Biography
Steve Rolston received his B.S. in 1980 from Wesleyan University and his Ph.D. in 1986 from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is currently Chair of the Department of Physics and a Fellow of the Joint Quantum Institute. He is also a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Physical Society and the Optical Society of America.
Research
Research Area:
Research Projects:
- Ultracold Plasmas
- Quantum Information
- Optical Lattices
- Quantum Computation
Centers & Institutes: Joint Quantum Institute; Quantum Technology Center
News
- Rolston Reappointed Department Chair
- UMD Leads New $25M NSF Quantum Leap Challenge Institute for Robust Quantum Simulation
- Steve Rolston Named Chair of UMD Department of Physics
- Steve Rolston Comments on the Computers of our Wildest Dreams
- Steve Rolston Named Recipient of Kirwan Undergraduate Education Award