Notable Achievements

Physics majors Brooke Ramey ’27 and Dominic Mashak ’27, along with Professor of Physics Steven Alexander, had their research, “Late Acceptance Hill Climbing for the Discovery of Stable Two-Dimensional Transition-Metal Dichalcogenides,” accepted to the 2026 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), taking place July 13–17 in San José, Costa Rica. The peer-reviewed research will be presented as a poster at the conference, and a four-page extended abstract will be published in the companion to the proceedings.

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Steve Alexander

Professor of Physics

Steve Alexander received his PhD from The University of Texas at Austin in 1982.

  • Biography

    Steve Alexander received his PhD from The University of Texas at Austin in 1982.

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