2018 MD Day Image Gallery
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Sudden Breakups of Monogamous Quantum Couples Surprise Researchers
Quantum particles have a social life, of a sort. They interact and form relationships with each other, and one of the most important features of a quantum particle is whether it is an introvert—a fermion—or an extrovert—a boson. Extroverted bosons are happy to crowd… Read More - Research News
When Superfluids Collide, Physicists Find a Mix of Old and New
Physics is often about recognizing patterns, sometimes repeated across vastly different scales. For instance, moons orbit planets in the same way planets orbit stars, which in turn orbit the center of a galaxy. When researchers first studied the structure of atoms, they were tempted… Read More - Research News
With Passive Approach, New Chips Reliably Unlock Color Conversion
Over the past several decades, researchers have been making rapid progress in harnessing light to enable all sorts of scientific and industrial applications. From creating stupendously accurate clocks to processing the petabytes of information zipping through data centers, the demand for turnkey technologies that… Read More - Research News
Researchers Identify Groovy Way to Beat Diffraction Limit
Physics is full of pesky limits. There are speed limits, like the speed of light. There are limits on how much matter and energy can be crammed into a region of space before it collapses into a black hole. There are even limits on… Read More - Research News
Researchers Imagine Novel Quantum Foundations for Gravity
Questioning assumptions and imagining new explanations for familiar phenomena are often necessary steps on the way to scientific progress. For example, humanity’s understanding of gravity has been overturned multiple times. For ages, people assumed heavier objects always fall quicker than lighter objects. Eventually, Galileo… Read More - Research News
Researchers Spy Finish Line in Race for Majorana Qubits
Our computer age is built on a foundation of semiconductors. As researchers and engineers look toward a new generation of computers that harness quantum physics, they are exploring various foundations for the burgeoning technology. Almost every computer on earth, from a pocket calculator to… Read More - Research News
Superconductivity’s Halo: Physicists Map Rare High-field Phase
A puzzling form of superconductivity that arises only under strong magnetic fields has been mapped and explained by a research team of UMD, NIST and Rice University including professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University. Their findings, published in Science July 31, detail how uranium… Read More - Research News
A Cosmic Photographer: Decades of Work to Get the Perfect Shot
John Mather, a College Park Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland and a senior astrophysicist at NASA, has made a career of looking to the heavens. He has led projects that have revealed invisible stories written across the sky and helped us… Read More - Research News
Heavy electrons: new ways to break old rules
By: Johnpierre Paglione In 1853, well before the discovery of the electron by J. J. Thomson in 1897, two German physicists named Gustav Wiedemann and Rudolf Franz made the peculiar observation that the ratio of electrical to thermal conductivities is the same in several different… Read More
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JQI Student Receives UMD Graduate School’s Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award Supratik Sarkar received the University of Maryland Graduate School’s Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award for the 2025 academic year. Each year, the UMD Graduate School selects around 80 of the roughly 4,000 graduate assistants working on campus to recognize their outstanding contributions to the university community. As part of… Read More -
University of Maryland Joins Commission on U.S. Quantum Primacy The University of Maryland announced on March 5, 2026 that Gretchen Campbell, Associate Vice President of Quantum Research and Education, has been appointed to the newly formed Commission on U.S. Quantum Primacy (CUSP). Campbell joins the high-level, bipartisan body that is tasked with developing a… Read More -
Rick Greene Named Kamerlingh Onnes Prize Winner Distinguished University Professor Emeritus Rick Greene has been honored with the 2026 Heike Kamerlingh Onnes Prize for his outstanding achievements in the realm of superconductivity. In the early 20th century, when Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes cooled helium to nearly absolute zero and submerged a… Read More -
Remembering and Giving Back It’s been more than 30 years, but Jeff Saul (M.S. ’91, Ph.D. ’98, physics) still remembers the week that changed his life. “I guess I must have been in the right place at the right time, because that week started with Joe Redish becoming my… Read More
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Maryland Day 2012 Pictures
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Volunteer Schedule
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Below is the Physics MD Day volunteer schedule. Red slots still need to be filled; if you're available please e-mail Kate Sickles
(This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) your preferred event and shift.
| Event | 9-10am (setup) | 10-11am | 11-12am | 12-1pm | 1-2pm | 2-3pm | 3-4pm |
| Physics is Phun: Catch the Gravitational Wave- | |||||||
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| Think Quantum: Lab Tours | JQI - | ||||||
| Physics Pottery Demonstration | Lorraine DeSalvo, | Lorraine DeSalvo, | Lorraine DeSalvo | ||||
| Smoke Cannons | Dan Lathrop | ||||||
| LN2 Ice cream | |||||||
| Cosmic Ray Tour | Eun-Suk Seo, | ||||||
| Lecture | Jimmy Williams | ||||||
Maryland Day 2014 Pictures
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2015 MD Day Image Gallery
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