Gretchen Campbell named new JQI Co-Director

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Published: Monday, April 25 2016 10:52

JQI Fellow Gretchen Campbell has been named the new NIST Co-Director of the Joint Quantum Institute, effective April 1, 2016. Campbell joined the JQI in 2009 and is also a UMD Adjunct Associate Professor and APS Fellow. In recent years she has received various accolades for her atomtronics research, including the APS Maria Goeppert-Mayer award. Campbell succeeds JQI Fellow Charles Clark, who has held the position since 2011. JQI Fellow Steven Rolston will continue as the UMD Co-Director. Rolston, on behalf of JQI, would like to thank Clark for his service. "I would particularly like to highlight Charles’ leadership and active engagement with the public in the promotion of quantum physics. The JQI will continue to benefit from his dedication." Rolston continues, "Gretchen is an outstanding research colleague and I look forward to working with her in her new role as Co-Director."

Is the Universe a Simulation? Scientists Debate

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Published: Tuesday, April 19 2016 15:27

Professor Sylvester James Gates participate in a debate on whether the Universe is a simulation.

Geoffrey Ji Awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowhip

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Published: Thursday, April 07 2016 13:55

Recent alumnus Geoffrey Ji was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowhip, which recognizes outstanding graduate students in science, technology, engineering and matematics fields.

The three Rs and an S

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Published: Wednesday, April 06 2016 15:20

Sylvester James Gates pens op-ed Supporting science as a core MD subject.

Steve Anlage Selected as UMD Distinguished Scholar-Teacher

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Published: Wednesday, March 30 2016 16:52

Professor Steven Anlage of the Department of Physics has been selected as a University of Maryland Distinguished Scholar-Teacher. He is a member of the Center for Nanophysics and Advanced Materials and an affiliate of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department in the College of Engineering. He is scheduled to give a Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Lecture, When Waves Meet Chaos: A Clash of Paradigms, on Tuesday, November 29 at 4 p.m. in the PSC Lobby.

After receiving his Ph.D. in applied physics from Caltech in 1988, Prof. Anlage did postdoctoral work at Stanford University before joining UMD in 1990. He has received a National Science Foundation “Young Investigator” award, as well as the “Outstanding Mentor” award within this College. He founded the field of superconducting metamaterials, and has made several advances in microwave microscopy, chaos, exotic materials, superconductivity, and experimental quantum chaos. In one year, he co-authored three articles on three different topics (fundamental superconductivity, metamaterials, quantum chaos) in Physical Review Letters. He is co-author of Focusing an arbitrary RF pulse at a distance using time-reversal techniques, which won the 2013 Alan Berman Research Publication Award at the Naval Research Laboratory, along with a second paper which won the 2014 version of the award.

Prof. Anlage has mentored more than 30 undergraduate and nearly 40 graduate students, as well as 14 postdoctoral researchers. As an advisor for the Honors College Gemstone program, Prof. Anlage oversees a four-year project to create a new wireless charging technology based on the nonlinear electromagnetic time-reversal idea that he developed. A US patent related to this technology was submitted in early 2014.