Did you know that trillions of “ghost particles” pass through your body every second? Prof Matthew Green will talk about how neutrinos can be detected and what they can tell us about our universe! Join us at Lywnnwood Brewing Concern, tomorrow on Jan 13 at 7pm for beer, food and great science!

Quantum Physics Gets Big! Join us tomorrow to learn about the 2025 Nobel Prize and how it’s paving the way for new tech—from quantum computers to cryptography and sensors. Grab a burger & drinks at @DailyPlanetCafe and enjoy great science conversation! +info: tinyurl.com/5yxh72v3

Congratulations to Paschalis Gkoupidenis on winning the inaugural Sherwin I. Seligson Innovation Award for his work in developing organic, brain-inspired electronic. Learn how his organic neuromorphic systems earned him the inaugural Sherwin I. Seligsohn Innovation Award. ➡️: ncst.at/ZVc550Xyq4C

📢 SAVE THE DATE: On Dec 18 @ 7pm we will have our annual Nobel Prize talk at the NC Natural Sciences Museum! Drs. Weijian Chen and Xiang Li will talk about macroscopic quantum effects and how this leads to new technology, including quantum cryptography, computers and sensors. tinyurl.com/5yxh72v3

📢 It is now official: The Department of Physics will now be the – Department of Physics and Astronomy – ! The change reflects the wide range of research topics covered in the department, from the very small to astronomical scales. ⚛️ ↔️ 🔭

Join the colloquium today from 4-5pm in Riddick 325! Dr. Michael Rubinstein from Duke University will discuss “The Loops of Life”! | More info: physics.sciences.ncsu.edu/event/physic...

Assistant professors Nate Ennist (left) and Xingcheng Lin (right) presented their work at the recent Carolina Biophysics Symposium.

Tuesday next week we will have our second Science on Tap presentation! Prof Kurt Marsden will be talking about how zebrafish is helping us learn more about our own brains! Join us at Lywnnwood Brewing Concern, Nov 11 at 7pm for beer, food and great science!

Don’t miss out on the colloquium next Monday from 4-5pm in 2010 Biltmore Hall!! Dr. Vashan Wright, from University of California San Diego and Scripps Institute will discuss “Searching for Evidence of Water in the Martian Crust”. | More info: physics.sciences.ncsu.edu/event/physic...

Join the colloquium next Monday from 4-5pm in Riddick 325! Dr. Danielle Speller, from Johns Hopkins University will discuss “Making the Invisible Visible: Searching for New Physics at the Laboratory Scale.”! | More info: physics.sciences.ncsu.edu/event/physic...

Congratulations to alumni Bruce Sherwood and Ruth Chabay for earning the 2026 Hans Christian Oersted Medal from the American Association of Physics Teachers (@aapthq.bsky.social). More info: tinyurl.com/ynt2j3e2 #Physics #PER #AAPTAwards

Don’t miss out on the colloquium next Monday from 4-5pm in Riddick 325!! Dr. José Alvarado, from University of Texas in Austin (@utphysics.bsky.social) will discuss “Adaptability Through Control in Robotic and Active Systems”. | More info: physics.sciences.ncsu.edu/event/colloq...

Congratulations to Prof. Melissa Dancy, who has been honored as an 2025 APS Fellow!! #Physics #PER

Don't miss the first Science on Tap series at Lynnwood Brewing next week on Tuesday, Oct 14, from 7-9pm. Prof. Kasey Wagoner will be talking about how scientists are making measurements that give insights into how the universe started.

Join us for the colloquium this Today from 4-5pm in Riddick 325!! Dr. Carl Rodriguez (@carlrodriguez.bsky.social) from UNC Chapel Hill will discuss “Growing Big Black Holes in Dense Star Clusters”. | More info: physics.sciences.ncsu.edu/event/physic...

Congratulations to our trainees from the Belmonte and Elting (@mwelting.bsky.social) labs - Reem Hakeem - Abhisha Thayambath (@abhisha-thayambath.bsky.social) - Joe Lannan (@josephlannan.bsky.social) for receiving all 3 best poster prizes at the last Triangle Cytoskeletal Meeting!!

Don’t miss out on the colloquium Today from 4-5pm in Riddick 325!! Dr. Igor Andreoni, from UNC Chapel Hill will discuss “Discovery of Energetic and Multi-messenger Transients in the Era of Rubin Observatory”. | More info: physics.sciences.ncsu.edu/event/physic...

Don’t miss out on the colloquium Today from 4-5pm in Riddick 325!! Dr. Matthew Green, from North Carolina State University will discuss “COHERENT Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering at the SNS”. | More info: physics.sciences.ncsu.edu/event/physic...

Join us for an extra colloquium this Wednesday from 4-5pm in Riddick 325!! Dr. Andrey Tarasov from North Carolina State University will discuss “Factorization and perturbative QCD in the era of Electron-Ion Collider”. | More info: physics.sciences.ncsu.edu/event/physic...

Don’t miss out on the colloquium this Monday from 4-5pm in Riddick 325!! Dr. Julio Belmonte, from North Carolina State University will discuss “Mesoscale Computational Biophysics: From Cytoskeletal Percolation to Tissue Mechanics”. | More info: physics.sciences.ncsu.edu/event/colloq...

his Monday we recognized the excellent work of two of our students with the Russel Philbrick Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant or Teaching Assistant. -Christian Trasher for his dedication and leadership in PY131 -Mustafa Ture for his discovery of solitonic superfluorescence at room temperature

Happy #FDOC, #Wolfpack! We’re wishing all new and returning students the best of luck in their physics classes this semester!

🎉 Congratulations to Eduardo Castellanos — selected as a 2025–26 Graduate Research Fellow by NC Space Grant ! 🚀 His project explores the rheology of proton-rich astrophysical gas — pushing the frontiers of space science. 🌌🧪 🔗 ncspacegrant.ncsu.edu/2025/07/15/n...

🧊✨ Galactic mystery unlocked!! Astronomers have figured out how icy gas clouds—like cosmic "ice cubes"—survive the scorching outflows from the Milky Way’s center. Amazing work from the Bordoloi group!🔭 🔗 tinyurl.com/musam7dw #MilkyWay #GalacticCenter #Astrophysics

⚛️ 🧪 Major discovery from Gundogdu’s Lab! Postdoc Melike Biliroglu and PhD student Mustafa Türe, working with an international team, demonstrate solitonic superfluorescence in hybrid perovskites at room temp—paving the way for scalable, high-temp quantum tech. 🔗 tinyurl.com/5cxs6ypp

Join us today for our annual McCormick Symposium, which highlights the achievements of the undergraduate physics students. 3pm - Poster session at Riddick Hearth 4pm - Award ceremony at RD 325

Congratulations to undergraduate alumna Logan White for being awarded the #NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program!! The award supports outstanding graduate students who are pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees.

Don’t miss out on the colloquium next Monday from 4-5pm in Riddick 301!! Dr. Geraldine Cochran, from Ohio State University, will discuss “Rethinking What it Means to be Underprepared in Physics”. | More info: physics.sciences.ncsu.edu/event/colloq...

Today is NC State Day of Giving!! #GivingPack Your donation to the Physics Department Enhancement Fund will go towards supporting our faculty and students as we offer extraordinary opportunities in physics education and research. Make a donation at: go.ncsu.edu/dayofgiving.physics

Check this late-breaking talk by postdoc Carmen Lee from ‪@karenedaniels.bsky.social‬ lab at the APS Global Physics Summit!

Congratulations to physics undergraduate Josh Ott for being selected a 2024 Astronaut Scholar!! These merit-based scholarships are given to exceptional STEM students who intend to continue pursuing research and advance their field after graduation. +Info: tinyurl.com/bdcwpfvt

Today we will host a joint colloquium with the department of mathematics. Join us at 4:14 in SAS 1102 to hear Dr. Mason Porter from UCLA talk about “Quantum Networks”. More info: math.sciences.ncsu.edu/2025/02/04/c...

Join us for the colloquium this Monday from 4-5pm in Riddick 325!! Dr. Mariangela Lisanti from Princeton University will discuss "Galaxies as Probes of the Particle Physics Nature of Dark Matter"! | More info: physics.sciences.ncsu.edu/event/physic...

Join us for the special colloquium this Wednesday from 4-5pm in Riddick 325!! Dr. Ruediger Picker, from TRIUMF (@triumflab.bsky.social), will discuss “Progress towards the TRIUMF ultracold neutron facility and neutron electric dipole moment experiment”.

Congratulations to Aaron Titus for being chosen as one of the 2 college's nominees for the Outstanding Teacher Award. More info: provost.ncsu.edu/ofe/awards-a...

Join us for the first colloquium of the year this Monday from 4-5pm in Riddick 325!! Dr. Shengwang Du, from Purdue University, will discuss “Distributed Quantum Computing with Shared Quantum Gate Processing Unit”. | More info: physics.sciences.ncsu.edu/event/physic...

Join us tonight at 7pm to learn more about the recent Nobel Prize in Physics!! Dr. Xipeng Shen will talk about how scientists combined physics and computation to revolutionize #ArtificialInteligence. This free event for the general public will consist of lecture followed by Q&A from the audience.

Congratulations to physics undergraduate Lilly Ahrens (John Blondin lab) for receiving an honorable mention at the last American Astronomical Society meeting for her work on how turbulence changes the classical Hoyle-Lyttleton accretion theory. #AAS244 t.co/y7s9J9vrsR

Congratulations to Sebastian König for being selected as one of this year's Goodnight Early Career Innovators. The program recognizes and rewards ternure-track assistant professors who demonstrated early productivity in STEM education, research and innovation. More info: ift.tt/z8QYHIu

SAVE THE DATE: On Dec 19 we will have our annual public talk about the recent #NobelPrize in Physics. Prof. Xipeng Shen will be talking about how physics and computing were combined to revolutionize #ArtificialIntelligence. Join us at the DailyPlanet Cafe to learn more about the science behind AI.

Don’t miss out on the colloquium today from 4-5pm in Riddick 301!! Dr. Lu Bai from Penn State University will discuss "Studying Chromosome Conformation and Dynamics Using Chemically Induced Chromosomal Interaction". | More info: physics.sciences.ncsu.edu/event/physic...

Don’t miss out on the colloquium this Monday from 4-5pm in Riddick 301!! Dr. Silke Henkes from Leiden University (@@unileiden.bsky.social) will discuss "Flow, fluctuate and freeze: Modeling collective cell motion using soft active matter". | More info: physics.sciences.ncsu.edu/event/physic...

📢 JOB ALERT: We are hiring!! Our department has 2 open assistant prof positions right now. - Life-Sciences-Level Physics Course Coordinator - Engineering-Level Physics Course Coordinator For more information check the link: jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/207...

Don’t miss out on the colloquium today from 4-5pm in Riddick 301!! Dr. Sebastian König, from North Carolina State University, will discuss "Nuclear Physics in a Box (and Other Stories)". | More info: physics.sciences.ncsu.edu/event/rpt-co...

Join us for the colloquium today from 4-5pm in Riddick 301!! Dr. Richard Longland, from NC State University, will discuss "The Long Wait for T Coronae Borealis - How Nuclear Physics Informs Our Understanding of Astrophysical Phenomena". More Info: physics.sciences.ncsu.edu/event/rpt-co...

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