Boulder School 2003: Roster

Name & Affiliation

Research Interest

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Yaroslaw Bazaliy

Argonne National Laboratory

Spin -polarized currents, spintronics, ferromagnet-superconductor proximity effect, magnetic orientation phase transitions.
Bazaliy

Miro Belov

University of Alberta

Thin magnetic films and microfabrication (e-beam), interactions with light (ultrafast Kerr microscopy, measurement, simulation)
Belov

Sara Bergkvist

Royal Institute of Technology

I am a theorist working with quantum Monte Carlo simulations of strongly correlated systems.
 

Noah Bray-Ali

U.C. Berkeley

Strongly-correlated electron materials: Most recently, I’ve studied a novel phase arising in diluted magnets and superconductors near percolation threshold.
Brayali

Kristen Buchanan

University of Alberta

My research focuses on the magnetic and magneto-optical properties of nanocomposite materials.
Buchanan

Kenneth Burch

U.C. San Diego

   

John Cumings

Stanford University

I am fabricating mesoscopic structures from magnetic
semiconductors.

Cumings

Denis Demchenko

Georgetown University

First-principle calculations and spin-dependent transport in magnetic nanostructures.
Demchenko

Theja DeSilva

University of Cincinnati

Strongly correlated electronic systems, including role of orbital degrees of freedom in complex magnetic materials.
Desilva

Louise Ejsing

Danish Technical University

My research interests are in detection and manipulation of magnetic beads used for bioapplications, e.g. DNA detection.
Ejsing

Catherine Frandsen

Technical University of Denmark

My research area is “Magnetic nanoparticles.”
Frandsen

Priya Gopal

U.C. Santa Barbara

I am interested in the computational investigation and design of
multi-functional materials. My research focus is in the area of
” spintronic” materials. I am particularly interested in the electronic
and magnetic properties of doped-semiconductors.

Gopal

Michael Hermele

U.C. Santa Barbara

I am currently interested in exotic quantum states of matter, particularly in the context of frustrated quantum magnets, with an eye toward the challenging (and I believe important!) problems of connecting various exotic states to experiements, and better understanding SU(2) invariant magnets.
Hermele

Julienne Hill

Ames Laboratory, US DOE and Iowa State University

I am interested in studying the magnetic and electronic properties of novel materials, especially high-Tc related materials.
Hill

Jiangping Hu

U.C. Los Angeles

A party to know how spins dance.

Adilet Imambekov

Harvard University

Spinor condensates in optical lattices.

Imambekov

Sergei Isakov

Stockholm University

My areas of physics interest are frustrated magnets, dimer models, statistical physics.
Isakov

Jason Jackiewicz

Boston College

I am interested in simple ways of solving complicated problems in strongly correlated electron systems.
Jackiewicz

Ribhu Kaul

Duke University

Interplay of Many-Body and Mesoscopic Effects in Nano-Structures.

Kaul

Ersin Kececioglu

Northwestern University

Theory of spin semiclassics, theoretical and computational analysis of spin models.
Kececioglu

Eun-ah Kim

University of Illinois Urban-Champaign

I study tunneling between quantum hall edge states
Kim

Stine Klausen

Riso National Laboratory

Magnetic dynamics of magnetic nanoparticles.

Klausen

Simon Kos

Los Alamos National Laboratory

I am interested in strongly correlated materials (cuprates, heavy-fermion Ce 115 materials) as well as seminconductors (organic and inorganic), and in the strong electronic correlations studied both analyticaly and by Monte Carlo simluations.
Kos

Vadim Kovalev

Stevens Institute of Technology

Theory of electronic and magnetic properties of low-dimensional structures.
 

Alexander Krichevsky

University of Alberta

  Krichevsky

Wayne Lau

University of Iowa

The primary focus of my research is to study the electron spin dynamics and optical properties of semiconductor optoelectronic devices.
 

Michael Lawler

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

I am currently interestd in both the stripe phase and the nematic phase of quantum hall liquid crystals.
Lawler

Byounghak Lee

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

Minhyea Lee

University of Chicago

I am working on experimental physics, especially on low temperature transport, and am interested in strongly correlated electronic systems.
LeeM

Martin Linden

Royal Institute of Technology, Albanova University Center

My research can be summarized as “Quantum phase transitions and molecular motors.”
Linden

Minjan Liu

U.C. San Diego

Fe silicide films on Si substrate - a potential material for spin-electronics
Liu

Elhajal Maged

Universite de Lausanne

My field of study is “Frustrated magnetism”.
 

George Mias

Yale University

Theoretical studies of quantum phase transitions, domain wall dynamics and solitons.
Mias

Bjoern Michaelis

ITP, Universitaet Wuerzburg

I am interested in the many body problem, especially in the semianalytical and numerical description of CMR manganites and HTc cuprates.
Michaelis

Timo Nachtrab

University de Tuebingen

My studies focus on the perpendicular transport in artificially and intrinsically layered systems consisting of alternating ferromagnetic/insulating or ferromagnetic/superconducting layers
Nachtrab

Predrag Nikolic

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

My areas of interest are: frustrated quantum magnets, lattice gauge theories, electron fractionalization, etc.
Nikolic

Alvara Nunez

University of Texas at Austin

Condensed matter theory, spintronics, magnetism and superconductivity.

Ju-Hyun Park

University of Florida

Low dimensional magnetism.
Park

David Pekker

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Theoretical condensed matter physics, hedgehogs and skyrmions.
Pekker

Tami Pereg-Barnea

University of British Columbia

High Tc supercondcutivity and, in particular, theories of the pseudogap such as QED3 and other gauge (effective) theories

Barnea

Yuriy Pershin

Clarkson University

The main direction of my scientific activity is the theory of spin-related phenomena, in particular, I am interested in behavior of electron and nuclear spins in semiconductors, low-dimensional electron systems under high magnetic fields, decoherence processes.

Daniel Podolsky

Harvard University

   

Vadim Puller

Stevens Institute of Technology

Theory of spin dynamics and fluctuations in low-dimensional systems.

Mikhail Polianski

Cornell University

Mesoscopic transport through quantum dots, nanomagnetic dynamics and spin waves.
Polianski

Daniel Queen

U.C. San Diego

   

William Ratcliff

Rutgers University

Geometrically frustrated magnets.
Ratcliff

Gil Refael

Harvard University

   

Alexandre Rocha

Trinity College, Dublin

Transport properties of magnetic nanostructures.

Enrico Rossi

University of Texas at Austin

I am particularly interested in the transport properties of magnetic systems and in the magnetization dynamics of systems in which the magnetic degree of freedom is coupled to other degrees of freedom.

Heidemarie Schmidt

University of Leipzig, Germany

Experimental and theoretical investigation of III-V seminconductors for Optoelectronics and of II-VI semiconductors for Spintronics.
Schmidt

Peter Sharma

Rutgers University

In general, I am interested in the correlation between macroscopic thermal/electronic transport and microscopic (magneto-) structural properties such as electronic phase separation and short-range magnetic ordering in a variety of complex materials.
Sharma

Nikolai Sinitsyn

Texas A&M University

Nanomagnets and nuclear spin bath.
Sinistyn

Nicola Spaldin

University of California, Santa Barbara

Studying the fundamental physics of novel materials which have potential technological importance.

Plamen Stamenov

Trinity College

Spin Electronics devices, advanced magnetic materials, magnetic and transport measurements in alternating magnetic field and nolinear dynamics and chaos.
Stamenov

Hirotoshi Terashita

Montana State University

My research interest is local magnetism in transition metal oxides (experiemental).
Terashita

Carlos Ancona Torres

University of Chicago

I am interested in aging and memory effects in spin glasses and proton glasses.
Torres

Benjamin Ueland

The Pennsylvania State University

I work with Professor Peter Schiffer on the exploration of geometrically frustrated magnetic materials.

Sergei Urazhdin

Michigan State University

My areas of physics interest include (nano)magnetism, electronic transport, scanning tunneling microscopy, and critical phenomena.
Urazhdin

Ananth Venkatesan

Northeastern University

My research interest is mainly in magnetic phenomena exhibited by electrons confined to low dimensions.
Venkatesan

Andre Vieira

Instituto de Fisica da Universidad de Sao Paulo (Brazil)

Disordered magnets; random Potts models; quantum spin chains.
Vieira

Eddy Yusuf

National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Low-dimensional spin system in the presence of disorder.
Yusuf

Chenggang Zhou

Princeton University

My research interest is electronic and magnetic properties of solids, strongly correlated electron system, computational and simulational physics. Particularly, I have worked in 2DEG, III-V DMS and Monte Carlo simulation of both quantum and classical systems.
Zhou