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Atmospheric Physics Students Take Flight

Graduate students Brian Carroll and Zhifeng Yang take flight to study weather, pollution in multi-institution initiative....

Posted: January 4, 2018, 2:55 PM

Dr. Sebastian Deffner featured on "The Academic Minute"

A new, more secure computer is on the way to protect our most sensitive data. Dr. Deffner, assistant professor of physics, explores quantum supremacy and how it could keep our data safe in the...

Posted: December 11, 2017, 12:52 PM

James N. Reeves, a CSST Visiting Scientist, wins award

James N. Reeves, a CSST Visiting Scientist, wins an award from the Italian government for a research project he worked on while visiting UMBC. He is 3rd from the left in the photo. PRESS...

Posted: November 27, 2017, 10:53 AM

Dr. T. Jane Turner Discusses Black Holes in GRIT-X talk

Here Be Dragons: Investigating Black Holes in Galaxy Nuclei Astronomers have discovered that every galaxy has a huge black hole at its core, millions to billions of times the mass of our Sun. In...

Posted: November 27, 2017, 9:36 AM

New Article by graduate student Peter Breiding

“Fermi Non-detections of Four X-Ray Jet Sources and Implications for the IC/CMB Mechanism” Peter Breiding1, Eileen T. Meyer1, Markos Georganopoulos1,2, M. E. Keenan1, N. S. DeNigris1, and...

Posted: November 27, 2017, 9:24 AM

Dr. Pelton appointed as Managing Editor for Nanophotonics

Dr. Matthew Pelton has begun a position as Managing Editor for Nanophotonics, an open-access journal that focuses on the interaction of photonics with nanostructures (2016 impact factor 4.492)....

Posted: November 8, 2017, 3:56 PM

New article by Dr. Matthew Pelton in Nano Letters

“Nonmonotonic dependence of Auger recombination rate on shell thickness for CdSe/CdS core/shell nanoplatelets.” Matthew Pelton, Jordan J. Andrews, Igor Fedin, Dmitri V. Talapin, Haixu Leng, and...

Posted: November 8, 2017, 3:49 PM

New article by Dr. Sebastian Deffner in Journal of Physics

“Quantum speed limits: from Heisenberg's uncertainty principle to optimal quantum control” Sebastian Deffner and Steve Campbell Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, Volume 50,...

Posted: October 13, 2017, 11:03 AM