Note: The column Zeroth Year? is meant for students who would be interested in research opportunities in the summer before they begin their graduate study.
| Professor |
Group |
Subject |
No. of Openings |
Zeroth Year? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harold Baranger |
CM - theory. |
Quantum emergent phenomena at the nanoscale |
0-1 (pending funding) |
maybe |
| Steffen Bass; Berndt Mueller |
Nuclear - theory. |
Quark gluon plasma and relativistic heavy-ion collisions |
pending funding |
pending funding |
| Bob Behringer |
CM - exp |
Granular flow |
1–2 |
|
| Shailesh Chandrasekharan; Tom Mehen; Roxanne Springer |
Lattice and Effective Field Theory (L/EFT) |
Theoretical particle and nuclear physics problems are studied using lattice and field theory techniques |
1–2 |
maybe |
| 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 | 0–1 |
may be |
| Haiyan Gao |
Nuclear - exp |
Medium energy physics |
1–2 |
yes |
| Dan Gauthier |
Quantum electronics and nanophotonics |
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), nanophotonics
for solar energy applications (1 student depending on funding).
|
0–2 (pending funding) |
yes |
| Al Goshaw |
HEP - exp |
Electroweak tests using Z and W
bosons in the ATLAS experiment |
2 |
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 |
| Mark Kruse |
HEP - exp |
2 |
yes |
|
| Tom Mehen |
Lattice and Effective Field Theory (L/EFT) |
(see Chandrasekharan) |
||
| Berndt Mueller |
Nuclear - theory. |
(see Bass) |
||
| Seog Oh |
HEP - exp |
1 |
yes |
|
| Thomas Phillips |
HEP - exp |
Searches for new
physics in high-energy hadronic collisions. |
1–2 |
yes |
| Kate Scholberg |
HEP - exp |
Neutrino
physics |
1–2 |
yes |
| Josh Socolar |
CM -- theory |
Nonlinear Dynamics on Complex Networks
and Genetic regulatory networks
|
1 |
no |
| Roxanne Springer |
Lattice and Effective Field Theory (L/EFT) |
(see Chandrasekharan) |
||
| 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 |
| Anton Tonchev |
Nuclear - exp |
(1) Study the low energy modes of
excitation using the High Intensity Gamma Source (HIGS).
(2) Precision neutron induced cross section measurements at TUNL. |
2 |
yes |
| Werner Tornow |
Nuclear - exp |
Neutrino physics and double-beta decay
or few-body @ TUNKL and HIGS. |
2 |
yes |
| Chris Walter |
HEP - exp |
Neutrino
physics |
1–2 |
yes |
| Henry Weller |
Nuclear - exp |
High Intensity Gamma Source (HIGS) |
1 |
yes |
| Ying Wu |
FEL |
Advanced light source development
and accelerator physics research |
1 (pending funding) |
maybe |