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  • Research News

    New Protocol Demonstrates and Verifies Quantum Speedups in a Jiffy

    While breakthrough results over the past few years have garnered headlines proclaiming the dawn of quantum supremacy, they have also masked a nagging problem that researchers have been staring at for decades: Demonstrating the advantages of a quantum computer is only half the battle;… Read More
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    Work on 2D Magnets Featured in Nature Physics Journal

    University of Maryland Professor Cheng Gong (ECE), along with his postdocs Dr. Ti Xie, Dr. Jierui Liang and collaborators in Georgetown University (Professor Kai Liu group), UC Berkeley (Professor Ziqiang Qiu), University of Tennessee, Knoxville (Professor David Mandrus group) and UMD Physics (Professor Victor M. Yakovenko), have made… Read More
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    NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Reveals a Key Particle Accelerator Near the Sun

    Flying closer to the sun than any spacecraft before it, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe uncovered a new source of energetic particles near Earth’s star, according to a new study co-authored by University of Maryland researchers.  Published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters on May 29, 2025,… Read More
  • Research News

    Time Crystal Research Enters a New Phase

    Our world only exists thanks to the diverse properties of the many materials that make it up. The differences between all those materials result from more than just which atoms and molecules form them. A material’s properties also depend on how those basic building… Read More
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    Mysteriously Mundane Turbulence Revealed in 2D Superfluid

    Despite existing everywhere, the quantum world is a foreign place where many of the rules of daily life don’t apply. Quantum objects jump through solid walls; quantum entanglement connects the fates of particles no matter how far they are separated; and quantum objects may… Read More
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    A New Piece in the Matter–Antimatter Puzzle

    aOn March 24, 2025 at the annual Rencontres de Moriond conference taking place in La Thuile, Italy, the LHCb collaboration at CERN reported a new milestone in our understanding of the subtle yet profound differences between matter and antimatter. In its analysis of large… Read More
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    Researchers Play a Microscopic Game of Darts with Melted Gold

    Sometimes, what seems like a fantastical or improbable chain of events is just another day at the office for a physicist. In a recent experiment by University of Maryland researchers at the Laboratory for Physical Sciences, a scene played out that would be right… Read More
  • Research News

    IceCube Search for Extremely High-energy Neutrinos Contributes to Understanding of Cosmic Rays

    Neutrinos are chargeless, weakly interacting particles that are able to travel undeflected through the cosmos. The IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole searches for the sources of these astrophysical neutrinos in order to understand the origin of high-energy particles called cosmic rays and,… Read More
  • Research News

    Twisted Light Gives Electrons a Spinning Kick

    It’s hard to tell when you’re catching some rays at the beach, but light packs a punch. Not only does a beam of light carry energy, it can also carry momentum. This includes linear momentum, which is what makes a speeding train hard to… Read More
  • 1 New Protocol Demonstrates and Verifies Quantum Speedups in a Jiffy
  • 2 Work on 2D Magnets Featured in Nature Physics Journal
  • 3 NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Reveals a Key Particle Accelerator Near the Sun
  • 4 Time Crystal Research Enters a New Phase
  • 5 Mysteriously Mundane Turbulence Revealed in 2D Superfluid
  • 6 A New Piece in the Matter–Antimatter Puzzle
  • 7 Researchers Play a Microscopic Game of Darts with Melted Gold
  • 8 IceCube Search for Extremely High-energy Neutrinos Contributes to Understanding of Cosmic Rays
  • 9 Twisted Light Gives Electrons a Spinning Kick

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Department News

  • Hafezi Receives Humboldt Research Award Mohammad Hafezi has received a Humboldt Research Award, which acknowledges his history of impactful research and supports visiting Germany to collaborate with colleagues there. Each year, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation gives the award, which is supported by the Federal Foreign Office and the Federal Ministry of… Read More
  • Sasha Philippov Named Outstanding Young Scientist Assistant Professor Sasha Philippov has received the 2025 Maryland Outstanding Young Scientist (OYS) award. The OYS award program was established in 1959 to recognize and celebrate extraordinary contributions of young Maryland scientists. In 1988 the Outstanding Young Engineer (OYE) award was established to recognize contributions in engineering. Both… Read More
  • Chandra Turpen Cited for Mentorship Chandra Turpen has been named a University of Maryland Graduate Faculty Mentor of the Year for 2025. The award recognizes faculty members who have made exceptional contributions to a student’s graduate experience. It both acknowledges outstanding mentoring provided by individual faculty and reminds the university… Read More
  • Brenda Dingus Elected to National Academy of Sciences Visiting Research Scientist and alumna Brenda Dingus (M.S. ’86, Ph.D. ’88, physics) has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) for her pioneering work in gamma-ray astrophysics.  Dingus is one of 120 members and 30 international members elected by their peers in 2025, joining… Read More
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Anne Suplee
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Office of Student and Education Services

Carter Hall
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Tom Cohen
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Donna Hammer
Director of Education		 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 1309 John S. Toll Physics Bldg. 301.405.5958
Tom Gleason
Associate Director, Academic Advisor		 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 1309 John S. Toll Physics Bldg. 301.405.5979
Josiland Chambers
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Angel Torres
Outreach Coordinator		 1309 John S. Toll Physics Bldg. 301.405.5980
Stephanie Williams
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Clay Daetwyler
Lecture Demonstration		 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 0408 John S. Toll Physics Bldg. 301.405.5995

 

Facilities 

Robert B. McIntire
Facilities Manager     		 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 0260B Physical Sciences Complex 301.405.5948
Lester Putnam
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Business & Finance

Rebecca Sommer
Director of Business & Finance		 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 0260 Physical Sciences Complex 301.405.5955
Mark Conners
Director of Sponsored Research		 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 0221 Physical Sciences Complex 301.405.5954
Naomi Russo
Assistant Director of Finance & Business Operations		 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 0235 Physical Sciences Complex 301.405.7280
Bonnie Seal-Filiatreau
Associate Director of Research Finance & Administration		 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 0223 Physical Sciences Complex 301.405.5961
Sally Megonigal 
Accounting Associate		 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 3208 Physical Sciences Complex 301.405.6066 
Yodit Giackero
Assistant Program Director of Finance
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Susan Dragonette
Coordinator		 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 0239 Physical Sciences Complex 301.405.3091
Anura Sivanesan
Program Manager		 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 0235 Physical Sciences Complex 301.314.9922

Cristina Garzon Hernandez
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Payroll and Human Resources

Sumerum Lehri
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Tielia Bean
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Purchasing, Shipping & Receiving

James Ellsworth
Assistant Director		 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 0243 Physical Sciences Complex 301.405.5987
Chaunta Milford
Manager		 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 0255 Physical Sciences Complex 301.405.2979
Kurtis Monroe
Toll Loading Dock		 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 1220 John S. Toll Physics Building 301.405.5950
Charla M. Thrasher
PSC Loading Dock		 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 0505 Physical Sciences Complex 301.405.5986

Yasser Saleh
Coordinator

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Torres Jarquin, Ana
Coordinator		 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  0252 Physical Sciences Complex  301.405.5913
LaVita Williams
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Research Group Administrators

JQI/Atomic, Molecular and Optical
Melissa Britton 
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Particle Astrophysics & High Energy Physics
Yu Zhang		  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 2101 Physical Sciences Complex 301.405.7651
MCFP (Theory)
Carley Barrett

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 3140 Physical Sciences Complex 301.405.6016 

QMC (Condensed Matter Experiment)
Roy Arunkumar 

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Physics Helpdesk This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 0123 Glenn L. Martin Hall or 1449 A.V. Williams 301.405.8582
Jeff McKinney
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Ayla Hurley
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Tuck Owens
IT Coordinator		 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 3307 John S. Toll Physics Bldg. 301.405.2798

 

 

Teaching Labs

Allen Monroe
Assistant Director

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 3331 John S. Toll Physics Building  301.405.6002
Omar Torres
Manager		  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 3308 John S. Toll Physics Building 301.405.6005
Greg Wolter
Phys Sci Tech II		   This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  3202 John S. Toll Physics Bldg. 301.405.6004