Boulder School 2005: Roster

Name & Institution

Research Interest

Photo & Contact Information

Yury Adamov

Brookhaven National Laboratory

I am a theorist. Currently I am interesting in electron transport for electrons with interaction, including transport in nanotubes, transport in 2D systems in high magnetic field and, possibly, Kondo effect.

Laura Adams

University of Minnesota

Currently I am interested in “quantum chaos” as seen in the discrete energy level spectrum of metallic nanoclusters using a low temperature STM. I am an experimentalist.

Yashar Ahmadian

Columbia University

My area of research is theoretical condensed matter physics. specifically I’m interested in mesoscopic physics: quantum dots, 2DEG’s, etc. My current research concerns electron transport through an open quantum dot.

Igor Aleiner, Scientific Coordinator

Columbia University

Theorist
 

Jacob Alldredge

Cornell University

I am interested in mesoscopic systems that can be probed via the STM. I am an experimentalist.

Boris Altshuler, Lecturer

Princeton University

Theorist
 

Maryna Anatska

Texas &M University

I am working with magnetic superconductors and also interested in advanced experiment automation techniques. I am an experimentalist.

Mark Ancliff

University of Warwick

I am a theorist researching field-theories for disordered, non-interacting electron systems

Anton Andreev, Scientific Coordinator

University of Washington

My research interests focus on effects of electron-electron interaction in low-dimensional disordered systems. I am a theorist.

Jens Hjörleifur Bàrðarson

University of Leiden

Transport in mesoscopic and nanoscale systems and its dependence on spin orbit scattering. I am a theorist.

Doron Bergman

University of California, Santa Barbara

Quantum phase transitions, Quantum Hall devices, theory.

Norman Birge, Lecturer

Michigan State University

Norman Birge’s research focuses on quantum transport and mesoscopic physics in normal metals, superconductors, ferromagnets, and various combinations of them.  Most recently, he has worked on electron dephasing and energy relaxation in normal metals at low temperature, and nonequilibrium phenomena in SNS Josephson junctions.

Hendrik Bluhm

Stanford University

Mesoscopic effects in metals and superconductors and magnetism based approaches to measure them. I am an experimentalist.

Piet Brouwer, Scientific Coordinator

Cornell University

I’m interested in mesoscopic physics, in particular the theory of quantum transport in mesoscale systems, quantum chaos, and random-matrix theory.

Manuel Castellanos-Beltran

University of Colorado, Boulder

My research interest is the dynamics of charge in nanoscale high-impedance circuits and coulomb blockade devices. I am an experimentalist.

Ching-Tzu Chen

California Institute of Technology

Strongly correlated electronic systems in reduced dimensions, scanning probe techniques, and mesoscopic/nanoscopic device physics. I am an experimentalist.

Ruwan Dedigama

University of Oklahoma

Quantum confined InSb-based Devices. I am an experimentalist.

Changxue Deng

University at Buffalo

Area of research: spin related effects in nanostructures. I am a theorist.

Yonatan Dubi

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

I am currently interested in transport properties of thin superconducting films and small superconducting grains. Other research interests are the integer quantum Hall transition, the 2D metal-insulator transition and related phenomena in 2 dimensions. I am a theorist.

Émilie Dupont

Université de Sherbrooke

Currently, my research interest is Kondo effect and supraconductivity on a mesoscopic scale. I am a theorist.

Hans-Andrea Engel

Harvard University

I am interested in electrical and optical spin effects in nano structures and my theoretical work comprises the spin Hall effect, spin dynamics and transport in quantum dots, and applications to quantum computation.

Heidi Förster

University of Geneva

I’m interested in transport and noise (Full Counting Statistics) in quantum systems under the influence of decoherence. I am a theorist.

Fabio Franchini

SUNY at Stony Brook

My research interests are on Mathematical Physics, Integrable Models and 1-Dimensional Spin Chain. I am a theorist.

Liang Fu

University of Pennsylvania

I am a theorist interested in electronic properties of mesoscopic systems and their transport theory.

Markus Garst

University of Minnesota

I am a theorist working on strongly correlated electrons in bulk and mesoscopic systems.

Leonid Glazman, Lecturer

University of Minnesota

Areas of interest include electronic properties of low-dimensional
systems, electron correlation effects, and non-equilibrium phenomena in
nanostructures. I am a theorist.

Bertrand I. Halperin, Lecturer

Harvard University

Bert Halperin does theoretical research on a range of topics in condensed matter theory, including electrons in nanoscale systems, quantum Hall effects, and transport of spin. 

Joan Hoffmann

Cornell University

I’m interested in novel adaptations of experimental technique to study systems including quantum fluids, nanostructures, and biological structures.

Ronni Ilan

Weizmann Institute of Science

I am a theorist, interested in the properties of quantum hall phases in the Reentrant regime between ν = 2 and ν = 4, espectially in modeling inter-plateau transitions.

Eric Jobiliong

National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University

I’m an experimentalist and working on electrical transport, magnetic properties and quantum oscillations of heavy fermions and Kondo lattice system. I’m interested in Kondo effect in the mesoscopic systems.

Michael Jura

Stanford University

I am an experimentalist, interested in using scanning gate microscopy to image electron wavefunctions in mesoscopic systems.

Charles Kane, Lecturer

University of Pennsylvania

My research focusses on the interplay between interactions and transport in electronic systems.

Ning Kang

Universität Konstanz

My recent research concentrates on conductance measurements on single molecules with the help of the mechanically controllable break-junction technique. I am an experimentalist.

Oleksiy Kashuba

Lancaster University

I am a theorist interested in electron transport in metals in superconductors.

Maxim Kharitonov

Ruhr University

My research field is mesoscopic physics. I am a theorist.

Na Young Kim

Stanford University

I am exploring electrical transport properties of mesoscopic systems through experiments.

Israel Klich

Caltech

I am currently interested in transport and in time dependent phenomena in mesoscopic systems and its interplay with questions of measurement in quantum mechanics. Especially in non-equilibrium situations in which the system is driven by a time dependent Hamiltonian. I am a theorist.

Alexios Klironomos

Argonne National Laboratory

I am a theorist interested in the physics of superconductivity and electronic transport in nanostructures.

Sunanda Koduvayur Parthasarathy

Purdue University

My area of interest is quantum dots and spin orbit coupling in 2d hole gas systems. I am an experimentalist.

Nick Koshnick

Stanford University

I am experimentalist with interest in studying magnetic signals from superconductors at mesoscopic length scales.

Jacob Krich

Harvard University

I am a theorist currently working on spin-orbit coupling in quantum dots.

Edward Laird

Harvard University

I do experiments on spin qubits in laterally defined semiconductor quantum
dots.

Peter Leek

Cambridge University

I am an experimentalist working on electronic transport through individual carbon nanotubes - in particular charge pumping using a sliding electrostatic potential wave.

Konrad Lehnert, Scientific Coordinator

University of Colorado, Boulder

In my group we study the fundamental noise processes in fast, mesoscopic sensors of charge, position, temperature and magnetization, with application to quantum computing, metrology and astrophysical sensors.  I am an experimentalist.

Alex Levchenko

University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

I’m a theorist and currently I’m working in the field of mesoscopic superconductivity. Generally I’m interested in studying systems where interplay between interactions and disorder play an important role.

Leonid S. Levitov, Lecturer

MIT

Many-body theory, quantum transport, noise and dynamics. I am a theorist.

Xueqing Liu

SUNY at Stony Brook

My current research interest is on electron transport in nanostructures. I am an experimentalist.

Thomas Ludwig

Forschungszentrum

I am a theorist working on dephasing by electron-electron interaction in mesoscopic conductors

Patrick Maletinsky

ETH Zürich

I’m an experimentalist using spectroscopy to investigate the interaction of trapped excitons in quantum dots with the underlying nuclear spin system.

Charles Marcus, Lecturer

Harvard University

Current research concerns experimental investigation of mesoscopic phenomena and phase coherence and electron spin effects in semiconductor microstructures and other submicron electronic devices.

Paul L. McEuen, Lecturer

Cornell University

Experimentalist
 

Ion Moraru

Michigan State University

Critical temperature dependence based on mutual orientation of ferromagnets in a ferromagnet/superconductor/ferromagnet system. I am an experimentalist.

Andriy Nevidomskyy

University of Cambridge

(theorist): strongly correlated electrons; coexistence of magnetism and superconductivity; unconventional superconductivity; carbon nanotubes

A.K.M. Newaz

SUNY at Stony Brook

My professional goal is to pursue a career on a wide range of experimental mesoscopic and nano-scale physics. I am an experimental condensed matter physicist.

Dmitry Novikov

Princeton University

Theory of electron transport in nanotubes, heterostructures, and arrays of quantum dots. Spin relaxation and diffusion in mesoscopic systems (from semiconductors to biological tissues).

Alvaro Nunez

The University of Texas at Austin

Condensed matter theory: spintronics and magnetism

Takashi Oka

University of Tokyo

I am a theorist interested in non-linear response in strongly correlated electron systems.

David Pekker

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

I am working on theoretical aspects of mesoscopic superconductivity, in particular in superconducting nano-wires.

Dmytro Pesin

University of Washington

I am a theorist, currently interested in charge discreteness effects in mesoscopic superconductors.

Jason Petta

Harvard University

Experimentalist

Shawn Pottorf

SUNY at Stony Brook

I am an experimentalist currently studying 1/f critical current noise and subgap leakage characteristics in Josephson Junctions fabricated for flux qubits to determine their relationship with qubit decoherence rates.

Hicham Qasmi

Duke University

Theorist
 

Leo Radzihovsky, Director

University of Colorado

I am a theorist, interested in soft condensed matter physics, nonequilibrium phenomena, physics of quantum-Hall and related systems, with a theme unifying these diverse subjects being importance of fluctuations, nonlinearities and/or local material heterogeneities.

Saar Rahav

Cornell University

Currently interested in the classical limit of transport in mesoscopic systems. I am a theorist.

Matthew Rakher

University of California, Santa Barbara

I am experimentalist interested in cavity quantum electrodynamics in condensed matter systems.

Daniel C. Ralph, Lecturer

Cornell University

Experimentalist
 

Michael L. Roukes, Lecturer

Caltech

My group at Caltech and I are pursuing nanoscale devices, especially (but not exclusively) nanoelectromechanical systems – both in explorations of fundamental quantum phenomena, and toward realizing new “tools” for the life sciences and clinical medicine. 

Preden Roulleau

CEA Saclay

Experimentalist
 

Robert J. Schoelkopf, Lecturer

Yale University

My research is in the physics of nanostructures and single-electron devices. We build microelectronic circuits that display quantum mechanical behavior, to understand fundamental sources of noise, and the issues of quantum coherence and measurement. We also develop applications of these devices for quantum computation, metrology, and ultrasensitive detectors for astronomy.

Heekeun Shin

The Pennsylvania State University

Theory of transport in mesoscopic system: dense arrays of quantum dots.

Guneeta Singh-Bhalla

University of Florida

I am an experimentalist interested in low dimensional (thin film) physics: transport phenomenon, effects of interface capacitance, plasmon assisted (possibly) enhanced transmission of light.

A. Douglas Stone, Lecturer

Yale University

Quantum transport in disordered and mesoscopic systems. Quantum chaos and semiclassical methods in quantum mechanics and electromagnetism. Quantum measurement and quantum amplifiers. Laser physics and complex optical media. 

Joseph Sulpizio

Stanford University

I am an experimentalist studying one-dimensional nanostructures, with particular interest in electron-electron interactions and quantum entanglement.

Razvan Teodorescu

Columbia University

I am a theorist, interested in strongly correlated fermions, integrable systems, and pattern formation.

John Teufel

Yale University

I am an experimentalist interested in high frequency measurement techniques of mesoscopic phenomena.

Chushun Tian

Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics

Currently my main interests are disordered electronic wire and the phase-string model of high Tc cuprate. I am a theorist

Hakan Tureci

Yale University

Quantum/Wave Chaos, Nonlinear wave phenomena in mesoscopic systems, microcavity lasers; lately,  transport signatures of spin-orbit effects in interacting disordered quantum dots. I am a theorist.

Ananth Venkatesan

Northeastern University

I am an experimentalist. I have been measusring magnetization of 2-D electrons.

Jeffrey Wasserman

Johns Hopkins University

I am an experimentalist interested in the transport phenomena and superconductivity of low-dimensional and mesoscopic systems, as well as quantum computation.

Robert L. Willett, Lecturer

Lucent Technologies

My current research interests focus on the physics of reduced dimension phenomena, and particularly in the use of nanoscale structures to experimentally examine these effects. I am an experimentalist.

Zhenhua Yu

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Ultracold fermionic atomic gases. Theorist.

Dina Zhabinskaya

University of Pennsylvania

I am a theorist working on optical properties of carbon nanotubes.

Zhengfan Zhang

Northwestern University

I am currently working on electronic transport in carbon nanotubes. I am an experimentalist.