CCNY PHYSICS NEWS

Vinod Menon has recently secured a prestigious $1,515,000 grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation for his work on “Exploring Correlated Polaritons and Polariton Condensates in Optical Cavities”.

Sriram Ganeshan has been honored with one of the Feliks Gross Awards for Outstanding Research for Assistant Professors in CUNY, 2024.

Professors Menon, Meriles and collaborators awarded $5M grant for new CCNY Quantum Institute. Read the press release.

Dr. Seth Cottrell of the City College of New York presented on quantum workforce education and demonstrated quantum properties with an interferometer at Q4I's Quantum Alley event, highlighting New York's advancements in quantum technologies. 

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RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Protein folding as a jamming transition AT Grigas, Z Liu, JA Logan, MD Shattuck, CS O'Hern PRX Life 3 (1), 013018

Kardar-Parisi-Zhang universality at the edge of Laughlin states GM Monteiro, D Reynolds, P Glorioso, S Ganeshan Physical Review B 111 (4), L041108

Casimir effect in Yang-Mills theories in three and four dimensions D Karabali, A Maj, VP Nair Physical Review D 112 (9), 094037

Ferromagnets from higher SU (N) representations AP Polychronakos, K Sfetsos Nuclear Physics B 1014, 116880

The 5d tangram: brane webs, 7-branes and primitive T-cones IC Bolla, S Franco, D Rodríguez-Gómez Journal of High Energy Physics 2025 (5), 1-20

Magnon-mediated exciton–exciton interaction in a van der Waals antiferromagnet B Datta, PC Adak, S Yu, A Valiyaparambil Dharmapalan, SJ Hall, ...Nature Materials, 1-7

The role of fibration symmetries in geometric deep learning OM Velarde, LC Parra, P Boldi, HA Makse Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 123 (4), e2416552123

Emission of nitrogen–vacancy centres in diamond shaped by topological photonic waveguide modes. Kumar, R., Chandan, López Morales, G.I. et al.

For earlier publications please see Physics News, Publications Archive.

DEPARTMENT EPHEMERA 

Here's a new video featuring two of our experimental physics groups, led by Profs Carlos Meriles (https://cmeriles.ccny.cuny.edu) and Vinod Menon (https://lanmp.org).

UPCOMING EVENTS

Physics Colloquium

Physics Colloquiums occur on most Wednesdays at 4:00 p.m. during the regular academic semester.  Talks are presented on Zoom and in person in the Marshak Science Building, room 418N.  For more information, please contact Sriram Ganeshan, sganeshan@ccny.cuny.edu 

For past and future events .

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FACULTY SPOTLIGHT

The National Science Foundation recently awarded the Theoretical High Energy Physics Group at CCNY a research grant of $744997 for three years. 

In this research project, Professors Franco, Nair, and Polychronakos will explore two fundamental concepts. The first of these is "entanglement". This refers to the surprising correlations between measurements carried out far from each other (sometimes referred to as "quantum weirdness” or "spooky action at a distance”). The second of these is the curvature of space and time, which is the source of gravitational forces according to Einstein’s theory of gravity. 

PHYSICS STUDENTS

Charanjot Singh (CCFELL, PHYS) has been accepted to CUNY Graduate Center’s PhD program in Physics (Photonics Track), fall 2023. Charanjot also received the Top Presenter Award at American Physical Society's (APS) Future of Physics Days Fair held March 5-10, 2023 for his presentation: "Strain engineering effects on the optical properties of bilayer MoS₂." He will also represent CCNY at the CUNY-wide celebration of undergraduate research in May.