University of Rochester
Physics
Department: Graduate Research and Teaching
Seminars Fall 2012/Spring 2013
(and archive of previous seminars)
chairs: Arie Bodek and Steve Manly
Teaching Seminars: Allister Kwan
Research Seminars: Antonio Bad0lato
badolato@pas.rochester.edu
Updated Sept. 17, 2012
Abstract: The research in the Prezhdo group focuses on time-dependent phenomena in a variety of nanoscale materials, such as quantum dots, carbon nanotubes, graphene ribbons, molecule-semiconductor interfaces, etc. For this purpose, we start with fundamental theories in semiclassical physics, molecular dynamics and time-domain density functional theory, and develop practical computational algorithms. The studies are motivated by applications in solar energy harvesting and storage, nanoscale electronics and spintronics, DNA sequencing, drug delivery and so on. The following “semi-popular science” reviews will give you a flavor of our research.“Photoinduced dynamics in semiconductor quantum-dots: insights from time-domain ab initio studies”, Accounts of Chemical Research, 42, 2005 (2009)Dec. 9, 2011 No Seminar
“Theoretical aspects of the biological catch-bond”, Accounts of Chemical Research, 42, 693 (2009).
“Dynamics of the photoexcited electron at the chromophore-semiconductor interface”, Accounts of Chemical Research, 41, 339 (2008) “Quantized Hamilton dynamics”, Theoretical Chemistry Accounts (Theoretica Chimica Acta), 116, 206 (2006).
To inquire about RA positions in Spring/Summer 2012: Email- oleg.prezhdo@rochester.edu
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.
25 Joe Eberly - Theoretical Quantum OpticsOptions 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)