Leaning into Lidar
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Swarnav Banik’s (Ph.D. ’21, physics) parents were visiting from India when they saw a strange-looking car on a San Francisco street that stopped them in their tracks.
High School Student Earns Accolades for Summer Research with Gorshkov Group
Jason Youm, a high school student who performed summer research with JQI Fellow Alexey Gorshkov in 2023, placed in the top dozen competitors in the physics and astronomy category at the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF).
Gorshkov Wins IEEE Photonics Society Quantum Electronics Award
JQI Fellow Alexey Gorshkov has won the 2024 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Photonics Society Quantum Electronics Award.
JQI Researchers Win 2023 UMD Quantum Invention of the Year Award
A team of JQI researchers and their colleagues have won in the quantum category of the UMD Invention of the Year Award. They are honored for developing a new method for counting particles of light—photons—without destroying them.
JQI Alumnus Wes Campbell Elected to APS DAMOP Leadership
JQI alumnus Wes Campbell was elected vice chair of the American Physics Society (APS) Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics (DAMOP) executive committee.
RQS Senior Investigator Davoudi Advocates for Quantum Simulation of Extreme Physics
Theoretical nuclear and particle physicists wield quantum field theory in their efforts to understand interactions between many particles or the behavior of particles with extremely large energies. This is no easy feat: At least theoretically, quantum field theory plays out in an infinite universe with particles constantly popping in and out of existence. Even the world’s biggest supercomputer would never be able to model it exactly. Fortunately, there are many computational tricks that can make the problem more tractable—like cutting up the infinite universe into a finite grid and taking judicious statistical samples instead of tracking every parameter of every particle—but they can only help so much. Over the past few years, a growing group of scientists has become wise to the potential of quantum computers to approach these calculations in a completely new way.
Graduate Student’s Initiative Opened the Way to Numerous Research Collaborations and Accolades at UMD
A big part of research is working with other scientists. As an undergraduate and JQI graduate student at the University of Maryland, Jacob Bringewatt has put in the work knocking on doors and connecting with professors, which has allowed him to explore a broad range of research projects and earned him accolades along the way.