Topics
From phys600
Astronomy & Astrophysics
- Ground and space based gamma-ray astronomy (Holder)
- Where do fast radio bursts come from? (Holder)
- The formation and early evolution of low-mass stars and brown dwarfs (Gizis)
- Pulsating white dwarf stars and precision asteroseismology (Provencal)
- Scenarios of giant planet formation and evolution and their impact on the formation of habitable terrestrial planets (Dodson-Robinson)
- Variable snow lines affect planet formation (Dodson-Robinson)
- Radiatively driven stellar winds from hot stars (Owocki)
- Magnetic fields of nondegenerate stars (Petit)
AMO Physics
- Extremely high-intensity laser interactions with fundamental quantum systems (Walker)
- The ultimate X-ray machine (DeCamp)
- Ultrafast carrier dynamics in nanostructures for solar fuels (Gundlach)
- The quantum halo state of the helium trimer (Szalewicz)
- Casimir forces: Still surprising after 60 years (Szalewicz)
- Quantum information with Rydberg atoms (Safronova)
- Quantum optomechanics (Singh at ECE)
- Squeezing quantum noise (Singh at ECE)
Biological Physics
- Molecular dynamics simulations and drug discovery (Lyman)
- Fluid lipid membranes (Lyman)
- Graphene nanodevices for DNA sequencing (Nikolic)
Condensed Matter Physics, Materials Physics and Nanophysics
- Spin torque building blocks (Xiao)
- Skyrmions on track (Jungfleisch)
- Magnon spintronics (Jungfleisch)
- Spin transport in non-magnetic nanostructures induced by nonlocal spin injection (Ji)
- Practical aspects of modern and future permanent magnets (Hadjipanayis)
- Magnetic nanoparticles: Synthesis, functionalization, and applications in bioimaging and magnetic energy storage (Unruh)
- Quantum shot noise (Nowak)
- Shaping optical space with metamaterials (Chui)
- Recent advances in bulk heterojunction polymer solar cells (Shah)
- Understanding photocatalysis: Mechanisms and materials (Shah)
- Photonic design principles for ultrahigh-efficiency photovoltaics (Birkmire)
- Quantum spin Hall effect and topological insulators (Law)
- Graphene plasmonics (Law at MSEG)
- Graphene spintronics (Nikolic)
- 2D materials and van der Waals heterostructures (Nikolic)
Elementary Particles, Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
- Neutrino mass and new physics (Barr)
- Status and implications of beyond-the-Standard-Model searches at the LHC (Barr)
- The origin of galactic cosmic rays (Gaisser)
- Utrahigh energy cosmic rays (Stanev)
- Ice cube: An instrument for neutrino astronomy (Seckel)
- Discovery of gravitational waves (Shafi)
- Experimental cosmology with cosmic microwave background (Shafi)
