Prof. Deffner in collaboration with Dr. Campbell from the Trinity College Dublin, Ireland publish the first introductory, graduate level textbook on Quantum Thermodynamics. The book focuses on the...
Posted: July 10, 2019 9:16 AM
Prof. Zhibo Zhang, leader of the ARCOS team, wins a major research grant from NASA to study dust aerosols from space. The research team will use observations from satellite instruments, including...
Posted: April 16, 2019 2:29 PM
The American Institute of Physics (AIP) recognizes the UMBC Physics Department for awarding a large percentage of PhD's to women. AIP recently released a comprehensive report providing a...
Posted: March 29, 2019 8:36 AM
UMBC Physics BS graduate, Jonathan McHenry (class of 2009) and Associate Professor Laszlo Takacs’s paper, “Temperature of the milling balls in shaker and planetary mills”, Journal of Materials...
Posted: November 29, 2018 2:46 PM
In their roles as Research Scientists at the Army Research Laboratory (Adelphi, MD), recent UMBC graduates Dr. Brian Kirby '15 and Dr. Dan Jones '16 have discovered a novel way to safeguard...
Posted: November 26, 2018 3:18 PM
Reflecting the growth of our PhD programs, a record high 11 physics department grad students advanced to PhD Candidacy this year. These students and their mentors were honored at the Graduate...
Posted: November 14, 2018 12:46 PM
“Accurate Predictions of Electron Binding Energies of Dipole-Bound Anions via Quantum Monte Carlo Methods” Hongxia Hao, James Shee, Shiv Upadhyay, Can Ataca, Kenneth D. Jordan, and Brenda M....
Posted: October 18, 2018 3:58 PM
Dr. Sebastian Deffner, assistant professor of physics, wins a grant from the Foundational Questions Institute (FQXi) to advance his research on stochastic thermodynamics for driven quantum field...
Posted: October 18, 2018 10:25 AM
Dr. Ataca, assistant professor of physics, and his collaborator Prof. Brenda Rubenstein from the Department of Chemistry at Brown University win a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF)...
Posted: October 17, 2018 11:02 AM
“Strong coupling and induced transparency at room temperature with single quantum dots and gap plasmons.” Physics graduate student Haixu Leng and his advisor Matthew Pelton, together with their...
Posted: October 2, 2018 9:58 AM