Packard Fellows

Sorted by Field: Physics

Igor L. Aleiner

Field: Physics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1998

Research Interests

Theory of interaction effects in mesoscopic and disordered systems; superconductivity.
Phone: 516-632-8132
FAX: 516-632-8774
Email: Igor.Aleiner@sunysb.edu
WWW: http://insti.physics.sunysb.edu/Physics/faculty.htm#aleiner
Address: Dept. of Physics & Astronomy
State University of New York, Stony Brook
Stony Brook, NY 11794




Anton V. Andreev

Field: Physics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1999

Research Interests

The area of theoretical condensed matter physics with the emphasis on electronic properties of mesoscopic and disordered systems.
Phone: 303-735-2168
FAX: 303-492-3352
Email: Anton.Andreev@Colorado.EDU
WWW: http://bly.colorado.edu/cml/aagroup.html
Address: Dept. of Physics
University of Colorado
Campus Box 390
Boulder, CO 80309




Raymond Ashoori

Field: Physics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1993

Research Interests

Using ultra-sensitive electrometry, we direct the motion of single electrons in a solid. These measurements allow us to perform a very high-resolution spectroscopy of discrete quantum energy levels.
Phone: 617-253-5585
FAX: 617-258-6883
Email: ashoori@mit.edu
WWW: http://rleweb.mit.edu/rlestaff/p-asho.htm
Address: Physics Dept.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Rm. 13-2053
Cambridge, MA 02139




Nicholas P. Bigelow

Field: Physics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1994

Research Interests

My work in ultra-cold atomic systems involves studies of physics in the quantum limit, and has provided insights into the process of molecule formation. This research influences fields including optical communications and precision spectroscopy, and may have applications in new technologies such as light pressure lithography.
Phone: 716-275-8549
FAX: 716-275-8527
Email: nbig@lle.rochester.edu
WWW: http://server-mac.pas.rochester.edu/brochure/faculty.html
Address: Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
University of Rochester
Laboratory for Laser Energetics
Rochester, NY 14627-0171




Hui Cao

Field: Physics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1999

Research Interests

Cavity quantum electrodynamics and coherent matter-wave "optics."
Phone: 847-467-5452
FAX: 847-491-9982
Email: h-cao@nwu.edu
WWW: http://www.physics.northwestern.edu/research/cao.html
Address: Dept of Physics and Astronomy
Northwestern University
2145 Sheridan Road
Evanston, Illinois 60208-3112




Jean M. Carlson

Field: Physics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1993

Research Interests

Non-linear dynamics and statistical mechanics with applications to earthquake dynamics and self-organizeds criticality.
Phone: 805-893-8345
FAX: 805-893-8838
Email: carlson@elmo.ucsb.edu
WWW: http://www.physics.ucsb.edu/People/person.html?userid=carlson
Address: Dept. of Physics
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9530




Sue Carter

Field: Physics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1996

Research Interests

Her research focuses on understanding the effects that disorder, electron correlations, magnetism, and structure have on metal-insulator transition materials. She uses a diverse array of techniques to study these systems, including optical spectroscopy, magnetic susceptibility, heat capacity, and electrical transport.
Phone: 408-459-3657
FAX:  
Email: sacarter@cats.ucsc.edu
WWW: http://physics.ucsc.edu/people/personal/carter.html
Address: Dept. of Physics
University of California, Santa Cruz
277 Kerr Hall
Santa Cruz, CA 95064




Venkat Chandrasekhar

Field: Physics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1995

Research Interests

Magnetic and transport properties of mesoscopic systems.
Phone: 708-491-3444
FAX: 708-491-9982
Email: v-chandrasekhar@nwu.edu
WWW: http://www.physics.nwu.edu/research/chandra.html
Address: Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
Northwestern University
2145 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL 60208-3112




Vincent Crespi

Field: Physics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1998

Research Interests

Vincent Crespi researches novel properties of carbon nanostructures. His work involves innovative research directions in nanoscale materials physics, which he believes promise to be fruitful for basic science and potential applications. In particular, his study will explore hydrogen storage, global structural optimization in the design of new materials, and helium in carbon nanotube bundles.
Phone: 814-863-0163
FAX: 814-865-3604
WWW: http://www.phys.psu.edu/people/crespi.html
Address: Department of Physics
Pennsylvania State University
104 Davey Lab
University Park, PA 16802-6300




J. C. Seamus Davis

Field: Physics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1994

Research Interests

My general research interests are in the use of experimental techniques of ultra-low temperature physics to address physics questions of fundamental significance. These include macroscopic quantum physics of superfluid 3He, physics of two dimensional superfluid 3He, and atomic scale STM study of exotic superconductors and nanostructures.
Phone: 510-642-4505
FAX: 510-643-9090
Email: jcdavis@physics.berkeley.edu
WWW: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~davisgrp/
Address: Dept. of Physics
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720




David P. DeMille

Field: Physics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1999

Research Interests

Search for the electric dipole moment of the electron and ultracold polar molecules for precision measurements.
Phone: 203-432-3833
FAX: 203-432-6175
Email: david.demille@yale.edu
WWW: http://amo.physics.yale.edu/demillegroup/Default.htm
Address: Dept of Physics
Yale University
P.O. Box 208120
New Haven, Connecticut 06520




Georgi Dvali

Field: Physics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1999

Research Interests

Theoretical particle physics.
Phone: 212-998-7727
FAX: 212-995-4016
Email: Dvali@physics.nyu.edu
WWW: http://www.physics.nyu.edu/people/dvali.georgi.html
Address: Dept of Physics
New York University
4 Washington Place
New York, NY 10003




Veit Elser

Field: Physics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1989

Research Interests

I am currently studying minimal surfaces (soap films) having quasicrystalline (5-fold) symmetry.
Phone: 607-255-2340
FAX: 607-255-6428
Email: ve10@cornell.edu
WWW: http://www.lassp.cornell.edu/lassp_data/veit.html
Address: Dept. of Physics
Cornell University
524 Clark Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853




Cary B. Forest

Field: Physics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1998

Research Interests

Cary Forest researches the principles of magnetohydrodynamics. He is building an experiment to study components of the dynamo theory. The Earth and other planets, the 1 and other stars, pulsars and perhaps even the entire galaxy have magnetic fields that are explained by the dynamo effect, a process by which electrical currents are generated by turbulent motion of conducting fluids or plasma. Forest's experiment will investigate and attack components of this theory.
Phone: 608-263-0486
FAX: 608-262-3077
Email: cbforest@facstaff.wisc.edu
WWW: http://aida.physics.wisc.edu/
Address: Physics Department
University of Wisconsin at Madison
3277 Chamberlin Hall
1150 University Ave
Madison, WI 53706




David G. Grier

Field: Physics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1994

Research Interests

I use digital video microscopy and laser light scattering to study phase transitions in colloidal suspensions with "atomic" resolution. The goal is to elucidate the microscopic mechanisms of such transformations for condensed matter systems in general.
Phone: 773-702-9176
FAX: 773-702-5863
Email: grier@fafnir.uchicago.edu
WWW: http://ars-www.uchicago.edu/~grier/
Address: The James Franck Institute
University of Chicago
5640 South Ellis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637




Robert D. Grober

Field: Physics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1997

Research Interests

Near-field optical scanning microscopy with applications to optical imaging of DNA.
Phone: 203-432-9653
FAX: 203-432-4283
Email: robert.grober@yale.edu
WWW: http://www.eng.yale.edu/faculty/vita/grober.html
Address: Department of Applied Physics
Yale University
Becton Engineering Center
15 Prospect Street
P.O. Box 208284
New Haven, CT 06520-8284




Philippe M. Guyot-Sionnest

Field: Physics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1992

Research Interests

Development of laser and microscopy methods to probe the chemical dynamics of surfaces and the optical properties of nanostructures.
Phone: 773-702-7461
FAX: 773-702-5863
Email: pgs@rainbow.uchicago.edu
WWW: http://rainbow.uchicago.edu/chemistry/fac/guyot-sionnest.html
Address: The James Franck Institute
University of Chicago
5640 South Ellis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637




James R. Heath

Field: Physics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1994

Research Interests

My group is involved in the chemical synthesis, photophysical characterization, and application of small structures of semiconductors and metals. We are interested in developing a chemistry of size and shape on the nanometer length scale, and we are interested in applying our synthetic products to the fabrication of ultra-small electronic devices, optical materials, and catalysts.
Phone: 310-825-2836
FAX: 310-206-4038
Email: heath@chem.ucla.edu
WWW: http://www.chem.ucla.edu/dept/Faculty/heath.html
Address: Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of California, Los Angeles
405 Hilgard Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90024-1569




Alan T. "Charlie" Johnson

Field: Physics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1994

Research Interests

Electron transport in nanostructures and molecules.
Phone: 215-898-9325
FAX: 215-898-2010
Email: johnson@dept.physics.upenn.edu
WWW: http://dept.physics.upenn.edu/facultyinfo/johnson.html
Address: Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
University of Pennsylvania
209 South 33rd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6393




Robert R. Jones

Field: Physics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1996

Research Interests

My students and I use electromagnetic pulses with extremely short durations to investigate the evolution of electronic wave functions in atoms during and subsequent to irradiation by strong electromagnetic fields.
Phone: 804-924-3088
FAX: 804-924-4576
Email: rrj3c@virginia.edu
WWW: http://www.phys.virginia.edu/People/personal.asp?uID=rrj3c
Address: Dept. of Physics
University of Virginia
McCormick Rd.
Charlottesville, VA 22901




Woowon Kang

Field: Physics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1995

Research Interests

Study of electronic correlation effects in low dimensional semiconductor systems; synthesis and characterization of organic superconductors.
Phone: 773-702-5244
FAX: 773-702-4735
Email: wkang@rainbow.uchicago.edu
WWW: http://rainbow.uchicago.edu:80/~wkang/
Address: Dept. of Physics
University of Chicago
James Franck Institute
5640 South Ellis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637




Bernhard Keimer

Field: Physics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1995

Research Interests

X -ray and neutron scattering investigations of the structure and dynamics of correlated electronic materials.
Phone: 609-258-1537
FAX: 609-258-1124
Email: keimer@pupgg.princeton.edu
WWW: http://pupgg.princeton.edu/www/jh/research/Keimer_Bernhard.htmlx
Address: Dept. of Physics
Princeton University
Washington Road
Princeton, NJ 08544




Wolfgang Ketterle

Field: Physics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1996

Research Interests

My research focuses on the study of atomic matter at ultralow temperature (microkelvin and below). At such temperatures, the atoms behave as matter waves and not as classical particles. Novel phenomena include Bose-Einstein condensation in a dilute gas, and the atom laser, an intense source of coherent matter waves.
Phone: 617-253-6815
FAX: 617-253-4876
Email: ketterle@mit.edu
WWW: http://rleweb.mit.edu/p-KETT.HTM
Address: Physics and Research Laboratory of Electronics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT Rm. 25-243
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambride, MA 02139




Juan Maldacena

Field: Physics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1998

Research Interests

Juan Maldacena studies string theory and black holes. He focuses on the description of black holes in string theory. He is interested in calculating the entropy of black holes.
Phone: 617-496-8188
FAX: 617-495-0416
Email: maldacena@physics.harvard.edu
WWW: http://www.physics.harvard.edu/fac_staff/maldacena.html
Address: Physics Dept.
Harvard University
Lyman 334
Cambridge, MA 02138




Paul M. McEuen

Field: Condensed Matter Physics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1992

Research Interests

Physics and fabrication of nanostructures.
Phone: 510-486-6817
FAX: 510-486-5530
Email: mceuen@physics.berkeley.edu
WWW: http://www.physics.berkeley.edu/research/mceuen/
Address: Dept. of Physics
University of California, Berkeley
366 LeConte Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720




Monica Olvera de la Cruz

Field: Physics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1989

Research Interests

Statistical mechanics in polymer systems. Thermodynamics of polymer solutions and blends; copolymer melts and solutions, polyelectrolytes, polymer dynamics, dynamics of phase separation.
Phone: 708-491-7801
FAX: 708-491-7820
Email: m-olvera@northwestern.edu
WWW: http://www.matsci.nwu.edu/faculty/mo.html
Address: Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering
Northwestern University
2225 N. Campus Drive
Evanston, IL 60208-3108




Lyman A. Page, Jr.

Field: Physics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1994

Research Interests

We study how the temperature of the afterglow of the big bang varies from place to place on the sky. The patterns in this primordial radiation--like a fossil of the early universe--help us understand how structure in the universe formed. In addition, if a certain class of cosmological models proves correct, we will be able to determine the cosmological parameters.
Phone: 609-258-5578
FAX: 609-258-6853
Email: page@pupgg.princeton.edu
WWW: http://PUPGG.PRINCETON.EDU/~page/
Address: Dept. of Physics
Princeton University
Jadwin Hall, P.O.Box 708
Princeton, NJ 08544




John C. Price

Field: Physics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1990

Research Interests

Condensed matter physics; quantum transport in metals.
Phone: 303-492-2484
FAX: 303-492-2998
Email: john.price@colorado.edu
WWW: http://physics.colorado.edu/faculty/price_j.html
Address: Dept. of Physics
University of Colorado at Boulder
Campus Box 390
Boulder, CO 80309-0390




Stephen R. Quake

Field: Physics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1999

Research Interests

Fundamental and applied topics in biophysics, specifically single molecule science.
Phone: 626-395-3362
FAX:
Email: quake@cco.caltech.edu
WWW: http://www.cco.caltech.edu/%7Eaphhome/quake.html
Address: Dept of Applied Physics
California Institute of Technology
1200 E. California Boulevard, 104-44
Pasadena, CA 91125




Leo Radzihovsky

Field: Physics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1998

Research Interests

Leo Radzihovsky studies statistical mechanics and field theory, with applications to a range of theoretical problems in condensed matter physics. This includes polymers, liquid crystals, membranes and random surfaces; phase transitions and critical phenomena; and the phenomenology of superconductors, with an emphasis on vortex states in the presence of disorder and thermal fluctuations.
Phone: 303-492-5436
FAX: 303-492-2998
Email: Leo.Radzihovsky@Colorado.EDU
WWW: http://lulu.Colorado.EDU/~radzihov/
Address: Department of Physics
University of Colorado at Boulder
University of Colorado at Boulder
Boulder, CO 80309-0390




Daniel C. Ralph

Field: Physics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1997

Research Interests

Electronic materials and devices on nanometer-length scales.
Phone: 607-255-9644
FAX: 607-255-6428
Email: ralph@msc.cornell.edu
WWW: http://www.lassp.cornell.edu/lassp_data/ralph.html
Address: Department of Physics
Cornell University
Clark Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853-2501




Daniel H. Reich

Field: Physics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1993

Research Interests

Exploration of superconductivity and magnetism in low-dimensional and artificially-structured materials.
Phone: 410-516-7899
FAX: 410-516-7239
Email: dhr@eta.pha.jhu.edu
WWW: http://www.pha.jhu.edu/people/faculty/dhr.html
Address: Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
Johns Hopkins University
3400 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218




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




Tycho Sleator

Field: Physics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1993

Research Interests

I have two main areas of interest: 1) Atomic motion in light fields, atom optics, and interferometry, and 2) cavity quantum electrodynamics and quantum computation.
Phone: 212-998-7764
FAX: 212-995-4016
Email: tycho@sleator.physics.nyu.edu
WWW: http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sleator/home.html
Address: Dept. of Physics
New York University
4 Washington Place
New York, NY 10003




Shivaji L. Sondhi

Field: Physics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1998

Research Interests

Shivaji Sondhi is a theoretical condensed matter physicist with a particular interest in strongly correlated electron systems such as those exhibiting the quantum Hall effect. He has recently become interested in the problem of glass formation.
Phone: 609-258-4326
FAX: 609-258-1006
Email: sondhi@feynman.princeton.edu
WWW: HTTP://feynman.princeton.edu/~sondhi/research.html
Address: Physics Dept.
Princeton University
Jadwin Hall
Princeton, New Jersey 08544




Christopher W. Stubbs

Field: Physics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1994

Research Interests

I am currently investigating problems that lie at the boundary between astrophysics and particle physics: the dark matter problem and the cosmological constant question.
Phone: 206-543-9375
FAX: 206-685-0403
Email: stubbs@astro.washington.edu
WWW: http://www.astro.washington.edu/stubbs/
Address: Dept. of Astronomy
University of Washington
Box 351580
Seattle, WA 98195




Zlatko B. Tesanovic

Field: Physics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1988

Research Interests

Theoretical physics of condensed matter systems.
Phone: 410-516-5391
FAX: 410-516-7239
Email: zbt@eta.pha.jhu.edu
WWW: http://www.pha.jhu.edu/people/faculty/zbt.html
Address: Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
Johns Hopkins University
3400 N. Charles Street
Bloomberg Ctr.
Baltimore, MD 21218




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




Yasutomo J. Uemura

Field: Physics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1989

Research Interests

Studies of superconductivity and magnetism of condensed matter using muon spin relaxation measurements.
Phone: 212-854-8370
FAX: 212-854-5888
Email: tomo@cusol.phys.columbia.edu
WWW: http://phys.columbia.edu/faculty/uemura.htm
Address: Dept. of Physics
Columbia University
538 W. 120th Street, Rm. 1310
New York, NY 10027




Cumrun Vafa

Field: Physics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1989

Research Interests

Studying low-dimensional quantum field theories, with applications to quantum gravity (through string theory) and to topological aspects of physics.
Phone: 617-496-8207
FAX: 617-731-6624
Email: vafa@string.harvard.edu
WWW: http://www.physics.harvard.edu/fac_staff/vafa.html
Address: Physics Dept.
Harvard University
Lyman Laboratory
Cambridge, MA 02138




Herman Verlinde

Field: Physics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1993

Research Interests

None Available
Phone: 609-258-4326
FAX:  
Email: verlinde@puhep1.princeton.edu
WWW:  
Address: Physics Dept.
Princeton University
353 Jadwin Hall
Princeton, NJ 08544




Thad G. Walker

Field: Physics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1992

Research Interests

Investigations of the interactions between laser-cooled and trapped atoms. Principle topics of study are collisions at microkelvin temperatures and radiative properties of ensembles of cold atoms.
Phone: 608-262-4093
FAX: 608-265-2334
Email: walker@uwnuc0.physics.wisc.edu
WWW: http://www-atoms.physics.wisc.edu/People/Thad.html
Address: Dept. of Physics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1150 University Avenue
Madison, WI 53706




David S. Weiss

Field: Physics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1997

Research Interests

Optical lattices, laser cooling, and Bose-Einstein condensation.
Phone: 510-643-0726
FAX: 510-643-8497
Email: dsweiss@physics.berkeley.edu
WWW: http://www.physics.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/directory.cgi?subroutine=singlefullhttp://physics1.berkeley.edu/cgi/php.cgi/directory/faculty/faculty.long.phtml?last=Weiss&first=Davidlsid=1047
Address: Department of Physics
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-7300




Victor M. Yakovenko

Field: Physics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1995

Research Interests

I study theoretically organic and high-temperature superconductors.
Phone: 301-405-6151
FAX: 301-314-9465
Email: yakovenk@glue.umd.edu
WWW: http://www.glue.umd.edu/~yakovenk/Welcome.html
Address: Dept. of Physics
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-4111




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




Nai-Chang Yeh

Field: Physics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1992

Research Interests

Vortex phases and dynamics of high-temperature and conventional amorphous superconductors; pairing symmetry and pairing mechanism of high-temperature superconductors; physical properties and device applications of magnetoresistive perovskite manganites and cobaltites; precise measurements of the density and critical phenomena of liquid helium near phase transitions using high-Q super-conducting microwave techniques; development of state-of-the-art frequency standards and precision clocks for space research using high-Q super-conducting cavities and the phase-locked-loop techniques; spatially-resolved imaging and spectroscopy of superconductors and magnetic materials using low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy.
Phone: 626-395-4313
FAX: 626-683-9060
Email: ncyeh@styx.caltech.edu
WWW: http://www.cmp.caltech.edu/~cmpyeh/
Address: Dept. of Physics
California Institute of Technology
MS 114-36
Pasadena, CA 91125




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