Physics Department wins $1M award
Harvard was recently named a winner of the EPiQS (Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Systems) theory competition sponsored by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. The EPiQS initiative aims to help scientists understand quantum materials in new ways, with a focus on technological applications. Harvard’s Department of Physics will receive about $1 million over five years, which will fund four Moore Postdoctoral Theory Scholars for appointments of up to three years each. Harvard is one of six universities to be awarded EPiQS grants. The others are the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, the University of California, Berkeley, the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Physics Professor Subir Sachdev submitted the competition proposal, along with colleagues Eugene Demler and Bertrand Halperin. “The Moore Foundation wanted to play a role in developing the next generation of quantum materials, which will lead to a deeper understanding of quantum effects in macroscopic...