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Alumni Article
A monthly feature about the careers and lives of UM Physics alumni

Faculty Research Article
A monthly feature highlighting current UM Physics research

Interview with Alumnus
John Foster

This month:...Dr. John Foster never even took a physics class in high school. Now, he manages a $20 million radar system to study the physics of the ionosphere. Recently, I had the opportunity to catch up with him and find out about the journey in between.....
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Dr. Huizhong Xu
One Step Closer to a Quantum Computer

This month: ...For over twenty years, scientists around the world have been working toward the development of a quantum computer...Recently, my colleagues from the University of Maryland Center for Superconductivity Research and I have taken an important step on the road to this proposed quantum computer. We have seen the first evidence for entanglement of three macroscopic units in a superconducting circuit. <<Full text>>

 

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