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Congratulations to Masha Baryakhtar for being awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship. This is a very prestigious honor awarded to only 126 early-career scholars this year across the US and Canada.2026 Sloan FellowsRead more at UW News
The Thouless Institute Quantum Matter (TIQM) will hold its Winter 2026 Workshop on January 15-17 on the topic of Recent Advances in Open Quantum Systems. See the workshop web page for details and registration information.
Congratulations to Professor Joaquin Turiaci for winning a 2025 Early Career Award from the Department of Energy. The award will support his work on Advancing the Gravitational Path Integral to Probe Quantum Spacetime. The abstract of the project follows.The unification of quantum mechanics with special relativity led to the development of quantum field theory. This had a profound impact on…
Professor David Kaplan was awarded the Caterina Tomassoni and Felice Pietro Chisesi Prize in Physics. Professor Kaplan is recognized for introducing the domain wall method for simulating chiral fermions on the lattice and for seminal work on other strongly interacting systems.
Congratulations to Professor Martin Savage for winning the 2026 Herman Feshbach Prize in Theoretical Nuclear Physics from the American Physical Society for “For pioneering contributions to computational quantum chromodynamics for nuclear physics, especially through large-scale lattice quantum chromodynamics simulations, and for exploring applications of quantum computing.”Martin feels…
Congratulations to Professor Jiun-Haw Chu who is among 22 scientists selected for the 2025 cohort of Moore Foundation Experimental Physics Investigators, a distinguished group of mid-career researchers pushing the boundaries of experimental physics. Read more about the awardees here: Advancing discovery: 2025 Experimental Physics InvestigatorsRead more at UW CAS News
When scientists observe the cosmos, they see stars whizzing around their galaxies faster than the laws of physics should allow and clusters of galaxies attracting each other too strongly. They theorize that something must be producing more gravity than all the visible matter in existence could explain — but whatever the substance is, it’s invisible. Dark matter is, effectively, a placeholder: A…
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Kai-Mei Fu, the Virginia and Prentice Bloedel professor of physics and of electrical & computer engineering, for “…
Jiaqi Cai’s doctoral research has led to a landmark discovery in condensed matter physics: the experimental realization of the fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect (FQAH) -– a phenomenon long theorized but never before observed. His FQAH research contributed to the project’s principal investigator, Xiaodong Xu, receiving the 2025 National Academy of Sciences Award for Scientific Discovery.…