Biography

Ted Jacobson earned a BA at Reed College in Physics and Mathematics (1977), and a PhD at the University of Texas, Austin in Physics (1983). After postdoctoral positions at UCSB and Brandeis, he joined the University of Maryland faculty in 1988. He has had numerous research interests, including models of discrete spacetime, quantum gravity, sensitivity of Hawking radiation to short distance physics, analog condensed matter models of Hawking radiation, black hole entropy, constraints on Lorentz symmetry violation in particle physics and gravitation, and force-free plasmas. He is the recipient of a University of Maryland Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Award, and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He holds a Distinguished Visiting Research Chair position at Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Canada. In 2018, he was named a UMD Distinguished University Professor.

Enjoy his October 2020 public lecture on electromagnetic waves, sponsored by the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics.

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Bei Lok Hu received his B.A. in 1967 from the University of California - Berkeley and his Ph.D. in 1972 from Princeton University. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a Senior Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

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Kara Hoffman received her Ph.D. at Purdue University, followed by postdoctoral appointments at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland and the University of Chicago. She joined the UMD faculty as an assistant professor in 2004, was promoted to associate professor in 2010 and professor in 2015. Recognition has included the NSF Career Award, the CMPS Board of Visitors Distinguished Junior Faculty Award, and the Purdue University physics department's Outstanding Alumna Award in 2013. Her current work is in particle astrophysics, centered on the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the Askaryan Radio Array at the South Pole. Physics World named IceCube’s first observations of cosmic neutrinos the 2013 Breakthrough of the Year.

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Adil Hassam is Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (Plasma Physics). Dr. Hassam received BS and MS degrees in Physics from MIT in 1974 and a Ph.D. in Astrophysical Sciences from Princeton University in 1978. Since then he has been a member of the Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics at the University of Maryland. His research has ranged from laboratory and fusion plasmas to magnetospheric and solar plasmas. His current interests are in ideal and dissipative MHD and in innovation in fusion research. He has authored or co-authored over 100 publications. He is a recipient of the Outstanding Teaching Award from the Department of Physics and an Honorable Mention for the Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching. He has served as President of the University Fusion Association (2003-4).

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Carter Hall received his B.S. degree summa cum laude from Virginia Tech, and his Ph.D. from Harvard University, where he was awarded the Goldhaber Prize and Wallace-Noyes Fellowship. After his postdoctoral appointment at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, he joined the University of Maryland as an assistant professor in 2006. He has received a Department of Energy Early Career Award and the CMNS Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. His research is on the border between nuclear and particle physics, including the EXO experiment seeking Majorana neutrinos and the LUX and LZ experiments searching for weakly interacting dark matter.

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Mohammad Hafezi studied for two years at Sharif University before completing his undergraduate degree at École Polytechnique in 2003. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from Harvard University in 2009. He was a senior research associate at the Joint Quantum Institute before joining the faculty of UMD. His group aims at the theoretical and experimental investigation of quantum properties of light-matter interaction, for applications in classical and quantum information processing and sensing. He received a Sloan Research Fellowship and Office of Naval Research Young Investigator award in 2015.

Centers & Institutes: Joint Quantum Institute, Quantum Technology Center

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Nicholas Hadley is an experimental high energy physicist. He is currently a member of the CMS experiment at CERN, where he searches for new physics at the world’s highest energy accelerator. He was one of the co-leaders of the Dzero experiment’s top group at the time of the top quark discovery. He has been a member of the Program Advisory Committees at Brookhaven, Cornell, and Fermilab, and is now a member the Canada ATLAS review committee. He served as the Associate Chair for Undergraduate Education in the Physics Department of the University of Maryland from 2007 to 2010.