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JQI and PFC scientists go places. They travel around the world to talk about quantum information. JQI graduate students and postdoctoral scientists move on to other institutions, often expanding quantum research. Read about this and more in People News. To submit items, email eedwards@umd.edu.

January 8, 2015 | Outreach | People News

Topology in Condensed Matter: Tying Quantum Knots

Jay Sau and colleagues will be teaching a new online course on topology in Condensed Matter. The course will start February 2015--visit https://tiny.cc/topocm to sign up! The course is a collaboration of researchers from UMD, TUDelft and QuTech.

December 3, 2014 | People News

Philip Merrill Presidential Scholars

JQI Fellows Christopher Monroe and Victor Yakovenko, were recognized as mentors of the high-achieving students Geoffrey Ji and Zachary Siegel (respectively), who were named the 2014-2015 Philip Merrill Presidential Scholars. Ji currently works ion trap quantum information in Monroe's group and Siegel works on ultracold atomic gases with Trey Porto.

November 14, 2014 | People News

Three JQI Fellows Win APS Awards

Three Fellows of the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI), a joint research partnership between the University of Maryland (UMD) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), have won major awards from the American Physical Society, the nation’s largest professional organization of physicists. The scientists are Ian Spielman and Gretchen Campbell of NIST, and Christopher Monroe of UMD, each honored in a different category.

October 23, 2014 | People News

Clark School names Edo Waks as Junior Faculty Research Award recipient

JQI fellow Edo Waks (IREAP, JQI and ECE) was selected as the winner of the Clark School Junior Faculty Research Award. The award recognizes an exceptional young faculty member (at or below the associate professor rank) for exemplary quality and impact of research.

Waks research group focuses on nanophotonics with quantum dots. For more information, visit his group site.

July 31, 2014 | People News

Two JQI undergraduates honored for their thesis work

Ike Uchenna Chukwu and Burkley Patterson were recently both named recipients of the 2014 IPST Monroe Martin Prize for Undergraduate Research in Physics. 

Burkley's work was titled "Construction and Experiments with a Cavity QED system." He will be continuing his work, now as a graduate student, in Luis Orozco's Cavity QED experiment, which is supported by NSF.

July 10, 2014 | People News

Steve Rolston Named Recipient of Kirwan Undergraduate Education Award

Steve Rolston has been choosen as the recipient of the Kirwan Undergraduate Education Award for 2014. The prestigious award recognizes a faculty member who has made exceptional contributions to the quality of undergraduate education at the university.

July 7, 2014 | People News

JQI publications in 2014 Google Scholar Metrics

On June 26, Google released its 2014 version of Scholar Metrics, which highlights influential scientific papers published between 2009 and 2013. Papers are selected by an algorithm that selects those that are the most-cited in their subject, according to the Google Scholar database.

June 26, 2014 | People News

Trey Porto speaks at "Science Cafe"

This event took place at the Busboys and Poets restaurant in downtown Washington, DC, and was part of a series of presentations meant to bring science to the public. Trey's topic was supercold atoms. After his talk he answered questions for an hour.

May 23, 2014 | People News

Frontiers of Cold Matter

JQI fellow Paul Julienne has recently retired from NIST but continues to perform high-level theoretical research in the subject he helped to create---ultracold matter.  In honor of his birthday, a meeting called Frontiers of Cold Matter is being held May 29-30 at JQI.

May 19, 2014 | People News

JQI welcomes new Fellow Mohammad Hafezi

Mohammad Hafezi has accepted a position as a JQI Fellow and Assistant Professor in UMD's Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. He started at JQI in 2009 in Jake Taylor's group as a postdoc and was promoted to senior research associate in 2012. He works at the interface of condensed matter theory and quantum optics. The focus of his research is on theoretical and experimental investigations of artificial gauge fields and topological order in photonics systems. Such systems can be exploited as robust optical devices insensitive to disorder.

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