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Alumna Laura Biedermann is awarded Spark Award
Alumna Laura Biedermann, Ph.D., has received an award for her efforts in mentoring and promoting women's issues in science and engineering. She is a staff scientist at Sandia National Labs and is actively involved with numerous research projects in physics and materials science. She is a former PhD student of Professor Reifenberger. Congratulations Dr. Biedermann!
Purdue University Distinguished Research Award Lecture Series
Please join us for the Herbert Newby McCoy Distinguished Lecture, livestreamed here on Friday, Nov. 19 at 9:00 a.m. (ET). Congratulations to the 2021 awardee, Yong Chen, the Karl Lark-Horovitz Professor of Physics and Astronomy in the College of Science, professor of electrical and computer engineering in the College of Engineering, and the director of Purdue Quantum Science and Engineering Institute. Chen is being recognized for his significant research achievements and innovations in the synthesis and studies of various novel quantum materials and matters.
Arden L. Bement Jr. Award awarded to Prof. Michael Manfra
The Arden L. Bement Jr. Award was established in 2015 by Distinguished Professor Emeritus Arden Bement and his wife, Mrs. Louise Bement, to annually recognize a Purdue faculty member for recent outstanding accomplishments in pure and applied sciences and engineering. The award this year was given to Prof. Michael Manfra.
The Hunt for non-Abelian quasiparticles can possibly lead to Fibonacci anyons allowing universal quantum computing
A recent publication in Nature Communications, titled “Transport in helical Luttinger liquids in the fractional quantum Hall regime,” confirmed the idea that the boundary between polarized and unpolarized phases hosts counter-propagating modes with opposite spin-polarization. Two Physics and Astronomy professors, Dr. Yuli Lyanda-Geller, who led the theoretical research, and Dr. Leonid Rokhinson, who led the experimental research, plan to expand on this publication with subsequent work which could lead to advances in quantum computing.
Darker Skies Bring Observatory to Purdue Wildlife Area
The Purdue Wildlife Area is home to educational, extension and research activities on a variety of natural resource topics. Soon, the area will expand its reach with the building of a small observatory in collaboration with the Department of Physics and Astronomy. The observatory will house the recently commissioned Astro-Boilermaker Telescope (ABT), which will be operated by Dr. Danny Milisavljevic.
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