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Study finds gas flowing from black hole could stunt galaxy growth By Scott Dance The Baltimore Sun http://www.baltimoresun.com/health/bs-hs-black-hole-growth-20150327-story.html

James Loy  "Charge Transfer from Single Semiconductor Nanocrystals to Single Molecules"  Advisor: Dr. Pelton  2015-2016 URA Scholar John Hannegan  "Creating a Fiber-Laser Based THz System Using...

Investigation of giant Kerr nonlinearity in quantum cascade lasers using mid-infrared femtosecond pulses  Hong Cai, Sheng Liu, Elaine Lalanne, and Anthony M. Johnson Citation: Applied Physics...

Dr. L. Michael Hayden, UMBC Professor of Physics and Department Chair, was honored as a 2015 Fellow Member of The Optical Society (OSA), the leading professional society for researchers, industry...

"Noninvasive high resolving power entangled photon quantum microscope" Sanjit Karmakar, Ronald E. Meyers, and Yanhua Shih Journal of Biomedical Optics 20(1), 016008 (January 2015) Abstract:...

"Directly accessible entangling gates for capacitively coupled singlet-triplet qubits" F. A. Calderon-Vargas and J. P. Kestner Phys. Rev. B 91, 035301 – Published 6 January 2015 Abstract:...

Dr. Barry Baker, Dr. Hong Cai, Dr. Gergely Dolgos, and Dr. Liwang Ye all received their PhD's at the December 2014 graduation ceremony.

Dr. Markos Georganopoulos, an Associate Professor in the Physics Department, has been awarded (PI) a $400K, three-year NASA grant to study the nature of large scale relativistic jets in quasars...

Dr. Anthony Johnson has been invited to take part in the official launch of the International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies (IYL2015), which will be held at UNESCO Headquarters on 19...

Congratulations to the 10 Physics Department graduate students who advanced into PhD Candidacy during the past year. These students were honored at the Graduate School's annual Doctoral Candidates...