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Areas of Current Research

Experimental Physics

Astrophysics & Space Sciences
Bernatowicz, Binns, Buckley, Cowsik, Hohenberg, Israel, Krawczynski and Zinner
  • Cosmic-ray astrophysics
  • X-ray and gamma-ray astronomy
  • Cosmochronology
  • Meteorites and interplanetary dust
  • Interstellar grains from primitive materials
  • Lunar and planetary science
Physics Applications in Biology & Medicine
Conradi, Miller, Wang and Wessel
  • Magnetic resonance imaging using hyperpolarized gas
  • Tissue characterization via ultrasound
  • Computer-assisted image processing
  • Experimental neural networks
  • Biophysics of computation in brains
  • Mechanical response of biomembranes and artificial tissue
  • Single molecule imaging of protein-DNA interactions
Condensed Matter & Materials Physics
Conradi, Gibbons, Kelton, Miller, Schilling and Solin
  • Nanostructured materials and nanotechnology
  • Non-equilibrium processing of materials
  • Superconductivity and magnetism
  • Quasicrystals, metallic glasses and other metastable materials
  • Liquid structures and properties
  • Amorphous semiconductors
  • Ultrasonics
  • Magnetic resonance
  • High-pressure physics
  • Metal hydrides
Nuclear Physics
Binns and Sobotka
  • Heavy ion nuclear reactions
Theoretical Physics

Astrophysics & Gravitation
Cowsik, Ferrer, Katz, Suen and Will
  • Physics of neutron stars and black holes
  • Numerical general relativity
  • Gravitational radiation
  • Tests of general relativity
Biophysics
Carlsson and Clark
  • Polymerization of actin fibers in cells
  • Neural networks
Condensed Matter & Material Physics
Nussinov and Seidel (see also Kelton)
  • Strongly correlated electron systems
  • Superconductivity
  • Quantum Hall effect
  • Spin systems
  • Nucleation in condensed phases
  • Topological orders
  • One-dimensional systems
  • Defect structures and properties
  • Cold atoms
  • Statistical Mechanics applications to computation
  • Glasses
Elementary Particles
Alford, Bender, Bernard, Ferrer, Nussinov and Ogilvie
  • Mathematical physics and quantum field theory
  • Lattice gauge theory
  • Perturbative and nonperturbative techniques
  • Quark matter and color superconductivity
  • Astroparticle physics and theoretical cosmology
Many-Body Theory
Clark and Dickhoff
  • Nuclear matter and quantum fluids
  • Correlations in nuclei