Boulder School 2003: Roster
Name & Affiliation | Research Interest | Photo |
Yaroslaw Bazaliy Argonne National Laboratory | Spin -polarized currents, spintronics, ferromagnet-superconductor proximity effect, magnetic orientation phase transitions. |  |
Miro Belov University of Alberta | Thin magnetic films and microfabrication (e-beam), interactions with light (ultrafast Kerr microscopy, measurement, simulation) |  |
Sara Bergkvist Royal Institute of Technology | I am a theorist working with quantum Monte Carlo simulations of strongly correlated systems. |  |
Noah Bray-Ali U.C. Berkeley | Strongly-correlated electron materials: Most recently, I've studied a novel phase arising in diluted magnets and superconductors near percolation threshold. |  |
Kristen Buchanan University of Alberta | My research focuses on the magnetic and magneto-optical properties of nanocomposite materials. |  |
Kenneth Burch U.C. San Diego | | |
John Cumings Stanford University | I am fabricating mesoscopic structures from magnetic semiconductors. |  |
Denis Demchenko Georgetown University | First-principle calculations and spin-dependent transport in magnetic nanostructures. |  |
Theja DeSilva University of Cincinnati | Strongly correlated electronic systems, including role of orbital degrees of freedom in complex magnetic materials. |  |
Louise Ejsing Danish Technical University | My research interests are in detection and manipulation of magnetic beads used for bioapplications, e.g. DNA detection. |  |
Catherine Frandsen Technical University of Denmark | My research area is "Magnetic nanoparticles." |  |
Priya Gopal U.C. Santa Barbara | I am interested in the computational investigation and design of multi-functional materials. My research focus is in the area of " spintronic" materials. I am particularly interested in the electronic and magnetic properties of doped-semiconductors. |  |
Michael Hermele U.C. Santa Barbara | I am currently interested in exotic quantum states of matter, particularly in the context of frustrated quantum magnets, with an eye toward the challenging (and I believe important!) problems of connecting various exotic states to experiements, and better understanding SU(2) invariant magnets. |  |
Julienne Hill Ames Laboratory, US DOE and Iowa State University | I am interested in studying the magnetic and electronic properties of novel materials, especially high-Tc related materials. |  |
Jiangping Hu U.C. Los Angeles | A party to know how spins dance. |  |
Adilet Imambekov Harvard University | Spinor condensates in optical lattices. |  |
Sergei Isakov Stockholm University | My areas of physics interest are frustrated magnets, dimer models, statistical physics. |  |
Jason Jackiewicz Boston College | I am interested in simple ways of solving complicated problems in strongly correlated electron systems. |  |
Ribhu Kaul Duke University | Interplay of Many-Body and Mesoscopic Effects in Nano-Structures. |  |
Ersin Kececioglu Northwestern University | Theory of spin semiclassics, theoretical and computational analysis of spin models. |  |
Eun-ah Kim University of Illinois Urban-Champaign | I study tunneling between quantum hall edge states |  |
Stine Klausen Riso National Laboratory | Magnetic dynamics of magnetic nanoparticles. |  |
Simon Kos Los Alamos National Laboratory | I am interested in strongly correlated materials (cuprates, heavy-fermion Ce 115 materials) as well as seminconductors (organic and inorganic), and in the strong electronic correlations studied both analyticaly and by Monte Carlo simluations. |  |
Vadim Kovalev Stevens Institute of Technology | Theory of electronic and magnetic properties of low-dimensional structures. | |
Alexander Krichevsky University of Alberta |  | |
Wayne Lau University of Iowa | The primary focus of my research is to study the electron spin dynamics and optical properties of semiconductor optoelectronic devices. | |
Michael Lawler University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | I am currently interestd in both the stripe phase and the nematic phase of quantum hall liquid crystals. |  |
Byounghak Lee University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | | |
Minhyea Lee University of Chicago | I am working on experimental physics, especially on low temperature transport, and am interested in strongly correlated electronic systems. |  |
Martin Linden Royal Institute of Technology, Albanova University Center | My research can be summarized as "Quantum phase transitions and molecular motors." |  |
Minjan Liu U.C. San Diego | Fe silicide films on Si substrate - a potential material for spin-electronics |  |
Elhajal Maged Universite de Lausanne | My field of study is "Frustrated magnetism". | |
George Mias Yale University | Theoretical studies of quantum phase transitions, domain wall dynamics and solitons. |  |
Bjoern Michaelis ITP, Universitaet Wuerzburg | I am interested in the many body problem, especially in the semianalytical and numerical description of CMR manganites and HTc cuprates. |  |
Timo Nachtrab University de Tuebingen | My studies focus on the perpendicular transport in artificially and intrinsically layered systems consisting of alternating ferromagnetic/insulating or ferromagnetic/superconducting layers |  |
Predrag Nikolic Massachusetts Institute of Technology | My areas of interest are: frustrated quantum magnets, lattice gauge theories, electron fractionalization, etc. |  |
Alvara Nunez University of Texas at Austin | Condensed matter theory, spintronics, magnetism and superconductivity. |  |
Ju-Hyun Park University of Florida | Low dimensional magnetism. |  |
David Pekker University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign | Theoretical condensed matter physics, hedgehogs and skyrmions. |  |
Tami Pereg-Barnea University of British Columbia | High Tc supercondcutivity and, in particular, theories of the pseudogap such as QED3 and other gauge (effective) theories |  |
Yuriy Pershin Clarkson University | The main direction of my scientific activity is the theory of spin-related phenomena, in particular, I am interested in behavior of electron and nuclear spins in semiconductors, low-dimensional electron systems under high magnetic fields, decoherence processes. |  |
Daniel Podolsky Harvard University | | |
Mikhail Polianski Cornell University | Mesoscopic transport through quantum dots, nanomagnetic dynamics and spin waves. |  |
Vadim Puller Stevens Institute of Technology | Theory of spin dynamics and fluctuations in low-dimensional systems. | |
Daniel Queen U.C. San Diego | | |
William Ratcliff Rutgers University | Geometrically frustrated magnets. |  |
Gil Refael Harvard University | | |
Alexandre Rocha Trinity College, Dublin | Transport properties of magnetic nanostructures. |  |
Enrico Rossi University of Texas at Austin | I am particularly interested in the transport properties of magnetic systems and in the magnetization dynamics of systems in which the magnetic degree of freedom is coupled to other degrees of freedom. |  |
Heidemarie Schmidt University of Leipzig, Germany | Experimental and theoretical investigation of III-V seminconductors for Optoelectronics and of II-VI semiconductors for Spintronics. |  |
Peter Sharma Rutgers University | In general, I am interested in the correlation between macroscopic thermal/electronic transport and microscopic (magneto-) structural properties such as electronic phase separation and short-range magnetic ordering in a variety of complex materials. |  |
Nikolai Sinitsyn Texas A&M University | Nanomagnets and nuclear spin bath. |  |
Nicola Spaldin University of California, Santa Barbara | Studying the fundamental physics of novel materials which have potential technological importance. | |
Plamen Stamenov Trinity College | Spin Electronics devices, advanced magnetic materials, magnetic and transport measurements in alternating magnetic field and nolinear dynamics and chaos. |  |
Hirotoshi Terashita Montana State University | My research interest is local magnetism in transition metal oxides (experiemental). |  |
Carlos Ancona Torres University of Chicago | I am interested in aging and memory effects in spin glasses and proton glasses. |  |
Benjamin Ueland The Pennsylvania State University | I work with Professor Peter Schiffer on the exploration of geometrically frustrated magnetic materials. |  |
Sergei Urazhdin Michigan State University | My areas of physics interest include (nano)magnetism, electronic transport, scanning tunneling microscopy, and critical phenomena. |  |
Ananth Venkatesan Northeastern University | My research interest is mainly in magnetic phenomena exhibited by electrons confined to low dimensions. |  |
Andre Vieira Instituto de Fisica da Universidad de Sao Paulo (Brazil) | Disordered magnets; random Potts models; quantum spin chains. |  |
Eddy Yusuf National High Magnetic Field Laboratory | Low-dimensional spin system in the presence of disorder. |  |
Chenggang Zhou Princeton University | My research interest is electronic and magnetic properties of solids, strongly correlated electron system, computational and simulational physics. Particularly, I have worked in 2DEG, III-V DMS and Monte Carlo simulation of both quantum and classical systems. |  |