CENTER FOR COMPLEX QUANTUM SYSTEMS

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arno bohm

• Particle phenomena in terms of algebraic and group-theoretical methods
• Mathematics of quantum physics

James chelikowsky

• Computational materials science
• Solid state physics

Alex de lozanne

• Scanning tunneling microscopy
• Atomic/magnetic force microscopy
• Nanostructures, thin films and devices
• High temperature superconfuctors
• Colossal Magnetoresistance materials

alex demkov            

• Condensed matter theory
• Physics of electronic materials, surfaces and interfaces
• Thin films and devices
• Novel materials
• Quantum transport
• Materials Physics Lab

GREGORY A FIETE

• Condensed matter theory
• Strongly correlated electrons in lower dimensions
• Frustrated magnetism
• Exotic quantum states
• Quantum impurity problems
• Spintronics
• Correlated Quantum Mattter Theory Group

Lothar frommhold (emeritus)

• Atomic and molecular physics

FELICIANO GIUSTINO

• Condensed matter theory
• Computational materials science

daniel heinzen

• Ultracold and quantum degenerate gases
• Experimental quantum and atom optics
• Quantum information

LEONARD KLEINMANN (EMERITUS)

• Density fluctional theory
• Pseudopotential theory
• Molecular dynamics
• Ab Initio calculations of the electronic, magnetic and physical properties of solids, surfaces, and liquids

keji lai

• Experimental condensed matter physics
• Nanoscale electromagnetic imaging
• Complex oxides
• Nano-materials
• Transport in low-dimensional systems

Xiaoqin (elaine) li

• Ultrafast nonlinear spectroscopy in condensed matter
• Quantum dynamics and control in nanostsructures
• Experimentalist

Allan Macdonald - director, center for complex quantum systems

• Condensed matter theory

john t markeRt

• Magnetism and Superconductivity Group
• Magnetism and superconductivity in oxides and heavy fermion systems
• High temperature superconductivity
• High pressure research
• Magnetic resonance microscopy
• Spin dynamics
• Magnetic domain dynamics

qian niu

• Non-equilibrium statistical mechanics
• Quantum optics
• Stochastic processes

tomio petrosky

• Senior research scientist

Mark Raizen

• Experimental atom optics
• Non-equilibrium thermodynamics
• Quantum-limited sensors
• Physics in Medicine

Linda reichl - Co-director, center for complex quantum systems

• Quantum chaos
• Transport theory
• Nonlinear dynamics
• Nonequilibrium statistical physics
• Stochastic theory

chih-kang (ken) shih

• Nanoscale electronic materials
• Quantum engineering of metallic nanostructures
• Fundamental electronic processes in semiconductor quantum dots
• Nanoscale mechanical properties of soft matters

Maxim tsoi

• Condensed matter experiement
• Nanostructures
• Spintronics

Zhen Yao

• Nanostructures and mesoscopic physics
• Condensed matter
• Experimentalist

CENTER FOR GRAVITATIONAL PHYSICS

PABLO LAGUNA

• Black Holes and Neutron Star Binaries
• Gravitational Waves
• Numerical Relativity and Computational Astrophysics
• Tidal Disruption

RICHARD MATZNER

• General relativity and cosmology
• Kinetic theory
• Black hole physics
• Gravitational radiation
• Lead PI on the Binary Black Hole Grand Challenge Project

DEIRDRE SHOEMAKER

AARON ZIMMERMAN

• Black Holes
• Gravitational Waves
• Numerical Relativity

CENTER FOR HIGH ENERGY DENSITY SCIENCE

 CHEDS Home Page  

Todd Ditmire - Director, Center for High Energy Density Science

• Intense ultrafast laser interactions
• AMO
• Experimentalist

Michael Donovan - Associate Director, Texas Petawatt Laser

• Texas Petawatt Laser
• Optical Sciences

 roger bengston (emeritus)

• Experimental plasma physics
• Plasma spectroscopy

michael downer

• Femtosecond spectroscopy in condensed matter and plasmas
• Surface nonlinear optics
• Plasma-based particle accelerators

Bjorn Hegelich

• Interaction of ultra-intense electromagnetic fields with matter
• High-energy density physics
• Laser-particle interaction

JOHN KETO

• Reactions and radiative processes of excited atoms, molecules and clusters
• Laser Spectroscopy and Nanoparticle Research

Hernan QUevedo

• high intensity laser plasma interaction
• magnetized plasmas
• experimentalist

CENTER FOR NONLINEAR DYNAMICS

CNLD Home Page

JOSE ALVARADO

• Active matter
• Actomyosin contraction
• Stokes flows
• Fluid-structure interaction
• Physical model systems

Ernst-ludwig Florin

• Experimental biophysics/cell physics
• Membranes
• Biopolymers
• Cell mechanics
• Single molecules

Vernita Gordon

• Experimental biophysics
• Mechanosensing and mechanobiology in bacteria
• Mechanics of bacterial biofilms
• Mechanics and the immune system
• Spatial structure in multicellular bacterial systems

MICHAEL MARDER - DIRECTOR, CENTER FOR NONLINEAR DYNAMICS

• Condensed matter physics
• Energy future
• STEM education and ethics
• Nonlinear dynamics, especially the dynamics of fracture
• Transport in highly inhomogeneous media
• Phase transitions

Mark Raizen

• Experimental atom optics
• Non-equilibrium thermodynamics
• Quantum-limited sensors
• Physics in Medicine

jack swift (emeritus)

• Theoretical studies of phase transitions in liquid crystsals
• Nonlinear dynamics
• Instability and pattern formation
• Chaos
• Phases transitions

Harry swinney (Emeritus)

• Nonlinear dynamics
• Instabilities and pattern formation
• Chaos
• Phase transitions

CENTER FOR PARTICLES AND FIELDS

CPF Home Page

 TIMOTHY ANDEEN

• Experimental investigation of electroweak symmetry breaking and searches for new particles and interactions
• Computing with large datasets of structured data

Arno BohM (EMeritus)

• Particle phenomena in terms of algebraic and group-theoretical methods
• Mathematics of quantum physics

Charles Chiu (emeritus)

• Theoretical particle physics
• Stucture of hadrons
• Phenomenology in high energy collision phenomena
• Laser-plasma physics
• Acoustic agglomeration

Duane DicuS (EmerituS)

• Field theory of strong, weak, and electromagnetic interactions
• Astrophysical implications of the weak force

Karol Lang

• Experimental high energy physics
• Neutrino oscillations and interactions
• Neutrinoless double beta decays
• Rare processes
• Particle detectors
• Nuclear medical imaging

jack ritchie - director, center for particles and fields

• Experimental high energy physics
• Rare decays

Christina Markert

• Relativistic heavy ion physics

Peter Onyisi

• Experimental investigation of electroweak symmetry breaking and searches for new particles and interactions
• Computing with large datasets of structured data

roy schwitterS (emeritus)

• High energy physics
• Large scal detectors

INSTITUTE FOR FUSION STUDIES

IFS Home Page

HERBERT BERK

• Plasma confinement theory

richard fitzpatrick

• Magnetohydrodynamic stability
• Hydrodynamic stability
• Driven magnetic reconnection
• Momentum injection into fluids/plasmas via external perturbations

Kenneth Gentle

• Plasma confinement and heating

richard hazeltine

• Plasma physics

wendell horton, jr (emeritus)

• Plasma physics
• Fusion devices and space plasma
• Nonlinear theory

Philip Morrison

• Basic and applied plasma dynamics
• Hamiltonian dynamics of few and infinite degree-of-freedom systems
• Fluid mechanics
• Advanced compuational algorithms
• Mathematical Physics

ANNA TENERANI

• Plasma physics

francois L WAelbroeck - director, institute for fusion studies

• Plasma Physics

WEINBERG THEORY GROUP

Theory Home Page

KIMBERLY BODDY

• Cosmology
• Astroparticle physics
• Dark matter

ELENA CACERES

• String theory
• Quantum gravity
• Holography
• Gauge/gravity duality
• Supergravity solutions
• Black holes

Jacques Distler

• High energy theory
• Mathematical physics
• String theory

willy fischler

• Field theory
• Supersymmetry
• String theory
• Quantum cosmology
• Statistical mechanics

KATHERINE FREESE

• Cosmology
• Astroparticle Physics

VADIM Kaplunovsky

• Field theory
• Supersymmetry
• String theory

Can Kilic

• Theoretical particle physics
• Extensions of the Standard Model
• Collider phenomenology
• Dark matter models and sesarches

RICHARD MATZNER

• General relativity and cosmology
• Kinetic theory
• Black hole physics
• Gravitational radiation
• Lead PI on the Binary Black Hole Grand Challenge Project

sonia paban

• Particle phenomenology and string theory
• Particle physics
• Theory

Steven Weinberg - Director, weinberg theory group

• Particle Physics
• Unification of fundamental interactions
• Cosmology

AARON ZIMMERMAN

• Black Holes
• Gravitational Waves

ATOMIC, MOLECULAR AND OPTICAL PHYSICS

 Todd Ditmire

• Intense Ultrafast Laser Interactions
• AMO
• Experimentalist

Mike Downer

• Fermtosecond spectroscopy in condensed matter and plasmas
• Surface nonlinear optics
• Plasma-based particle accelerators

MANFRED FINK

• Electron diffraction
• Neutrino physics

Lothar frommhold (emeritus)

• Atomic and Molecular Physics

Bjorn Hegelich

• Interaction of ultra-intense electromagnetic fields with matter
• High-energy density physics
• Laser-particle interaction

Daniel Heinzen

• Ultracold and quantum degenerate gases
• Experimental quantum and atom optics
• Quantum information
• Ultracold Atomic Physics Group

JOHN KETO

• Reactions and radiative processes of excited atoms, molecules and clusters
• Laser Spectroscopy and Nanoparticle Research

ANDREW POTTER

• Condensed matter theory
• Atomic, Molecular, and optical theory
• Quantum information science and quantum computing
• Topological phases of matter
• Strongly correlated quantum materials
• Quantum dynamics, thermalization, and localization
• Quantum criticality

mark raizen

• Experimental atom optics
• Non-equilibrium thermodynamics
• Quantum-limited sensors
• Physics in Medicine

Greg sitz

• Experimental studies of the dynamics of gas-surface interactions

CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS

Condensed Matter Home Page

james chelikowsky

• Computational materials science
• Solid State Physics
• Center for Computational Materials

alex de lozanne

• Scanning tunneling microscopy
• Atomic/magnetic force microscopy
• Nanostructures
• Thin films and devices
• High temperature superconductors
• Colossal magnetoresistance materials

alex demkov

• Condensed matter theory
• Physics of electronic materials, surfaces and interfaces
• Thin films and devices
• Novel materials
• Quantum transport
• Atomic Design Group

james erskine

• Experimental solid-state physics
• Thin film magnetism
• Surface physics
• Applications of synchrotron radiation
• Surface Physics Group

Gregory A fiete

• Condensed matter theory
• Strongly correlated electrons in lower dimensions
• Frustrated Magnetism
• Exotic quantum states
• Quantum impurity problems
• Spintronics
• Correlated Quantum Matter Theory Group

J. david gavenda (emeritus)

• Conduction electrons in metals using ultrasonic and electromagnetic waves

FELICIANO GIUSTINO

• Computational condensed matter physics
• Computational materials design
• First-principles many-body calculations
• High-performance computing
• Center for Quantum Materials Engineering, http://cqme.org

keji lai

• Experimental condensed matter physics
• Nanoscale electromagnetic imaging
• Complex oxides
• Nano-materials
• Transport in low-dimensional systems
• Lai Lab

XIAOQIN (ELAINE) LI

• Ultrafast nonlinear spectroscopy in condensed matter
• Quantum dynamics and control in nanostructures
• Experimentalist

allan macdonald

• Condensed matter theory
• Electronic properties of semiconductors and metals
• Spintronics
• Magnetism
• Superconductivity
• Quantum Hall effect
• Solid State Quantum computing
• Condensed Matter Theory Group

john markert

• Magnetism and Superconductivity Group
• Magnetism and superconductivity in oxides and heavy fermion systems
• High temperature superconductivity
• High pressure research
• Magnetic resonance microscopy
• Spin dynamics
• Magnetic domain dynamics

Qian Niu

• Condensed matter theory
• Quantum Hall effect
• Nanostructures and quantum devised
• Quasi-periodic systems
• Vortex dynamics
• Quantum Transport Theory Group

ANDREW POTTER

• Condensed matter theory
• Atomic, Molecular, and optical theory
• Quantum information science and quantum computing
• Topological phases of matter
• Strongly correlated quantum materials
• Quantum dynamics, thermalization, and localization
• Quantum criticality

chiH-kang (Ken) shih

• Nanoscale electronic materials
• Quantum engineering of metallic nanostructures
• Fundamental electronic processes in semiconductor quantum dots
• Nanoscale mchanical properties of soft matters
• Nanoelectronic Materials Research Group

Maxim tsoi

• Condensed matter experiement
• Nanostructures
• Spintronics
• Magnetism and Spintronics Group

zhen Yao

• Nanostructures and Mesoscopic physics
• Condensed matter
• Experimentalist

RELATIVISTIC HEAVY-ION PHYSICS

RHIP Home Page 

rory coker

• Nuclear reaction theory
• Medium energy nuclear reactions and scattering

CHRISTINA MARKERT

• Relativistic heavy-ion physics

C fred moore - (emeritus)

• Relativistic heavy ion physics

Peter Riley (emeritus)

• Relativistic heavy ion physics