University of Rochester
Physics
Department: Graduate Research Seminars Spring 2010
Arie Bodek
Updated Januray 12 , 2011
The National Ignition Facility is now complete and experiments that employ 192 laser beams with 1.5 MJ of energy with the primary goal of producing a burning plasma are well under way. Within the next decade inertial confinement fusion will become a reality and a star will be born in the laboratory. The Laboratory for Laser Energetics is a major part of the quest for fusion as the only major laser facility in the United States where basic research in high-energy density plasmas is accessible—many of the issues encountered on the pathway to fusion have been or will be solved on OMEGA. In this talk I will focus on the interaction of the laser beams with the plasma. In the most fundamental interactions, photons scattering from free electrons, Thomson scattering will be discussed and how this process is used to measure the basic plasma conditions and more complex plasma instabilities. I will present an update on the National Ignition Campaign where the first Megajoule indirectly driven fusion experiments are under way. I will detail how laser plasma interactions, specifically ion-acoustic waves (sound waves in the plasma), are being used to transfer energy within the plasma to tune the symmetry of the fusion capsule. I will then focus on recent results from directly drive fusion capsules at OMEGA that suggest a similar beam transfer mechanize is responsible for transferring energy from small angle rays to large angle rays. I will outline a potential project where Thomson scattering could be used to probe these ion-acoustic waves directly and quantify the beam transfer process.
25Options for PhD Research
U of Physics Physics and
Astroromy: Faculty research groups
Faculty who
gave graduate research seminars in
Spring 2010
Jan 29 ,
2010 Eldred
Chimowitz Chemical Engineering
Enhanced Thermal Transport Near the Critical Point (had opening in
Spring 2010)
Feb 12 , 2010 Edward
Thorndike, Charm Physics at
BES3. (had opening in
Spring 2010).
Feb. 19, 2010
Cynthia Ebinger, EES
"Earthquakes as recorders of molten rock movement through Earth's plate"
had opening in Spring 2010
Feb 26 , 2010
Regina Demina, Physics at the
LHC -,had opening
in Spring 2010
March 5 , 2010 John Howell had opening in Spring 2010
March 19 ,
2010 Doug Turner, Predicting RNA Structure." (had opening in Spring 2010)
March
26
,
2010
12:30-1.00
Chunlei Guo, Institute of
Optics, Femtosecond
laser-matter interactions (had
opening in Spring 2010)
April
2 ,
2010 Prof.
D. Meyerhofer (Physics and LLE) "Research Opportunities at
the Laboratory for Laser
Energetics" had opening in
Spring 2010
April
9 , 2010 Prof. Ha Youn
Lee Dept. of Biostat Computational Biology,
University of Rochester
Tracking HIV/SIV evolution within host using single
genome amplification and ultradeep pyrosequencing had opening in Spring 2010
April
16,
2010
Prof.
Stephen
Teitel
Dept. of Physics &
Astronomy, University of Rochester (had
opening
in
Spring
2010)
April
23, 2010 Prof. Ruola Ning and Dr. Weixing
Cai,
Department of Imaging Sciences, Radiation Oncology, Oncology (URMC) and
Biomedical Engineering and Electrical & Computer Engineering,
University of Rochester, : Cone
Beam
CT
Imaging (had opening in
Spring 2010).
Faculty
who
replied
with
possible
positions
for
summer
2010 and Fall/Spring 2010
About
12-14
possible
positions
and
up
to
24
under most optimistic
scenario in which all proposals are funded)
Y. Gao - Exp Condensed Matter (Received NSF
grant April 2010 and has opening for
students)
Chunlei Guo Professor of Optics, Femtosecond
laser-matter interactions (has two positions, will give a short seminar
March 26, 10)
ldred
Chimowitz /Shapir - Chemical Physics (one position,
Seminar Jan 29, 10)
Ed Thorndike paticle physics (one position) Seminar Feb.
12,
10
Cynthia Ebinger - Earth and Environment Science (may have a
position, seminar Feb. 19, 10).
Regina Demina - Particle Physics (one or two positions)
Seminar Feb. 26, 10
J. Howell - Quantum Optics (one postion) Seminar March 5, 10
D. Turner (Dept of Chemistry)
Predicting RNA Structure ( has one position) Seminar March 19, 10
R. Betti - Plasma Physics (positions at LLE) seminar
April 2, 10
D. Meyerhofer Plasma Physics (exp/LLE) (2-3 positions in
experimental plasma physics at LLE)
Ha Youn Lee - Medical Physics (1 position, talking to one
student)
seminar April 9, 10
Steve Teitel - Condensed Matter theory (1 position,
Seminar, April 16, 10)
Ruola Ning - Medical Physics (1 postion, Seminar April 23, 10)
AND
L. Novotny exp quantum optics (already taking one of the
students, name identified )
K. McFarland - Exp particle/neutirno physics (has
positions)
Aran Garcia Bellido - Particle Physics/CMS one position (can give a
seminar)
Jianhui Zhong - Medical Physics, possible one position
(waiting for funding decision) - students should contact him.
Carlos Stroud (quantun optics) (at most one student)
Hanan Dery - Condensed Matter Theory (full but one possible
position for excellent student, could give a seminar)
U. Schroder - Nuclear Physics (full, but may have
position later in AY10/11) (could give a seminar).
C. Ren - Plasma Physics - Theory (full but one
possible
for excellent student , could give a seminar)
S. Manly Exp particle/neutrino physics (talking to one
student, may have a position, no seminar)
David Mathews - possible one position (waiting for funding
decision)
F. Wolfs - Exp. Dark Matter -(may have one position if NSF
proposal is funded).
G. Agrawal (Optics) (full, but may have a
position if a new NSF grant is funded)
D. Watson - Astrophysics (possibly one position, more likely to wait
till a year from now)
Bill Forrest (Astrophysics) - (possible one position if Grants are
funded, could give a seminar)
S. Rajeev Particle theory (one opening, already talking to a
couple of students)
E. Brown - medical physics , (annot
be
sure for now, will only know in a few months about funding)
A. Badolato - exp condensed
matter (has one year student, and two 2nd year students expressed
interest)
W. Knox (Optics)
(full, but will talk to
students and direct them towards
faculty in optics who have openings)
For additional
faculty who were not contacted yet (from Cross Disciplinary Web
page)
http://www.pas.rochester.edu/urpas/page/cross_disciplinary
Stephen Craxton - Senior Scientist LLE Plasma Physics, Lasers and
fusion (supervised several physics PhD students in the past)
William R. Donaldson, Senior Scientist , LLE Optical
Physics and Lasers (supervised several physics PhD students in
the past)
James M. Farrar, Professor of Chemistry, - Chemical Physics
(supervised physics PhD students in the past , but not recently)
James Fienup, Professor of Optics, Image Processing, Wave
Front Sensing (did not have physics students in the past)
Chunlei Guo Professor of Optics, Femtosecond
laser-matter interactions (supervised one physics PhD student in the
past)
Jim Knauer, Senior Scientist, LLE Plasma Physics and
Fusion (supervised several physics PhD students in
the past)
Todd Kraus, Professor of Chemistry,
Spectroscopy of
nanometer scale materials (supervised several physics
PhD students in the past)
Misha Ovchinnikov, Prof, of Chemistry Quantum molecular
dynamics (supervised physics PhD students in the
past)
Wolf Seka, Prof of Optics and Senior Scientist, LLE
optical
physics and lasers (supervised several physics PhD
students in the past)
Gary Wicks, Professor of Optics, Material
Science,
Condensed
Matter
Physics,
Nano-materials
(supervised
several
physics PhD students in the past)
Alexandre Pouget, Prof. of BCS, Biological
Physics,cortical
mechanisms
of
motion
and
form
perception;
visual
memory (supervised one physics PhD student in
the past)
John Marciante, Professor of Optics and Senior Scientist LLE,
Laser, waveguide and fiber optics (supervised physics PhD students in
the past)
Waiting to hear from
Ben Miller - medical physics , (supervised physics
PhD students in the past)
P. Fauchet - exp Condensed matter physics
(supervised physics PhD students in the past)
Thomas B.
Jones, Prof. of Electrical Engineering, High-speed
microactuation
of
liquid
for
the
laboratory
on
a
chip (did not have physics students in the
past)
David
Wiliams, Professor of Optics- Biological Optics (did not have physics students in the
past)
David Wu, Prof. of Chemical
Engineering, Biological and Medical
Physics (did
not
have
physics
students
in
the
past)
Hong Yang, Prof of Chemical
Engineering, nanoparicles (did not have physics students in the
past)
Matthew Yaters, Prof. of Chemical
Engineering, Colloids and
Interfaces (did
not
have
physics
students
in
the
past)
Jes Zavislan, Prof. of Optics,
Biomedical Optics. (did not have physics students in the past)
Duncan Moore, Professor of Optics, Optical engineering (did not have physics students in the
past)
Chen,
Shaw-Horn, Professor of Chemical Engineering - Chemical Physics
(did not have physics students in the past)
Jacob Jorne Professor of Chemical Engineering -
Chemical Physics (did
not
have
physics
students
in
the
past)
Thomas Hsiang, Professor of ECE, Optoelectronics,
superconductivity, ultrafest phenomena (did not have physics students in the
past)
Robert Waag, Prof. of Electrical Engineering, bio-ultrasound; tissue characterization; nondestructive
testing (did not have
physics students in the past)
Faculty who will only have positions in fall 2011
John Tarduno (EES) (full now, may
have a position for Fall 2011).
E. Mamajek (Astrophysics) (full now, but may have a
position in Fall 2011 and may give
a seminar next spring)
Walter O'Dell (Medical Physics) -
wodell@rochester.edu (seminar in Spring 2011 will
have new funding for students at that time)
Adam Frank Astro/Plasma Physics (no openings
for new students, but maybe in 2011 - will give a seminar),
A. Bodek (probably no positions for now, will likely to have positions
in Fall 2011).
R. Sobolewski exp condensed matter (full now, will be
on sabbatical, probably will have positions for Fall 2011)
Faculty who were contacted and are not
likely to have positions for graduate students in physics in
summer 2010
R. Boyd - Optics (probably no positions)
A.
Berger - Optics (no opening now but could give a seminar)
Andrew Jordan - Condensed Matterr Theory
(but could give a seminar)
Nick Bigelow - Quantum Optics (but could give a
semianr)
L. Orr - Particle theory - no openings at this time
Quillen
Astrophysics (no openings for new students),
Kevin Parker - Medical Physics (no openings for new students)
E. Blackman Astrophysics (full, no openings)
J. Eberly - Quantum Optics Theory (full, no openings)
John Thomas - Astrophysics (no positions now or in future)
A. Das - Particle Physics Theory (full no positions now)
Ching Tang - Chemical physics (full , no positions at this time)
Nicholas Kuzma Medical Physics (full, no positions at this
time)
M.
Alonso - Optics (full, no positions at this time)
L. Rothberg - Chemical and Biological Physics (full,
no positions this year and possibly no positions next year)
T. Foster - Biological Physics (no positions at this time)
Mark Bocko - Electrical Engineering (no positions at this time)
D. Cline - nuclear physics (does not take gradaute students any more)
E. Wolf Optics ( probably does not take garduate students any
more)