2022 Photos of the Month
November
Group members are happy to welcome visiting student Jeyson to UMD!
October
Graduate student Reza proudly showing off the first slice of his birth cake! Ron is simply in awe.
September
Graduate student Niko Reed (middle, front row wearing a beanie) at the OMS 3 onboarding course for students working with IMOD, the NSF Center for Integration of Modern Optoelectronic Materials on Demand.
August
The Walsworth group gives a warm welcome to John Blanchard, a new scientist at the Quantum Technology Center!
July
The E.A. Fernandez IDEA (Innovate, Design and Engineer for America) Factory, the QTC home, is now completed and was recently dedicated by the President of the University of Maryland.
June
Congratulations to (now former) undergraduate student Liza Gunther on graduating from UMD! We wish her all the best on her next endeavors!
May
Postdoc fellow Kevin Olsson working on an experimental set up focused on improving NV-diamond sensitivity.
March
The Walsworth group farewell lunch for former graduate student and QTC scientist Matthew Turner. We are deeply thankful for his many contributions to the group and wish him all the best in his next endeavors!
Prof. Matthew Rosen, a QTC Affiliated Scientist, holding a vanity license plate with the stock symbol for the portable MRI company Hyperfine.
In late December, Hyperfine — the portable, low-cost MRI company founded by Matt Rosen, Jonathan Rothberg, and Ron Walsworth in 2014 — became publicly traded on the Nasdaq stock exchange with the stock symbol HYPR. Matt Rosen celebrated by getting a vanity license plate! Early research that led to the Hyperfine MRI technology was performed in the Walsworth group from about 1995 to 2009.
An active volcano on the island of La Palma in the Canary islands erupting during QTC collaborator David Phillips‘ trip to the TNG telescope. No Davids were harmed in taking this photo.