Jay Sau Awarded the 2015 Richard A. Ferrell Distinguished Faculty Fellowship

Jay Sau has received the 2015 Richard A. Ferrell Distinguished Faculty Fellowship, which recognizes outstanding personal effort and expertise in physics as well as dedicated service to the UMD Department of Physics. The Fellowship, established in 2001, honors Dr. Richard A. Ferrell, a deeply-respected physicist who joined the University in 1953, served 40 years, and remained active in the department even after his retirement. Dr. Ferrell died in 2005 at his nearby University Park home.

Sau is an Assistant Professor researching topics including Majorana fermions and topological superconductivity, quantum non-abelian phases and topological quantum computation, and spin-orbit coupling and dynamics in cold atomic gases. He is a fellow of the Joint Quantum Institute and a member of the Condensed Matter Theory Center.

 

Earth's Magnetic Field

Daniel Lathrop talks to BBC about his experiments to model the Earth's magnetic field (begins at 8:18).

Physics Alum Wins GWIC Thesis Prize

Physics alum Leo Singer was awarded the 2014 GWIC Thesis Prize, which recognizes outstanding Ph.D. theses in the general area of gravitational waves.

Singer, who received his B.S., in physics, from UMD, was selected for his Ph.D. thesis “The needle in the 100 deg2 haystack: The hunt for binary neutron star mergers with LIGO and Palomar Transient Factory.” The thesis addresses the most challenging problem of joint observation of BNS coalescence events by gravitational wave and electromagnetic detectors.

Singer received his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology in 2014.

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