The Sayas Numerics Seminar to take the place of the University of Maryland Numerical Analysis Seminar in honor of Francisco J. Sayas for the Fall 2020 semester.

Professors Arpita Upadhyaya and Jeffery Klauda appointed co-directors of the Biophysics Program

IPST Professor Wendell T. Hill, III has been appointed director of the Chemical Physics program in the Institute for Physical Science and Technology (IPST), effective July 1, 2020.

Mathematics Professor Konstantina Trivisa Named Director of UMD's Institute for Physical Science and Technology.

Ellen D. Williams, a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Physics and the Institute for Physical Science and Technology, has been named director of the university’s Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC) for a five-year term beginning July 1, 2020.

Simona Patange, a biophysics doctoral degree candidate and member of the NCI-UMD Partnership program, will be the graduate student speaker for the College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences’ May Commencement Celebration. Patange’s advisors were Michelle Girvan (IPST/Physics/Biophysics), Daniel Larson and David Levens from the National Institute of Health’s (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI).




University of Maryland Distinguished University Professor Christopher Jarzynski was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Jarzynski has appointments in Chemistry and Biochemistry, Physics and the Institute for Physical Science and Technology. 

Jarzynski is one of 120 members and 26 international members elected in 2020, joining a select group of 2,403 scientists around the country—16 of whom hail from UMD's College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences—recognized for their influential research and elected by their peers.