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Research News
A New Way to Measure Energy in Microscopic Machines
What drives cells to live and engines to move? It all comes down to a quantity that scientists call “free energy,” essentially the energy that can be extracted from any system to perform useful work. Without this available energy, a living organism would eventually… Read More -
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Life at the Edge of the World
What's it like living and working in Antarctica? Upon returning from a five-week trip to the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, UMD graduate student Liz Friedman sat down with Chris and Emily to chat about her experience. In this episode, Friedman shares some of her… Read More -
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New Research Reveals How Energy Dissipates Outside Earth’s Magnetic Field
Earth’s magnetic field provides an invisible but crucial barrier that protects Earth from the solar wind—a stream of charged particles launched from the sun’s outer layers. The protective properties of the magnetic field can fail due to a process known as magnetic reconnection, which… Read More -
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Machine Learning’s ‘Amazing’ Ability to Predict Chaos
The findings come from Professors Michelle Girvan and Edward Ott along with two other UMD collaborators. "They employed a machine-learning algorithm called reservoir computing to “learn” the dynamics of an archetypal chaotic system called the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation. The evolving solution to this equation behaves… Read More -
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Atoms May Hum a Tune from Grand Cosmic Symphony
Researchers playing with a cloud of ultracold atoms uncovered behavior that bears a striking resemblance to the universe in microcosm. Their work, which forges new connections between atomic physics and the sudden expansion of the early universe, will be published in Physical Review X… Read More -
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A Different Spin on Superconductivity: Unusual Particle Interactions Open up new Possibilities in Exotic Materials
When you plug in an appliance or flip on a light switch, electricity seems to flow instantly through wires in the wall. But in fact, the electricity is carried by tiny particles called electrons that slowly drift through the wires. On their journey, electrons… Read More -
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Latest Nanowire Experiment Boosts Confidence in Majorana Sighting
In the latest experiment of its kind, researchers have captured the most compelling evidence to date that unusual particles lurk inside a special kind of superconductor. The result, which confirms theoretical predictions first made nearly a decade ago at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI)… Read More -
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Physics at the Edge of the World
Deep within the ice covering the South Pole, thousands of sensitive cameras strain their digital eyes in search of a faint blue glow—light that betrays the presence of high-energy neutrinos. For this episode, Chris sat down with UMD graduate student Liz Friedman and… Read More -
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New Hole-Punched Crystal Clears a Path for Quantum Light
Optical highways for light are at the heart of modern communications. But when it comes to guiding individual blips of light called photons, reliable transit is far less common. Now, a collaboration of researchers from the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI), led by JQI Fellows… Read More
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| Jacob Bringewatt |
Congratulations to Jacob Bringewatt for receiving a Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE CSGF). Established in 1991, the fellowship was devised “to train and produce the next generation of leaders in computational science.” The 2018-2019 incoming class includes twenty-six awardees from all over the country.
Bringewatt was a researcher with the Joint Center for
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Jun 12, 2018
Physics Graduate Student Zachary Eldredge Awarded ARCS Scholarship
The Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Foundation awarded two students from the University of Maryland’s College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences with $15,000 scholarships for the 2018-2019 school year. This year’s scholars are physics graduate student Zachary Eldredge and chemistry graduate student Matthew Thum.
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May 11, 2018
Erik Blaufuss Wins Provost’s Excellence Award
Research Scientist Erik Blaufuss has received the 2018 Provost’s Excellence Award for Professional Track Faculty in research. Blaufuss has served as scientific analysis coordinator of IceCube, an NSF-sponsored scientific instrument in Antarctica in which 5,160 photoreceptors are embedded in a cubic kilometer of crystal-clear…
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May 10, 2018
Christopher Bambic Awarded University Medal
Christopher Bambic, who will graduate this month with bachelor of science degrees in physics and astronomy, will also be awarded the University Medal, which recognizes the most outstanding graduate of the year. The University Medal is awarded to the undergraduate who best personifies academic distinction,…
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May 8, 2018
Eliot Fenton Recognized as a Maryland ‘Undergraduate Researcher of the Year’
Eliot Fenton, UMD physics major, was among those recognized as a 2018 Maryland ‘Undergraduate Researcher of the Year.’ This award is eligible for exemplary seniors who have been nominated by their faculty advisors. Fenton earned this award for his wide-ranging experimental physics research accomplishments. From…
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