Spring 2024 APAM Newsletter

Spring 2024 APAM Department Newsletter (pdf)

Letter from the Chair

We are delighted to share the remarkable accomplishments of our students, faculty, scientists, and alumni as another exciting school year comes to a close. We begin by extending our heartfelt congratulations to the 2023-2024 graduating students in Applied Physics, Applied Mathematics, Materials Science, and Medical Physics. Despite the challenges of the past four years, the class of 2024 has persevered, thrived, and excelled. In particular, we congratulate our  three undergraduate faculty award winners for excellence in AM, AP, and Material Science and to Stephanie Malek, this year’s Simon’s Prize winner for her outstanding thesis work on “Nonlocal Metasurfaces”. We wish all of our graduates success in their future endeavors and welcome them as esteemed APAM alumni.

We  also celebrate the remarkable accomplishments of our faculty and research scientists, who have achieved groundbreaking scientific progress across various fields such as advanced photonics, fundamental material science including quantum materials, plasma physics, applied mathematics, and climate dynamics (including a thought provoking essay in Nature on “Are we all doomed?”). These achievements exemplify the exceptional intellectual diversity within APAM. Moreover, we showcase the numerous awards and honors bestowed upon our faculty, acknowledging their remarkable contributions to research and teaching.

Finally, we would like to recognize and thank Prof. Irving Herman, now the Edwin Howard Armstrong Professor Emeritus of Applied Physics, for a distinguished career in Applied Physics and his years of dedicated service to the department as the chair of APAM for three terms.   

Thank you all for your continued support and dedication to the APAM community.

Best,

Marc Spiegelman 
Chair, Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Arthur D. Storke Memorial Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences and
Professor of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics