UMBC’s Brandon Enriquez named University System of Maryland student regent As a voting member of the Board of Regents, Enriquez represents more than 168,000 undergraduate and graduate students from 12 institutions across the state, including UMBC. ]]> As a voting member of the Board of Regents, Enriquez represents more than 168,000 undergraduate and graduate students from 12 institutions across the state, including UMBC. https://news.umbc.edu/umbcs-brandon-enriquez-named-university-system-of-maryland-student-regent/ https://dev.my.umbc.edu/api/v0/pixel/news/108641/guest@my.umbc.edu/547f42684cdf888088eef97a97eee424/api/pixel community economics honorscollege mathstat meyerhoffscholars undergradresearch UMBC News https://dev.my.umbc.edu/groups/umbc-news https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/944/2c79aeea85b1abb37f8cf9fbcdc382b0/xsmall.png?1632921809 https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/944/2c79aeea85b1abb37f8cf9fbcdc382b0/original.png?1632921809 https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/944/2c79aeea85b1abb37f8cf9fbcdc382b0/xxlarge.png?1632921809 https://assets1-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/944/2c79aeea85b1abb37f8cf9fbcdc382b0/xlarge.png?1632921809 https://assets1-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/944/2c79aeea85b1abb37f8cf9fbcdc382b0/large.png?1632921809 https://assets1-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/944/2c79aeea85b1abb37f8cf9fbcdc382b0/medium.png?1632921809 https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/944/2c79aeea85b1abb37f8cf9fbcdc382b0/small.png?1632921809 https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/944/2c79aeea85b1abb37f8cf9fbcdc382b0/xsmall.png?1632921809 https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/944/2c79aeea85b1abb37f8cf9fbcdc382b0/xxsmall.png?1632921809 UMBC News 0 0 false Wed, 06 Jul 2016 12:21:39 -0400 The Daily Record highlights UMBC’s start-up boom UMBC’s Express Licensing Agreement, created by Office of the Vice President for Research, has helped three start-up companies launch in the past year, and more companies are expected to be established with the help of the agreement this year. ]]> UMBC’s Express Licensing Agreement, created by Office of the Vice President for Research, has helped three start-up companies launch in the past year, and more companies are expected to be... https://news.umbc.edu/the-daily-record-highlights-umbcs-start-up-boom/ https://dev.my.umbc.edu/api/v0/pixel/news/108642/guest@my.umbc.edu/8489b2f6707dab3ce144e4617c7ccbd4/api/pixel research science-and-technology UMBC News https://dev.my.umbc.edu/groups/umbc-news https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/944/2c79aeea85b1abb37f8cf9fbcdc382b0/xsmall.png?1632921809 https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/944/2c79aeea85b1abb37f8cf9fbcdc382b0/original.png?1632921809 https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/944/2c79aeea85b1abb37f8cf9fbcdc382b0/xxlarge.png?1632921809 https://assets1-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/944/2c79aeea85b1abb37f8cf9fbcdc382b0/xlarge.png?1632921809 https://assets1-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/944/2c79aeea85b1abb37f8cf9fbcdc382b0/large.png?1632921809 https://assets1-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/944/2c79aeea85b1abb37f8cf9fbcdc382b0/medium.png?1632921809 https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/944/2c79aeea85b1abb37f8cf9fbcdc382b0/small.png?1632921809 https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/944/2c79aeea85b1abb37f8cf9fbcdc382b0/xsmall.png?1632921809 https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/944/2c79aeea85b1abb37f8cf9fbcdc382b0/xxsmall.png?1632921809 UMBC News 0 0 false Wed, 06 Jul 2016 12:06:05 -0400 Save the Date: 9/29 USM Gamification Symposium Explore how games boost engagement & enhance learning
Join instructional designers, faculty, and academic leaders from across the University System of Maryland in exploring how games and gamification can reinvigorate courses, boost student engagement, and enhance student learning. 

The University of Maryland University College (UMUC) and the Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation at the University System of Maryland are pleased to cosponsor a working symposium entitled “New Designs for Learning: Games and Gamification,” on Thursday, September 29, 2016 at the College Park Marriott Hotel & Conference Center.

The Symposium promises to be a forum where participants can explore what is meant by gamification and game design thinking, discover the research behind the movement to gamify learning, and test out ways to gamify their own content and approaches to course design. The keynote address and a featured workshop will be offered by Dr. Karl Kapp, an Instructional Technology Graduate Professor at Bloomsburg University. Dr. Kapp is a national speaker, consultant, and author of numerous books, including The Gamification of Learning and Instruction: Game-based Methods and Strategies for Training and Education (2012). 

Registration will open in late August: Sign up to get notified. Questions may be directed to Nancy O’Neill, Associate Director of the Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation, at noneill@usmd.edu. Please share this announcement and the attached flyer with interested colleagues.

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This story first appeared on news.umbc.edu and was written by Dinah Winnick.

The bwtech@UMBC Research & Technology Park is home to more than a third of all finalists for the 2016 Maryland Incubator Company of the Year Awards (ICOY). These eight (of 22) ICOY finalists include: Airphoton LLC, Blue Wave Semiconductors, Inc., Bricata, Grip Boost Inc., Huntress Labs, Phoenix Operations Group, LLC, Plant Sensory Systems, and Sparks Dynamics.

Combined, bwtech North and bwtech South cover 71 acres and offer 525,000 square feet of office and lab space. Housing more than 120 companies in various stages of development, bwtech@UMBC’s estimated economic impact on the state is $500 million annually. The research park includes incubator programs for cybersecurity, life sciences, and clean energy technology companies. All incubator companies have access to entrepreneurs in residence, experienced business professionals who help with aspects of owning a company that are new to many researchers.

“It’s a financial benefit, but also an educational benefit,” to be part of the incubator, says Lorraine Remer, research professor of physics at UMBC and CEO and co-founder of AirPhoton, a company that designs and produces custom equipment for earth and climate scientists. In addition to the entrepreneurs in residence, Remer appreciates that the incubator connects companies with an excellent network of professionals, such as lawyers and accountants, whom they know they can trust.

“From the monthly E2E [executive to executive] roundtables to the always available hands-on mentorship, bwtech@UMBC has created a fantastic environment for local startups,” says Chanda Arya, COO and co-founder of Grip Boost, Inc., which sells a product to restore grip-ability to football gloves.

Kathy Turano, founder and president of Plant Sensory Systems, an incubator graduate company, agrees. “Plant Sensory Systems has benefited greatly from the entrepreneurial training and support services provided by bwtech@UMBC,” she says. “We are honored to be a finalist for the Incubator Company of the Year Award and to have our achievements recognized by the Maryland business community.”

One of Plant Sensory Systems’ projects produces plant seeds that contain nutrients typically absent in plants, but that are required for fish like salmon and tuna. The seeds can be used in plant-based fish feed, reducing demand for wild-caught small fish traditionally used in fish feed, which are currently harvested at unsustainable levels.

For Remer, being part of the incubator is about more than producing a product: it’s about giving back. She and the other AirPhoton leaders enjoy building “a structure that creates employment,” she explains. Incubator companies create jobs in Maryland and keep top talent, including UMBC alumni, in the state.

Jennifer Reynolds, bwtech@UMBC’s director of venture creation, shares, “The entire bwtech@UMBC community is extremely proud and excited to have eight finalists in this year’s Maryland Incubator Company of the Year award competition. The selected companies represent a wide array of industries, products and stages of maturity, and thus are excellent representatives of the diverse and dynamic entrepreneurial community we have built and support here at bwtech. It is so rewarding to see these innovative and promising companies achieve commercial success, and to see ICOY recognize their tremendous growth.”

Award winners will be announced at an event on June 21 at the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore.

Image: Lorraine Remer, research professor of physics. Photo by Marlayna Demond ’11 for UMBC.
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Impact Factor Perfection DevilBuilding upon the foundation of the Dissertation House, we continue to host workshops for students and postdocs who are working on other projects, e.g., grant proposals, publications, research portfolios, job applications. This week, by popular demand, we’re bringing “Writing for Publication” back via a series of “Writing Workshops” and we’re including two embedded afternoon seminars, by Dr. Kevin Omland. Here is the schedule.

Posting Goals and Blogging

Participants are asked to post their goals on this page, below (Name, School, Department, Goal for the two days). Those are attend the workshop are asked to post comments to share what they’ve learned. Please use the hashtags #WritingWorkshop, #ImpactFactor #PerfectionDemon in your posts. Thank you for joining us. If you are not able to join in person, you may join us virtually. Let us know who you are, and what you plan to accomplish over the next two days. (Feel free to take a look a the Dissertation House’s “Summer Challenge 2016” to see how this process works.)

 


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Impact Factor Perfection DevilBuilding upon the foundation of the Dissertation House, we continue to host workshops for students and postdocs who are working on other projects, e.g., grant proposals, publications, research portfolios, job applications. This week, by popular demand, we’re bringing “Writing for Publication” back via a series of “Writing Workshops” and we’re including two embedded afternoon seminars, by Dr. Kevin Omland. Here is the schedule.

Posting Goals and Blogging

Participants are asked to post their goals on this page, below (Name, School, Department, Goal for the two days). Those are attend the workshop are asked to post comments to share what they’ve learned. Please use the hashtags #WritingWorkshop, #ImpactFactor #PerfectionDemon in your posts. Thank you for joining us. If you are not able to join in person, you may join us virtually. Let us know who you are, and what you plan to accomplish over the next two days. (Feel free to take a look a the Dissertation House’s “Summer Challenge 2016” to see how this process works. If you are working on your dissertation, please use that page for your posting.)

 

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Ph.D. Dissertation Defense
Computer Science and Electrical Engineering

Solving Mathematical Problems in Quantum Regime

Omar Shehab

2:00pm Thursday, 7 July 2016, ITE 325b

In this dissertation, I investigate a number of algorithmic approaches in quantum computational regime to solve mathematical problems. My problems of interest are the graph isomorphism and graph automorphism problems, and the complexity of memory recall of Hopfield network. I show that the hidden subgroup algorithm, quantum Fourier sampling, always fails, to construct the automorphism group for the class of the cycle graphs. I have discussed what we may infer for a few non-trivial classes of graphs from this result. This raises the question, which I have discussed in this dissertation, whether the hidden subgroup algorithm is the best approach for these kinds of problems. I have given a correctness proof of the Hen-Young quantum adiabatic algorithm for graph isomorphism for cycle graphs. To the best of my knowledge, this result is the first of its kind. I also report a proof-of-concept implementation of a quantum annealing algorithm for the graph isomorphism problem on a commercial quantum annealing device. This is also, to the best of my knowledge, the first of its kind. I have also discussed the worst-case for the algorithm. Finally, I have shown that quantum annealing helps us achieve exponential capacity for Hopfield networks.

Committee: Drs. Samuel J Lomonaco Jr. (Chair), Milton Halem, Yanhua Shih, William Gasarch and John Dorband

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