Biography

Johnpierre Paglione has seeded a world-class effort on quantum materials research at UMD, leading the collaborations of several faculty that have brought Maryland to the forefront of research on superconductivity, topological materials and strongly correlated systems. Having contributed to several fields of experimental condensed matter research through both single-crystal synthesis and ultra-low temperature transport, thermodynamic and spectroscopic exploration of novel phenomena, Paglione’s research is a blend of materials exploration and elucidation of quantum phenomena. As Director of the Maryland Quantum Materials Center, with a membership of over 100 personnel, a state-of-the-art materials synthesis facility and an extensive measurement suite, Paglione commits QMC resources to hosting the annual Fundamentals of Quantum Materials Winter School, a successful hands-on training program and basis for this work. Paglione is the recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER Award and an Early Career Award from the Department of Energy, is a Materials Synthesis Fellow in the EPiQS program of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and a Fellow of the Quantum Materials Program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. Dr. Paglione earned his PhD from the University of Toronto in Canada.

Biography

Konstantinos (Dennis) Papadopoulos holds a permanent joint appointment as Professor in the Departments of Physics and Astronomy. He is founding member and co-director of the East West Space Science Center (EWSSC) and head of the Space Plasma Physics Group. During the period 1969-1979 served as senior scientist and division consultant at the Plasma Physics Division of the Naval Research Laboratory. He specializes in Plasma Physics and Space Plasma Physics.

He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society since 1974 and a corresponding member of the International Academy of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He has received numerous scientific and publication awards, holds eight patents, serves in many national and international boards, and consults extensively with industry, government and non-profit organizations on science, technology and national security issues. In 2009 he was honored with a Festschrift; one-week international symposium in his native Greece, attended by over 100 leading scientists.

Many of his major research accomplishments are related to directing interdisciplinary, critical mass efforts that included state of the art computing to address space physics issues. During 1969 to 1979, while at NRL, he originated the concept of multi-fluid codes with self-consistent anomalous transport. These codes provided the capability to simulate the ionospheric effects of high-altitude nuclear weapon explosions. Between 1980-1986 as P.I. of NASA's STTP program, he directed the University of Maryland effort that using "hybrid codes" resolved the key physics issues of the earth's collisionless shock and of high Mach number shocks in general. During the period 1990-2003, he was the P.I. for theory and modeling in the ISTP mission, a mission that involved more than 12 satellites. He was instrumental in conceiving and promoting the $300M HAARP ionospheric heating facility located in Alaska. The facility was completed in 2003 and received DARPA award as the most innovative project of the year. During the period 2007-2013 he was P.I. of the Multi-University Research Initiative (MURI) on the "Fundamental Physics Issues on Radiation Belt Dynamics and Remediation", a $ 7.5 M program that involves theory and modeling, laboratory and space experiments. He is currently co-PI of the AFOSR – MURI “Mobile HF Sources for Ionospheric Modifications” - $ 7.5 (2013-2019).

Papadopoulous has published over 280 papers in refereed scientific journals, edited two books, owns 8 US patents and presented over 160 invited lectures in National and International meetings. His work was cited over 13000 times and according to Google his h-index is 57. He has supervised 20 PhD students and over 40 post-doctoral fellows.

Biography

William Phillips is a Distinguished University and College Park Professor of physics. In 1997 he was a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize of Physics "for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light."

Professor Phillips received his B.S. in 1970 from Juniata College and his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a Fellow and Honorary Member of the Optical Society of America and a Member of the National Academy of Sciences.

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