“Powerful extragalactic jets dissipate their kinetic energy far from the central black hole” Harvey, A.L.W., Georganopoulos, M. & Meyer, E.T. Adam Leah W. Harvey, Markos Georganopoulos,...
Recently, Dr. Zhibo Zhang’s ACROS group and his collaborators in the Department of Information Systems and NASA Goddard Space Flight center won a $1.4M interdisciplinary research project from...
Congratulations to our grad students who have advanced into PhD Candidacy over the past year: Neranga Prasadi Kaluappuwa Hannadige Mentor: Dr. Pengwang Zhai Vijin Kizhake Veetil Mentor:...
Dr. Jaron Kropp is the lead author in a new collaborative paper published in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces. Jaron’s PhD dissertation was supervised jointly by Profs Gougousi and Ataca who...
“A first-principles Quantum Monte Carlo study of two-dimensional (2D) GaSe” Daniel Wines, Kayahan Saritas, Can Ataca STEAM Lab members Daniel Wines and Dr. Ataca and collaborator Dr. Kayahan...
“Engineering the Electronic, Thermoelectric, and Excitonic Properties of Two-Dimensional Group-III Nitrides through Alloying for Optoelectronic Devices (B1–xAlxN, Al1–xGaxN, and Ga1–xInxN)”...
Appointed to Editorial Board of Remote Sensing Environment
Prof. Zhibo Zhang was recently appointed to the Editorial Board of a high-impact journal—Remote Sensing of Environment. Remote Sensing of Environment is a highly-selective journal that...
Matthew Pelton, Associate Professor in the UMBC Department of Physics, was recently elected as a Fellow of The Optical Society (OSA). Since its founding in 1916, the OSA has been the world’s...
Alexandria Udenkwo has been selected to participate in University System of Maryland’s Louis Stokes Alliance (LSAMP) for Minority Participation 2020 Fall Research Program. This award is to support...
Ellen Gulian is a senior, with a double major in physics and mathematics, and a minor in computer science. She is a Meyerhoff Scholar (M29), two-time URA Scholar, and LSAMP Scholar. What...