Harvard University Department of Physics

Congratulations to the 2012-13 Physics graduates!

Best wishes for the future, wherever it may take you!

November PhDs: Colin Connolly, Garry Goldstein, Douglas Mason, Adam Pivonka, Yihua Wang, Pavel Petrov, Zachary Wissner-Gross
March PhDs: Antonio Copete, Jieping Fang, Yiqiao Tang
May PhDs: Tarek Anous, Luke Bruneaux, Hwan Sung Choe, Jack DiSciacca, Vasily Dzyabura, Sam Espahbodi, Shannon Fogwell Hoogerheide, Louise Jawerth, Laura Jeanty, Katharine Jensen, Dilani Kahawala, Takuya Kitagawa, Tina Lin, James Medford, Gautham Narayan, Tony Pan, Ashwin Rastogi, Jonathan Ruel, Renee Meng-Ju Sher, Thiti Taychatanapat, Elijah Visba, Ilija Zeljkovic, Giovanni Zevi Della Porta

Department News and Updates

Congratulations to Dr. Jacob Barandes for receiving the Phi Beta Kappa Excellence in Teaching Award!
Prof. Jenny Hoffman has been selected a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
During her fellowship year, she will pursue a project called "Enabling Nanoscale Imaging of Complex Oxides through Novel Film Growth Techniques.”
The Simons Foundation has appointed Prof. Xi Yin a Simons Investigator.
The Simons Investigators program provides a stable base of support for outstanding scientists, enabling them to undertake long-term study of fundamental questions.
"Science of Sound and Music" Sound Fair! Thursday, May 9, 12-4pm
60 students who participated in Prof. Eric Heller's "Science of Sound and Music" class SPU13 will present their sound-related projects. Location: Science Center, Lab 302-306 (3rd floor)
Lee Historical Lecture in Physics by Prof. Roy Glauber
Recollections of Los Alamos and the Nuclear Era
Apr 30 @8:00pm, Science Center Hall D. For more information, please read the Gazette article.
Grad students Norman Yao and Nicholas Schade are this year's recipients of the Gertrude and Maurice Goldhaber Prize.
This prize, which will be awarded on April 30th at the Lee Historical Lecture in Physics, recognizes outstanding theoretical and experimental graduate students who have passed their qualifying oral examinations in the preceding year.
Grad student Elise Novitski was awarded a 2013/14 Harvard Merit Fellowship.
Merit Fellowships are available to outstanding GSAS students in all fields.
Congratulations to post doc Dr. Vivek Venkatachalam (Samuel lab) for receiving a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology!
Vivek will develop and apply new optical methods to read out as well as manipulate long-term memories in the C. elegans nervous system.
Prof. John Huth has published a new book, The Lost Art of Finding Our Way (Harvard, 2013).
From the HUP abstract:
Long before GPS, Google Earth, and global transit, humans traveled vast distances using only environmental clues and simple instruments. John Huth asks what is lost when modern technology substitutes for our innate capacity to find our way. Encyclopedic in breadth, weaving together astronomy, meteorology, oceanography, and ethnography, The Lost Art of Finding Our Way puts us in the shoes, ships, and sleds of early navigators for whom paying close attention to the environment around them was, quite literally, a matter of life and death.
For more information, see the publisher's page and read the Chronicle of Higher Education review.

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