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Brown Professor Named One of This Year's Winners of Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers

Rashid Zia, assistant professor of engineering, has been named one of this year's winners of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers. The White House named the latest group of winners this week.

10 Jul 2009

Focal Point for Quantum Activities

Quantum technologies have become the Holy Grail of the IT industry with research projects springing up all over Europe. Now a major effort is being made to spur development by adopting a coordinated, structured approach....

9 Jul 2009

Physicists Carried Out 'Quantum Walk'

Professor Dieter Meschede's group has been working on the development of so-called quantum computers now for many years. With the 'quantum walk' the team has now achieved a further seminal step on this path. 'With the effect we have demonstrated, entirely new algorithms can be implemented,' Artur Widera explains.

9 Jul 2009

Discovery Opens Up New Field of Physics

For more than 100 years it has been known that light comes in small packages, the so-called photons. The discovery of this quantization of the light field has opened up a new field of physics - quantum optics.

9 Jul 2009

Penn State Researchers Receive 2009 Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers

The White House announced today (July 9) that four Penn State researchers will receive 2009 Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). Sean Hallgren and Adam D. Smith, both assistant profe...

9 Jul 2009

Researchers Making the Dream of Invisibility True

A group of researchers from the Department of Physics at UAB have designed a device, called a dc metamaterial, which makes objects invisible under certain light - very low frequency electromagnetic waves - by making the ...

7 Jul 2009

Examining Some of the Ways in Which Current Ideas in Physics are Changing Biology

As the world celebrates Charles Darwin, who was born 200 years ago, physicists can be forgiven a certain jealousy at the spotlight being placed on his profound legacy. But physicists have in fact had a huge impact on bio...

7 Jul 2009

Bringing the Long-Sought Quantum Computers a Step Closer To Reality

Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have overcome a hurdle in quantum computer development, having devised* a viable way to manipulate a single "bit" in a quantum processor without disturbing the information stored in its neighbors.

From National Institute of Standards and Tech (NIST) 6 Jul 2009

Physicist Seeking Answers to a Persistent Problem Throughout Human History

A UQ physicist is seeking answers to a persistent problem throughout human history: how do I compute things? None, however, have had the same impact as what we today know as simply the computer, the harbinger of the digital age.

5 Jul 2009

OKI to Develop New LED-Related Businesses

OKI Electric Industry (TOKYO:6703) and OKI Data Corp., which markets under the OKI Printing Solutions brand today announced that the OKI Group will increase its LED (light-emitting diode) production for print heads used ...

5 Jul 2009