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OSU Helping to Expand Quantum Workforce
A team at Ohio State is part of a multi-institution effort that was just awarded $5M from the NSF’s ExpandQISE program. To meet the growing national demand for a quantum-trained…

Physicists Observe 'Unobservable' Quantum Phase Transition
Author: Charlie Wood, Quantum Magazine
In 1935, Albert Einstein and Erwin Schrödinger, two of the most prominent physicists of the day, got into a dispute over the nature…

Ohio State to launch quantum MS/PhD program with funding from the National Science Foundation
An interdisciplinary team at The Ohio State University has received $3M from the National Science Foundation to support the launch of a new graduate program in quantum information…

Cochran Co-Principal Investigator on NSF AGEP Grant
The National Science Foundation has awarded funding to an AGEP grant proposal, Inclusive Graduate Programs: An AGEP (Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate) Pilot in…

Undergraduate Student Lounge Grand Reopening
Attention Department of Physics students, faculty, and staff: the newly renovated Undergraduate Student Lounge is now open! That’s right, the Undergraduate Student Lounge is back and boasts a…

Using supernovae to study neutrinos’ strange properties
In a new study, researchers have taken an important step toward understanding how exploding stars can help reveal how neutrinos, mysterious subatomic particles, secretly interact with…

Brandenburg selected for DOE's Early Career Research Program
Daniel Brandenburg, an assistant professor in the Department of Physics, has been selected as one of 93 scientists across the country to receive funding from the U.S. Department of…

Department of Energy Announces $28.5 Million for LaserNetUS
The Department of Energy’s Office of Science announced $28.5 million for LaserNetUS to advance discovery science and inertial fusion energy.
LaserNetUS is North America's high…

Physics Phun at The Ohio State Fair!
The Department of Physics is being represented at The Ohio State Fair this year through amazing experiments and lots of pfun presented by Christine Jackson, Harold Whitt and department volunteers…