New Ideas in Quantum Simulation Bring Additional Federal Funding
A $2.5 million supplemental NSF award will jumpstart several new research thrusts in RQS and an undergraduate research program.
Yunger Halpern Receives Early Career Scientist Award in Statistical Physics
She was recognized for her fundamental contributions to non-Abelian thermodynamics and her exploration of the relationship between quantum chaos and the work fluctuation theorem in non-equilibrium thermodynamics.
Grant Writing Workshop
How to write successful grant proposals. Ken Brown will provide a general overview of grant writing, and Mingyu Kang will share his experience and insights into writing proposals for the RQS seed grant applications.
Note: This session uses Zoom Webinar; attendees will not be able to speak but can submit questions using the Q&A feature.
RQS Hosts Discussion Focused on Bridging Public Policy and Quantum
The April 17 event at the University of Maryland—tied to that week’s global celebration of World Quantum Day—featured four representatives from across the quantum policy landscape.
Mysteriously Mundane Turbulence Revealed in 2D Superfluid
RQS senior investigator Ian Spielman, working with two postdocs, has introduced a tool for measuring velocities in a Bose-Einstein superfluid and applied it to studying superfluid turbulence.
The Rayleigh-Taylor instability in a binary quantum fluid
Lunch will be served.
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RQS Senior Investigator Honored by Washington Academy of Sciences
Yi-Kai Liu will be recognized with an Excellence in Research Award in Computer Science on May 8 at the academy’s annual meeting.
World Quantum Day
We recognized World Quantum Day in the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology with a week of special events:
April 14th, 2024 | Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (UMD) and Online
Quantum for All at the University of Maryland
IYQ 2025
Quantum for All at the University of Maryland
A New Take on the Oldest Physics: What Actually Happened Right After the Big Bang?
Zohreh Davoudi, Nicole Yunger Halpern, and Chris Jarzynski are collaborating to blend three disparate fields of physics—the study of elementary particles and their interactions, the understanding of temperature and heat in quantum mechanics, and quantum simulation—to create a novel approach to understanding and modeling the physics of the early universe and high-energy collisions.