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Sidney Wolin, a second year Graduate Student in Physics has received a Graduate Fellowships for STEM Diversity (GFSD). This fellowship provides funding for up to six years of graduate study in the...

Dr. Zhibo Zhang and his ACROS group are featured in the UMBC news article: "UMBC ranks in the top 100 public universities to receive federal research funding." Photo by Marlayna Demond ’11 for...

Senior undergraduate Kassidy Kollmann was recently awarded an American Astronomical Society (AAS) Chambliss Award for her poster presentation at the (virtual) 237th AAS meeting in January 2021....

This is the second edition of Yanhua Shih’s book “An Introduction to Quantum Optics”. This book is a selected collection of Dr. Shih’s thirty-year lecture notes on quantum optics for his Ph.D....

The Optical Society Names Anthony M. Johnson the 2021 Stephen D. Fantone Distinguished Service Award Recipient. Founded in 1916, OSA is the leading professional organization for scientists,...

While most quantum systems evolve in a linear fashion, there exist some, such as Bose-Einstein condensates, in which complicated interactions give rise to effectively non-linear dynamics....

“Information Scrambling versus Decoherence—Two Competing Sinks for Entropy” Akram Touil and Sebastian Deffner A thermodynamic description of quantum scrambling for open quantum system...

Two recent papers published in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces from Dr. Ataca's group have been highlighted in UMBC news and phys.org. The first publication, written by graduate student...

Atmospheric Physics PhD: Lipi Mukherjee* Mentor: Dr. Pengwang Zhai "Radiative Properties of Oceanic Particles" Chamara Rajapakshe* Mentor: Dr. Zhibo Zhang "Interactions of Radiation with...

“Influence of Cr-substitution on the structural, magnetic, electron transport, and mechanical properties of Fe3-xCrxGe Heusler alloys” Rabin Mahat, Shambh KC, Daniel Wines, Sudhir Regmia, Upama...