Steve Anlage Selected as UMD Distinguished Scholar-Teacher

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.

Daniel Woodbury Awarded DOE NNSA Stewardship Science Graduate Fellowship

Daniel Woodbury was awarded a prestigious DOE NNSA Stewardship Science Graduate Fellowship. The fellowship, administered by Krell Institute, provides financial benefits and professional development opportunities to students pursuing a Ph.D. in fields of study that solve complex science and engineering problems critical to stewardship science.

Woodbury is a first year graduate research student working with Howard Milchberg on intense laser-matter interactions. He received his B.S., in 2015, from Brigham Young University.

Sylvester Gates to Serve on Steering Committee for 'The Public Face of Science' – American Academy of Arts and Sciences

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences today announced the formation of a new initiative, The Public Face of Science. Over the next three years, with members drawn from among national leaders in communication, law, journalism, public affairs, and the physical, social and life sciences, The Public Face of Science initiative will examine public attitudes toward science and identify issues that require greater attention from scholars and practitioners alike.

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O.W. Greenberg Mentors Intel Competition Finalist

Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Md., has again produced a national finalist — actually, two of the 40 nationwide — for the prestigious Intel Science Talent Search competition that started Friday in Washington.

Arnold Mong and Josephine Yu, 17-year-old seniors in Blair’s math-science-computer science magnet program, are vying for the competition’s top honors with research projects that sound well beyond their years. Take Yu’s “Lattice and Continuum Models of Solitons and Vortices in Bilayer Graphene,” an investigation in theoretical physics.

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