Viva R. Horowitz
Assistant Professor of Physics
Viva R. Horowitz collaborates with the University of Oregon and the Air Force Research Lab. She built dynamic artificial cells as a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard and designed opto-mechanical gyroscopes as a postdoctoral research scholar at Caltech. Horowitz earned her doctorate in physics at UC Santa Barbara, where she built a new tool for magnetic imaging using the quantum bits in optically levitated nanocrystals of luminescent diamond. She graduated with a bachelor's in physics from Swarthmore College.
Links
- List of research students
- Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
- Publications (Google Scholar)
- Horowitz lab code repository (GitHub)
- Fun and educational quantum video links
- Contact Viva anonymously [only available to people at Hamilton College]
- Why include units? (pdf)
- Table of informal and formal word choices for Hamilton College technical writing
- Recommendation letter information form (docx)
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Research team
Horowitz lab research team, July 2024
Top: Daniel Rodriguez (Collett lab), Madeleine Petro '25, M.V.H., Sam Marash '26, Bakir Husremovic '26, Aaron Butler '26, Viva Horowitz, Maya Kannan '25, Sara Conti '27,
Bottom: Eliana Gibs '26, Lydia Bullock '26
Horowitz lab research team, May 2023
Lauren Kuster '23, Kai Haesslein '24, Yongwoo Park '24, Prof. Viva Horowitz, Trevor Scheuing '23, Bess Lawrence '23, Greg Bauman '23, Estelle Khairallah '23, and Leah Bell '24
Not shown: Ryan Smolarsky '23, Clare Nelle '24, Asa Szegvari '23, Pippi Seider '24
Horowitz lab research team, April 2021
Asa Szegvari, Sammi D'Angelo, Lindsay Gearty, Roger Danilek, Viva Horowitz, Lucas Wright, Connor Feldman, Alex Golub, Matt Jankowski, Leenie Wilcox, Colin May,
Not shown: Mitchell D. Bierman, Clare Nelle, Matt Zielezienski, Sean M. Conroy
Photos
Viva Horowitz works with Clare Nelle '24, Trevor Scheuing '23, and Matt Jankowski '22 on a project to build and investigate the dynamics of a simple artificial cell in their lab. Photo: Nancy L. Ford
Kristen Burson, Viva Horowitz, Adri Cruz, and Catherine Ryczek at March Meeting in Boston, 2019
Physics department lunch on the Green, at the Farmer's Market
News
- Physics Students Contribute Research on a Microscopic Level - Aug 2024
- Horowitz, Scheuing '23 Co-Author Paper - Feb 2024
- Horowitz Publishes Research on Nanomechanical Resonators - Nov 2023
- Teaching Award - May 2023
- Horowitz Presents Research at American Physical Society Meeting - Mar 2023
- JEDI talk: Society of Physics Students at Utica University - Feb 2023
- Bringing 'Significant Figures' to Podcast - Oct 2021
- Student Researchers Building, Analyzing Artificial Cells - July 2021
- Stressed? Depressed? You are not alone - Mar 2021
- Physics is a Blast! - Sept 2020
- Horowitz Interviewed in Physics Podcast - Mar 2020
- Coronavirus Hits the Conference Calendar - Mar 2020
- Horowitz the Speaker in UO Career Seminar - Mar 2020
- Horowitz on 'Luminescent Colloids and Beyond' - Nov 2019
- Horowitz Talks Physics with Projansky '21 - Jul 2019
- Scientists Drill Into White Graphene to Create Artificial Atoms - Apr 2019
- Horowitz Publishes Cell Transport Research - Mar 2019
- Hamilton Researchers Present at APS Meeting - Mar 2019
- Horowitz Conducting Research at University of Oregon - Jun 2018
- Horowitz Presents Research at Union College - Dec 2017
- The Changing of the Guard - Fall - Winter 2017
- Horowitz and Burson Present at APS Meeting - Mar 2017
- New Faculty Appointed for 2016-17 Academic Year - Aug 2016
- Nitrogen Vacancies Detect Magnetic Fields in Fluids - Sept 2012
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