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We’re pleased to announce that Stanford will hold a conference to honor Professor Steve Kivelson and celebrate his 70th birthday. The conference will run from Sunday March 23rd to Tuesday March 25th, on…
The Stanford Department of Applied Physics 2025 Karel Urbanek and the Marvin Chodorow Postdoctoral Fellowships are now closed. The information below is related to the Fellowship round that closed on Oct 31,…
Bloch Postdoctoral Fellowship in Quantum Science and Engineering
The Stanford-SLAC Quantum Initiative, Q-FARM, invites applications for the 2024 Bloch Fellowships in Quantum Science and Engineering.…
A summer STEM academic bootcamp for veterans helps pave a path to higher education.
The Warrior-Scholar Project, launched in 2011, aims to remove veterans’ barriers to higher education by introducing…
Stanford Bio-X Seed Grant leads to first new clinical imaging platform in a quarter-century. A clinical imaging system recently designated by the FDA as a “breakthrough device” uses optical and AI technologies…
Professor Benjamin Good was selected as the Alden H. and Winifred Hubbard Brown Faculty Fellow in H&S. Congratulations!
Ian Fisher (Professor of Applied Physics) has been named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for "distinguished contributions to the field of synthesis of novel materials…
Researchers in Prof. Amir Safavi-Naeini's lab have unveiled a new type of frequency comb, a high-precision measurement device, that is innovatively small, ultra-energy efficient, and exceptionally…
The American Physical Society recognized the SLAC and Stanford physicist for decades of groundbreaking work studying the strange behavior of electrons at the interfaces between materials.
Article by Joe…
Surya Ganguli, associate professor of applied physics and an associate director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, has been named to the 2023 cohort of the Schmidt Science Polymaths Program. With…
Jon Simon, associate professor of Physics and of Applied Physics, was elected as a 2023 American Physical Society Fellow for “significant and pioneering advances in quantum optics and quantum simulation of…
Hideo Mabuchi, practicing artist and professor of applied physics in the School of Humanities and Sciences, is the new Denning Faculty Director of the Stanford Arts Institute (SAI). Parallel with his research…
Two Applied Physics faculty have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Yuri Suzuki (Professor of Applied Physics) and David Goldhaber-Gordon (Professor of…
Image-generating tools like DALL-E are powered by diffusion models, which generate a unique image from a text description starting from static noise. The first diffusion model was invented at…
Associate Professor of Applied Physics, Amir Safavi-Naeini, has been chosen as one of the new 2022 Moore Inventor Fellows.
From the Moore Foundation:
Today, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation…
Course encourages students to look at art through the lens of science and quantitative reasoning.
By Taylor Kubota
An interdisciplinary course combining art, archaeology, and physics encourages students to…
Two Applied Physics faculty named Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellows. Mark Schnitzer (Professor of Applied Physics) and Jelena Vučković (Professor of Applied Physics, by courtesy) are among the nine scientists…
By bringing the benefits of mechanical devices into the quantum realm, Stanford researchers aim to create advanced computing and sensing devices.
BY ADAM HADHAZY
Stanford University researchers have…
Optica (formerly OSA) announces that Shanhui Fan, Professor of Applied Physics (By Courtesy), has been selected as the 2022 recipient of the R.W. Wood Prize. Fan is honored for foundational…
David Reis, Professor of Applied Physics, and Yijing Huang, graduate student in Applied Physics, conduct X-ray laser experiments that show that intense light distorts the structure of a thermoelectric material…
Applied Physics Professors Phil Bucksbaum, Tony Heinz, and Aharon Kapitulnik have been named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). AAAS describes their Fellows as…
Congratulations to Benjamin Good on being a member of the newest cohort of Bio-Hub investigators!
The Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator Program, open to faculty from Stanford University, UC San Francisco,…
Tony Heinz, Professor of Applied Physcis became an IEEE Fellow, with the accompanying citation:
for contributions to spectroscopic techniques, nanophotonics, and optical nanomaterials
The IEEE…
Yoshi Yamamoto, Professor of Applied Physics, Emeritus, wins Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics this year. This award is presented annually at the Physics of Quantum…
A team of researchers including Vedika Khemani, Applied Physics Professor, by courtesy, have created and observed a new phase of matter, popularly known as a time crystal.
BY TAYLOR KUBOTA
There is a…