Jayanth Banavar, dean of the College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences (CMNS) at the University of Maryland, has been named provost and senior vice president at the University of Oregon. Banavar will end his six-year tenure at UMD in July and a national search for his replacement will begin immediately.
Prof. Steven Anlage's work on time reversed waves in chaotic systems has spun off a new wireless power transfer technology which has been chosen a finalist in the Physical Sciences Category for the UMD 2016 Invention of the Year Award. Winners will be honored at Innovate Maryland: Celebration of Innovation and Partnerships sponsored by the Division of Research, Office of Technology Commercialization, Corporate Connect Council, MTech, and the Academy of Innovation & Entrepreneurship. The event is scheduled for Wednesday, April 12, 2017 at 4:30 pm, at a soon-to-be announced venue.
Anlage's three inventions are a Method of Delivering Power to a Moving Target Wirelessly via Electromagnetic Time Reversal, Selective Collapse of Nonlinear Time Reversed Electromagnetic Waves, and Dual-Purpose Rectenna with Harmonic Generation for Wireless Power Transfer by Nonlinear Time-Reversal.
Each year, UMD honors exceptional inventions that have the potential to make an important impact on science, society, and the free market. The Invention of the Year award nominees come from three categories: Physical Sciences, Life Sciences, and Information Sciences. One invention from each category is selected to win the Invention of the Year Award.
A University of Maryland team, named UMD Loop, won the Performance and Operations Award and placed in the top five for overall pod design at the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition held in Hawthorne, California, on January 27-29, 2017. The competition, which has been ongoing for more than a year, aims to advance the Hyperloop concept for a new form of transportation in which passenger-carrying pods travel between cities through above-ground tubes at very high speeds.
Professor Dan Lathrop has been elected Vice-Chair of the American Physical Society Group on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (GSNP). The Vice-Chair serves in that capacity for one year, becomes Chair-Elect in year two, and then serves as Chair of GSNP in year three.
Professor Steve Rolston is the current Chair of the APS Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics (DAMOP) and Associate Professor Peter Shawan is Chair-Elect of the Division of Gravitational Physics (DGRAV).
President Obama has just named 102 scientists and researchers as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the United States Government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers. Adjunct Assistant Professor Nick Butch, a staff physicist at the NIST Center for Neutron Research, was honored for his significant contributions to understanding the interplay of magnetism with superconductivity and revealing observations about superconducting materials. Congratulations Nick!!!
