Events

Apr

Location

Physics : 401

Date & Time

April 5, 2017, 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Description

TITLE: Black hole feedback ABSTRACT: Supermassive black holes in centers of galaxies are now thought to have made critical impact on galaxy formation. Feedback from accretion onto...

View Event Details for Colloquium: Nadia L. Zakamska

Apr

Location

Physics : 401

Date & Time

April 3, 2017, 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm

Description

ADVISOR: Dr. James Franson TITLE: Nonlinear Optics at Ultralow Power using Metastable Xenon in a High Finesse Cavity ABSTRACT: Single-photon cross-phase shifts and other single-photon...

View Event Details for PhD Defense: Garrett Hickman

Mar

Location

Physics : 401

Date & Time

March 31, 2017, 11:00 am – 1:00 pm

Description

ADVISOR: Dr. Theodosia Gougousi TITLE: MoS2 Surface Functionalization Studies to Enable Atomic Layer Deposition ABSTRACT: In the past decade, atomic layer deposition (ALD) has become an...

View Event Details for PhD Proposal: Jaron Kropp

Mar

Location

Physics : 401

Date & Time

March 29, 2017, 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Description

TITLE: Exploring open quantum systems beyond master equations ABSTRACT: Master equations are an excellent tool for understanding the behavior of quantum systems coupled to thermal...

View Event Details for Colloquium: Kurt Jacobs

Mar

Location

University Center : 3rd Floor

Date & Time

March 29, 2017, 9:00 am – 2:30 pm

Description

From Liberal Arts to the Natural Sciences, past and present UMBC graduate students are renowned for their research contributions to their respective fields. The 2017 GRC is a campus wide event...

View Event Details for UMBC Graduate Research Conference (GRC)

Mar

Location

Physics : 401

Date & Time

March 22, 2017, 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Description

TITLE: ABSTRACT:

View Event Details for SPRING BREAK

Mar

Location

Physics : 401

Date & Time

March 15, 2017, 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Description

TITLE: On the Development of an Ecological Model of the Northern San Francisco Bay Estuary ABSTRACT: The San Francisco Estuary (SFE) is the largest wetland habitat on the Pacific Coast of the...

View Event Details for Colloquium: Dr. Steven G. Ackleson

Mar

Location

Physics : 401

Date & Time

March 9, 2017, 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm

Description

The spin ½ chain is often used as an example problem that is particularly ill suited for the quantum annealing (QA) technique used by the D-Wave computer. Sometimes QA produces a correct...

View Event Details for Algorithms for the D-Wave – A Physics Perspective

Mar

Location

Physics : 401

Date & Time

March 8, 2017, 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Description

TITLE: Atomic-level control over the growth and defects of functional materials ABSTRACT: Accurate control over the growth and defects of functional materials at the atomic level is a major...

View Event Details for Colloquium: Guangfu Luo

Mar

Location

Physics : 401

Date & Time

March 1, 2017, 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Description

TITLE: Quantum mechanical simulations of dynamics of electronic excitations in nanoscale materials assemblies ABSTRACT: Dynamics of electronically excited states including exciton generation...

View Event Details for Colloquium: Zhigang Wu

Department of Physics

College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences

Department of Physics

Events

Colloquium: Nadia L. Zakamska

PhD Defense: Garrett Hickman

PhD Proposal: Jaron Kropp

Colloquium: Kurt Jacobs

UMBC Graduate Research Conference (GRC)

SPRING BREAK

Colloquium: Dr. Steven G. Ackleson

Algorithms for the D-Wave – A Physics Perspective

A talk by Dr. Raina Olsen from the Army Research Lab

Colloquium: Guangfu Luo

Colloquium: Zhigang Wu

A talk by Dr. Raina Olsen from the Army Research Lab

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