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Coping with COVID
, COVID-19 face mask art

If coughing in your sleeve is effective, face masks must be, too, and successes in Asia and Europe corroborate this, physicist says.


Peter Addison, fourth-year undergraduate and May 2020 candidate for graduation from the School of Physics, and Lucy, the family goldendoodle.
, From Addison's research: energetic neutral atom (ENA) images of the planetary plasma environment around Saturn's moon Titan.

School of Physics senior Peter Addison is already working on a graduate school level, according to his research group director. He'll return to Georgia Tech after graduation to continue studies that could help NASA choose landing sites for its Europa Clipper mission. 


Nature Astronomy, March 2020
, March 2020 cover of Nature Astronomy.
, Deirdre Shoemaker, Director of the Center for Relativistic Astrophysics and professor in the School of Physics.
, Karan Jani (Ph.D. Georgia Tech ‘17), professor at Vanderbilt University and member of the Center for Relativistic Astrophysics. Photo: Vanderbilt University
, Black Holes Collide
, Simulation of Binary Black Holes
, LIGO in Hanford, Washington

Study on intermediate-mass black holes, multiband gravitational waves takes the spotlight in this month's Nature Astronomy.


An artist’s depiction of Trappist exoplanets in comparison to Earth. The Trappist planets are those in their star’s habitable zone. (Photo: NASA)
, Georgia Tech Astrobiology
, School of Physics Assistant Professor Gongjie Li
, MIT Professor of Planetary Science Sara Seager
, Sara Seager Bold Ideas Lecture

It's only been around for four years, but the Georgia Tech Astrobiology community is scoring wins in exoplanet research, outside funding, and attracting top astrobiologists for conferences and lectures on campus.


SWIP President Ryn Mykyten
, SWIP Members at an Ice Cream Social
, SWIP Members

At Georgia Tech, the Society of Women in Physics embodies the empowering characteristics of International Women’s Day.


Elisabetta Matsumoto, assistant professor in the School of Physics and 2020 Cottrell Scholar
, Elisabetta Matsumoto (center) knits with two of her Matsumoto Group lab students at Georgia Tech. (Photo Jonathan Kelso, The New York Times.)
, Matsumoto uses virtual reality technology in her physics research.

Elisabetta Matsumoto, an assistant professor in the School of Physics, is a 2020 Cotrell Scholar thanks to her research on the mathematics and physics hidden in the knots and weaves of knitting.


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Calling all passionate CoS staff and faculty! Teach Explore Living Learning Communities sections in GT 1000 this fall.


Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Calling Georgia Tech students, faculty, and researchers to collaborate with Oak Ridge National Lab!


Georgia Tech President Angel Cabrera and Daniel Gurevich at the USG Academic Recognition Day Awards Feb. 11. (Photo by Angel Cabrera)
, Chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov and 11-year-old Daniel Gurevich.

Daniel Gurevich's 2020 is off to a great start. Gurevich is the recipient of a University System of Georgia's Academic Recognition Day Award for his work on completing bachelors degrees in three majors: mathematics, physics, and industrial and systems engineering. The May candidate for graduation is also an international chess master.


Simulations show X-rays from neutron stars blasting surrounding plasma. Results open a new way to study the physics of accretion disks.


David Ballantyne

Simulations show X-rays from neutron stars blasting surrounding plasma. Results open a new way to study the physics of accretion disks.