Fire Neural Network, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) startup co-founded by Dr. Istvan Kereszy (UF Physics PhD Fall 2021) and Physics faculty Imre Bartos, won 1st Prize at the University of Florida’s AI days pitch competition, having been selected out of 28 startups. Fire Neural Network (FNN) uses artificial intelligence along […]
UF Physics graduate student, Antonios Kyriazis, has been awarded the Onassis Foundation Scholarship for 2022. As part of the scholarship, Antonios will earn $10,800 over the course of three years to concentrate on his research into particle physics and cosmology of axion dark matter. The Onassis Scholar’s Association first emerged […]
Source: UF News The Center for Molecular Magnetic Quantum Materials at the University of Florida has received a $12.6 million, four-year grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to continue its work developing next-generation quantum materials for advanced applications in computing and energy. UF Professor of Physics Hai-Ping Cheng leads the center […]
Professor Xiao-Xiao Zhang has been awarded the Department of Energy (DOE) Early Career Research Program Award for 2022. Xiao-Xiao’s project, Optical manipulation of magnetic order in van der Waals heterostructures, will be funded by the DOE for five years. Xiao-Xiao is one of 83 US scientists who will receive this highly competitive award […]
Vishvas Pandey, a UF physics postdoc who has been collaborating on the Coherent CAPTAIN-Mills at Los Alamos (CCM) and Short-Baseline Near Detector at Fermilab (SBND) experiments with Professor Heather Ray, was recently awarded the Wilson Fellowship at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. With the Wilson Fellowship, Vishvas will be taking an Associate […]
Tanmaya Mishra, UF Physics graduate student, received the top award in the category of Mathematical and Physical Sciences for his presentation at the Conference of Florida Graduate Schools (CFGC) 2022 Statewide Graduate Research Symposium held at the University of Central Florida. Tanmaya collaborates with Professor Sergey Klimenko on applying machine learning […]
UF Physics is pleased to announce that three graduate students, Nathaniel Strauss, LingQin Xue and Ioannis Michaloliakos, were all recipients of the UF Graduate Student Teaching Award for 2021-2022. Graduate teaching assistants make a major contribution to teaching and learning at the University of Florida. Each academic year, the UF Graduate School recognizes the best, brightest […]
Congratulations to UF Physics undergraduate student, Bridgette Gifford, one of three graduating seniors who has been named a winner of the 2022 CLAS Excellence Award. The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) initiated these awards in 2017, given out in a variety of categories including undergraduate, to those who […]
UF Physics is pleased to announce that recent Ph.D. recipient and AAUW American Dissertation Fellow Alexandria Tucker has been selected for the NSF Mathematical and Physical Sciences Ascending Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (MPS-Ascend). This prestigious fellowship provides $300,000 to fund Dr. Tucker’s three-year postdoctoral research position with Professor Nicolas Yunes at the Illinois Center for Advanced […]
On Friday, December 10, the physics department hosted a graduate student event to announce physics graduate student award recipients for 2021. Congratulations to all award recipients (listed below). Charles F. Hooper Jr. Memorial Award This award is made annually to senior graduate students in physics who have shown distinction […]