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Our group is often on the lookout for a good graduate student.
If you are interested and would like to discuss research opportunities,
contact Steve Manly.

Current areas of research (click on links for more information, including non-technical explanations):

Heavy ion physics with the Phobos experiment at BNL. Phobos is one of four RHIC experiments that began studying Au-Au collsions at high energies in 2000. We hope to learn about the QCD deconfinement and chiral phase transitions with this data.

Neutrino interactions on nuclei and neutrino oscillations. We are interested in taking part in a new generation of accelerator-based neutrino experiments aimed at understanding neutrino interactions on nuclei in the 0.5-3.0 GeV energy range. This understanding will eventually be used in further experiments that will quantify the neutrino mass mixing matrix and possibly look for CP violation in the neutrino sector.

High precision gravitational redshift measurement. We are exploring the possibility of a high precision measurement of the gravitational redshift of light using the interplay of gravitation and chromatic dispersion in optical fibers.

Z physics with the SLD experiment at SLAC. SLD is one of six experiments that have studied decays of Z bosons in electron-positron collisions. In the 1990's, SLD had a very active program in precision electroweak, B, and QCD physics.

Research toward the International Linear Collider, a soon-to-be-proposed very high energy electron-positron linear collider. The main mission of ILC will be to elucidate the mechanism of electroweak symmetry breaking.