Duke Physics Department Research Advisor Openings -- for the Ph.D

professor
group
subject
no. of openings
zeroth year?




Steffen Bass
nuclear - theory.
Quark gluon plasma and relativistic heavy-ion collisions
pending funding
yes
Bob Behringer
CM - exp
Granular flow
1 or 2

Glenn Edwards
Biological Physics
Macromolecular biophysics
1
maybe
Henry Everitt
Ultrafast Semiconductor Spectroscopy Lab
Nano-Plasmonics 1
yes
Gleb Finkelstein
Nanophysics - exp
Electrical measurements on Carbon nanotubes and Self-assembled DNA nanostructures 1 or 2
yes
Haiyan Gao
Nuclear - exp
Medium energy physics
1

Dan Gauthier
Quantum electronics/biophysics
Ultra-low-light-level optical switches for quantum information networks (1 student depending on funding), physics and applications of slow-light in optical fibers (1 student depending on funding), developing, characterizing, controlling, and synchronizing high-speed electronic and optical chaotic devices (1 student depending on funding), control and characterizing cardiac tissue (1 student depending on funding).
0-4 (pending funding)
yes
Calvin Howell
Nuclear - exp
Few-nucleon systems, plant studies with radioisotopes, and neutron imaging
2
yes
Ashutosh Kotwal
HEP - exp
Precision measurements and new particles searches at Fermilab and CERN, the energy frontier.
2
yes
Thomas Phillips
HEP - exp
Searches for new physics in high-energy hadronic collisions.
1
yes
Kate Scholberg
HEP - exp
Neutrino physics
1 or 2
yes
Josh Socolar
CM -- theory
Nonlinear Dynamics on Complex Networks and Genetic regulatory networks
1
no
Werner Tornow
Nuclear - exp
Neutrinophysics and double-beta decay or few-body physics @ TUNL and HIGS
1
yes
John Thomas
Quantum Optics
ultracold Fermi gases: quantum hydrodynamics, thermodynamics, high temperature superfluidity, quantum correlations, quantum information storage and processing using optical fields and trapped atoms
2-3
yes
Chris Walter
HEP - exp
Neutrino physics
1 or 2
yes
Henry Weller
Nuclear - exp
High Intensity Gamma Source (HIGS)
1
yes