Mathematician, author, and radio producer Dr. Hannah Fry recently interviewed Prof. Justin Burton for her BBC radio program: Curious Cases. From space bubbles to secret bubble-juice recipes, this episode has it all! To read more about giant bubbles at Emory, read here: https://news.emory.edu/features/2020/01/physics-of-bubbles/index.html
Associate Professor Justin Burton was recently recognized with 2 separate acheivements for his scholarly research and contributions to the physics community. First, he was chosen as a Winship Distinguished Research Professor. Winship professors are tenured faculty (generally associate professors showing stellar progress toward promotion to full professor, or recently promoted full professors on a steep upward … More Prof. Justin Burton selected as a Winship Professor and receives APS Fellowship
Excited carriers in noble metal nanostructures have recently attracted considerable attention for photocatalysis, optical detection, and photonic circuitry. However, most nanoarchitectures fail to yield highly energetic carriers, which are usually necessary for these applications. The main reason for this bottleneck is the inefficiency of intraband carrier absorption in metals, dictated by momentum conservation. Due to … More Squeezing light strikes gold in photonics
How should professors respond when students are faced with turmoil in their campus community? Should they alter assignments, and if so, how? Emory Physics Professor Erin Wells Bonning gives her take on these questions in the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Chern insulators are paradigmatic topological insulators known for exhibiting quantized Hall conductance even without a magnetic field. Due to their topological nature, electrons within these materials cannot be thought of as forming compact wave packets, known as Wannier functions, pivotal for defining polarization. Consequently, for decades, it has not been clear how to understand the … More Polarizing forces in a topological material
Recent work from the Shekhar lab (led by graduate student Ekram Towsif) was featured in The Scientist magazine! Their pre-print on how actin filaments assemble and disassemble is changing the field. Read more about it here! https://www.the-scientist.com/complicated-cap-does-it-all-71765
RNA polymerases must transit through protein roadblocks to produce full-length transcripts. Building on preliminary work by Finzi lab alumni Yan Yan and Wenxuan Xu, graduate student Jin Qian recently used magnetic tweezers to discover that RNA polymerases can backtrack and ram into longer lived protein roadblocks to transit through them during transcription. He was helped in … More Battering the roadblocks of RNA transcription
The NSF has awarded a CAREER grant to Prof. Rieser to use experimental and computational techniques to establish links between architecture and functionality of the complex nest structures created by red imported fire ant colonies. Specifically, this research seeks to understand how above- and below-ground nests are organized to achieve mechanical robustness and to facilitate … More Prof. Jennifer Rieser receives NSF CAREER Award
Emory’s Society of Physics students showed up en masse to engage both children and adults at the Atlanta Science Festival Expo. The Expo is the finale of the Festival, and fills most of Piedmont Park with 20,000 people. This year, Emory Physics focused on “how physics touches your life,” and featured dancing oobleck, spinning motors, … More Emory SPS jams at the Atlanta Science Festival
The Emory Planetarium, nestled within the Mathematics and Science Center on the Atlanta campus, serves as a celestial sanctuary like no other. This 56-seat classroom differs from your typical learning space – it’s both a cosmic theater designed for teaching undergraduate astronomy as well as a wholly unique event space. As the house lights dim, … More Hidden Emory: The Planetarium