Department of Physics
University of Texas at Austin
C1600
Austin, TX 78712
e-mail:
tditmire@physics.utexas.edu
Education
- Ph. D. Applied Science - 1995
University of California, Davis
Thesis: Soft X-Ray Generation in
Gases with an Ultrashort Pulse Laser
- M.
S. Applied Science - 1993
University of California, Davis
- B. A. in
Physics and Art History, Magna Cum Laude - 1991
Harvard University
Experience
- University
of Texas, Austin, TX
Professor of Physics - 2005-
Associate Professor of
Physics - 2000-2005
Director of the Texas Center for High
Intensity Laser Science, - 2003-
a DOE
NNSA Stewardship Alliance Center of Excellence
- Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore CA
- 1997-2000
Project
Leader for the Falcon laser project and experiments
- Imperial
College of Science, Technology and Medicine,
London, UK - 1995-1997
Post-doctoral
research associate in the Laser Consortium, Physics Department.
- Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory/Dept .of Applied Science (UC Davis), Livermore CA
Ph. D. graduate
thesis research (Thesis advisor: Mike Perry) - 1991-1995
Current
Research Interests
- High
intensity laser technology and petawatt laser development
- High
energy density and strongly coupled plasmas created with short pulse lasers
- High
intensity laser interactions with atomic clusters
- Fusion in high
temperature plasmas produced from intense illumination of cluster gases
- Short-pulse-laser
driven radiative hydrodynamic experiments of relevance to astrophysics
- Sub-picosecond x-ray
generation for probing of materials dynamics under extreme conditions
- Laser plasma
interactions at relativistic intensities
- MeV x-ray generation
from high intensity irradiation of solids
Honors
- Fellow of the American
Physical Society 2005
- Awarded the Sagamore of
the Wabash award by the Governor of Indiana 1999
- Cited in WhoÕs Who
Personal
- Professional Society
Memberships: American Physical Society,
Optical Society of America, IEEE LEOS
- Citizenship: USA
- Clearances held: DOE Q
(active), DoD secret (active)