Recent Research News
2006 Oct News feature on "Entangled Photon Holes" experiment in Nature Photonics (10/19/06 issue).

2006 Sep PhD Thesis Defence by Eric Moore: Congratulations Eric!
2006 Sep PhD Thesis Defence by Sulakshana Thanvantri: Congratulations Sue!
2006 Sep Welcome New Faculty Members
2006 Jul Press Releases reporting Dr. Beckmann's work on the deficit of local, Compton-thick AGN using INTERGAL observations are issued by NASA, ESA and UMBC. [more info...].
2006 Jun Press Releases entitled XMM-Newton spots the greatest of great balls of fire featuring the work of Drs Finogenov and Henriksen issued by ESA and UMBC, and is picked up by picked up by several news organizations and reported in a full-page feature in Discovery Magazine (2006 Sept issue).
2006 May PhD Thesis Defence by Rundong Wan: Congratulations Rundong!
2006 May PhD Thesis Defence by Hai Zhang: Congratulations Hai Zhang!
2006 Apr PhD Thesis Defence by Giuliano Scarcelli: Congratulations Giuliano!
2006 Apr PhD Thesis Defence by Megan Leahy-Hoppa: Congratulations Megan!
2006 Mar PhD Research Proposal by Mengs Weldegaber
2006 Feb PhD Research Proposal by Alex Padgett
2006 Jan Open Faculty Position in Atmospheric Physics
2005 Dec PhD Research Proposal by Justin Hackley
2005 Nov PhD Thesis Defence by Dylan Powell: Congratulations Dylan!
2005 Oct John Cannizzo's work on the cover of Nature
2005 Oct CASPR Open House, 2005 Oct 24, 14:30-16:30 TRC Building
2005 Oct Open Faculty Position in Theoretical Optical Physics
2005 Aug UMBC Graduate student Dylan Powell's research featured in NASA News
2005 Aug Summer Interns present their Research
2005 Jul PhD Thesis Defence by Alejandra Valencia: Congratulations Alejandra!
2005 Jul Article entitled "Swift, INTEGRAL, RXTE, and Spitzer reveal IGR J16283-4838" featuring the work of Dr Beckmann (of the JCA) is the subject of press releases by ESA and UMBC (and is also noted in UMBC's Insight).
2005 May Article coauthored by Dr Bulmer (of JCET) appears in, and on the cover of, Geophysical Research Letters (also noted in UMBC's Insight)
2005 May PhD Thesis Defence by Alexander M. Sinyukov: Congratulations Alex!
2005 Apr Advance Research Assistantship Program deadline is May 09
2005 Feb Article entitled "Studying Iraqi Fire Pollution" featuring the work of Dr Carn (of JCET) on UMBC's Home Page.
2005 Jan Article entitled "Scientists See Matter Circling Black Hole at Breakneck Speed" featuring the work of Drs Turner & George in UMBC's Insight. This work was also featured in a "news notes" article in the 2005 November issue of Sky and Telecope mazagine (vol 110, No.5, p22).
2004 Dec Congratulations to Milena D'Angelo as a new PhD in Physics
2004 Dec Article entitled "Using Physics to Synchronize Clocks" featuring the work of graduate students Alejandra Valencia and Giuliano Scarcelli and advisor Prof Shih (see below) on UMBC's Home Page.
2004 Oct Article entitled A Confirmation of the General Relativistic Prediction of the Lens-Thirring Effect co-authored by Erricos Pavlis (of JCET) published in the prestigous journal Nature (Oct 21).
2004 Oct Article entitled Distant clock synchronization using entangled photon pairs discussing the work of graduate students Alejandra Valencia and Giuliano Scarcelli and advisor Prof Shih featured in the Research Highlights section of the prestigous journal Nature (Oct 14). The original paper appeared in Applied Physics Letters (Appl.Phys.Lett. 85, 2655)
2004 Sep Congratulations to Danny Hudson as a new PhD in Physics
Article entitled "Tracking a Satellite from the Sea" featuring the work of Dr McMillan's Group on UMBC's Home Page.
2004 May Article entitled "AIRS Takes to the Sky" featuring the work of Drs Strow & McMillan on UMBC's Home Page.
Article entitled "Answers in the Sky and the Classroom" featuring the work of graduate student Michele McCourt on UMBC's Home Page.

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