Recent News
Chacko Elected APS Fellow
Professor Zackaria Chacko has been elected Fellows of the American Physical Society. APS Fellowship recognizes excellence in physics and exceptional service to the physics community. Chacko, who is a member of the Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics (MCFP), was...
UMD Physicist Zohreh Davoudi Awarded Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
Zohreh Davoudi, an associate professor of physics at the University of Maryland and Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics, received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. The award, which was established in 1996 to recognize young...
Rabindra Mohapatra interviewed by New Scientist Magazine
Rabindra Mohapatra at the University of Maryland says the idea of mirror stars and a dark universe is “plausible”. However, if mirror stars ever existed, they would have had shorter lifetimes than regular stars, so they might not have persisted up to now. “The density...
Raman Sundrum interviewed by Quanta Magazine on Gravitational Wave Cosmology
Raman Sundrum interviewed by Quanta Magazine on Gravitational Wave Cosmology https://www.quantamagazine.org/hopes-of-big-bang-discoveries-ride-on-a-future-spacecraft-20240417/
MCFP Research on the Matter/Dark Matter mystery covered in Live Science
MCFP Research on the Matter/Dark Matter mystery covered in Live Science, a website dedicated to popular science https://www.livescience.com/space/cosmology/there-may-be-a-dark-mirror-universe-within-ours-where-atoms-failed-to-form-new-study-suggests...
Minicourse on Gravitational Algebras and Generalized Entropy
Mon-Wed-Fri October 9 – 18, 1pm-2:15pm New developments on generalized entropy and von Neumann algebras in semiclassical quantum gravity. For more information:...
Saurabh Kadam wins Charles T Husar Award
Graduate student Saurabh Kadam wins Charles T Husar Award. More information about the award can be found here