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TIME Names UM-Led Teleportation Research #6 Among Year's Best Inventions |
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COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- Time Magazine has picked as the 6th best invention of 2009 the successful teleportation of data between separated atoms achieved by a University of Maryland-led team of physicists.
Time says: "Inching our reality ever closer to Star Trek's, scientists at the University of Maryland's Joint Quantum Institute successfully teleported data from one atom to another in a container a meter away. A landmark in the brain-bending field known as quantum information processing, the experiment doesn't quite have the cool factor of body transportation; one atom merely transforms the other so it acts just like the original. Still, atom-to-atom teleportation has major implications for creating super-secure, ultra-fast computers."
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Carter Hall Welcomes Son Leonard |
Congratulations to Carter Hall and his wife, who welcomed a son into the world on Thursday, November 5, 2009. Leonard Pierce Hall weighed in 6lbs 14oz. Mother and baby are doing great! |
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ADM Conference Celebrating Arnowitt, Deser and Charles Misner’s Fundamental Contribution to the Field |
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Texas A&M University, supported by the Department of Physics and College of Science, is holding a three-day conference in recognition of the 50th Anniversary of the ADM formulation. The ADM formulation, developed by Richard Arnowitt, Stanley Deser and Maryland’s Charles Misner, restructured the dynamics of general relativity. The conference will be held November 7 – 8 and will celebrate the contribution to the understanding of gravitation. Additionally, it will focus on current research and developments in the field.
In Dr. Misner's words: Einstein's 1915 gravitation equations had both unfamiliar content (spacetime is curved) but also a mathematical form that intimidated physicists (including Einstein) familiar with Newton's mechanics and Maxwell's electromagnetism. In 1959 Arnowitt, Deser, and Misner (ADM) found a way to recast Einstein's equations in a ("Hamiltonian") form which allowed hard-won mechanical and electromagnetic intuitions to be applied to gravity. One result was to encourage attempts to solve Einstein's equations on computers, which in the last couple decades has grown into a major method for understanding black hole interactions.
For more information on the conference, visit http://adm-50.physics.tamu.edu |
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Kara Hoffman Awarded the 2009 Richard A. Ferrell Distinguished Faculty Fellowship |
Assistant Professor Kara Hoffman has received the 2009 Richard A. Ferrell Distinguished Faculty Fellowship, which recognizes outstanding personal effort and expertise in physics as well as dedicated service to the UMD Department of Physics. The Fellowship, established in 2001, honors Dr. Richard A. Ferrell, a deeply-respected physicist who joined the University in 1953, served 40 years, and remained active in the department even after his retirement. Dr. Ferrell died in 2005 at his nearby University Park home.
Professor Hoffman is a particle astrophysicist whose current areas of focus are AURA (the Askaryan Underice Radio Array) and the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole. She was the recent recipient of an NSF CAREER award and in 2007 received the Board of Visitors' Distinguished Junior Faculty Award from the College of Computer, Mathematical and Physical Sciences.
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Victor Galitski Awarded Board of Visitors Junior Faculty Award |
 Victor Galitski was awarded the CMPS Board of Visitors Junior Faculty Award. Dr. Galitski is a highly-regarded theorist in our Condensed Matter Physics Group. The focus of his research includes diverse subjects of spin transport, many-body cold atom systems, graphene, strongly correlated systems, superconductivity, quantum phase transitions and topological phases of matter.
The award carries a cash prize of $2,500 and will be presented in October. |
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