Initiatives and recently retired Director of Operations at Cornell NanoScale Facility (CNF). At CNF, his efforts focused on leading the... Read more
Peter McMahon joined the faculty of the School of Applied and Engineering Physics (AEP) at Cornell as an assistant professor in the summer of 2019. McMahon’s research focuses on the physics of... Read more
