We proudly recognize members of our community who recently garnered major honors, began new positions and more.
Department News
- A memorial symposium commemorating the life and scientific career of Charles W. Misner was held on November 11. Videos and slides from the day can be found here.
Faculty and Staff
- Thomas Antonsen received the James Clerk Maxwell Prize of the American Physical Society (APS).
- Alberto Belloni was quoted in New Scientist.
- Alessandra Buonanno received the Oskar Klein Medal.
- Sankar Das Sarma described How AI and ML Will Affect Physics in Physics magazine.
- Sarah Eno was lected to the leadership track of the APS Division of Particles and Fields (APS DPF).
- Victor Galitski was quoted in Nature.
- Sylvester "Jim" Gates gave an online presentation, "C.S. Wu: Mandated Observer of Nature's Secrets" as part of the Inaugural International Frontier Science Forum of The School of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering at Hainan University. Also participating was Bill Phillips.
- Gates also spoke at the Joint Mathematics Meeting 2024 on the future of mathematics as it relates to the impact of IT/computationally enabled
technology.
- Gates also spoke at the Joint Mathematics Meeting 2024 on the future of mathematics as it relates to the impact of IT/computationally enabled
- Work by a collaboration including Michael Gullans was featured in Phys.org.
- Wendell Hill was featured in Physics magazine.
- Wolfgang Losert was named an MPower Professor.
- Howard Milchberg was awarded the APS Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science,
- Kartik Srinivasan was quoted in Phys.org.
- Nicole Yunger Halpern was quoted in Phys.org and received the Mary Somerville Medal and Prize.
Students
- John Labbate was commended for his poster at the APS Division of Plasma Physics (APS-DPP) meeting in Denver.
- Physics magazine Junheng Tao, Mingshu Zhao and Ian Spielman
- Simone Pierpaoli was mentioned in The Diamondback.
- Isaac Sherwood was quoted in Maryland Today.
Alumni
- William Raphael “Raph” Hix (B.S., '89) was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
- Samuel Lofland (Ph.D., '95) was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
- Michael Shay (Ph.D., '98) was elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union.