Center for Nanophysics and Advanced Materials (CNAM)

A Message from the Director

The Center for Nanophysics and Advanced Materials supports cutting-edge theoretical and experimental research in Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Maryland. CNAM researchers are working on topics ranging from the search for new materials with new physical properties to the design of new electronic devices that work on new physical principles. The research done today in CNAM will have an impact on the technological challenges of tomorrow, from high-speed computing to energy generation, storage, and transfer. CNAM provides an exciting, collaborative environment for undergraduate and graduate students and postdoctoral researchers to receive excellent training for careers in science and technology. Please take a look at the rest of this website to find out more about our exciting center!

-- Michael S. Fuhrer, Director

NEWS

•Ian Appelbaum attended a spintronics gathering in London and was featured on physicsworld.com.

•Michael Fuhrer (Physics and IREAP) received a $102,737 grant from the Maryland Procurement Office for “Nano-Electronics.”

•Ellen Williams (Physics and IPST) received a $290,630 grant from the Maryland Procurement Office for “Nano-Electronics.”

•Ian Appelbaum was an invited speaker at the Spin-Up 2009, hosted by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, at Longyearbyean, Norway on May 31-June 4.

•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”.

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