Brown Physics

The official Twitter account of @BrownUniversity's Department of Physics. Department Chair: Professor Vesna Mitrović

[Brown Physics @brown_physics]

TODAY! Brown Physics presents a colloquium featuring Brown Engineering’s Kimani Toussaint, Senior Associate Dean for Research and Strategic Initiatives, on 2/3, 4 PM in BH168. https://t.co/dx5JJlSUW4…

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[Brown Physics @brown_physics]

Join @NMAAHC this month to celebrate @ASALH’s #BlackHistoryMonth theme of African Americans and Labor, with a focus on the world of work that African American women have faced over the past four centuries and how it has changed. https://t.co/eBPW6CfxOo

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

Sorry for “posting and ghosting” so much this week, been traveling and have had limited wifi access. If it seems like I ignored your question or comment please don’t take it personal!

Here’s Saturn in conjunction with the moon, captured from the top of a volcano in September.

[Brown Physics @brown_physics]

Brown Physics presents a colloquium featuring Brown Engineering’s Kimani Toussaint, Senior Associate Dean for Research and Strategic Initiatives, on 2/3, 4 PM in BH168.

https://t.co/dx5JJlSUW4

@BrownUResearch @BrownGradSchool @brownengin

[Brown Physics @brown_physics]

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Were you looking up last night?

The International Space Station (ISS) passed over RI last night!

The bright streak of light in the photo is the ISS passing by brilliant Jupiter & downward toward Orion.

Photo: Foster, RI by Bob Horton

@BrownUniversity @LaddObs

[Brown Physics @brown_physics]

Prof. Brad Marston, Dir., Brown Theoretical Physics Center & APS President-Elect, 2025, announced the APS Panel on Public Affairs report "Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Removal: A Physical Science Perspective" is now published.
https://t.co/9ptRfKn36g @APSphysics @BrownUResearch

[Brown Physics @brown_physics]

BrownTogether, the most ambitious & successful fundraising campaign in Brown University history, has transformed Brown through a decade of unprecedented support that advanced excellence in teaching and research, financial aid, community impact, & more.

https://t.co/cDROVPf0Wa

[Brown Physics @brown_physics]

Astronomy on Tap RI Event!

Tuesday, Feb. 18 at 6:30 PM
Narragansett Brewery

Featuring Dr. Humberto Gilmer of Brown Physics and Dr. Abhinav Jindal of Brown DEEPS!
@astronomyontap @BrownGradSchool @Brown_DEEPS

[Brown Physics @brown_physics]

Welcome to Assistant Professor Aaron Hui!

Professor Hui is a theoretical condensed matter physicist. He studies strongly correlated and topological systems, with an emphasis on electron transport and phase transitions.

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[Brown Physics @brown_physics]

The 2025 AI Winter School was a resounding success with over 2,000 global participants!

Below, Deloitte’s Alexis Johnson presents the Generative AI, Agents, and Industry Applications module.

@BrownUniversity @gaitskell
@DeloitteAI @DeloitteUS

https://t.co/tWk0rx4ePM

[Brown Physics @brown_physics]

The 2025 AI Winter School concluded with over 2,000 global participants!

Below, Woody Hulse, Brown UG Math & CompSci double concentrator leading Module 6 on Autoencoders applied to simulated data from the LZ Dark Matter Experiment.

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https://t.co/ipHPiKmqbK

[Brown Physics @brown_physics]

Spectacular images of Comet ATLAS C/2024 G3 from Jan. 15 passing by the Sun, seen with some difficulty close to the horizon about 20 minutes after sunset.

Photo credit: Robert Horton using the Barus & Holley rooftop observatory's 4-inch telescope.

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[Brown Physics @brown_physics]

Ladd Observatory Manager Robert Horton shared these photos of the January 13th Mars occultation. All images were taken by Robert in his backyard in Foster with a 5-inch Celestron Schmidt Cassegrain telescope.
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[Richard Gaitskell @gaitskell]

The 2025 AI Winter School concludes with over 2,000 global participants | Department of Physics | Brown University https://t.co/IUDm67jOhp @Brown_CFPU @brown_physics @BrownUResearch @BrownUniversity

Our massive thanks to all the presenters and participants - the worked examples/modules of how to apply #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning in many aspects of #Physics were extremely illuminating.

This included #GraphNeuralNetworks #SupervisedLearning #InverseScattering #LLMs #Autoencoders #GenerativeAI.

Videos of each module (as well as of our AI in Physics panel discussion) will be posted on YouTube very shortly.

Links for Python notebooks and videos are accessible on Google Drive via retroactive-registration on our Winter School home page:
https://t.co/Bsrbkx347e

[Brown Physics @brown_physics]

Clear skies? See the stars at Ladd Observatory Telescope Observing Nights!

7-9 PM weekly on CLEAR TUESDAYS.

A free ticket is required to enter the observatory. This event will be canceled if it is too cloudy to observe.
@LaddObs @BrownUniversity
https://t.co/C4PJ2dsOka

[American Physical Society @APSphysics]

The lineup is stacked for our Kavli Symposiums at #APSSummit25. Renowned physicists from @NIST, @losalamosnatlab, @cornell, @mpi_is, and more.

Register now: https://t.co/g6zWdvtQ9F

[Richard Gaitskell @gaitskell]

Starting this Monday 13th and running through Thursday we will be holding a virtual winter school on AI techniques for graduate physicists (and advanced undergraduates) organized by @Brown_CFPU and @brown_physics.

This will include 7 modules (2.5 hours each) of practical examples applying AI techniques in physics case studies. All case studies use Jupyter-python notebooks and are presented live for you to participate in.

Simple instructions for registration and full schedule are included in this lindico link https://t.co/E1XMwXuGnm

On Monday 13h00 Eastern we kick off with a panel discussion "What do we need AI to be capable of to really propel physics forward?"

The panel is composed of :
- Kyle Cranmer (University of Wisconsin-Madison),
- Jim Halverson (Northeastern University),
- Max Tegmark (MIT),
Moderated by myself
The modules will then follow on Monday afternoon through Thursday.

If you have time, hope to see you at one or more of the sessions,

Yours, Rick
@BrownUResearch @BrownUniversity

[American Physical Society @APSphysics]

It’s #EarthRotationDay, the day in 1851 that French physicist Léon Foucault suspended a pendulum from a fixed point, showing the plane of the pendulum’s swing changed over time due to Earth’s rotation. 🌏

Read more: https://t.co/2uXQiVDMUt

#PhysicsHistory

[Brown University @BrownUniversity]

A study led by a team of Brown University researchers could lead to new ways of exploring quantum phenomena, with implications for future advances in technology and computing. @brown_physics

https://t.co/Ga4EFW1WPb

[Brown Physics @brown_physics]

The Physics Colloquium is coming soon featuring a lineup of world-class speakers - get there early to secure your seat! Mondays at 4 PM, BH168.
https://t.co/hiPnnwv9Sm