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  • Research News

    Researchers Identify Groovy Way to Beat Diffraction Limit

    Physics is full of pesky limits. There are speed limits, like the speed of light. There are limits on how much matter and energy can be crammed into a region of space before it collapses into a black hole. There are even limits on… Read More
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    Researchers Imagine Novel Quantum Foundations for Gravity

    Questioning assumptions and imagining new explanations for familiar phenomena are often necessary steps on the way to scientific progress. For example, humanity’s understanding of gravity has been overturned multiple times. For ages, people assumed heavier objects always fall quicker than lighter objects. Eventually, Galileo… Read More
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    Researchers Spy Finish Line in Race for Majorana Qubits

    Our computer age is built on a foundation of semiconductors. As researchers and engineers look toward a new generation of computers that harness quantum physics, they are exploring various foundations for the burgeoning technology. Almost every computer on earth, from a pocket calculator to… Read More
  • Research News

    Superconductivity’s Halo: Physicists Map Rare High-field Phase

     A puzzling form of superconductivity that arises only under strong magnetic fields has been mapped and explained by a research team of UMD, NIST and Rice University including  professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University. Their findings,  published in Science July 31, detail how uranium… Read More
  • Research News

    A Cosmic Photographer: Decades of Work to Get the Perfect Shot

    John Mather, a College Park Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland and a senior astrophysicist at NASA, has made a career of looking to the heavens. He has led projects that have revealed invisible stories written across the sky and helped us… Read More
  • 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
  • Research News

    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
  • Research News

    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
  • 1 Researchers Identify Groovy Way to Beat Diffraction Limit
  • 2 Researchers Imagine Novel Quantum Foundations for Gravity
  • 3 Researchers Spy Finish Line in Race for Majorana Qubits
  • 4 Superconductivity’s Halo: Physicists Map Rare High-field Phase
  • 5 A Cosmic Photographer: Decades of Work to Get the Perfect Shot
  • 6 New Protocol Demonstrates and Verifies Quantum Speedups in a Jiffy
  • 7 Work on 2D Magnets Featured in Nature Physics Journal
  • 8 NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Reveals a Key Particle Accelerator Near the Sun
  • 9 Time Crystal Research Enters a New Phase

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Department News

  • Jaron E. Shrock Cited for Outstanding Thesis Jaron E. Shrock has been named the 2025 recipient of the American Physical Society’s Marshall N. Rosenbluth Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award. Shrock was cited for the first demonstration of multi-GeV laser wakefield acceleration using a plasma waveguide in an all-optical scheme. After graduating from Swarthmore… Read More
  • When Physics and Math Go Viral With more viruses on Earth than stars in the observable universe, researchers like Raunak Dey may never run out of work. As a physics Ph.D. student at the University of Maryland, Dey designs theoretical and mathematical models to understand how viruses interact in vast microbial communities.… Read More
  • UMD-Led Team Wins Major NSF Grant to Pioneer “High-Entropy” Quantum Materials A University of Maryland–led research team has been awarded a highly competitive grant from the National Science Foundation’s Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF) program to launch a bold new frontier in quantum materials science: High-Entropy Quantum Materials. The $2 million, four-year… Read More
  • Srinivasan Named NIST Co-Director of JQI Adjunct Professor Kartik Srinivasan has been appointed the newest National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Co-Director of JQI. He assumed the role on Sept. 8, 2025 and will be working with Jay Sau who has been the University of Maryland (UMD) Co-Director of JQI since 2022.… Read More
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Chair's Office

Steve Rolston
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Anne Suplee
Director		 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 0208E Physical Sciences Complex 301.405.5944
Brittany Antrum
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Office of Student and Education Services

Alberto Belloni
Associate Professor & Associate Chair of Undergraduate Education		 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  3208 Physical Sciences Complex 301.405.6063
Tom Cohen
Professor & Associate Chair of Graduate Education		 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 3158 Physical Sciences Complex 301.405.6117
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
Graduate Program Coordinator		  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  1309 John S. Toll Physics Bldg.  301.405.5982
Angel Torres
Outreach Coordinator		 1309 John S. Toll Physics Bldg. 301.405.5980
Stephanie Williams
Academic Advisor		 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 1309 John S. Toll Physics Bldg. 301.405.5949
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
Machinist		 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 0305 John S. Toll Physics Building 301.405.5967

 

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

Cristina Garzon Hernandez
Coordinator

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Payroll and Human Resources

Halema Baxter
HR and Payroll Manager		 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 0260 Physical Sciences Complex 301.405.8056
Sumerum Lehri
HR Specialist		 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 0260 Physical Sciences Complex 301.405.5955
Tielia Bean
Payroll Coordinator		 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 0260 Physical Sciences Complex 301.405.6183

 

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
Coordinator		 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 0260 Physical Sciences Complex  301.405.5998

 

Research Group Administrators

JQI/Atomic, Molecular and Optical
Melissa Britton 
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Particle Astrophysics & High Energy Physics
Yu (Jessie) 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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Computing Services

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
Director of Computing Facilities		 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 1441 A.V. Williams Building 301.405.3719
Ayla Hurley
Assistant Director, Service Desk		 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 0123 Glenn L. Martin Hall 301-405-4322
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