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2024
 

Exciting News: Professor Michael Lubell Wins the Provost's Award for Pedagogical and Curricular Innovation!

We are thrilled to announce that Professor Michael Lubell has been honored with the distinguished Provost's Award for Pedagogical and Curricular Innovation!  

Please join us in congratulating Professor Lubell on this well-deserved recognition.

Professor Seth Cottrell at Quantum Alley

August 13, 2024

The New York Quantum Consortium, led by Westchester County and NYC Economic Development Corporation, took center stage at Q4I's Quantum Alley. The event highlighted New York's leadership in quantum technologies. Dr. Seth Cottrell, a professor at t��ɫ��Ƶ, gave a talk on educating the quantum workforce, emphasizing the importance of developing quantum talent, and showcased an interferometer with demonstrations of quantum properties, further highlighting their role in advancing quantum technologies. Professor Cottrell designed and regularly teaches the Introduction to Quantum Computation course at CCNY, the only undergraduate course of its kind offered in New York City. Additionally, Professor Cottrell oversees the newly established Undergraduate Quantum Lab, providing students with hands-on experience in cutting-edge quantum technologies The Consortium continues to grow, focusing on establishing New York as a leader in quantum tech and fostering a robust, inclusive STEM education pipeline.

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The IEEE Photonics Society is pleased to announce Robert Alfano as the recipient of the 2024

June 27, 2024

We are thrilled to announce that Professor Robert Alfano has been honored with the prestigious 2024 IEEE Photonics Society Laser Instrumentation Award.  Please join us in congratulating Professor Alfano on this well-deserved recognition. 

For more details about the award and Professor Alfano’s work, please visit:

2023

Proposed CCNY Quantum Institute Earns $5M NSF Funding

August 17, 2023

ExpandQISE program image courtesy of the National Science Foundation T��ɫ��Ƶ is establishing a state-of-the-art quantum institute, funded by a five-year $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation [NSF], to advance quantum research.

Conceptualized by City College physicist Alexander Khanikaev – recipient of the NSF’s prestigious Special Creativity Award in 2021, and one of the most Highly Cited Researchers (HCR) worldwide in 2022 – T��ɫ��Ƶ Quantum Institute comprises leading experts in quantum at CCNY and scientific partners from Nokia Bell labs and the University of Central Florida College of Optics and Photonics (CREOL/UCF). The latter’s  is co-principal investigator on the project.

The CCNY experts and other co-PIs include:

• Roger Dorsinville, chair of electrical engineering in the Grove School of Engineering;
• Carlos Meriles, professor of physics in the Division of Science; and
• Vinod Menon, professor of physics.

The Institute also will include two quantum-dedicated faculty in electrical engineering and physics that will be hired with plans of expanding CCNY’s educational programs in quantum information sciences and applications.

Khanikaev said the new program and the quality of its faculty would make CCNY one of the leading institutions in quantum research.

From CCNY Press Release

2022

CCNY CCNY Physics Club (Society of Physics Students) Receives Blake Lilly Prize in recognition of their excellent outreach efforts. Physics club recognized as outstanding chapter for third year in a row

New Superlattice by CCNY team could lead to sustainable quantum electronics

In Memoriam
, Distinguished Professor, passed away on October 7, 2021.  Read a in Inference: International Review of Science.   By Jonathan Friedman:  

Experience in Prof. Hernan Makse's lab helps Kathryn Le of Stuyvesant High School to be named 

CCNY’s Sriram Ganeshan wins NSF Career Award for quantum hydrodynamics research

Nov. 27, 2020

Researchers led by City College of New York physicist Pouyan Ghaemi report the development of a quantum algorithm with the potential to study a class of many-electron quantums system using quantum computers. Their paper, entitled "Creating and Manipulating a Laughlin-Type ν=1/3 Fractional Quantum Hall State on a Quantum Computer with Linear Depth Circuits," appears in the December issue of PRX Quantum, a journal of the American Physical Society. (177 kB)
 

September 16, 2020

Hernan Makse was awarded a NIH-NIBIB R01 grant "Application of the principle of symmetry to eural circuitry: From building blocks to neural synchronization in the connectome", PD: Makse, co-PD: Manuel Zimmer (University of Vienna) to study the neural networks  of C. elegans with physical symmetry principles and fiber bundles, like in particle physics.  Grant Number: 1R01EB028157-01A1,  $1,064,970. And we have a trilogy  of nice papers on the matter: F. Morone, H.A. Makse. . Nat Commun 10, 4961 (2019); F. Morone, I. Leifer, H.A. Makse.  Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA. 117 (15) 8306-8314, April 14, 2020. ; I. Leifer, F. Morone, S.D.S. Reis, J.S. Andrade Jr, M. Sigman, H.A. Makse. . PLoS Comput Biol 16(6): e1007776. (2020). .

Nature Communications

The 302-neuron connectome of the nematode C. elegans has been completely mapped, yet the design principles that explain how the connectome structure determines its function are unknown. Here, the authors show that physical principles of symmetry and mathematical tools of symmetry groups can be used to understand C. elegans neural locomotion circuits.

PNAS

The success of symmetries in explaining the physical world, from general relativity to the standard model of particle physics and all phases of matter, raises the question of why the same concept could not be equally applied to explain emergent properties of biological systems. In other words, we ask—if life is an emergent property of physics—why the same symmetry principles that explain physics could not explain the organizing principle of life. Here we show that a particular form of symmetry, called symmetry fibration, explains the building blocks of biological networks and other social and infrastructure networks. This result opens the way to understand how information-processing networks… Show more

Spring 2020 News Highlights

Mar 10, 2020

Ms. Moyosore Odunsi is among the three recipients of The Graduate Center’s Pre-dissertation Award. This annual award, for use in summer 2020, provides each recipient with a grant of $5,000 to jump start the early stage of their research.

Alumni News: Ethan Bendau, '18, BS Physics, has been awarded the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship to support his Ph.D. studies in Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University.  Mr. Bendau's undergraduate Research Honors presentation, "Early Detection of Triple Negative Breast Cancer with Multiphoton Microscopy and Resonance Raman Spectroscopy," was the culmination of his work with Distinguished Professor Robert Alfano. Congrats Ethan!

Fall 2019 News Highlights

Dec 6, 2019

Congratulations to the CCNY Physics Club, for their recent recognition as a 2019 Outstanding Chapter of the . This is the second time the chapter has been recognized for its excellence as a top-tier student-led physical sciences organization, a designation given to fewer than 15 percent of all SPS chapters at colleges and universities in the United States and internationally.

Nov 5, 2019

Two new patents have been awarded to Prof. Alfano and his team in the Institute for Ultrafast Lasers and Spectroscopy. The new 'Resonance Raman' technique will allow for rapid and more specific brain cancer diagnoses. 

Oct 31, 2019

Prof. Vinod Menon has been in the Optical Society of America. Fellows are elected for "a history of achievement in optics and photonics, and a reputation for service to OSA and our field" says OSA President Ursula Gibson. Congratulations!

Aug 9, 2019

Distinguished Prof. Emerita Myriam Sarachik has been awarded the American Physical Society's highest research honor: the . "Myriam Sarachik has been one of the world’s leading experimental condensed matter physicists for over a half-century," said APS President-Elect Philip Bucksbaum. (tell us something we don't know!)