Brown Physics Ph.D. student Nicholas Drachman has been awarded a Graduate Fellowship for STEM Diversity (GFSD). GFSD is a partnership between government agencies and laboratories, industry, and higher education whose goal is to increase the number of American citizens with graduate degrees in STEM fields while emphasizing recruitment of a diverse applicant pool.

In a paper published today in Nature, Brown University Assistant Professor of Physics Jia Leo Li and his colleagues find evidence of a Pomeranchuk-type mechanism in which the liquid ground state freezes upon increasing the temperature in twisted bilayer graphene and related systems.

Brown’s Thomas J. Watson, Sr. Professor of Physics, Greg Landsberg and department colleagues have been awarded a 2021 Seed Research Award for a project entitled, “Using Artificial Intelligence to Search for New Physics Underground, on the Ground, and in the Sky.”

Brown Professor of Physics Vesna Mitrović and Brown colleagues have been awarded a 2021 Seed Research Award for a project entitled, “Reverse Engineering the Synaptic Cleft - the Search for Quantum Information Processing in the Brain.”

Brown Professor of Physics Stephon Alexander and other colleagues at Brown have been awarded a 2021 Seed Research Award for a project entitled, “Finding the Physics that Matters in Astrophysical and Astro-Particle Analyses with Interpretable Machine Learning.”