Boulder School 2005: Roster
Name & Institution | Research Interest | Photo & Contact Information |
Yury Adamov Brookhaven National Laboratory | I am a theorist. Currently I am interesting in electron transport for electrons with interaction, including transport in nanotubes, transport in 2D systems in high magnetic field and, possibly, Kondo effect. |  |
Laura Adams University of Minnesota | Currently I am interested in "quantum chaos" as seen in the discrete energy level spectrum of metallic nanoclusters using a low temperature STM. I am an experimentalist. |  |
Yashar Ahmadian Columbia University | My area of research is theoretical condensed matter physics. specifically I'm interested in mesoscopic physics: quantum dots, 2DEG's, etc. My current research concerns electron transport through an open quantum dot. |  |
Igor Aleiner, Scientific Coordinator Columbia University | Theorist | |
Jacob Alldredge Cornell University | I am interested in mesoscopic systems that can be probed via the STM. I am an experimentalist. |  |
Boris Altshuler, Lecturer Princeton University | Theorist | |
Maryna Anatska Texas &M University | I am working with magnetic superconductors and also interested in advanced experiment automation techniques. I am an experimentalist. |  |
Mark Ancliff University of Warwick | I am a theorist researching field-theories for disordered, non-interacting electron systems |  |
Anton Andreev, Scientific Coordinator University of Washington | My research interests focus on effects of electron-electron interaction in low-dimensional disordered systems. I am a theorist. |  |
Jens Hjörleifur Bàrðarson University of Leiden | Transport in mesoscopic and nanoscale systems and its dependence on spin orbit scattering. I am a theorist. |  |
Doron Bergman University of California, Santa Barbara | Quantum phase transitions, Quantum Hall devices, theory. |  |
Norman Birge, Lecturer Michigan State University | Norman Birge's research focuses on quantum transport and mesoscopic physics in normal metals, superconductors, ferromagnets, and various combinations of them. Most recently, he has worked on electron dephasing and energy relaxation in normal metals at low temperature, and nonequilibrium phenomena in SNS Josephson junctions. |  |
Hendrik Bluhm Stanford University | Mesoscopic effects in metals and superconductors and magnetism based approaches to measure them. I am an experimentalist. |  |
Piet Brouwer, Scientific Coordinator Cornell University | I'm interested in mesoscopic physics, in particular the theory of quantum transport in mesoscale systems, quantum chaos, and random-matrix theory. |  |
Manuel Castellanos-Beltran University of Colorado, Boulder | My research interest is the dynamics of charge in nanoscale high-impedance circuits and coulomb blockade devices. I am an experimentalist. |  |
Ching-Tzu Chen California Institute of Technology | Strongly correlated electronic systems in reduced dimensions, scanning probe techniques, and mesoscopic/nanoscopic device physics. I am an experimentalist. |  |
Ruwan Dedigama University of Oklahoma | Quantum confined InSb-based Devices. I am an experimentalist. |  |
Changxue Deng University at Buffalo | Area of research: spin related effects in nanostructures. I am a theorist. |  |
Yonatan Dubi Ben-Gurion University of the Negev | I am currently interested in transport properties of thin superconducting films and small superconducting grains. Other research interests are the integer quantum Hall transition, the 2D metal-insulator transition and related phenomena in 2 dimensions. I am a theorist. |  |
Émilie Dupont Université de Sherbrooke | Currently, my research interest is Kondo effect and supraconductivity on a mesoscopic scale. I am a theorist. |  |
Hans-Andrea Engel Harvard University | I am interested in electrical and optical spin effects in nano structures and my theoretical work comprises the spin Hall effect, spin dynamics and transport in quantum dots, and applications to quantum computation. |  |
Heidi Förster University of Geneva | I'm interested in transport and noise (Full Counting Statistics) in quantum systems under the influence of decoherence. I am a theorist. |  |
Fabio Franchini SUNY at Stony Brook | My research interests are on Mathematical Physics, Integrable Models and 1-Dimensional Spin Chain. I am a theorist. |  |
Liang Fu University of Pennsylvania | I am a theorist interested in electronic properties of mesoscopic systems and their transport theory. |  |
Markus Garst University of Minnesota | I am a theorist working on strongly correlated electrons in bulk and mesoscopic systems. |  |
Leonid Glazman, Lecturer University of Minnesota | Areas of interest include electronic properties of low-dimensional systems, electron correlation effects, and non-equilibrium phenomena in nanostructures. I am a theorist. |  |
Bertrand I. Halperin, Lecturer Harvard University | Bert Halperin does theoretical research on a range of topics in condensed matter theory, including electrons in nanoscale systems, quantum Hall effects, and transport of spin. |  |
Joan Hoffmann Cornell University | I'm interested in novel adaptations of experimental technique to study systems including quantum fluids, nanostructures, and biological structures. |  |
Ronni Ilan Weizmann Institute of Science | I am a theorist, interested in the properties of quantum hall phases in the Reentrant regime between ν = 2 and ν = 4, especially in modeling inter-plateau transitions. |  |
Eric Jobiliong National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University | I'm an experimentalist and working on electrical transport, magnetic properties and quantum oscillations of heavy fermions and Kondo lattice system. I'm interested in Kondo effect in the mesoscopic systems. |  |
Michael Jura Stanford University | I am an experimentalist, interested in using scanning gate microscopy to image electron wavefunctions in mesoscopic systems. |  |
Charles Kane, Lecturer University of Pennsylvania | My research focusses on the interplay between interactions and transport in electronic systems. |  |
Ning Kang Universität Konstanz | My recent research concentrates on conductance measurements on single molecules with the help of the mechanically controllable break-junction technique. I am an experimentalist. |  |
Oleksiy Kashuba Lancaster University | I am a theorist interested in electron transport in metals in superconductors. |
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Maxim Kharitonov Ruhr University | My research field is mesoscopic physics. I am a theorist. |  |
Na Young Kim Stanford University | I am exploring electrical transport properties of mesoscopic systems through experiments. |  |
Israel Klich Caltech | I am currently interested in transport and in time dependent phenomena in mesoscopic systems and its interplay with questions of measurement in quantum mechanics. Especially in non-equilibrium situations in which the system is driven by a time dependent Hamiltonian. I am a theorist. |  |
Alexios Klironomos Argonne National Laboratory | I am a theorist interested in the physics of superconductivity and electronic transport in nanostructures. |  |
Sunanda Koduvayur Parthasarathy Purdue University | My area of interest is quantum dots and spin orbit coupling in 2d hole gas systems. I am an experimentalist. |  |
Nick Koshnick Stanford University | I am experimentalist with interest in studying magnetic signals from superconductors at mesoscopic length scales. |  |
Jacob Krich Harvard University | I am a theorist currently working on spin-orbit coupling in quantum dots. |  |
Edward Laird Harvard University | I do experiments on spin qubits in laterally defined semiconductor quantum dots. |  |
Peter Leek Cambridge University | I am an experimentalist working on electronic transport through individual carbon nanotubes - in particular charge pumping using a sliding electrostatic potential wave. |  |
Konrad Lehnert, Scientific Coordinator University of Colorado, Boulder | In my group we study the fundamental noise processes in fast, mesoscopic sensors of charge, position, temperature and magnetization, with application to quantum computing, metrology and astrophysical sensors. I am an experimentalist. |  |
Alex Levchenko University of Minnesota, Twin Cities | I'm a theorist and currently I'm working in the field of mesoscopic superconductivity. Generally I'm interested in studying systems where interplay between interactions and disorder play an important role. |  |
Leonid S. Levitov, Lecturer MIT | Many-body theory, quantum transport, noise and dynamics. I am a theorist. |  |
Xueqing Liu SUNY at Stony Brook | My current research interest is on electron transport in nanostructures. I am an experimentalist. |  |
Thomas Ludwig Forschungszentrum | I am a theorist working on dephasing by electron-electron interaction in mesoscopic conductors |  |
Patrick Maletinsky ETH Zürich | I'm an experimentalist using spectroscopy to investigate the interaction of trapped excitons in quantum dots with the underlying nuclear spin system. |  |
Charles Marcus, Lecturer Harvard University | Current research concerns experimental investigation of mesoscopic phenomena and phase coherence and electron spin effects in semiconductor microstructures and other submicron electronic devices. |  |
Paul L. McEuen, Lecturer Cornell University | Experimentalist | |
Ion Moraru Michigan State University | Critical temperature dependence based on mutual orientation of ferromagnets in a ferromagnet/superconductor/ferromagnet system. I am an experimentalist. |  |
Andriy Nevidomskyy University of Cambridge | (theorist): strongly correlated electrons; coexistence of magnetism and superconductivity; unconventional superconductivity; carbon nanotubes |  |
A.K.M. Newaz SUNY at Stony Brook | My professional goal is to pursue a career on a wide range of experimental mesoscopic and nano-scale physics. I am an experimental condensed matter physicist. |  |
Dmitry Novikov Princeton University | Theory of electron transport in nanotubes, heterostructures, and arrays of quantum dots. Spin relaxation and diffusion in mesoscopic systems (from semiconductors to biological tissues). |  |
Alvaro Nunez The University of Texas at Austin | Condensed matter theory: spintronics and magnetism |  |
Takashi Oka University of Tokyo | I am a theorist interested in non-linear response in strongly correlated electron systems. |  |
David Pekker University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | I am working on theoretical aspects of mesoscopic superconductivity, in particular in superconducting nano-wires. |  |
Dmytro Pesin University of Washington | I am a theorist, currently interested in charge discreteness effects in mesoscopic superconductors. |  |
Jason Petta Harvard University | Experimentalist | |
Shawn Pottorf SUNY at Stony Brook | I am an experimentalist currently studying 1/f critical current noise and subgap leakage characteristics in Josephson Junctions fabricated for flux qubits to determine their relationship with qubit decoherence rates. |  |
Hicham Qasmi Duke University | Theorist | |
Leo Radzihovsky, Director University of Colorado | I am a theorist, interested in soft condensed matter physics, nonequilibrium phenomena, physics of quantum-Hall and related systems, with a theme unifying these diverse subjects being importance of fluctuations, nonlinearities and/or local material heterogeneities. |  |
Saar Rahav Cornell University | Currently interested in the classical limit of transport in mesoscopic systems. I am a theorist. |  |
Matthew Rakher University of California, Santa Barbara | I am experimentalist interested in cavity quantum electrodynamics in condensed matter systems. |  |
Daniel C. Ralph, Lecturer Cornell University | Experimentalist | |
Michael L. Roukes, Lecturer Caltech | My group at Caltech and I are pursuing nanoscale devices, especially (but not exclusively) nanoelectromechanical systems -- both in explorations of fundamental quantum phenomena, and toward realizing new "tools" for the life sciences and clinical medicine. |  |
Preden Roulleau CEA Saclay | Experimentalist | |
Robert J. Schoelkopf, Lecturer Yale University | My research is in the physics of nanostructures and single-electron devices. We build microelectronic circuits that display quantum mechanical behavior, to understand fundamental sources of noise, and the issues of quantum coherence and measurement. We also develop applications of these devices for quantum computation, metrology, and ultrasensitive detectors for astronomy. |  |
Heekeun Shin The Pennsylvania State University | Theory of transport in mesoscopic system: dense arrays of quantum dots. |  |
Guneeta Singh-Bhalla University of Florida | I am an experimentalist interested in low dimensional (thin film) physics: transport phenomenon, effects of interface capacitance, plasmon assisted (possibly) enhanced transmission of light. |  |
A. Douglas Stone, Lecturer Yale University | Quantum transport in disordered and mesoscopic systems. Quantum chaos and semiclassical methods in quantum mechanics and electromagnetism. Quantum measurement and quantum amplifiers. Laser physics and complex optical media. |  |
Joseph Sulpizio Stanford University | I am an experimentalist studying one-dimensional nanostructures, with particular interest in electron-electron interactions and quantum entanglement. |  |
Razvan Teodorescu Columbia University | I am a theorist, interested in strongly correlated fermions, integrable systems, and pattern formation. |  |
John Teufel Yale University | I am an experimentalist interested in high frequency measurement techniques of mesoscopic phenomena. |  |
Chushun Tian Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics | Currently my main interests are disordered electronic wire and the phase-string model of high Tc cuprate. I am a theorist |  |
Hakan Tureci Yale University | Quantum/Wave Chaos, Nonlinear wave phenomena in mesoscopic systems, microcavity lasers; lately, transport signatures of spin-orbit effects in interacting disordered quantum dots. I am a theorist. |  |
Ananth Venkatesan Northeastern University | I am an experimentalist. I have been measusring magnetization of 2-D electrons. |  |
Jeffrey Wasserman Johns Hopkins University | I am an experimentalist interested in the transport phenomena and superconductivity of low-dimensional and mesoscopic systems, as well as quantum computation. |  |
Robert L. Willett, Lecturer Lucent Technologies | My current research interests focus on the physics of reduced dimension phenomena, and particularly in the use of nanoscale structures to experimentally examine these effects. I am an experimentalist. |  |
Zhenhua Yu University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | Ultracold fermionic atomic gases. Theorist. |  |
Dina Zhabinskaya University of Pennsylvania | I am a theorist working on optical properties of carbon nanotubes. |  |
Zhengfan Zhang Northwestern University | I am currently working on electronic transport in carbon nanotubes. I am an experimentalist. |  |