Displaying items by tag: Plasma Physics
Fox, Will
Biography
Will Fox joined the Department of Physics in January 2025, and is affiliated with the Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics. He received his B.A. in Physics from Princeton University and Ph.D. in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prior to the University of Maryland, he was Principal Research Physicist at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and a Lecturer in the Department of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University. Between his finishing his undergraduate degree and starting graduate school, he worked for a year teaching math and physics at a high school in Kathmandu, Nepal. His research is in high-energy-density plasma physics and plasma astrophysics. He received the Thomas H. Stix Award for Outstanding Early Career Contributions to Plasma Physics Research from the American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics in 2019, and the John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research from the APS Division of Plasma Physics in 2020.
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Centers & Institutes: Institute for Research in Electronics & Applied Physics
Milchberg, Howard
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Howard Milchberg is jointly appointed to the departments of Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering, and is affiliated with the Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics. He received his B. Eng. in engineering physics from McMaster University and a Ph.D. in astrophysical sciences from Princeton University. Professor Milchberg is the recipient of an NSERC Postgraduate Fellowship, National Research Council of Canada; NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award; and both the APS John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research and its Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the Optical Society of America. He is a UMD Distinguished Scholar-Teacher and Distinguished University Professor, and was awarded the Senior Faculty Outstanding Research Award in UMD’s Clark School of Engineering. Three of his graduate students have been recipients of APS-DPP’s Marshall N. Rosenbluth Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award.
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Centers & Institutes: Institute for Physical Science & Technology; Institute for Research in Electronics & Applied Physics; Maryland NanoCenter
News
- NSF Awards $1.6M for Laser Upgrades
- Milchberg Named Distinguished University Professor
- New Laser Experiment Spins Light Like a Merry-go-round
- Milchberg Receives APS Schawlow Prize
- UMD Lab to Become Major Laser Research Center
- Experiment Demonstrates Continuously Operating Optical Fiber Made of Thin Air
- Nearly 50-meter Laser Experiment Sets Record in Campus Hallway
- Compact Electron Accelerator Reaches New Speeds with Nothing But Light
- Research Team Describes "Somersaulting" Photons
- Pushing the Frontier of Extreme Light-Matter Interaction Research
- Plasma Guides Maintain Laser Focus
- Irving and Renee Milchberg Endowed Lecture Premiered April 16
- Milchberg Selected as 2013 OSA Fello
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.
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- Ultrafast optical, x-ray, and terahertz science
- High-energy density laboratory plasma
Centers & Institutes: Institute for Research in Electronics & Applied Physics; Maryland NanoCenter