Daniel Gauthier's Home Page

Dan Gauthier

with butterflies and a chaos generator

I am the Robert C. Richardson Professor of Physics at the Duke University Department of Physics, Durham, North Carolina, USA. I have a wide variety of research interests including studying the interaction between laser light and matter, chaos in lasers and electronic systems, slow and fast light, quantum information, and nanophotonics. The photo above was taken by a Duke photographer as the lead-in to an article for the Sep/Oct 2009 edition of the Duke Magazine on my chaos research. I teach a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses in physics and photonics and I am a member of the Bass Society, a group of Master Scholar Teachers at Duke. In addition, I get to work with a fantastic group of graduate students and post-doctoral research associates who collaborate with me on research and do all the hard work that keeps my labs running.

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When I am not working, I enjoy spending time with my family: my spouse, Natasha Bowen, who is a Professor of Social Work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and my son, Leo Gauthier, who is a junior at Duke (2011/12 academic year), and my parents, Leonard and Mona Gauthier, who live here in Durham, and my wife's extended family who lives in several places around the United States. Natasha is a proverbial "cat lady," and I enjoy the creatures too. Right now, we are down to only four cats - a low for us over the past few years.

I also enjoy a few other activities, such as traveling, rock climbing, and driving my BMW M3 around the countryside.

I am on leave during the 2011-2012 acadmic year and I have been taking numerous trips. Here is the catalog along with miles flow.

July 2011, Kauai, Hawaii, 10,250 miles
August 2011, Joao Pessoa, Brazil, 12,894 miles
September 2011, Ithaca, New York, 1,564 miles
September 2011, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, 1,618 miles
October 2011, Chantilly, Virginia (Dulles), 448 miles
October 2011, Rochester, New York and San Jose, California, 5,380
October 2011, College Park, Maryland, 510 miles
November 2011, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 15,780 miles
December 2011, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 10,882
December 2011, Bozeman, Montana, 3,698 miles
January 2012, Baltimore, Maryland, 510 miles
January 2012, Evanston and Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, 1,618 miles
February 2012, Eleuthera, Bahamas, 1,852 miles
March 2012, Berlin, Germany and Barcelona, Spain, 9,627 miles
April 2012, Arlington, Virgina, 554 miles
April 2012, Rochester, New York and Boston, Massachusetts, 1,755 miles
May/June 2012, Barcelona, Spain, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland, 10,626
June 2012, Detroit, Michigan, 1,004 miles

Total miles: 90,570 miles

I have been slowly posting our photos on my Picasa site, with links below. I also have an old photo gallery with pre-2004 photos, which I eventually will move over to the Picasa site.

Family

Friends

Vacations
Climbing
- in North Carolina

Cats
- PJ Zipper & Huckleberry - buddies but not related
- Benbow - was a wild cat as a kitten and still doesn't like to be messed with
- Bob the Slayer - stray who we adopted after we saw him eating our stale totillas we threw out for the birds
- Mini - with Grace Bowen in Montana now
- Eggbert - Leo's favorite - died of some type of tumor on his shoulder
- Cheesey - neighbor cat who lived outside for 18 years - took him in the last few months of his life before he died of old age
- Isabelle - Tasha's favorite girl cat - died of some kind of tumor in her stomach
- Bart - an Oregon cat - 18 years old at the end - died of old age
- Chester - a nice fluffy cat who likely died of kidney failure

Home
- Taproot Lane

Work

See the old gallery of lots of photos! Most are not yet annotated. Someday...

Last Modified: 29-Jun-12

gauthier _at_ phy.duke.edu