Packard Fellows

Sorted by Award Year: 1991

Eldridge S. Adams

Field: Biology
Packard Fellowship award year: 1991

Research Interests

My lab studies the population dynamics of social insects (especially ants and termites) and associated behavioral issues (control of territory size, the evolution of cooperation and competition, communication and social recognition).
Phone: 860-486-5894
FAX: 860-486-6364
Email: esadams@uconnvm.uconn.edu
WWW: http://www.eeb.uconn.edu/faculty/adams/adams.htm
Address: Dept. of Ecology and Evolutional Biology
University of Connecticut
75 N. Eagleville Road, U-43
Storrs, CT 06269-3043




Richard B. Alley

Field: Geology
Packard Fellowship award year: 1991

Research Interests

Ice sheets & climate (ice core records of climate change, ice sheet changes and sea level effects, glacier properties and deposits).
Phone: 814-863-1700
FAX: 814-865-3191
Email: ralley@essc.psu.edu
WWW: http://www.geosc.psu.edu/People/Faculty/FacultyPages/Alley/index.html
Address: Dept. of Geosciences
Pennsylvania State University
ESSC, 306 Deike Bldg.
University Park, PA 16802




Phillip F. Bagwell

Field: Electrical Engineering
Packard Fellowship award year: 1991

Research Interests

Mesoscopic physics of normal metals and superconductors; super conducting devices
Phone: 765-494-0727
FAX: 765-494-6440
Email: bagwell@ecn.purdue.edu
WWW: http://ECE.www.ecn.purdue.edu/ECE/Fac_Staff/Faculty/bagwell
Address: School of Electrical Engineering
Purdue University
1285 Electrical Engineering Bldg.
West Lafayette, IN 47907




Brenda L. Bass

Field: Biochemistry
Packard Fellowship award year: 1991

Research Interests

My laboratory studies double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) binding proteins, including the dsRNA adenosine deaminase which converts adenosines to inosines within dsRNA.
Phone: 801-581-4884
FAX: 801-581-5379
Email: bbass@howard.genetics.utah.edu
WWW: http://howard.genetics.utah.edu/bass/
Address: Dept. of Biochemistry & Howard Hughes Medical Institute
University of Utah
50 North Medical Drive
Salt Lake City, UT 84132




Moungi G. Bawendi

Field: Chemistry
Packard Fellowship award year: 1991

Research Interests

Chemistry and physics of semiconductor nanocrystallites: synthesis, manipulation, and optical properties.
Phone: 617-253-9796
FAX: 617-253-7030
Email: mgb@mit.edu
WWW: http://web.mit.edu/chemistry/www/faculty/bawendi.html
Address: Dept. of Chemistry, Rm. 2-227
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139




Arlin P. Crotts

Field: Astrophysics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1991

Research Interests

I investigate a range of topics in extragalactic astronomy, currently: light echoes from Supernova 1987A, quasar absorption lines, galaxy dark matter.
Phone: 212-854-7899
FAX: 212-854-8121
Email: arlin@astro.columbia.edu
WWW: http://www.astro.columbia.edu/dept/research/crotts/crotts.html
Address: Dept. of Astronomy
Columbia University
538 W. 120th Street
New York, NY 10027




Noam D. Elkies

Field: Mathematics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1991

Research Interests

Number theory, specifically elliptic curves and connections with geometry, computation, combinatorics, etc.
Phone: 617-495-4625
FAX: 617-495-5132
Email: elkies@ramanujan.harvard.edu
WWW: http://www.math.harvard.edu/~elkies/
Address: Dept. of Mathematics
Harvard University
1 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138




Michael C. Gurnis

Field: Geophysics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1991

Research Interests

The dynamics of tectonic plates and the Earth's solid mantle; the influence of Earth dynamics on the evolution of continents.
Phone: 626-395-6979
FAX: 626-564-0715
Email: gurnis@seismo.gps.caltech.edu
WWW: http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~gurnis/
Address: Seismological Laboratory
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA 91125




Eric N. Jacobsen

Field: Chemistry
Packard Fellowship award year: 1991

Research Interests

Mechanistic and synthetic organic chemistry. Development of new synthetic methods, with special emphasis on asymmetric catalysts. Mechanistic studies of reactivity and recognition phenomena in homogeneous catalysts.
Phone: 617-496-3688
FAX: 617-496-1880
Email: jacobsen@chemistry.harvard.edu
WWW: http://www.chem.harvard.edu/faculty/jacobsen.html
Address: Dept. of Chemistry
Harvard University
12 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138




Heinrich M. Jaeger

Field: Geophysics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1991

Research Interests

Non-linear dynamics of granular materials ("sand"); mesoscopic physics; superconductivity.
Phone: 773-702-6074
FAX: 773-702-5863
Email: h_jaeger@uchicago.edu
WWW: http://arnold.uchicago.edu/~jaeger/hmj/
Address: James Franck Institute
University of Chicago
5640 South Ellis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637




Brian H. Kolner

Field: Electrical Engineering
Packard Fellowship award year: 1991

Research Interests

Space-time duality, temporal imaging, ultrafast lasers and light pulses.
Phone: 310-206-9202
FAX: 310-206-8495
Email: kolner@ee.ucla.edu
WWW: http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty/Kolner.html
Address: Dept. of Electrical Engineering
University of California, Los Angeles
56-125B Eng. IV
Los Angeles, CA 90024-1594




Andrew W. Murray

Field: Biology
Packard Fellowship award year: 1991

Research Interests

I study the transmission and evolution of genetic information, with a focus on chromosome behavior during meiosis and mitosis.
Phone: 617-496-1350
FAX: 617-496-1541
Email: amurray@mcb.harvard.edu
WWW: http://www.mcb.harvard.edu/Faculty/Murray.html
Address: Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Harvard University
MCB, Harvard
16 Divinity Avenue, RM 3000
Cambridge, MA 02138




William W. Pugh

Field: Computer Science
Packard Fellowship award year: 1991

Research Interests

Programming language design and implementation. Using constraint-based techniques; compiling for high performance computers.
Phone: 301-405-2705
FAX: 301-405-6707
Email: pugh@cs.umd.edu
WWW: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~pugh/
Address: Department of Computer Science
University of Maryland at College Park
A.V. Williams Bldg.
College Park, MD 20742




Hubert M. Saleur

Field: Physics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1991

Research Interests

Study of low-dimensional physics problems and their mathematical aspects.
Phone: 213-740-7898
FAX: 213-740-6653
Email: saleur@diderot.usc.edu
WWW: http://www.usc.edu/dept/physics/people/Faculty/saleur.html
Address: Department of Physics
University of Southern California
University Park
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0484




Eric S.G. Shaqfeh

Field: Chemical Engineering
Packard Fellowship award year: 1991

Research Interests

My main areas of interest include the hydrodynamics of suspensions and complex liquids encompassing the rheology of thin films, elastic instabilities and hydrodynamic dispersion.
Phone: 650-723-3764
FAX: 650-723-9780
Email: eric@chemeng.stanford.edu
WWW: http://chemeng.stanford.edu/html/shaqfeh.html
Address: Dept. of Chemical Engineering
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-5025




Yu-Chong Tai

Field: Electrical Engineering
Packard Fellowship award year: 1991

Research Interests

Silicon micro-machining (micro-fabrication) techniques are used to develop micro-electro-mechanical devices, especially micro sensors and actuators such as pressure sensors, shear stress sensors, anemometers, microphones, micromotors, and light valves.
Phone: 626-395-8317
FAX: 626-395-2944
Email: yctai@touch.caltech.edu
WWW: http://touch.caltech.edu/home/personnel/faculty/yctai/yctaifr.html
Address: Dept. of Electrical Engineering
California Institute of Technology
1201 E. California Blvd., MS 116-81
Pasadena, CA 91125




Holden Thorp

Field: Chemistry
Packard Fellowship award year: 1991

Research Interests

Biological rodox reactions of transition metal complexes.
Phone: 919-962-0276
FAX: 919-962-2388
Email: holden@unc.edu
WWW: http://www.unc.edu/depts/chemistry/faculty/hht/hhtindex.html
Address: Department of Chemistry
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
CB#3290, Venable and Kenan Laboratories
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3290




Neil G. Turok

Field: Physics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1991

Research Interests

The problem of the origin of structure in the universe - particularly theories of inflation and cosmological defects, and the origin of matter in the universe, particularly at the electro-weak phase transition.
Phone: 609-258-4743
FAX: 609-258-6360
Email: ngt1000@damtp.cam.ac.uk
WWW: http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/ngt1000/
Address: Dept. of Physics
Princeton University
Joseph Henry Labs, Jadwin Hall
Princeton, NJ 08544




T. Kyle Vanderlick

Field: Chemical Engineering
Packard Fellowship award year: 1991

Research Interests

Surface forces and adhesion; equilibrium and dynamic shapes and patterns.
Phone: 609-258-4891
FAX: 609-258-0211
Email: vandertk@Princeton.EDU
WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~chemical//faculty/Vanderlick.html
Address: Dept. of Chemical Engineering
Princeton University
A419 Engineering Quadrangle
Princeton, NJ 08544




Horng-Tzer Yau

Field: Physics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1991

Research Interests

Derive macroscopic properties from microscopic (random) dynamics and study its large deviation and fluctuations.
Phone: 212-998-3330
FAX: 212-995-4121
Email: yau@math.nyu.edu
WWW: http://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/yau/
Address: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
New York University
251 Mercer Street
New York, NY 10012




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