CNAM and JQI Members on Team Awarded $33M from Australian Research Centre

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Published: Thursday, September 08 2016 14:07

The Australian Research Council (ARC) has just announced $283.5M in funding for nine ARC Centres of Excellence, including the ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low Energy Electronics Technologies. The team, which includes Johnpierre Paglione of CNAM and Victor Galitski, William Phillips and Ian Spielman of the Joint Quantum Institute, will be led by former CNAM Director Michael Fuhrer and established at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. The Centre will develop the scientific foundation and intellectual property for new electronics technologies to decrease energy consumption by realising fundamentally new types of electronic conduction. More information can be found in the media release.  http://go.umd.edu/i3i

Timothy Koeth hooks students on this particle accelerator by building one

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Published: Thursday, September 08 2016 13:46

Timothy Koeth of IREAP, who is an Affiliate Associate Research Professor in the Department of Physics, was featured in a recent Washington Post article about building a cyclotron.

Charles Misner Reflects on 50-Year Career

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Published: Tuesday, September 06 2016 09:38

A physicist and summer resident of South Bristol has watched the study of general relativity, the area he has devoted 50 years of his life to, become one of the most exciting fields of study in physics.

Charles W. Misner, 84, was one of the recipients of the Albert Einstein Medal in 2015 for a series of equations known as Arnowitt-Deser-Misner formalism, otherwise known as ADM formalism.

Gates Awarded UMD President's Medal

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Published: Friday, September 02 2016 12:21

Sylvester James "Jim" Gates, Jr. has been awarded the UMD President's Medal, the highest honor the University can bestow. A researcher in highly mathematical physics, Gates is a Distinguished University Professor, University System of Maryland Regents Professor and John S. Toll Professor of Physics. He recently was named a Wilson H. Elkins Professor by the University System of Maryland, and elected vice president of the Maryland State Board of Education. He was awarded the 2011 National Medal of Science.

The President's Medal will be presented at the University's Faculty and Staff Convocation on Wednesday, Sept. 14 at 3 p.m. in the Memorial Chapel. ​Other physics honorees include Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Steve Anlage and Distinguished University Professors Rabi Mohapatra and Xiangdong Ji.