Prof. Pelton’s group participating in new Energy Frontier Research Centers Matthew Pelton, Professor of physics, is a co-investigator and UMBC lead for the Quantum Photonics Integrated Design Center (QuPIDC), one of 10 new Energy Frontier Research Centers funded by the U.S. Department of Energy.

Please see the UMBC news release for more details.

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Benjamin Owen is excited to bring gravitational wave research and relativity classes to new populations of students and to build a group that embodies the ideal of inclusive excellence, as a new Professor in the department. He is looking forward to discovering novel gravitational wave sources, tying them to multi-messenger astronomical observations, and developing more mathematical and (quantum and classical) computational tools to search for them

Ben received his B.S. in Physics from Sonoma State University and his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology, where he studied gravitational waves and relativistic astrophysics under Kip Thorne. After postdocs at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Ben was Professor of Physics at Penn State and Texas Tech. Ben received Caltech’s thesis of the year award, was made a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and (with the rest of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration) received a Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for the historic discovery of gravitational waves.

After building the mathematical foundations of gravitational wave data analysis by applying differential geometry to signal processing, Ben discovered the most promising version of the Chandrasekhar-Friedman-Schutz instability in neutron stars and worked out many related properties of neutron star matter. Then he started developing and running supercomputing codes to search for new sources of gravitational waves. Ben is one of the few people to have made major contributions to all four data analysis groups of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration (binary mergers, other bursts, continuous waves, and the stochastic background) in addition to his theory work. He has also made key contributions to using gravitational wave observations to constrain fundamental parameters in relativity and nuclear and particle physics. Ben currently serves as chair of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration’s Editorial Board and Head of Observational Analysis for Cosmic Explorer, a planned successor to LIGO. In the coming years LIGO, LISA, and Cosmic Explorer will probe the properties of the most extreme matter in the universe, reveal how galaxies merge, and test the limits of relativity and other modern theories of physics; and UMBC will be a key part of these pioneering explorations.

Geoffrey Diederich is joining the faculty in the department of physics at UMBC as an Assistant Professor. At UMBC, Geoffrey plans to run a research group that combines cutting edge condensed matter and quantum materials research with state-of-the-art optical spectroscopies. Geoffrey is also passionate about the diversification and democratization of scientific research and plans to build a group that represents the truly diverse population that love science.

Geoffrey received their B.Sc. and M.Sc. in physics from Bowling Green State University, where they investigated the optical properties of colloidal quantum dots under Professor Mikhail Zamkov. Geoffrey then went to the University of Denver to obtain their Ph.D., where they studied ultrafast coherent spectroscopy under the supervision of Professor Mark Siemens. After graduate school, Geoffrey moved to the University of Washington, where they performed seminal work on the magnon dynamics in two-dimensional magnets under the supervision of Professor Xiaodong Xu.

During graduate school, Geoffrey received outstanding teaching honors from both the University of Denver and the American association of physics teachers, as well as the University of Denver Graduate Education Dissertation Fellowship. Geoffrey was then awarded the ORISE Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Fellowship to support their work. Their research has been published in high impact journals such as Nature, Nature Nanotechnology, and Nano Letters, and they have been invited to present their work at conferences around the world.

Fabio Anzà joins the department as Assistant Professor in the area of theoretical quantum information science. He and his group will focus on a modern frontier of quantum physics, Complex Quantum Systems: many-body, out-of-equilibrium, open quantum systems. In particular, their focus will be on understanding and estimating the information-theoretic resources embedded in their complex quantum dynamics.

Fabio received his B.Sc. in physics from the University of Palermo, with a thesis at the interface between entanglement theory and statistical mechanics, and his M.Sc. in theoretical physics from the University of Pisa. There, he investigated various foundational aspects of physics: from a theory to tackle Schroedinger problem with time-dependent boundary conditions, to revealing Dark Matter at particle accelerators, and Quantum Gravity. He then moved to the University of Oxford to get his Ph.D. within the “Frontier of Quantum Physics” group led by Prof. Vlatko Vedral. There, he developed a new information theoretic approach, “Observable Statistical Mechanics” to understand and predict the dynamical emergence of thermalization in isolated quantum systems; and, applied advanced quantum information theory techniques to spin-networks: a tentative microscopic description of quantum gravity.

After graduate school he won the Templeton World Charity Foundation “Power of Information” grant and moved to the Complexity Sciences Center at the University of California, Davis. There, under the supervision of Prof. James P. Crutchfield, he studied Computational Mechanics and Dynamical Systems Theory. He then applied these concepts to the understanding of open quantum dynamics. The resulting work is currently being synthesized in a book “Geometric Quantum Mechanics: A dynamical systems approach to quantum dynamics”, to be published by the Oxford University Press at the end of 2024. Beyond the book, he has published work in some of the top journal in theoretical physics like Physical Review Letters and Physical Review X Quantum.
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Please see the UMBC news release for more details.

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Ph.D. in Physics:
Rachel Gelfand
Mentor: Dr. Matthew Pelton
"Spectroscopic Studies of Metals, Fluids, and Molecules on the Nanoscale Using Computational and Experimental Method"

David Kanaar
Mentor: Dr. Jason Kestner
"Scalable Quantum Control of Solid-State Qubit Systems to Counteract Physical Errors"


M.S. in Atmospheric Physics:
Nirandi Jayasingh
Ansel Lavitz
Greema Regmi

M.S. in Physics:
John Caporaletti
Sanjay Sharma
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Outstanding Graduating Senior with Honors in Physics
Cameron Hahn
Maxfield Hartley

Outstanding Undergraduate Learning Assistant in Physics
Chris Dollo

Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant in Physics for Fall 2023
John Caporaletti

Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant in Physics for Spring 2024
Ashlyn Wright

2023 Sigma Pi Sigma Physics Honors Society Inductees
Dahne-More Pluck
Natalie Piltoyan
Evan Sheldon
Aria Tauraso
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Dr. Roberto Fernandez Borda has received the UMBC Research Faculty Excellence Award for 2024. The UMBC Research Faculty Excellence Award recognizes excellence in research and, where appropriate, significant contributions to teaching and service or leadership by research faculty. Awardees are selected by a committee of their peers based on the quality of their research and its impact on UMBC’s success. Nominees must have been research or clinical faculty at UMBC for at least three years.


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They invited several scientists and researchers from NASA, EPA, Naval Research Lab and UMD to give presentations and panel discussions. They also organized fun activities such as "Earth Hour Nature Hike" and student poster competition/award. Our president, Dr. Valerie Sheares Ashby attended the event and gave a closing remark.

Please see the UMBC news release for more details.

EDS attendees 2024

EDS nature walk 2024

EDS group on the stairs

Images credit: Kamal Aryal and Zhibo Zhang

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Please see the UMBC news release and the NASA press release for more details.

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The first images from PACE’s HARP2 polarimeter captured data on clouds over the west coast of South America on March 11, 2024.


Photo Credit: Earth Space Institute/UMBC. ]]> Data from the HARP2 instrument is now available. Please see the UMBC news release and the NASA press release for more details. The first images from PACE’s HARP2 polarimeter captured data... https://beta.my.umbc.edu/api/v0/pixel/news/140867/guest@my.umbc.edu/d284f70081f45416c2deafa340ff3cab/api/pixel Physics https://beta.my.umbc.edu/groups/physics https://assets1-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/602/92740316e784a1ffbc6263cda396b05a/xsmall.png?1520366549 https://assets2-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/602/92740316e784a1ffbc6263cda396b05a/original.jpg?1520366549 https://assets3-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/602/92740316e784a1ffbc6263cda396b05a/xxlarge.png?1520366549 https://assets3-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/602/92740316e784a1ffbc6263cda396b05a/xlarge.png?1520366549 https://assets1-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/602/92740316e784a1ffbc6263cda396b05a/large.png?1520366549 https://assets4-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/602/92740316e784a1ffbc6263cda396b05a/medium.png?1520366549 https://assets3-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/602/92740316e784a1ffbc6263cda396b05a/small.png?1520366549 https://assets1-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/602/92740316e784a1ffbc6263cda396b05a/xsmall.png?1520366549 https://assets2-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/602/92740316e784a1ffbc6263cda396b05a/xxsmall.png?1520366549 Physics https://assets2-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/140/867/f6eca13d9b3861df5024a09739dd828f/xxlarge.jpg?1712942425 https://assets4-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/140/867/f6eca13d9b3861df5024a09739dd828f/xlarge.jpg?1712942425 https://assets1-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/140/867/f6eca13d9b3861df5024a09739dd828f/large.jpg?1712942425 https://assets1-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/140/867/f6eca13d9b3861df5024a09739dd828f/medium.jpg?1712942425 https://assets3-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/140/867/f6eca13d9b3861df5024a09739dd828f/small.jpg?1712942425 https://assets4-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/140/867/f6eca13d9b3861df5024a09739dd828f/xsmall.jpg?1712942425 https://assets4-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/140/867/f6eca13d9b3861df5024a09739dd828f/xxsmall.jpg?1712942425 HARP2 module 1 0 false Fri, 12 Apr 2024 13:52:56 -0400 Fri, 12 Dec 2025 10:29:23 -0500 New article by Dr. Adi Foord in The Conversation
As part of the Curious Kids series on The Conversation, Assistant Professor Adi Foord writes about our ability to see the beginning of time with NASA's recent flagship mission The James Webb Space Telescope. Curious Kids is a series that lets experts across the country answer questions posed by kids. In the article, Professor Foord summarizes the Big Bang, how the universe evolved after the Big Bang, and how the James Webb Space Telescope was designed to observe the first stars and galaxies in our Universe. The article, "Could a telescope ever see the beginning of time? An astronomer explains." was published 8 April 2024.


https://umbc.edu/stories/could-a-telescope-ever-see-the-beginning-of-time/
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Both Adeleke and Hannah work in the Aerosol-Cloud-Radiation Observation and Simulation (ACROS) group led by Prof. Zhibo Zhang.

Adeleke next to his poster at AMS conference

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