Name Min. class. Req. P, V, B Min. W H Special Req. Antoniewicz So. RPT V 10 Bengtson Jr. N B 10 de Lozanne Fr. N V 5 Good Prog. Skill(Win32) in C++,Visual Basic Fink Fr. N B 10 Fitzpatrick Sr. HTS V 10 Frommhold Jr. HTS,STS,For. V 10 Gentle Jr. RPT B 10 Heinzen F N B 10 Kas So. N B 6 Keto So. N V 5 Koop So./Jr. RPT B 15 C++, FORTRAN, LabView or Linux experience a plus. Lang So. N V 15 Marder F. N B 10 Markert So. N B 8 Prefers Junior intending to do Honors Thesis as Seniors Matzner F. RPT V 3 Computer Experience Preferred Martinez So. N V 10 Moore Fr. N B None Oakes Jr. RPT V 10 Raizen* So. RPT, C P 12 Ritchie Jr. RPT V 10 Schwitters Jr. RPT B 5 Facility with PCs Sitz Fr. N B 8 Swinney So. RPT, HAS B 12 Preferred:C, Unix, Some Lab Experience(electronics, mechanical, optics, ...) Tajima Jr. HTS,STS,RPT V None Computer Literacy Yao Jr. N B 5 Electronic Skills *Currently no openings available
Roger D. Bengtson
Professor B.S., University of Nebraska, 1962; M.S.,
Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1964; Ph.D., University of
Maryland, 1968. Experimental plasma physics, plasma
spectroscopy.
Todd Dittmire
Professor., B.A. Harvard University. M.S., Ph.D. University of California-Davis, AMO Experimentalist. Intense Ultrafast Laser Interactions
Alejandro de Lozanne
Professor B.S., Purdue University, 1976; Ph.D.,
Stanford University, 1982. Scanning tunneling microscopy,
nanostructures, thin films and devices, high temperature
superconductors.
Cecile DeWitt-Morette
Professor Licence des Sciences, Caen (France), 1943;
Doctorat d'Etat, Paris (France), 1947. General relativity,
mathematical physics, Feynman path integrals.
Michael C. Downer
Professor B.A., University of Rochester, 1976;
M.A., Oxford University, 1978; Ph.D., Harvard University,
1983. Femtosecond spectroscopy in condensed matter.
James L. Erskine
Trull Centennial Professor B.S.E.E., Washington University
(Seattle), 1964; M.S.E.E., 1966; Ph.D. (Physics), 1973.
Experimental solid-state physics, thin film magnetism,
surface phonons.
Manfred Fink
Professor Vordiplom, Diplom, Dr. Technische Hochschule
Karlsruhe, 1958, 1963, 1966. Electron diffraction, neutrino
physics.
Richard Fitzpatrick
Associate Professor. Ph.D., Sussex University. Theoretical Plasma Physics.
MHD stabiltiy of tokamak plamas.
Lothar W. Frommhold
Professor Dipl., Ph.D., Dr. Habil, Hamburg, 1956, 1961,
1964. Atomic and molecular physics.
Kenneth W. Gentle
Professor B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
1962; Ph.D., 1966. Plasma confinement and heating.
Austin M. Gleeson
Professor B.S., Drexel Institute of Technology, 1960;
M.S., University of Pennsylvania, 1963; Ph.D., 1965. Field
theory of strong interactions and the physics of superdense
matter, high energy acoustic sources.
Richard Hazeltine
Professor & Director, Institute for Fusion Studies, A.B., Harvard
University, 1964; M.S., University of Michigan, 1966; Ph.D., 1968.
Plasma physics theory.
Daniel J. Heinzen
Associate Professor B.S., Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, 1981; Ph.D., 1988. Trapped ions, Bose-Einstein Condensation.
Gerald W. Hoffmann
Professor B.A., Occidental College, 1966 Ph.D., University
of California (Los Angeles), 1971. Experimental medium and
high energy physics and chemistry.
C. Wendell Horton, Jr.
Professor B.S., The University of Texas (Austin), 1963;
M.S., University of California (San Diego), 1965; Ph.D.,
1967. Microinstabilities, nonlinear theory.
Joseph A. Kas
Associate Professor, Diplom Technische Universität München 1990; Ph.D.
Technische Universität München 1993. Soft condensed matter physics and
biophysics. Projects focus on polymer aspects of motility and elasticity of
biological cells and on nonlinear pattern formation in cell membranes.
John W. Keto
Professor B.S.E., University of Michigan, 1968; Ph.D.,
University of Wisconsin, 1972. Reactions and radiative
processes of excited atoms and molecules, laser
spectroscopy, high power lasers.
Sacha Koop
Assistant Professor A.B., A.M., PhD The University of Chicago
Experimental HEP, CP violation, Weak decays of Heavy Quarks, Neutrino Oscillations.
Karol Lang
Professor M.S., Warsaw University (Warsaw
Poland), 1979; Ph.D., University of Rochester, 1985.
Experimental high energy physics, rare decays.
Michael P. Marder
Professor A.B., Cornell University, 1982; Ph.D.
University of California (Santa Barbara), 1986. Theoretical
investigations of pattern formation, nonlinear dynamics,
especially the dynamics of fracture, phase transitions..
John T. Markert
Professor B. A., Bowdoin College, 1979; M.S.,
Cornell University, 1984; Ph.D., 1987. Magnetism and
superconductivity in oxides and heavy fermion systems, high
temperature superconductivity, high pressure research.
Robert E. Martinez
Assistant Professor Ph.D., Harvard University. Experimental Condensed
Matter Physics, semiconductor surface physics, low-temperature epitaxy.
Richard A. Matzner
Professor Director, Center for Relativity, B.S.,
University of Notre Dame, 1963; Ph.D., University of
Maryland, 1967. General relativity and cosmology, kinetic
theory, black hole physics, gravitational radiation.
C. Fred Moore
Professor B.S., University of Notre Dame, 1959; M.S.,
University of Louisville, 1961; Ph.D., Florida State
University, 1964. Experimental medium energy meson-nucleus
physics and chemistry.
Philip J. Morrison
Professor B.S., University of California (San
Diego), 1972; MS., 1974; Ph.D., 1979. Basic nonlinear
plasma dynamics, tokamak modeling.
Qian Niu
Professor B.Sc., Peking University, 1981; M.S., 1983, Ph.D., University of Washington, 1985. Condensed Matter Theory. Quantum Hall Effect, Nanostructures and quantum devices, quasi-periodic systems, vortex dynamics.
Melvin E. L. Oakes
Professor B.S., Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge),
1958; Ph.D., Florida State University, 1946. Plasma
heating.
Sonia Paban
Assistant Professor B.S. 1984, Ph.D., University of Barcelona, 1988; Particle Phenomonology and String Theory, Particle Physics.
Mark Raizen
Professor B.Sc., Tel Aviv, 1980; Ph.D., The
University of Texas (Austin), 1989. Experimental quantum
optics, ion trapping.
Peter J. Riley
Professor B. A.Sc., University of British Columbia
(Canada), 1956; M. A. Sc., 1958; Ph.D., University of Alberta
(Canada), 1962. Experimental medium energy physics with
emphasis on nucleon-nucleon and few nucleon interactions.
Jack L. Ritchie
Professor B.S.(Hon.), The University of Texas
(Austin), 1977; M.A., University of Rochester, 1979; Ph.D.,
1983. Experimental high energy physics, rare decays.
Roy F. Schwitters
Sid W. Richardson Foundation Regents Professor, S.B., Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, 1966; Ph.D., 1971. Experimental high energy physics, large scale detectors. Director, Center for Particle Physics.
Chih-Kang Ken Shih
Professor B. S., National Tsing-Hua University,
1977; M.S., University of Oregon, 1981; Ph.D., Stanford
University, 1988. Experimental Condensed Matter. Nanoscale electronic materials, quantum engineering of metallic nanostructures, fundamental electronic processes in semicanductor quantum dots, nanoscale mechanical properties of soft matter.
Greg O. Sitz
Associate Professor B. A., Rice University, 1981; Ph.D.,
Stanford University, 1987. Experimental studies of the
dynamics of gas-surface interactions.
Harry L. Swinney
Sid W. Richardson Foundation Regents Professor, Director,
Center for Nonlinear Dynamics. B.S., Rhodes College, 1961;
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1968. Nonlinear dynamics,
instabilities and pattern formation, chaos, phase
transitions.
Toshiki Tajima
Professor B.S., Tokyo, 1971; M.S., 1973; Ph.D., University
of California (Irvine), 1975. Computational physics, basic
and astrophysical plasma theory.
Jack S. Turner
Associate Professor B. S., Duke University, 1964; Ph.D.,
University of Indiana, 1969. Nonequilibrium statistical and
thermal physics, nonlinear dynamics, physics of self-
organizing systems, computational physics, computer-based
education.
Zhen Yao
Assistant Professor B.S., University of Scienc and Technology of China, 1992; M.S., 1993; Ph.D. 1997, Harvard University
Condensed Matter Experimentalist. Nanostructures and Mesoscopic Physics.