The American Physical Society has initiated a new PhD dissertation award to honor the best thesis in experimental condensed matter physics. Called the Richard L. Greene award in Experimental Condensed Matter or Materials Physics, it was initiated by Richard Greene, Emeritus Director of CNAM (formerly Center for Superconductivity Research).
The prize will be awarded every year, with 2015 being the inaugural year. See the APS Physics link for details.
Richard Greene and collaborators at the University of British Columbia have discovered charge ordering in the electron-doped cuprates. Their findings, now published in Science, suggest that charge order may be a universal feature of high-temperature superconductors.
Read more in the UMD Press Release and CMNS News & Events.
Associate Professor Min Ouyang is one of the University of Maryland recipients of an Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) program supporting research to develop technologies that can regulate temperatures of building occupants, rather than of the overall building.
Johnpierre Paglione was appointed an Associate for the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR). CIFAR brings together a network of nearly 400 researchers to focus on important questions with the potential to improve human health and the environment, transform technology, build strong societies, understand human culture and even chart the universe.
Professor Paglione will serve as an Associate of the Quantum Materials research program.
For the full list of 2014 research appointments, visit: http://ter.ps/522
- UMD researchers have discovered a way to control magnetic properties of graphene
- Ian Appelbaum was awarded the 2011 Outstanding Young Scientist
- Dan Lathrop selected as the recipient of the American Physical Society's 2012 Stanley Corrsin Award
- Michael Fuhrer named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science