Paul Grannis, Sept. 14, 2004
http://sbhep1.physics.sunysb.edu/~grannis/dept.html
The State of the Department
Department Staff
Paul Grannis, Chairman
Pam Burris, Assistant to Chairman
Laszlo Mihaly, Director of Graduate Studies
Pat Peiliker, Assistant Director of Graduate Studies
Emilio Mendez, Director of Undergraduate Studies
Elaine Larsen, Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies
Bob Segnini, Director of Physical Labs
Rich Berscak, Building Manager
Sara Lutterbie, Business Manager
Diane Siegel, Main Office
Maria Hofer, Main Office
Joe Feliciano & Frank Chin, Instructional Labs.
Chuck Pancake, Electronics Center
Walter Schmeling, Machine Shop
Sal Natale, Receiving
New faculty
New appointments:
Adam Durst, condensed matter theory. Adam studies high Tc
superconductors and 2-dimensional electron gases. Adam is presently a
postdoc with Subdir Sachev at Yale. He will join Stony Brook in January
2005.
Science June 18 – Cooking a 2dimensional electron gas with
microwaves
New faculty
Dominik Schneble, atomic physics experiment. Dominik studies
strongly correlated atoms in optical lattices. Dominik has just
completed a postdoc at MIT with Wolfgang Ketterle. He will arrive
in Stony Brook in January 2005. He and wife Elisa just had a baby
girl on Sept. 5.
News of the faculty
Welcome back to those on the faculty who were on leave last year:
Phil Solomon
Peter Stephens
Dima Averin
Michael Gurvitch
Tom Kuo
On leave this year:
Barbara Jacak
Chris Jacobsen (fall)
Chang Kee Jung (spring)
Janos Kirz
Ken Lanzetta
Kostya Likharev (spring)
Jim Lukens
Mike Marx
Edward Shuryak (spring)
Bill Weisberger (spring)
News of the faculty
A special welcome back to Peter Paul after
6 years as Deputy for Science and
Technology and Acting Interim Director at
Brookhaven Lab.
News of the faculty
 Axel Drees was promoted to full professor
 Concha Gonzalez-Garcia and John Hobbs were promoted to
associate professor
 Janos Kirz has been named Interim Director of Advanced Light
Source at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
 Peter van Nieuwenhuizen was elected “Ridder in de Orde van de
Nederlandse Leeuw” (knight of the order of the Dutch lion)
 Norbert Pietralla won the Academy Prize for Physics from Academy
of Sciences in Göttingen
 Edward Shuryak was Dirac Lecturer at University of New South
Wales in March and won the Dirac Medal
News of the faculty
 Hal Metcalf was elected to the chair line (vice chair) of the Division
of Laser Science of the APS
 Laszlo Mihaly received the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in
Teaching
 George Sterman was named the 2004 Distinguished Alumnus by the
University of Maryland Physics Department
 Chang Kee Jung was given an Academy of Teacher-Scholar Award
 Vladimir Litvinenko (BNL, adjunct in dep’t) was made APS Fellow.
Vladimir won the 2004 Free Electron Laser Prize for "outstanding
contributions for the Free electron Laser science and technology".
News of the faculty
Cover of 9/12/03 PRL: Brodsky,
A.S. Goldhaber, J. Lee
Feynman diagram illustrating an alternative production mechanism for
glueballs; the glueball (a bound-gluon state predicted by QCD) is
accompanied by a charmonium state H. The calculated cross section
for this process in e+e- annihilation suggests that recent anomalous
results from the Belle Collaboration may be due in part to production
of charmonium-glueball pairs.
KOPIO experiment (~$50M) approved by Congress as NSF MRE project; Mike
Marx is project leader. Ko → po n n decay is a clean and direct measure of CP
violation.
Barbara Jacak featured on NPR “Talk of the Nation: Science Friday” on Jan.
20, 2004, discussing the new RHIC quark gluon plasma results.
Barbara has also joined a distinguished roster of speakers at NSF, exploring
the science future for ‘Quarks and the Cosmos’
Ken Lanzetta conceived and organized “Astronomers Under Glass”, a public
analysis of Hubble Deep Field images at the Rose Center of the American
Museum of Natural History in March.
News of the faculty
CERN Courier, May 2004: article by M. Rocek and G.
Sterman on result from 1st Simons Workshop in
2003:
“Space goes quantum at Stony Brook”
Does a melting crystal provide the key to developing
a quantum description of gravity? Advances at the
first Simons Workshop point to a connection.
This year’s workshop just finished: Superstrings and Topological Strings
Adjunct Faculty
The department made new adjunct faculty appointments to:
Praveen Chaudhari – BNL Director, materials science
Jim Davenport – theoretical condensed matter physics at BNL
Peter Johnson – experimental condensed matter physics at BNL
David Sayre – retired from IBM, affiliated with the x-ray optics group
Jin Wang – theoretical physics of biology, Asst. Prof. in SB Chemistry
Also appointed those outside the department who are supervising PhD
theses on 1 year renewable terms as affiliated or adjunct faculty.
Graduate student PhDs awarded
Aug. 2003: (18 degrees)
Lilia Anguelova
Univ. Michigan postdoc
Seth Aubin
Univ. Toronto postdoc
Tigran Bacarian
Tirthabir Biswas
McGill Univ.
Fernando Camino
Stony Brook postdoc
Javier Cardona
Univ. de los Andes faculty
Matthew Cashen
Stanford postdoc
Alberto Iglisias
New York Univ. postdoc
Jiangyong Jia
Colombia postdoc
Bertram Klein
GSI Darmstadt postdoc
Takeshi Koike
Stony Brook postdoc
Peter Langfelder
Perimeter Inst., Waterloo CA postdoc
Mathew Malek
Fermilab postdoc
Graduate student PhDs awarded
August 2003 cont’d
Jaan Mannik
Stony Brook postdoc
Filipe Moura
Ecole Polytechnique postdoc
Joe Reiner
NIST postdoc
Kevin Schultz
Ohio State postdoc
John Wilson
Duke medical imaging postdoc
December 2003 (7 degrees)
Yiing-rei Chen
Columbia chemistry postdoc
Gary Gluckman
Radiation Oncology, Stony Brook
Loic Grandchamp-Desraux
Lawrence Berkeley Lab postdoc
Athanasios Hatzikoutelis
Univ. Virginia postdoc
Oleg Kritsun
Stony Brook postdoc
Tianfang Li
Stony Brook medical imaging postdoc
Tevfik Mentes
INFN Trieste postdoc
Graduate student PhDs awarded
May 2004 (7 degrees)
Tobias Beetz
Brookhaven Nat’l Lab
Nathan Clisby
Univ. Melbourne postdoc
Alok Gambhir
Stony Brook medical school
Tibor Kucs
Deutsche Bank, London
Diyar Talbayev
William & Mary postdoc
Zhong Min Wang
Radiation oncology, Univ. Penn
Valeriu Zetocha
Financial industry in New York
August 2004 (1 degree)
Marian Zdrazil
Lawrence Berkeley Lab postdoc
Graduate student degrees awarded
MSI, May 2004 (2 degrees)
Bob Azmoun
BNL tech position
Susan Metz
Photon Research Associates
Stony Brook is one of the leading universities in number of Ph.D. degrees
granted.
Ranking of 2001-2 PhDs granted
1. Illinois/Champaign Urbana
2. MIT
3. Stony Brook
3. Texas Austin
5. Harvard
6. Ohio State
7. UC Berkeley
8. Cornell
9. Stanford
10. UC San Diego
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32
29
29
27
25
23
22
20
18
In 2003-4: 32 PhDs
Incoming graduate students
Almeida
Amparo
Anderson
Chen
Clow
Dai
Dixon
Dusling
Faherty
Farley
Goodson
Grimes
Haeming
Huang
Johannsen
Jung
Kamin
Knochel
Krejca
Kuo
Leandro
Denis Joseph
William
Chin-Hao
Stephen
Peng
Keri
Kevin
Jacqueline
Christopher
Jeremiah
Jacob
Marc
Lei
Tim
Jay Hoon
Jason
Alexander
Brian
Yueh-Cheng
Florida Inst. Technology
Ateneo de Manila Univ.
Gettysburg College
National Taiwan Univ.
Portland State, Rice Univ.
Nanjing Univ.
Univ. Illinois Urbana/Champain
Cooper Union
Notre Dame, Columbia
Fordham Univ.
Univ. Colorado, Boulder
Southwest Texas State
Univ. Würzburg
USTC
Univ. Würzburg
Sungkyun Univ.
Hampshire College
Univ. Würzburg
U. Mass Lowell/U. Illinois UC
National Taiwan Univ.
US
Philippines
US
Taiwan
US
China
US
US
US
US
US
US
Germany
China
Germany
Korea
US
Germany
US
Taiwan
Incoming graduate students
Lapidus
Lepzelter
Li
Liao
Lim
Lin
Lopez
Means
Nesteroff
Patu
Pomoni
Reeves
Riedmann
Ryb
Schiff
Shen
Staedele
Steinbrener
Stewart
Stone
Saul
David
Rundong
Jinfeng
Yeunhwan
Shu
Glenn
Nathan
James
Ionel
Elli
Jason
Matthias
Itai
Philip
Xiao
Verena
Jan
Steven
Kevin
Rochester Inst. Technology
MIT
Beijing University
Tsinghua Univ.
Seoul National Univ.
Beijing Univ.
Univ. Michigan
Cornell College
Clarkson Univ.
Univ. Bucharest
Univ. Athens
Knox College
Univ. Würzburg
Hebrew Univ. Jerusalem
Truman State Univ.
Fudan Univ.
Konstanz
Univ. Würzburg
SUNY Oneonta
Univ. California Berkeley
US
US
China
China
Korea
China
US
US
US
Romania
Greece
US
Germany
Israel
US
China
Germany
Germany
US
US
Incoming graduate students
Strauss
Tan
Tschann-Grimm
Xu
You
Young
Zhang
Emanuel
Zhongkui
Kathryn
Jianhua
Sifang
Clint
Yan
Johns Hopkins Univ.
Beijing Univ.
UCLA
USTC
USTC
SUNY Binghamton
USTC
US
China
US
China
China
US
China
47 incoming graduate students this year; 39 PhD candidates; 6 exchange
students (MA); 2 MSI
Europe
US
1
2
Where
do new students
3
come from?
Asia
Undergraduate Degrees
Bachelor degrees , December 2003 (3)
Alisha Cramer
Yoshitaka Yamagata
Meng Yan
May 2004 (12)
Sevan Aydin
Zoe Berger
Law school
Stuart Fishkin
seeking jobs
Philip Grandin
Vanderbilt planetarium; grad school ‘05
Taiga Inoue (PHY minor)
graduate school, systems science
Jason Pawlowski
graduate study, physics - Colorado
Amy Roberts
BNL research
Undergraduate Degrees
Jude Schneck
graduate school, chemistry - Boston University
Ki Wi Song (PHY minor)
Anthony Traglia
undecided; graduate school in future
Chui Yi Woo
graduate school, physics - Duke
Adi Zolotov
research at Stony Brook; graduate school
August 2004 (4)
Eirini Anastasiou
Pharmaceutical industry/ medical school
Spiro Kartsonis
industry
James Scholtz
undecided
Sebastian Trujillo
research at Stony Brook; graduate school
Enrollments
last yr.
AST101
141
AST105 262
AST248 230
PHY113
50
PHY121
351
PHY122
133
PHY131
302
PHY132
91
PHY125
87
PHY126
PHY301
PHY303
44
42
this yr.
161
266
225
50
426
150
270
59
98
81
New “Physics of Sport” -- market seems >100
31
28
Introductory course enrollments continue high. Junior level courses down
somewhat but still larger than we’ve seen in the past.
We continue to need to improve in finding opportunities for research projects
for undergraduates, and the increased number of majors amplifies this need.
2004 Teacher of the year
Emilio Mendez
The great softball challenge
In a warm up for the Olympic games on August 19, the graduate
student Team Tiger took on the dream team, Godzilla made up of
faculty, staff (and a few ringers).
Final score: Team Godzilla 21 (base 4) : Team Tiger 20 (base 8)
Age and treachery will always overcome youth and enthusiasm!
Better luck next year to the grad students!
Simons Lecturers
The bequest by the Simons Foundation will be used this year to sponsor
two special lecturers who will visit the department for a week or more
and give a combination of colloquium and seminar level talks. The
lecturers will also be available for discussions and interactions with
students and faculty.
Lecturers were chosen to present recent theoretical advances of physics
and astronomy, and to represent theoretical fields not strongly
represented at Stony Brook.
Paul Steinhardt of Princeton University will talk on alternatives to big
bang cosmology and quasi-crystals during his visit from Oct. 25 – 29.
(Host: Bill Weisberger)
Sir Michael Berry of the University of Bristol will discuss optical
singularities, chaos and Riemann zeroes, non-hermitian degeneracies and
asymptotic oscillatory phenomena. He will visit Jan. 31 – Feb. 11
(Host: Hal Metcalf)
Alumni News
Li Hua Yu (PhD with C.N. Yang in 1984) of
Brookhaven Lab received the 2003 Free
Electron Laser prize.
Abid Patwa (PhD 2002 with M. Rijssenbeek)
got the DØ Forward Preshower Module
installed in a Museum of Modern Art (NY)
exhibition, and subsequently at the Palais de
la Decouverte in Paris.
Bill Weng, BNL director of Center for Particle Accelerators (1974
PhD with Tom Kuo) named fellow of IEEE
Alumni News
Joo Sang Kang (PhD 1970, Ben Lee), now on the faculty at Korea
University, has established the Benjamin W. Lee Memorial
Fellowship, to be used in preference for graduate students from
Korea.
Sergei Maslov, PhD 1996 (Phil Allen) (now Adjunct Professor)
won the Presidential Science and Engineering Award this year.
Rajiv Kamilla (PhD 1997, Jainendra Jain), now at Goldman Sachs
in NY, won a $10,000 prize for innovation in futures trading – and
donated it to the Department! (upcoming colloquium)
Mohsen Yeganeh, BS summa cum laude in ~1987, is now at Exxon
Mobil Laboratories. He is a candidate for the Forum of
Industrial and Applied Physics Sec’y/Treasurer position in the
APS.
Events
On Oct. 1 at 5PM (Wang Center) Carolyn Porco, Stony Brook BS in 1974 and
now Cassini imaging team leader at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, CO
will give a Provost’s Lecture describing the recent studies of Saturn and its
moons and rings. This lecture is part of the Alumni Homecoming Weekend
activities.
Colloquium
Sept. 21 Jin Wang, Department of Chemistry and new affiliated member
of Physics and Astronomy: “Biomolecular Folding and Recognition-Energy
Landscape Perspectives”
Carolyn Porco: Special Physics, Astronomy, Geosciences Colloquium on
THURSDAY, Sept. 30 “The Rings of Saturn as Seen by Cassini”, Harriman
Hall 137.
Attending colloquium – Physics and Astronomy is a collection of
special research areas that are all connected in deep and
interesting ways. The weekly colloquium is our opportunity to
learn about the richness of physics and to expand our horizons.
It is our responsibility to join in this central activity of the
Department.
Outreach
The popular Open Night Friday night series for the general public continues.
Deane Peterson and Tom Hemmick are planning a star-studded roster for
2003 – 2004. Friday nights at 7:30 PM (ESS 001)
Astronomy Open Night
Nights
Astronomy Open Nights Fall 2003:
This is the 21st year anniversary of
Astronomy Open Nights
Jim Lattimer “What is a neutron star made of”
(Sept. 3)
Fred Walter: “SMARTS: Big science with small
telescopes” (Oct. 1)
Phil Solomon: “The Spitzer telescope: a new look at
the infrared universe” (Oct. 29) … and more
Worlds of Physics Fall 2003
Abhay Deshpande: Nucleon spin: from crisis to a
puzzle (Sept. 10)
Laszlo Mihaly: Spin resonance and spin echo (Oct. 8)
… and more
Also ‘Geology Open Nights and The Living World series.
Worlds of Physics
Outreach
2005 is the ‘Year of Physics’, commemorating the 1905 Einstein
publications of Brownian motion, special relativity and photoelectric effect.
http://www.physics2005.org/
Outreach, interactions with schools, special events.
We and our students should be involved.
The building
PHYSICS AND MATH BUILDING MASONRY REPAIR STATUS:
Masonry probes were performed in 2003 to determine the condition of the
masonry facade, corner soldier brick courses, masonry column enclosures,
and relieving angle structures by all the windows.
Scope of Work for the masonry repairs are defined. Budgetary Cost
estimates for masonry repair and new roof were completed: $1.86M
We are at the top of the list -- Hoping for the NY State budget to pass!
Over the past year, many repairs made to the AC systems on the roof – new
catchment trays for condensate water, redo plumbing. So far, the most
awful leaks seem to be gone!
Research highlights of the past year
This year I asked for one slide that represents the work of each of
the research groupings. Thus this summary is NOT complete, but I
hope that it gives the students a flavor for the research
opportunities that the Department offers.
Organizing principle for areas is from smallest to largest.
The physics mistakes in
presenting these are mine!!
Phys/Astro merger
Physical Sciences and Math
research expenditures
~ $13.3M in AY’03 (14th in the
nation); highest in the university
Twistor superstrings
W. Siegel
(Nair; Witten; Roiban, Spradlin, & Volovich; Berkovits; Vafa; ...)
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Old idea (1988), recently revived and extended (December, 2003)
New string theories, for just 4 dimensions
Actually describe particles, not strings
Tailored to describe Quantum Chromodynamics (as part of maximally
supersymmetric Yang-Mills)
Directly give known simple results for tree graphs (Born approximation scattering)
Much simpler than Feynman diagrams; possible replacement
Use topology, twistors, superspace, worldsheet instantons
May generalize to new kinds of QCD strings
Work by Stony Brook people: Roiban (former student); Berkovits (former postdoc);
Siegel (faculty); Giombi, Ricci, Robles-Llana, Trancanelli (students)
One of the topics at the Simons Workshop here, “Superstrings & Topological
Strings”, July 26 - August 27, 2004
Stringy ideas are now influencing understanding of phenomena
observed in the lab; may lead to ability to calculate complex
higher order supersymmetry processes at LHC.
Concha Gonzalez-Garcia
Nucleon Decay and Neutrino Group
Super-Kamiokande, K2K, T2K, and UNO
C.K. Jung, C. McGrew, C. Yanagisawa,
A. Sarrat, K. Kobayashi, T. Kato, D. Kerr,
R. Terri, L. Whitehead, L.P. Trung
K2K Confirmation of
Neutrino Oscillation
Topics: Neutrino Mass and Mixing, Solar Neutrinos,
Supernova Neutrinos, Atmospheric Neutrinos,
Experimental Tests of Grand Unification, Proton Decay,
Accelerator and Non-Accelerator based High Energy
Particle Physics, Neutrino Cross Section Measurements
No Oscillations
Normalized to the
number of entries
Best Fit
K2K Allowed Region
Exclude Null Osc. by 3.9σ
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Evidence for Neutrino Mass not in Standard Model
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NSKobs=108
NSKexp (best fit)=104.8
N(no oscillation) ~ 150
Experimental high energy physics at accelerators
Sr. staff: Rod Engelmann, Paul Grannis, John Hobbs, Mike Marx,
Bob McCarthy, Michael Rijssenbeek, Dean Schamberger
Marian Zdrazil's Thesis
Search for doubly
charged Higgs Bosons
H++ or H-Look for decays into
like sign dimuons
Expected in some
models extending the
Standard Model.
New limit on the mass
m(H++) > 119 GeV
To be published in PRL soon
1st DØ publication from
upgraded detector
Experiments at RHIC
In central collisions the particle production
associated with both mesons and baryons in
Au Au is similar and significantly higher than
observed in pp and dAu collisions. This
suggests that baryons are produced in jets,
rather than by recombination of thermal quarks.
Particles near trigger
#overlapped nucleons
A. Sickles, B. Jacak
Run-3 submitted to PRL
Study p0 production asymmetry (ALL)
from two polarized protons. This
asymmetry is sensitive to the fraction
of the proton spin carried by gluons.
First publication (A. Deshpande et al.)
established the technique and the
polarization measurement. The result
is consistent with DIS measurement of
gluon contribution to proton spin.
Run 5 will refine the measurement and help unravel
the proton “spin crisis”
Ismail Zahed
Nuclear Theory Group
temperature
Newly discovered chiral partners of
charm-strange mesons by experiments
at SLAC, Cornell, KEK (Japan) and
Fermilab
Predicted by Nowak, Rho, Zahed (1993)
Bardeen, Hill (1994)
Boundaries for
decomposing various
quark systems
Adiabatic
trajectories of
experiments
QCD Phase Diagram of the
Strongly Coupled Quark Gluon
Plasma as currently probed
At RHIC
Shuryak and Zahed (2003)
Brown, Shuryak (2004)
Normal hadronic
phase
Cold superconducting phase
density
Gamma Ray Spectroscopy Group
Proton-neutron
asymmetric structure
Scissors Mode
Stony CUBE
(Mixed-Symmetry States)
N. Pietralla, G. Rainovski, C. Vaman,
T. Koike, A. Costin, T. Ahn, K. Dusling,
T.-C. Lu
jn
long jn
jp
long
short
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Int
Int
Chiral doublet bands
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COLLIMATING ATOMS WITH
THE BICHROMATIC FORCE
Why the bichromatic force ???
It’s HUGE, and it spans a
HUGE velocity range!!!
FOCUSING ATOMS WITH
A DC ELECTRIC FIELD
Why electrostatic forces ???
This is a new domain for
atom optics and control.
Electrostatic forces act on neutral atoms
ONLY through an induced dipole moment, a
process efficient ONLY in Rydberg atoms.
Here the Rydberg states (high n) have been
produced by a novel process and focused to
a small spot. (Thesis of Oleg Kritsun).
Note – even though these look similar, they are indeed very different images.
The bichromatic force offers a new domain of
optical forces to exploit for control of atomic
motion. Here it collimates a metastable He
beam to high intensity and brightness for use in
atomic lithography. (Thesis of Matt Partlow).
Condensed matter theory
P. B. Allen, A. G. Abanov, R. Requist, cond-mat/031104
Spontaneous Quantum Electrical Dipole Predicted in
Triangular Molecules
Nanodevice physics
interface
pin
gold
nanowire
levels
(nanoimprint)
A collaboration including Phil Allen, Kostya
Likharev and Jim Lukens, as well as
experts from several other SBU
departments (Chemistry, Material
Sciences, and Neurobiology & Behavior)
and ORNL, develops scientific basis for
future hybrid semiconductor/molecular
(“CMOL”) integrated circuits.
R
C N
R
R = hexyl
n
O
O
N
N
O
O
gold
electrodes
5 nm
gap
CMOS
stack
MOSFET
Si wafer
N C
CMOL circuit concept
n
n=3
A molecular single-electron transistor…
CMOS
wiring
and
plugs
R
R
self-assembled
molecular devices
...and its I-V curve
The work includes selfassembly of singlemolecule devices on prefabricated metallic
nanowires, experimental
and theoretical study of
electron transport in
these devices, and
development of novel bioinspired architectures
for CMOL circuits.
Large Charge Quanta in
Supercond/Semicond/Supercond Junctions
F. Camino, V. Kuznetsov, and E. E. Mendez
(F. E. Camino et. al., cond-mat/0406650)
Sketch of the semiconductor/superconductor
structure used in this work. Electron Cooper
pairs are transferred from one Nb electrode
to another via a two-dimensional electron gas
formed in the InAs semiconducting layer.
Dependence of noise on current, measured
at 1.2 K. The thick solid line is the experimental
curve. The dashed line is the calculated noise
assuming a charge equal to e, while the
thin solid line considers a charge q  6e.
Chris Jacobsen
X-ray optics group
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H. Fleckenstein, B. Hornberger, X. Huang, C. Jacobsen,
B. Larson, M. Lerotić, E. Lima, M. Lu, H. Miao, D. Sayre,
D. Shapiro, S. Wirick
Departures: J. Kirz as Acting Director of Advanced Light
Source, Berkeley; T. Beetz to postdoc at BNL
(May 2003 photo)
Spectra reveal
organic
functional
groups
Scanning microscopy at BNL: cluster analysis of
Clostridium sp. forming a spore (bacterium can reduce U
in soils, decreasing mobility). With J. Gillow, A.J.
Francis, BNL.
Center for Environmental
Molecular Sciences
Lensless imaging of yeast at LBL: image reconstructed
from diffraction data alone. This sample freezedried; now working with frozen hydrated cells. With
A. Niemann, Stony Brook; P. Thibault, V. Elser, Cornell.
Nanofabrication of diffractive optics
Observational astronomy: Aaron Evans, Ken Lanzetta, Deane
Peterson, Mike Simon, Phil Solomon, Fred Walte
Use telescopes in Chile, Hawaii, Owens Valley, Vancouver(!) and
elsewhere
From the 2MASS (2 mm All Sky
Survey) list of 100 largest
galaxies in the near infrared.
Work of Aaron Evans in
collaboration with CalTech, Univ.
Massachusetts.
Research outside the Department
Many of our students find good thesis research beyond the Department
 Accelerator physics: our adjunct professors Peggs, Ben-Zvi, Litvinenko,
MacKay at BNL offer many theoretical and experimental topics. (Note the
Accel. Phys course this fall by Waldo MacKay)
 Atmospheric physics: the physics of our atmosphere through the Marine
Sciences Research Center (Geller, de Zafra)
 Biological Physics: Opportunities in genomics, brain design, bio
computation at Cold Spring Harbor Lab (Chklovskii, Zhang); on campus
topics in biophysics, structural biology, protein folding, radiation oncology,
pharmacology (Kisker, Liang, McLaughlin, S. Smith, J. Wang)
 Condensed Matter and Materials Science at BNL: (Abbamonte,
Chaudhari, Davenport, Dierker, P. Johnson, Kao, Ku, Liang, Mazlov, Tsvelik) –
both theory and experiment.
 Particle theory and Lattice Gauge: BNL adjuncts Creutz and Dawson
also opportunities in chemical physics, medical imaging etc.
About 20 students supervised in these external areas.
 A wealth of exciting physics and astronomy has emerged
your work over the past year. I have only scratched the
surface (more reports to come in colloquia, seminars,
Friday presentations)
 The students, research associates and faculty at Stony
Brook are recognized as being at the leading edge in many
of the most important areas of science.
 We welcome the new students to our community, and
wish you every success in the exciting enterprises to come.
Reception outside the Department
Office (in the keg circle) follows !
This talk: http://sbhep1.physics.sunysb.edu/~grannis/dept.html