The famous Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, the site of many astronomical accomplishments, including the discovery of the whirling stars known as pulsars, collapsed in early December. Georgia Tech scientists John Wise and Emily Alicea-Munoz, both with the School of Physics, shared their special memories of Arecibo for Puerto Rican television. (Note: the television feature is in Spanish.)
That's the title of a recently-published biography written by Andrew Zangwill, professor in the School of Physics. Nobel Prize-winner Philip Anderson was considered one of the most influential physicists of the late 20th century, helping to put condensed matter physics on the scientific map. Zangwill also presented a 73-minute virtual lecture on his findings on Anderson in October 2020.
For the graduate students and researchers coming to the United States from other countries, the opportunity to study at Georgia Tech is invaluable. But for the spouses who come along with them, it can be a lonely struggle. This feature on the Georgia Tech International Spouses' Group, which provides support for wives and husbands of Institute scientists, features a couple working in the lab of Flavio Fenton, professor in the School of Physics.
Each year, the University System of Georgia (USG) honors outstanding teachers and departments from its 26 member institutions with Regents Awards. Of the nine awards presented for Fiscal Year 2021, Georgia Tech took home two.
Here are two items that relate to David Hu's previous Georgia Tech research on the ability of fire ants to form rafts made of, well, fire ants in order to stay afloat and alive during floods. Hu, an adjunct professor in the Schools of Biological Sciences and Physics, who is also a professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, took closeup photographs of the fire ants in his lab experiments with graduate student Nathan J. Mlot.
Three Georgia Tech School of Physics students captured top honors at the annual University Physics Competition, which pits teams of international college students against each other to solve complex physics problems over a 48-hour period. Andrew McEntaggart, Adele Payman, and Aulden Jones comprised the Georgia Tech team, which was one of four gold medal-wi
A new Georgia Tech study that recreated California blackworm swarming activity in simple robots is generating interest in science/engineering media outlets, including this story in Interesting Engineering. The study includes work by Dan Goldman, professor in the School of Physics. IEEE Spectrum also mentioned the study in its weekly Video Friday segment.
Wired Magazine burrows deeper into how two Georgia Tech researchers from the School of Physics studied California blackworms' collective behavior. The idea is to see how that behavior could lead to building intelligent swarms of robots, or programmable active matter -- materials that can change shape, just like the blobs of blackworms studied by professor Dan Goldman and postdoctoral researcher Yasemin Ozkan-Aydin.
This SciTechDaily item is a reprint of a Georgia Tech news release on School of Physics Professor Flavio Fenton and his continuing research into electric cardio signals and arrhythmias. In a study Fenton co-authored, it was found that alligator hearts don't suffer from fibrillations (irregular heartbeats) in the same way that humans do.
