Center for Nanophysics and Advanced Materials (CNAM)

Coming Events

Carr Lecture

Prof. Paul Ching-Wu Chu
President, Hong-Kong Univ
of Science & Technology,
& Prof of Physics, Univ of
Houston
"The Search for New
Superconductors"
4pm, October 13, 2009

CNAM Seminar Series
for Spring 2009

CNAM Student Seminar
for Phys 838C

A Message from the Director

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Welcome to the Center for Nanophysics and Advanced Materials web site. The Center is a new and dynamic organization devoted to supporting research in condensed matter physics, nanophysics, as well as the investigation of advanced materials.

CNAM brings together 17 physics faculty members in both experiment and theory, and a host of important central facilities to address cutting-edge research problems. The pages of this web site are intended to give you a brief introduction to our exciting research program.
-- Steven Anlage

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NEWS FROM THE CENTER

•Congratulations to Assistant Professor Victor Galitski, who was awarded the National Science Foundation’s CAREER Award.

• UM Tops in Defense Dept. MURI Grants for Third Year: Physics Professors Head All Four MURI Projects
Department of Physics faculty have won primary program awards from the highly competitive federal Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) program. Physics alone received more MURIs than the total awarded to any other university. CNAM members Michael Fuhrer and Richard Greene were two of the awardees.

•Sankar Das Sarma, of CNAM, the Condensed Matter Theory Center, and Physics has received accolades for several publications.

•Ellen Williams, CNAM, Physics and IPST, co-authored, as a member of the Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States, the final report “America’s Strategic Posture”.

•CNAM faculty Christopher J. Lobb and Victor Galitski are leading an interdisciplinary research collaboration, centered at the University of Maryland (UMD) at College Park, with a $2.8 million award from the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) through the Army Research Office (ARO) to devise, fabricate, study and test a new kind of key component for quantum computing.

• Ian Appelbaum, CNAM and Physics, was mentioned in Chemistry World, May 2009, in an article on researchers around the world endeavoring to develop advanced computers based on electrons’ spin, rather than just their charge.

Details of these and other news items