Department of Physics, Duke University
It’s a pleasure to celebrate the research achievements of Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, Leticia Cugliandolo, and Jorge Kurchan with the 2025 Lars Onsager Prize and those of Andrea Liu with the 2025 Leo P. Kadanoff Prize.
The first oral history interview I recorded for the History of RSB project was with this year’s Nobel Prize winner, John J. Hopfield. As a result, this prize feels more special than usual. To find out more, note that a Continue reading Nobel Prize for Prof. John Hopfield
The book manuscript Women in the History of Quantum Physics: Beyond Knabenphysik is now with the editor. To learn more about WiHQP, see the group’s webpage. Update (January 9, 2025): In an editorial, the journal Nature has called the upcoming Continue reading WiHQP Book
Prof. Charbonneau will spend the whole 2023-2024 academic year as visiting professor at Sapienza Università di Roma. To cross paths, stop by la cittadella universitaria.
Congratulations to Mingyuan for successfully defending her PhD thesis today. It is a wonderful work! All the best with your next projects.
Our joint analytical and computational study has recently appeared in Physical Review Letters. This work provides microscopic insight in the dynamical fluctuations observed in glass-forming liquids. The phenomenon, which was first identified in the 1990s, has been speculated by some Continue reading Revisiting (Local) Dynamical Heterogeneity in Glasses
Our long-time collaborator, Giorgio Parisi, was awarded half of this year’s Physics Nobel Prize. It’s thrilling news, which crowns more than 40 years of research efforts by Giorgio. We’re particularly excited to see our joint work on glasses highlighted by Continue reading Nobel Prize for Giorgio Parisi
A recent article by Dr. Yi Hu was highlighted in Physical Review E as an Editors’ Suggestion. It’s a well-deserved recognition for Yi’s seminal efforts toward understanding the glassy physics at play in the seminal random Lorentz gas model.
Dr. Yi Hu not only successfully defended a PhD thesis in chemistry, but also a MS thesis in computer science. Congratulations, Yi, and all the best in your next projects!
Dr. Peter K Morse has recently made a breakthrough in the memory formation in jammed hard spheres. The results can be found in Physical Review Letters.
