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NEWS!

May 2008: The regular Friday afternoon quantum optics brown-bag lunch meetings will continue sporadically throughout the summer.

Spring 2008: Graduate students Hao You and
Junlin Liang join our research group. Welcome Hao
and Junlin!

Dec. 2007: The ARO/IARPA Optical Quantum Computing program review meeting will be held at UMBC on Jan. 31 to Feb. 1, 2008.  Additonal details can be found here.

Nov. 2007 UMBC Graduate Student Chris Roettgen joins our research group. Welcome Chris!

Sept. 2007 New Preprint "Development of a Parametric Down-Conversion Source for Two-Photon Absorption Experiments", (SPIE Conf. Proceedings)

Aug. 2007 UMBC Graduate Student Michael Herrera joins our research group. Welcome Mike!

May 2007 Undergraduate project report :
"Production of Tapered Optical Fibers"
Lidiya Mishchenko, UMBC Physics Dep't.

Apr. 2007 New Preprint: quant-ph/0704.1468
"Superluminal Generation of Entanglement"

Feb. 2007 New preprint: quant-ph/0702259 "Microcavities using Holey Fibers"

Jan. 2007 New preprint: quant-ph/0701195 "Investigation of a single-photon source based on quantum interference"

Nov. 2006. New paper: "Optical Transparency Using Interference Between Two Modes of a Cavity" published in Phys. Rev. A

Oct. 2006. News feature on "Entangled Photon Holes" experiment in Nature Photonics (10/19/06 issue).

Fall 2006. Informal quantum-info/quantum-optics brown-bag lunch discussions every Friday at Noon in PHYS 208. Please feel free to join us.

Sep. 2006. Lidiya Mishchenko (undegraduate physics major) joins our research team. Welcome Lidiya!

Aug. 2006. New lab established at UMBC!!

May 2006. Feature article on "Entangled photon holes" in New Scientist (4/15/06 issue).

April 2006. AIP Bulletin Physics News Update item on Jim Franson's "Entangled photon holes" idea.

FALL 2007

Wed. 9/5: Kailash Sahu (STSI, Baltimore)
"Worlds in Transit"

Wed. 9/12: Govind Rao (UMBC Chem & BioChem)
"Next Generation Bioprocess and Biomedical Sensor App's"

Wed. 9/26: Julian Krolic (Johns Hopkins Univ.)
"Making Black Holes Visible: Accretion, Radiation and Jets"

Wed. 10/10: Robert Garisto (APS)
"Inner Workings and Innovations of Physical Review Letters"

Wed. 10/17: Richard Mushotzky (NASA Goddard)
"Do Middle Weight Black Holes Exist?"

Wed. 10/31: Wallace McMilan (UMBC Physics/JCET)
"Infrared Remote Sensing of Carbon Monoxide from Space and Ground"

Wed. 11/7: David Hartley (ISIS, Georgetown Univ.)
"The Mathematical Epidemiology of Rift Valley Fever "

Thurs. 11/15: William Phillips (NIST, Gaithersburg)
"Title TBA"

Wed. 11/28: John Krizmanic (CRESST@USRA)
"Phase Fresnel Lenses for X-ray and Gamma-ray Imaging "

Wed. 12/5: Georgia de Nolfo (CRESST@UMBC)
"Gamma-ray Imaging with the 3-D Track Imager "

*Seminars are held in PHYS Bldg. 405 at 3:30 pm
Coffee/Tea at 3:15 pm

Additional Seminar Info can be found here