Kim, Ki-Yong
Biography
Kiyong Kim earned his Ph.D. at the University of Maryland under Prof. Howard Milchberg, and received the Marshall N. Rosenbluth Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award presented by the American Physical Society. He then received a Director’s Postdoctoral Fellowship at Los Alamos National Laboratory before joining the UMD faculty in 2008. He is a recipient of an NSF Career Award and a Department of Energy Early Career Research Award. His research centers on ultrafast lasers and optical science, including laser interaction with atoms, molecules, solids, and plasmas.
Research
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Research Projects:
- Ultrafast optical, x-ray, and terahertz science
- High-energy density laboratory plasma
Centers & Institutes: Institute for Research in Electronics & Applied Physics; Maryland NanoCenter
Kirkpatrick, Theodore
Biography
Theodore Kirkpatrick earned his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Rockefeller University in 1981. His research work is in the general area of strongly correlated and disordered electronic systems at low temperatures. Their prime objective of this project is to understand the phase transitions and other collective phenomena in such systems. One particular goal is to further develop and apply an effective field theory that has been developed by them and which allows for a systematic treatment of electronic systems with static impurities. The methods employed to study this problem include effective field theories, renormalization group techniques, and many- body perturbation theory. Specific systems for which this project is relevant include magnets with impurities, superconductors, and doped semiconductors. The conclusions drawn from these studies will be of interest to those concerned with the electrical and magnetic properties of matter.
Lathrop, Daniel
Biography
Daniel Lathrop received a B.A. in physics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1987, and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1991. He then served at Yale University as a postdoctoral fellow, research affiliate, and lecturer, and as Assistant Professor at Emory University. He joined the University of Maryland in 1997, the year he received a Presidential Early Career Award from the National Science Foundation. Daniel Lathrop is now Professor of Physics and Professor of Geology and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. His research in the Nonlinear Dynamics group at Maryland focuses on turbulent fluid flows, geomagnetism, and experiments on superfluid helium. Dr. Lathrop served as the Director of the Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics from 2006 to 2012. He received the Stanley Corrsin Award in 2012 from the American Physical Society for this work in quantum fluids. He is a UMD Distinguished Scholar-Teacher.
Research
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Research Projects:
- Turbulence
- Geophysical & Astrophysical Magnetic Fields
Centers & Institutes: Quantum Materials Center; Institute for Research in Electronics & Applied Physics; Maryland NanoCenter
Teaching
- Physics 105: Physics for Decision Makers
- Physics 260: Vibrations, Waves, Heat, Electricity & Magnetism
- Physics 275: Experimental Physics I
- Physics 410: Classical Mechanics
- Physics 411: Intermediate Electricity and Magnetism
- Physics 485: Electronic Circuits
- Physics 499X: Making Physics Experiments
- Physics 685: Research Electronics
News
- Lathrop and Colleagues Honored for Invention
- Lathrop Lab's Geodynamo Set for Overhaul
- Dan Lathrop Named Distinguished Scholar-Teacher
- Daniel Lathrop Comments on Earth's Changing Magnetic Poles in Phys.org Article
- Lathrop Elected to APS GSNP Chair Line
- Lathrop Featured in Secrets of the Earth
- Dan Lathrop Receives 2012 Stanley Corrsin Award
Linke, Norbert
Biography
Norbert Linke is a quantum scientist working on different applications of individual trapped atomic ions. He received his undergraduate degree (Dipl. Phys.) in 2007 from the University of Ulm, Germany, working in the lab of Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler. He earned his doctoral degree (D.Phil.) in Atomic & Laser Physics in 2013 from the University of Oxford, U.K., under David Lucas. After post-doctoral work at Oxford, he joined the University of Maryland and its Joint Quantum Institute.
Research
Research Area:
- Quantum algorithm realizations
- Telecom-ready quantum networking
- Quantum simulation with individual ions
Centers and Institutes: Joint Quantum Institute, Quantum Technology Center