We are having our Condensed Matter Seminar at 12:45 today!! Kateryna Foyevtsova from University of Notre Dame will be giving a talk titled: "Molecular physics without molecules in flat-band quantum materials"
Join us in Rock 221: free and open to all!
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CWRU Physics is hiring an Instructor (July 2026) to teach large calc-based courses such as Mechanics or E&M. A PhD is required along with strong teaching and course management skills.
Apply by May 8: https://apply.interfolio.com/182735
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CWRU alumnus Dieter Moeller’s LAG visit was amazing! He drove from Cincinnati to meet the class and shared how he grew his company from $1M/15 people to $500M/900. His insights on networking, experiences, and his gap year really resonated, plus great post-talk discussions.
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Professor Ben Lehmann's final lecture of the course of three will occur this Thursday. This lecture will be all about "Testing the Particle Dark Matter Paradigm!".
Dark matter research is reaching a turning point! Hear more about it in Prof. Lehmann's final lecture!
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The second Michelson Postdoctoral Prize Lecture given by Ben Lahmann will be on Compact Objects as Dark Matter!🪐
Join us for this talk on Tuesday, April 14th from 11:30am-12:30pm in Rockefeller 221! Free and open to everyone.
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Last Saturday the Sri Lankan Graduate Student Association hosted a Paintball Game at Olmsted Falls Playground!
Leaders Akeshi Aththanayake & Vihanga Ranatunga joined by Hasitha Samarakkodi, Umadini Ranasinghe, and Tharushi Ambagaspitiya.
Prof. & Janet Brown cheered them on!
Ben Lehmann, PhD (MIT), winner of this year’s Michelson Postdoctoral Prize, will visit CWRU April 13–17.
His first lecture, Broadening Direct Searches for Light Dark Matter, is this Monday, April 13, 12:45–2pm in Rockefeller 221. Seats may be limited!
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Dr. Gabi Steinbach (APS Career Mentoring Fellow, America Needs You) joins Life After Graduation this week via Zoom to discuss career paths and job resources. Come in person to ask questions live! Dinner with Profs. Brown, Caner & Janet after, meet at the front of 304.
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Last week’s Life After Graduation speaker was Dr. Ruihao Li of the Cleveland Clinic! He spoke on the evolving quantum computing landscape and how physics grads contribute. Huge turnout and students stayed extra long at dinner to keep the conversation going with Dr. Li.
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Professor Brown and his wife Janet attended the APS Global Physics Summit! The Doc Brown Future of Physics Days travel grant helped many students attend the conference, pictured here. Brown is also seen speaking with alumnus Tim Doerr, PhD, now an administrator at NIH.
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The Case Western Reserve University Department of Physics is hiring an Instructor for our calculus-based introductory physics sequence!
Find details on the department's website https://physics.case.edu/
To apply: https://apply.interfolio.com/182735
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Join us today @ 4pm! (with cookies, coffee & conversation at 3:30pm in Rockefeller AA Michelson Lounge) Thursday, April 2, 2026 - Physics Colloquium with Prof. Jodi Hadden-Perilla, Chemistry and Biochemistry, @ University of Delaware 🔬🎉 Details @ physics.case.edu/events/jodi-... #cwru #physics
Today is the last day to get your submissions in for the Beauty in Physics Science Art Competition! Don't miss out on your chance to earn awards up to $250!
All submissions must be sent to pleaseshare@case.edu
We look forward to seeing your creations!
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Join us TOMORROW for our Condensed Matter Seminar! Jian Huang Professor at Wayne State University will be giving a talk titled: Interaction-Driven Rigidity and Collective Breakdown in a Topological Quantum Hall State.
March 30 | 12:45pm | Rockefeller 221
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Brendan O’Donell’s visit for the Life After Graduation course was very successful! Students were so engaged that they did not want to end their discussions with him, even after dinner.
Stay tuned to see who this week's Life After Graduation speaker will be!
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We will be hearing from Professor Steve DiKerby from Michigan State University for our Particle-Astrophysics Seminar this Tuesday.
His talk is titled: "Your Friendly Neighborhood Singularities- X-ray Probes of Local Supermassive Black Holes"
3/31 | 11:30am-12:30pm | Rock221
Submissions have begun rolling in for the 2026 "Beauty in Physics" Science-Art Competition! The deadline is coming up on March 31st, don't miss your chance to win up to $250! 🎉
Anyone affiliated to CWRU, CIA or CIM are encouraged to participate.
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We're proud to feature CWRU students Karisa Liaw & Meara Evans, double majors in Physics & Neuroscience! Guided by PhD candidate Hiba Obeid, they’re carrying forward curiosity, collaboration, and mentorship.
Read their story: case.edu/news/enduring-legacy-cwr...
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We are thrilled to be hearing from Oleg. D Lavrentovich from Kent State for our Physics Colloquium tomorrow! He will be giving a talk titled "Polarization patterns of ferroelectric nematics"
4pm | 3/26 | Rock 301
His group's webiste: https://lavrentovichgroup.com/lavrentovich.html
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Brendan O'Donnell (B.S. Physics ’20) is coming to the Life After Grad course! He researched magnetic microparticles at CWRU, taught briefly with Teach for America, and now designs MRI RF coils at Quality Electrodynamics, leading Siemens projects.
Rock 304 | 5:15pm | 3/26
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Join us Tuesday to hear from Mikel Martin Barandiaran (CWRU) for our weekly Particle Astrophysics Seminar!
"More Than Power: Revisiting the CMP Hemispherical Power Asymmetry with Morphological Descriptors"
3/24 | 11:30am | Foldy Room, Rockefeller 221
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Congratulations to Professor Benjamin Monreal for contributing to a recent publication titled: Project 8 apparatus for cyclotron radiation emission spectroscopy with 83mKr and tritium.
Find the paper here: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
@benmonreal.bsky.social
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Join us TOMORROW for our Particle-Astrophysics Seminar with Florian Kühnel (LMU Munich & TU Dortmund).
The talk is titled Primordial Black Holes — Positivist Perspective, Quantum Quiddity and Galaxy Genesis.
See you tomorrow 3/17, 11:30–12:30, Rockefeller 221.
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Grad student Hridoy Debnath and Prof. Pavel Fileviez Perez’s new paper Matter Unification and Lepton Flavour Violation studies a low-energy quark–lepton unification model and shows the upcoming Mu2e experiment could test the theory at the multi-TeV scale.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.02313
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See Prof Cyrus Taylor's publication in @apsphysics.bsky.social Physical Review Letters today. The upshot? Recent record-breaking temps are portents of things to come. If we don't stop emitting greenhouse gases, temps will continue inexorably to rise #globalwarming journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...
We will see you tomorrow for our weekly Physics Colloqium where we will hear from Andrea Alù, giving a talk titled: Extreme Light Control with Metamaterials.
Come by Thursday, March 5th from 4-5pm to hear more!
Free and open to everybody.
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Meet Umadini Ranasinghe, a PhD student in the CWRU Physics Dept, and part of Professor Freeman’s team since August 2025! She loves learning new techniques with a supportive lab, her favorite phage is Che8.
Also check out the lab pre-setup! 🎉
Krista Freeman
Freeman Lab - Bacteriophage Biophysics
We’re excited to welcome John Dulin (#CWRU ’15) back as our Life After Graduation speaker! From a topology capstone with Prof. Glenn Starkman to founding Modern Intelligence, now a 30-person, profitable AI company working with the U.S. DoD.
Don’t miss it!
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4 days until the Freeman Lab-Warming Party! 🎉
Meet Angela Noreck, physics grad student and Freeman Lab researcher. She loves the supportive vibe and her favorite phage: Phrappuccino! ☕
Learn more: freemanbiophysics.org/scientists
#PhageScience Krista Freeman Freeman Lab of Bacteriophage Biophysics
Meet Sophia Greene, a physics grad student in the Freeman Lab! She loves using Cryo-EM + computational tools to build atomic-scale models of bacteriophages.
Freeman Biophysics Website https://www.freemanbiophysics.org/
Krista Freeman Freeman Lab of Bacteriophage Biophysics