Recent News

Professor Rabindra Mohapatra (Physics) was interviewed and extensively quoted in New Scientists magazine, Aug. 20 issue, regarding some recent theories of inflation in an article by a science writer named K. McAlpine. The article is on two theories suggesting that...

Professor Raman Sundrum, one of the world's most prominent particle theorists, has joined the University of Maryland as a Professor of Physics and member of our Maryland Center for Fundamental (MCFP) Physics on July 1, 2010. He has made seminal contributions on the...

Professor Alessadra Buonanno has been elected into The International Society on General Relativity & Gravitation's Fellowship Program. The fellowship recognizes its outstanding members for their "excellence in research, especially the impact of candidate's work on the...

Professor Sylvester James Gates (Physics) was quoted in Policy Innovations, June 7, in an article on public science literacy. He was also mentioned in IEEE Spectrum, June edition, in a film review of The Nature of Existence for which he was interviewed. The film...

The Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics at the University of Maryland, College Park is organizing a three-day workshop on Large N Gauge Theories on May 13-15, 2010. We expect the workshop to cover a fairly wide range of approaches to large N gauge theories, such...

The Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics is hosting and co-sponsoring a workshop on Advances in Theoretical and Observational Cosmology, May 26-28, 2010. It will take place in the John S. Toll Physics Building. For more information, click here.

The Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics (MCFP) is soliciting applications for a MCFP Postdoctoral Fellowship. The MCFP supports theoretical work in particle physics, nuclear pysics, cosmology, gravity and related fields at the University of Maryland. The Center is...