Prof. Brown & Caner’s Life After Graduation welcomes Andrew Medvedev, Dean of the Weatherhead School of Management, this Thursday at 5:15pm in Rock 304! He’ll discuss financial careers for physics majors (BS–PhD) & his Integrated Master’s pathway. Don’t miss it! #CWRU #physics

Countdown to March 5, 2026! 🎉 The Freeman Lab for Bacteriophage Biophysics opens at Case Western Reserve University. Led by Prof Freeman, the team uses cryo-EM to map the protein structures of bacteriophages: viruses that infect bacteria. 🧬 #CWRU #Biophysics #FreemanLab

Prof Walter Lambrecht & students I. Turan and S. Sadman posted Electronic band structure of CaSnN₂: a sustainable alternative for blue LEDs on https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.04106 They use advanced 1t principles electronic structure calculations to better understand this proposed material's properties.

Join us TOMORROW for our Particle Astrophysics Seminar. Harvard University PhD student Catherine Petretti will be presenting: Investigating the Origin of CMB Large-Scale Features Using LiteBIRD. 📅Tuesday, Feb. 17th at 11:30am 📍 Foldy Room, Rock 221 #CWRU #CWRUPhysics

This week’s LAG guest speaker is Dr. Lisa Felter! She is a CWRU triple alum (BS, MS, PhD) and Senior Project Manager at Newry Corp. She’ll share what a consulting career really looks like and how physics skills translate. Thurs 📍304 Rock | 🕔 5:15 PM #CWRU #CWRUPhysics

Join us for an upcoming Physics Colloqium by Dr. Ed Yu (Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, CWRU) on: “Structure and Assembly of Antimicrobial Efflux Transporters in Bacteria.” 📅 Thursday, February 12 ⏰ 4:00–5:00 PM 📍 Rock 301 #CWRU #CWRUPhysics

🔬 Join the Condensed Matter Seminar! Hyeji Im (CWRU Materials Science) presents “Advancing Structural Materials through Structure–Property Understanding” 📅 Mon, Feb 9 | 12:45–1:45pm | Rock 221 & Zoom ID: 99054239108, Pass: 666092 More info: physics.case.edu/events/hyeji... #CWRU

Prof. John Ruhl contributed to new SPT-3G results using 2 years of data to measure fine-scale CMB fluctuations. The study constrains SZ effects, the cosmic infrared background, and uses kinematic SZ to estimate the duration of cosmic reionization. 📡✨ arxiv.org/pdf/2601.20551

Happening today ⏰‼️ Don’t miss CWRU faculty breaking down the 2025 Nobel Prizes in Physics, Chemistry, and Medicine: Jesse Berezovsky, Burcu Gurkan, and Man-Sun Sy share the science behind the awards. 4pm in Rock301. Reception: 5 to 6 PM in also Rock 301. #CWRU #Nobel25

We’re proud to announce that physics undergraduate Rafaella Ortiz Cardenas has been selected to perform with the Martha Graham Dance Company, the oldest professional dance company in the U.S.! A third-year major in dance, astronomy, and physics. case.edu/news/milesto... #CWRU

We’re excited to welcome Hari Padma to the #CWRU Physics Dept as the Frederick Reines Assistant Professor of Physics! 🎉 He completed a PhD at Penn State & postdoc at Harvard. His research focuses on quantum materials and experimental condensed matter. ow.ly/kz1j50Y8nfa

We are excited to welcome Tanvir Baig, CWRU PhD alum & Chief Medical Physicist at MetroHealth, to the Life After Graduation course! Learn about the high demand field of medical physics & career paths for physics majors. This Thursday 1/5, 5:30 PM, in Rock 304. 🏨 #CWRU

The next CWRU Physics colloquium explores the breakthroughs behind the 2025 Nobel Prizes in Science. 🎖️ Talks will be given by Jesse Berezovsky (Physics), Burcu Gurkan (ChemE), and Man-Sun Sy (Medicine). 📅 Thurs Feb 5, 4–5 pm, Rockefeller 301. Reception to follow. #CWRU

Recent work co-authored by Dr. Gao explores modulation doping and reduced hysteresis in InSe/GaS 2D FETs. By controlling metal contacts, the study achieves near hysteresis-free devices and high room-temperature mobility. Read more here! pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.... #CWRU

We’re excited to welcome Dr. Kasun Premasiri (CWRU Physics PhD ’19) to Prof. Bob Brown & Prof. Ed Caner’s Life After Graduation class tomorrow (1/29) at 5:15 PM. Now a Process Integration Development Engineer at Intel. Sign up to meet him before class: ow.ly/Ise450Y5aN4

PHYS 366/466, taught by #CWRU Profs. Brown & Caner, is open to first-year through grad students. Weekly speakers from industry, healthcare & national labs share career paths, job-market insight, and network opportunities. Last week: AI leader Caden Kacmarynski was the speaker!

#CWRU physics Professor Johanna Nagy is helping build Taurus, a next-gen balloon-borne telescope set to launch in 2028 to detect polarization in the Cosmic Microwave Background, peering back to the universe’s earliest moments with unprecedented sensitivity. 🌌📡 #cosmology #physics

Our first Condensed Matter Seminar is coming up! 📅 We are hosting Dr. Xiaoming Wang (University of Toledo) speaking on Ab Initio Theory of Optical Activity in Crystalline Solids. Feb 2, 12:45–1:45pm, Rockefeller 221 (Foldy Room). physics.case.edu/events/xiaom... #CWRU #Physics

Professors Hinczewski and Strangi contributed to “Observation of Light-Driven Levitation Near ENZ Surfaces” 💡🧪 Their experiment measures repulsive, light-driven forces on particles near ENZ materials, enabling electric levitation. 🔗 Read more here: arxiv.org/pdf/2601.10425 #CWRU #Physics

Professor Bob Brown attended the 2026 AAPT Winter Conference in Las Vegas with Janet Brown, celebrating the future of physics education alongside 2025 Doc Brown Futures Award winner Meghan DiBacco, a Texas HS teacher and leader in Quantum for All. Learn more about the award: ow.ly/hIab50Y0Nyh

Star-filled reunion! 🎉Prof Bob Brown presented a talk on the Life After Graduation course at a session of the American Astronomical Society national Conference in Phoenix this past week. While there, Janet & he were thrilled to meet former students from the #cwru Physics & Astronomy departments!

CWRU Physics Prof. Pavel Fileviez Perez was featured in The Daily for a new theory explaining neutrino masses, predicting a dark matter candidate, and proposing new collider and gamma-ray tests. 🔬🌌 case.edu/news/year-di... #CWRU #physics #TheDaily #PhysicsResearch

#CWRU Physics’ John Ruhl is a co-author on a new Physical Review D paper from the SPT-3G collaboration, measuring CMB B-mode polarization with the South Pole Telescope and placing new constraints on inflationary gravitational waves. Read more: journals.aps.org/prd/abstract... #physics

Congratulations to CWRU physics undergrad Zachariah Jones, who won 3rd place in the Fall ’25 Intersections poster contest! His project enhances photon upconversion in perovskite nanocrystals using ENZ metamaterials to boost light–matter interactions. 🎖️🌟 Great job! 😊 #CWRU

Congrats to Prof. Bob Brown on being named to the National Academy of Inventors and featured in The Daily! After 55 years at CWRU, he’s still leading in industrial physics and earning new awards and patents.🎉💡 Read more: case.edu/news/cwru-fa... #CWRUPhysics #CWRU

Upcoming Biophysics Colloquium 🧫 Join us Wed, Dec 10 (4:30–5:45 PM) in Rockefeller 221 to hear CMU’s Fangwei Si on how bacterial cells manage membrane space—bridging physics and biology at the molecular scale. 🧪 #Biophysics #CWRU #CMU #CellBiology

#CWRU Engineering Physics alumnus Caden Kacmarynski, now Chief AI Architect at MorelandConnect, is driving the integration of AI and quantum computing. As chair of the Quantum Coalition, he highlights CWRU’s impact in the Midwest. 🗺️ More: ohiotechnews.com/caden-kacmar... #CWRUPhysics

New pub! CWRU's Pavel Fileviez & Hridoy Debnath + @uclmaps.bsky.social collaborators release Quark-Lepton Unification Signatures. The theory has a rich spectrum of new fields, 1 vector leptoquark, 2 scalar leptoquarks, a color-octet scalar & addl Higgs doublet arxiv.org/pdf/2512.00143 🎉 @ucl.ac.uk

This week's Physics Colloquium will feature Pavel Fileviez Perez, he will give a talk titled: Neutrino Masses and Theories of New Physics. 🔬🌟🔍 This talk will occur in Rockefeller 301. 🗺️ Coffee, cookies, & conversation @ 3:30pm in Michelson Lounge 🍪 #CWRU #physics

Congratulations to #cwru outstanding seniors Zachariah Jones, MG Davis and Samuel Diener and advisors Prof. Jesse Berezovsky and Prof. Pino Strangi! The students presented their research projects in today's Fall Senior Physics Project Symposium. Very impressive! 🔬🌟💡 #physics #undergraduateresearch

It’s that time in the semester! Join us tomorrow for the Fall Senior Physics Project Symposium, where CWRU senior undergrads present their research. 🔬🌟 📅 Dec 1 ⏰ 12:45–1:45 PM📍 Foldy Room (Rock 221) Come support our seniors! #CWRUPhysics #UndergraduateResearch #CWRU

CWRU Physics Professor John Ruhl contributated in the publication: Towards constraining cosmological parameters with SPT-3G observations of 25% of the sky. 👏🪐 Read more about it here: arxiv.org/pdf/2510.24669 #CWRUPhysics #Physics #Cosmology #PhysicsResearch

Prof. Krista Freeman, featured in The Daily, is one of CWRU Physics’ newest faculty members. She earned her BS at Cleveland State and her MS/PhD at Carnegie Mellon. Her research uses cryo-EM to study bacteriophage biophysics. 🔬 More: case.edu/news/meet-ne... #CWRUPhysics #CWRU

We’re proud to highlight #CWRU Physics Professor Giuseppe Strangi’s contributions as Guest Editor of the Capasso Tribute Issue, reflecting his dedication to rigorous science and impactful work in nanophotonics. 👏🧬 Read more: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Physics Prof Benjamin Monreal was a contributing author in a recently published paper titled: "Antenna arrays for neutrino mass measurements with cyclotron radiation emission spectroscopy" 📏🔬 Read more below: journals.aps.org/prc/abstract... #CWRU #physics #particlephysics #research

CWRU Physics Prof. Pavel Fileviez Pérez published “Lepton Flavor Violation and Local Lepton Number.” 🔬💫 The study shows how low-scale symmetry breaking can predict dark matter and connect collider signals with lepton flavor violation. Read more: arxiv.org/pdf/2510.11774 #CWRU

This week our Physics Colloquium will feature CWRU Prof. Giuseppe Strangi. He will present “Light-Matter Interactions: Leveraging the Nanoscale.” 📅 Thurs 11/13, 4–5pm, Rockefeller 301. ☕ Coffee & cookies at 3:30pm (Michelson Lounge)! #CWRUPhysics #NanoscaleScience #CWRU

#CWRU Physics Prof. Shulei Zhang published “Roles of Electrically Excited Magnons in Unidirectional Magnetoresistance of Metallic Magnetic Bilayers.” 🧲 His theory shows how magnons, quantized spin waves, affect UMR in metallic bilayers. 👇 arxiv.org/pdf/2510.10309

Join us tomorrow for the Biophysics Colloquium! 🧬🔬 Zongxin Zhao (Carnegie Mellon) will present “Making Super-Resolution Practical: Magnify Expansion Microscopy for Research and Translational Applications.” 📅 Wed, Nov 12 | 4:30–5:45 PM | Rockefeller 301 All are welcome! 😊

Don’t miss tomorrow’s Particle Astrophysics Seminar! 🌞 Momchil Molnar (Southwest Research Institute) will present: “The Sun as the Ultimate Astrophysical Laboratory.” 📅 Nov 11, 11:30–12:30 📍Foldy Room, Rockefeller 221 #cwru #physics #CaseWesternReserve #astrophysics

This Monday (Nov 10) at 12:45 PM — join our Condensed Matter Seminar! Hao Shen (Kent State Univ.) will present on the creation and development of the electron spin catalyst ⚛️ 📍Rockefeller 221, Foldy Room | 💻 Zoom available #CondensedMatter #PhysicsSeminar #CWRU

🐱✨ Join us Thurs, Nov 6 @ 4PM (Rockefeller 301) for our Physics Colloquium with Ruben Verresen (UChicago) “From Schrödinger’s Cat to Emergent Gauge Theories in Topological Matter.” Coffee & cookies @ 3:30PM! ☕ #CWRU #physics #colloquium #topologicalmatter #quantumphysics

The #CWRU Physics Department had an amazing time at this year’s Pumpkin Drop! 🎃👻 Newton’s laws were put to the test, pie and cider were enjoyed, and smiles were everywhere. Thanks for joining us, see you next year! 🍎😊 #physics #astrophysics #halloween #pumpkin

We’d love to see you Tuesday, Nov. 4 at 11:30 AM in the Foldy Room (Rockefeller 221) for our next Particle Astrophysics Seminar! Chris Carr (Columbia) will present “Coupling and Collisions of Galaxies and their Atmospheres.” Don’t miss it! #CWRU #astrophysics #physics

Join us Wed, Oct 29 @ 4:30 PM in Rockefeller 301 for our Biophysics Colloquium! 🪴 CWRU’s own Yihang Wang presents “AI for Biomolecular Discovery: Overcoming Sampling & Modeling Challenges in Molecular Simulations.” #physics #biophysics #AI #CWRU

Particle Astrophysics Seminar! 🪐🌠 Join us Tuesday, Oct 28 at 11:30 AM in Foldy Room (Rockefeller 221) for Justin Myles (Princeton University): “Studying Cosmology with Weak Gravitational Lensing in the Rubin LSST Decade.” 🔬 #CWRU #physics #astrophysics #cwruphysics

Join us for the next Condensed Matter Seminar! Prof. Benjamin Fregoso (Kent State) will discuss the nonlinear response of Bloch electrons to magnetic fields! 📅 Oct 27 | 12:45–1:45 PM 📍 Foldy Room (Rock 221) & Zoom! #CWRU #physics #condensedmatter

#CWRU Professor Giuseppe Strangi was featured in “Butterfly Wings Inspire Barrier-Breaking Nanotech.” 🦋 He praised the metasurface’s “unprecedented control of light” and potential for quantum communication! #cwruresearch #physics #nanotech #quantumphysics

The #CWRU Department of Physics proudly welcomes our newest members of the Society of Physics Students! 🎉🔬 Congratulations to everyone inducted at this year’s ceremony! #SPS #physics #honorsociety

Join us Thurs, Oct 23, for our Physics Colloquium! 🧲😊 Igor Mazin (George Mason University) will discuss Altermagnetism in 3- & 2-D: Symmetry Constraints & Functionalization. 📍Rock 301 | 🕓 Talk @ 4pm ☕ Coffee & cookies @ 3:30 (Michelson Lounge) #physics #CWRU #research