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...

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...

“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...

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)....

“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...

“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,...

Dr. Zhang from the Physics Department and his multi-disciplinary team, including Drs. Jianwu Wang and Aryya Gangopadhyay from the Department of Information Systems and Dr. Matthias Gobbert from...

In recognizing his expertise in light scattering, radiative transfer, and remote sensing of environment, Dr. Pengwang Zhai has been appointed as an Associate Editor for Optics Express. His...

Ocean color radiometry provides a vital Earth observation data record, which is important for monitoring water quality and water resources, ecological forecasting, detecting and assessing harmful...

“A room temperature continuous-wave nano-laser using colloidal quantum wells.” Zhili Yang, Matthew Pelton, Igor Fedin, Dmitri V. Talapin, and Edo Waks Nature Communications, Vol. 8, Page 143...