Archive: General Page

• Research Opportunities

  The opportunity to work directly with faculty on research is one of the strengths of our program, and it's possible to get involved as early as Freshman year. It is a great way to see how new discove

  Category: General Page

• Planning Your Physics or Biological Physics Major

  Whether you are starting your Physics or Biological Physics major as a Freshman or Sophomore, it is always a good idea to plan ahead. Many of our physics courses have prerequisites, so it helps to si

  Category: General Page

• Requirements for a Major in Biological Physics

  The Physics Department offers programs leading to a B.S. or an A.B. in Biological Physics. Students planning to attend graduate school in physics, biological physics, biophysics, or engineering usual

  Category: General Page

• Requirements for a Major or Minor in Physics

  The Physics Department offers programs leading to a B.S., an A.B. or a minor in Physics. Students planning to attend graduate school in physics or engineering will typically pursue a B.S. degree. Stu

  Category: General Page

• CMT seminar: Quantum Simulation of Many-Body Spin Systems: From Ground States to Dynamics

  Thursday, April 24, 2014 - 1:30pm - 3:00pm Regents 351 Phil Richerme Joint Quantum Institute of the University of Maryland and NIST For quantum systems of only 30 interacting spins, it can become diff

  Category: General Page

• CMT seminar: Generating shortcuts to adiabaticity in quantum and classical dynamics

  Thursday, April 3, 2014 - 1:30pm - 3:00pm Regents 351 Christopher Jarzynski Department of Chemistry, University of Maryland Within the field of quantum control, the term "shortcuts to adiabaticity" re

  Category: General Page

• CMT seminar: Virial expansion in cold quantum gases

  Thursday, March 20, 2014 - 1:30pm - 3:00pm Regents 351 Johannes Hofmann Joint Quantum Institute of UMD and NIST Ultracold gases offer us a unique way to study strongly interacting systems, the most pr

  Category: General Page

• CMT seminar: Collective excitations of strongly correlated electrons, vertex corrections and gauge invariance

  Thursday, March 13, 2014 - 1:30pm - 3:00pm Regents 351 Hartmut Hafermann Center of theoretical physics, Ecole Polytechnic, Paris In this talk, I consider the collective, long-wavelength charge excita

  Category: General Page

• Soft Matter Seminar: TBA

  Monday, February 10, 2014 - 11:00am - 12:00pm Regents 351 Leonard Sander University of Michigan Host: Daniel Blair

  Category: General Page

• Soft Matter Seminar: Capillarity: From Spreading Pressure to Disjoining Pressure to Contact Angle to Energy of Wetting

  Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - 3:00pm Regents 351Ian Morrison That wetting energy is key to understanding capillary phenomena has been known for about one hundred years. The relation of contact angle

  Category: General Page