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Associate Professor Nick Schmerr, left, with pilot Troy McKerral, behind a GPS station with a solar panel, recording unit, and antenna. The bamboo pole helps the retrieval team find the equipment, since the ice shelf can move a meter per day.

Research at the Frozen End of the Earth

02 Feb 23

photonic microring

Two Light-Trapping Techniques Combine for the Best of Both Worlds

03 Jan 23

trapped ion

UMD Establishes Endowed Professorship in Quantum Computing

20 Dec 22

UMD Chemistry and Biochemistry’s Myles Poulin Awarded $1.9M NIH Grant

15 Dec 22

Abba Gumel

Mathematical Biologist Abba Gumel Uses Math to Tackle Grand Challenges and Save Lives

14 Dec 22

Australian wildfires

Australian Wildfires Depleted the Ozone Layer in a Variety of Ways, According to New Article

28 Nov 22

Left to right: Sumant Nigam; Amitabh Varshney; Timothy Tharp; Earl Stoddard; Jennifer King Rice; Larry Hogan; and Russell J. Strickland. Credit: John Consoli.

University of Maryland Strategic Partnership Announces New Institute to Transform Medicine Using Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Technologies

10 Nov 22

Mathematical graphs, which capture the connections between abstract nodes, are being used in a new way to represent and study quantum error correcting codes. (Credit: A. Kollár/JQI)

Graphs May Prove Key in Search for Holy Grail of Quantum Error Correction

24 Oct 22

UMD Astronomers on Team Selected by NASA for Moon Exploration Mission

22 Jun 22

Current quantum computers, utilizing technologies like the trapped ion device on the left, are beginning to tackle problems theoretical physicists care about, like simulating particle physics models. More than 60 years ago, the physicist Julian Schwinger laid the foundation for describing the relativistic and quantum mechanical behaviors of subatomic particles and the forces among them, and now his namesake model is serving as an early challenge for quantum computers.

Quantum Computers Are Starting to Simulate the World of Subatomic Particles

24 May 22

A curved and stretched sheet of graphene laying over another curved sheet creates a new pattern that impacts how electricity moves through the sheets. A new model suggests that similar physics might emerge if two adjacent universes are able to interact. (Credit: Alireza Parhizkar, JQI)

Bilayer Graphene Inspires Two-Universe Cosmological Model

05 May 22

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Nicole Yunger Halpern Ponders Quantum Mechanics, Thermodynamics, and Everything Else

23 Mar 22

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