Biography

Steven Anlage received his Ph.D. in Applied Physics from the California Institute of Technology. He is a member of the Quantum Materials Center at UMD, where he leads experimental research activities in superconducting metamaterials, quantum chaos, and various types of quantitative high-resolution near-field microscopy. His research focus is on the basic physics of superconducting materials (both natural and artificial) and addressing fundamental questions concerning wave propagation in complex scattering systems. He is also active in developing applications that exploit time-reversal invariance and spatial reciprocity for electromagnetic wave propagation, such as directed communication and wireless power transfer. He is a UMD Distinguished Scholar-Teacher.

Biography

Thomas Antonsen graduated from Cornell University where he received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering in 1973 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in 1976 and 1977, respectively. His research interests include the theory of magnetically confined plasmas, the theory and design of high power sources of coherent radiation, nonlinear dynamics in fluids, and the theory of the interaction of intense laser pulses and plasmas. He is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, a fellow of the American Physical Society, Division of Plasma Physics, and a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He is a UMD Distinguished University Professor.

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Drew Baden has worked in many aspects of high-energy physics over the past 20 years, and was part of the D0 collaboration at Fermilab which, along with the CDF team, discovered the top quark in 1995. Since the late 1990s, he has been part of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider. He and his team are specifically responsible for designing, prototyping, testing and manufacturing the "trigger" electronics for the CMS hadron calorimeter.

Biography

Distinguished Physicist Jayanth R. Banavar, whose research frequently involves interdisciplinary collaboration with the life sciences, is  a former dean of the College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences (CMNS).

Prior to his appointment in 2011, Banavar led the Department of Physics at Pennsylvania State University for 12 years. Much of his recent work has applied the techniques of statistical physics to solve interdisciplinary problems, explaining, for example, why biological molecules tend to curl up into helices, or to explain why coral reefs support such a rich biodiversity. Frequently, the goal has been to identify an underlying mathematical principle to provide an elegant explanation of natural phenomena.

Banavar served as Distinguished Professor and George A. and Margaret M. Downsbrough Department Head of Physics at Pennsylvania State University. He received a bachelor of science with honors and a master of science in physics from Bangalore University. He earned his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Pittsburgh. A fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, he has more than 250 publications in refereed journals, 11 book chapters, a book he co-edited and three patents.

Biography

Paulo Bedaque received his B.S. in 1985 from the Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil and his Ph.D. in 1994 from the University of Rochester. Following this, he served as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Massachussetts Institute of Technology and then at the Institute for Nuclear Theory at the University of Washington. He joined the scientific staff at Lawrencey Berkeley Lab in 2001 and joined UMD in 2006. Professor Bedaque's research career has focused on the interface of nuclear physics and particle physics with an emphasis on various aspects of QCD. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

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Elizabeth Beise is a Professor of Physics and the Associate Provost for Academic Planning and Programs. She earned her B.A. in Physics from Carleton College in 1981, and her Ph.D. in Physics in 1988 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She joined UMD in 1993 after a research scientist position in the Kellogg Radiation Lab at the California Institute of Technology. Her research in experimental nuclear physics focuses on the use of electromagnetic and weak probes of the internal structure of protons, neutrons and light nuclei, and on the use of nuclear physics techniques to test fundamental symmetries of nature. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Beise is a UMD Distinguished Scholar-Teacher.