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.