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CWRU Department of Physics This page highlights news and events in the physics department at Case Western Reserve University. physicist ever to have received an Oscar award.

The Department of Physics blends the traditions of Western Reserve University, founded in 1826, and the Case Institute of Technology, established as the Case School of Applied Science in 1880. The department boasts many eminent faculty and graduates, including not only four Nobel Prize winners (among them Albert A. Michelson, the first American scientist to be awarded the prize), but also, to our knowledge, the only Ph.D.

CWRU Professor Pavel Fileviez Pérez, together with his graduate student Hridoy Debnath and collaborators Professor Jonat...
09/23/2026

CWRU Professor Pavel Fileviez Pérez, together with his graduate student Hridoy Debnath and collaborators Professor Jonathan Butterworth of University College London (UK) and Mark Brettell of Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (UK), has published a new study investigating the collider signatures of the minimal theory of quark–lepton unification. The study shows that Higgs measurements provide a powerful and complementary probe of low-scale matter unification, extending beyond direct leptoquark searches. These results open a new avenue for testing quark–lepton unification at current and future colliders, with discovery potential during high-luminosity LHC running.
For more details see the publication in: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2609.23708

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Let's welcome Claire Zukowski, a new Assistant Professor in the CWRU Department of Physics. She is a theoretical physici...
09/23/2026

Let's welcome Claire Zukowski, a new Assistant Professor in the CWRU Department of Physics. She is a theoretical physicist interested in quantum gravity, applying her knowledge to black holes, cosmology, and holography. Before joining CWRU, she served as an Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota Duluth and received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. We are excited to have her as a new member of our faculty!

To read more about Professor Zukowski: https://physics.case.edu/8453-2/
Faculty page: https://physics.case.edu/faculty/claire-zukowski/

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We will hear from visiting Professor Veronica Dexheimer again this Tuesday for our Particle Astrophysics Seminar! This t...
09/21/2026

We will hear from visiting Professor Veronica Dexheimer again this Tuesday for our Particle Astrophysics Seminar! This time, she will discuss “Connecting Dense and Hot QCD Matter with Early-Universe Cosmology.”

Professor Dexheimer will explore our current understanding of dense and hot matter, including how theoretical models can connect laboratory experiments with observations of neutron stars and their mergers. She will also discuss how these ideas may help us better understand the properties and evolution of matter in the early Universe.

Join us Tuesday, September 22, from 11:30 to 12:30 pm in the Foldy Room, Rockefeller 221. Free and open to all.

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Bob and Janet Brown joined their inaugural medical physics student group and a Cleveland Clinic Foundation faculty instr...
09/21/2026

Bob and Janet Brown joined their inaugural medical physics student group and a Cleveland Clinic Foundation faculty instructor from their radiation physics course at the Fall 2026 Penn-Ohio-WV Chapter Conference of the AAPM (American Association of Physicists in Medicine). Held in Pittsburgh from September 18–19, the conference marked Bob and Janet’s first time attending.

Allegheny General Hospital hosted an excellent meeting featuring workshops and lectures on essential professional skills, advances in adaptive radiation therapy, and an AI debate exploring potential changes to the clinical roles of medical physicists in the future.

One student, Sean Kruzner, had the opportunity to present his research and received an award for his work. Our CCF professor, Susan Kost, was also recognized with an award for her service to the chapter.

The attached photos include the students at lunch: Josh Freeze, Evan Finding, Joseph Horan, David Fowles, Calvin Puch, Sean Kruzner, and Churna Bhandari; Sean’s presentation; Susan with her award; and a view from high above our hotel overlooking the Allegheny River and Pittsburgh.

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Join us this Thursday for our Physics Colloquium featuring Professor Veronica Dexheimer of Kent State University, she is...
09/15/2026

Join us this Thursday for our Physics Colloquium featuring Professor Veronica Dexheimer of Kent State University, she is a visiting faculty member here at CWRU!

Professor Dexheimer will present “Using Neutron Stars to Reveal the Secrets of Dense Matter,” exploring how neutron stars and their mergers can help us understand matter under some of the most extreme densities in the universe.

We hope to see you there this Thursday, September 17, from 4:15–5:15 p.m. in Rockefeller 301.

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Coffee, cookies, and conversation will begin at 3:45 p.m. in the A.A. Michelson Lounge.

Free and open to all.

This Tuesday we will hear from Hridoy Debnath for our Particle Astrophysics Seminar! He will be talking about "Low Scale...
09/11/2026

This Tuesday we will hear from Hridoy Debnath for our Particle Astrophysics Seminar! He will be talking about "Low Scale Quark Lepton Unification: From LHC to Mu2e".

Everyone is welcome and we hope to see you there.
9/15 | 11:30am - 12:30pm | Foldy Room, Rock 221

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Professor Robert (Bob) Brown and his teams are starting September 2026 strong with three new publications!The first, “Pr...
09/08/2026

Professor Robert (Bob) Brown and his teams are starting September 2026 strong with three new publications!

The first, “Prototyping CAPGLO: A Low-Cost Magnetic Cell Capture and Imaging Platform,” has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Medical Devices. The project had the important leadership of Professor Susann Brady-Kalnay of the Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology and includes four undergraduate co-authors.

https://asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/medicaldevices/article/20/6/061007/1234571/Prototyping-CAPGLO-A-Low-Cost-Magnetic-Cell

A second paper, “Deep Learning-Based Automatic Delineation of Diaphragm Domes in kV-Triggered Images for Liver Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy,” will appear in Medical Physics. The leadership here included the collaborators at Cleveland Clinic and Professor Michael Martens, Former CWRU Physics PhD student Su Weragoda was lead author.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2411.15322

Finally, “Objects with three orthogonal symmetry planes: Oblique driving forces and Stokes flow motion,” was published this year in PLOS ONE, with Dr. Robert Deissler leading this work, as well as playing a critical role in the CAPGLO paper above.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0352508

Professor Brown is grateful to the collaborators and research teams who led these projects. Congratulations to everyone involved!

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Join us this Tuesday for our next Particle Astrophysics Seminar! We will be hearing from graduate student Yikun Wang. He...
09/06/2026

Join us this Tuesday for our next Particle Astrophysics Seminar! We will be hearing from graduate student Yikun Wang. Her talk is titled “Beyond Halo Mass: Assembly History, Environment, and Baryonic Effects in the Galaxy-Halo Connection.”

She will discuss how halo clustering depends on more than just halo mass, including other secondary properties, a phenomenon known as halo assembly bias.

We hope to see you this Tuesday from 11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. in Rockefeller 221. Everyone is welcome!

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It was great to have Professor Mustafa Amin of Rice University speak at our first Particle Astrophysics Seminar of the y...
09/05/2026

It was great to have Professor Mustafa Amin of Rice University speak at our first Particle Astrophysics Seminar of the year! His talk, titled “Waving in the Dark: Noisy, Warm, and Spinning Dark Fields,” explored sufficiently light bosonic dark matter and the wave-dynamical effects it can produce on astrophysical and cosmological scales, as well as how these effects could be observed or constrained.
Thank you for starting us off strong Professor Amin!

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Members of the Starkman group recently represented Case Western Reserve University at the 29th International Conference ...
09/02/2026

Members of the Starkman group recently represented Case Western Reserve University at the 29th International Conference on Particle Physics & Cosmology (COSMO-2026) in Leiden, Netherlands!
Distinguished Professor Glenn Starkman and Postdoctoral Scholar Deyan Mihaylov can be seen on the left-hand side of the group photo, along with Postdoctoral Scholar Anna Negro and former visitors Mikel Martin and Javier Carron.

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