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Zohreh Davoudi, Ph.D.

Department of Physics University of Maryland, College Park

I am an Assistant Professor of Physics. The focus of my research is on simulating complex systems in nature arising from the most fundamental particles and interactions underlying them, or their effective descriptions. Here you will have a glimpse into my research and educational activities as a theoretical physicist.

Research Priorities

My research can be cast into four categories shown below. The underlying theme is to use simulation tools, classical and quantum, to study complex systems in nature arising from interactions of the Standard Model of Particle physics, in particular the strong interactions.

LATTICE GAUGE THEORY: FORMAL DEVELOPMENTS

Developing the mapping between physical quantities such as multi-hadron scattering amplitudes and transition rates and the numerical simulation of strong interactions in a finite discretized spacetime. 

In the academic year 2022-2023, my group includes post-doc research associates and graduate research assistants...

Research Group

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DR. JESSE STRYKER

Post-doc researcher

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CHUNG-CHUN HSIEH

Ph.D. student and research assistant

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CONNOR
POWERS

Ph.D. student and research assistant

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DR. CHRISTOPHER WHITE

Post-doc researcher

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SAURABH
KADAM

Ph.D. student and research assistant

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NAVYA GUPTA

Ph.D. student and research assistant

...and post-doc and graduate research fellows: 

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Dr. ALEXANDER SCHUCKERT

Post-doc fellow

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JAKE BRINGEWATT

Ph.D. student and research fellow

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ALEXANDER SHAW

Ph.D. student and research fellow

The former members or affiliate members of the group include:

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DR. INDRAKSHI
RAYCHOWDHURY

Indrakshi was a post-doc with us from 2019-2021 and has now joined Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani in Goa as an assistant professor.

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DR. ANIRUDDHA BAPAT

Ani was a Ph.D. student with QuICS and affiliated with our group from 2019-2021. He is now a post-doc researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

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ANDREW SHAW

Andrew was a Ph.D. student with us from 2018-2020.

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DR. NIKLAS MUELLER

Niklas was a post-doc with us from 2020-2022 and has now joined University of Washington's InQubator for Quantum Simulation as a research assistant professor.

Media Appearance Highlight

The 2016 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate at the American Museum of Natural History, hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson. Panelists: David Chalmers (NYU), Zohreh Davoudi (MIT), James Gates (University of Maryland), Lisa Randall (Harvard), and Max Tegmark (MIT).