Research
Accelerator Physics
Tom Katsouleas: use of plasmas as novel particle accelerators and light sources Ying Wu: nonlinear dynamics of charged particle beams, coherent radiation sources, and the development of novel accelerators and light sources
Biological Physics
Nick Buchler: Molecular mechanisms and the evolution of switches and oscillators in gene networks; systems biology; comparative genomics
Glenn Edwards: Interests include 1) the transduction of light to vibrations to heat and pressure in biological systems and 2) how biology harnesses physical mechanisms during pattern formation in early Drosophila development. Gleb Finkelstein: Electronic transport in carbon nanotubes and graphene; Inorganic nanostructures based on self-assembled DNA scaffolds.
Henry Greenside: Theoretical neurobiology in collaboration with Dr. Richard Mooney's experimental group on birdsong.
Calvin Howell: Measurement of the neutron-neutron scattering length, carbon and nitrogen accumulation and translocation in plants.
Joshua Socolar: Organization and function of complex dynamical networks, especially biological networks, including electronic circuits and social interaction networks
Warren Warren: novel pulsed techniques, using controlled radiation fields to alter dynamics; ultrafast laser spectroscopy or nuclear magnetic resonance
Condensed Matter Physics
Harold Baranger: Theory of quantum phenomena at the nanometer scale; many-body effects in quantum dots and wires; conduction through single molecules; quantum computing; quantum phase transitions
Robert Behringer: Experiments on instabilities and pattern formation in fluids; flow, jamming, and stress patterns in granular materials.
David Beratan: molecular underpinnings of energy harvesting and charge
transport in biology; the mechanism of solar energy capture and conversion in man-made structures
Shailesh Chandrasekharan: Theoretical studies of quantum phase transitions using quantum Monte Carlo methods; lattice QCD
Albert Chang: Experiments on quantum transport at low temperature;
one-dimensional superconductivity; dilute magnetic semiconductor quantum dots; Hall probe scanning.
Patrick Charbonneau: in- and out-of-equilibrium dynamical properties of
self-assembly. Important phenomena, such as colloidal microphase formation, protein aggregation.
Stefano Curtarolo: Nanoscale/microscale computing systems & Quantum Information.
Gleb Finkelstein: Experiments on quantum transport at low temperature; carbon nanotubes; Kondo effect; cryogenic scanning microscopy; self-assembled DNA templates.
Jianfeng Lu: Mathematical analysis and algorithm development for problems
from computational physics, theoretical chemistry, material sciences and others. Maiken H. Mikkelsen: Experiments in Nanophysics & Condensed Matter Physics Richard Palmer: Theoretical models of learning and memory in neural networks; glassy dynamics in random systems with frustrated interactions.
Joshua Socolar: Theory of dynamics of complex networks; Modeling of gene regulatory networks; Structure formation in colloidal systems; Tiling theory and nonperiodic long-range order.
David Smith: theory, simulation and characterization of unique electromagnetic structures, including photonic crystals and metamaterials
Stephen Teitsworth: Experiments on nonlinear dynamics of currents in semiconductors.
Weitao Yang: developing methods for quantum mechanical calculations of large systems and carrying out quantum mechanical simulations of biological systems and nanostructures
High Energy Physics
Ayana Arce: Searches for top quarks produced in massive
particle decays, Jet substructure observable reconstruction, ATLAS detector simulation software framework
Alfred T. Goshaw: Study of Nature's most massive particles, the W and Z bosons (carriers of the weak force) and the top quark.
Ashutosh Kotwal: Experimental elementary particle physics; instrumentation, Precisely measure the mass of the W boson, which is sensitive to the quantum mechanical effects of new particles or forces.
Mark Kruse: Higgs boson, production of vector boson pairs, and model-independent analysis techniques for new particle searches.
Seog Oh: High mass di-lepton search, WW and WZ resonance search, A SUSY particle search, HEP detector R&D
Kate Scholberg: Experimental particle physics and particle astrophysics; neutrino physics with beam, atmospheric and supernova neutrinos (Super-K, T2K, LBNE, HALO, SNEWS)
Chris Walter: Experimental Particle Physics, Neutrino Physics, Particle-Astrophysics, Unification and CP Violation
Imaging and Medical Physics
James T. Dobbins III: advanced imaging applications to improve diagnostic
accuracy in clinical imaging, scientific assessment of image quality, developing lower cost imaging for the developing world
Bastian Driehuy: developing and applying hyperpolarized gases to enable fundamentally new applications in MRI
Alan Johnson: engineering physics required to extend the resolution of MR imaging and in a broad range of applications in the basic sciences
Ehsan Samei: design and utilization of advanced imaging techniques aimed to achieve optimum interpretive, quantitative, and molecular performance
Warren Warren: novel pulsed techniques, using controlled radiation fields to alter dynamics; ultrafast laser spectroscopy or nuclear magnetic resonance
Nonlinear and Complex Systems
The Center for Nonlinear and Complex Systems (CNCS) is an interdisciplinary University-wide organization that fosters research and teaching of nonlinear dynamics, chaos, pattern formation and complex nonlinear systems with many degrees of freedom.
Robert Behringer: Experiments on instabilities and pattern formation in fluids; flow, jamming, and stress patterns in granular materials.
Patrick Charbonneau: in- and out-of-equilibrium dynamical properties of
self-assembly. Important phenomena, such as colloidal microphase formation, protein aggregation.
Henry Greenside: Theory and simulations of spatiotemporal patterns in fluids; synchronization and correlations in neuronal activity associated with bird song. Daniel Gauthier: Experiments on networks of chaotic elements; generation and control of high speed chaos in electronic and optical systems; electrodynamics of cardiac tissue and the onset of fibrillation.
Jian-Guo Liu: Applied mathematics, nonlinear dynamics, complex system, fluid dynamics, computational sciences
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