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Chair’s colloquium Sept. 14, 2010

Laszlo Mihaly, Sept. 14, 2010

The State of the Department

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László Mihály, ChairmanPam Burris, Assistant to Chairman

Jacobus Verbaarschot, Director of Graduate Studies

Department Staff

,Sara Lutterbie, Assistant Director of Graduate Studies

Abhay Deshpande, Director of Undergraduate StudiesElaine Larsen, Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies

Bob Segnini, Director of Physical LabsRich Berscak, Building Manager

S D l li G t MSocoro Delquaglio, Grant ManagerDiane Diaferia, Main Office Manager

Joe Feliciano & Frank Chin, Instructional Labs.Chuck Pancake, Gene Shafto, Electronics Center

Walter Schmeling and crew, Machine Shop

Dima Kharzeev, Theoretical nuclear and particle physics. Ph.D. from Moscow State University, worked in Pavia (Italy), at the Theory Division of CERN, Universitat Bielefeld (Germany). Fellow at the RIKEN-BNL Research Center, staff scientist and leader of the

New faculty

Nuclear Theory group at BNL. Fellow of the APS. Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 232301 (2010): Chiral Magnetic SpiralsPhys. Rev. Lett. 104, 212001 (2010): Real-Time Dynamics of the Chiral Magnetic Effect

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Ken Dill, From UCSF, was Professor, Pharmaceutical Chemistry & Biophysics and Associate Dean of Research, School of Pharmacy. Member of the National Academy of Sciences.

New faculty

Made major contributions to the solution of the Protein folding problem. Interested in computational and physical biology, will be Director of the Laufer Center

Welcome back to those on the faculty who were on leave last year:Peter KochPhil Allen

News of the faculty

On leave this year: Gene Sprouse, Editor in Chief, APSEmilio Mendez, Director, Center for Functional Nanomaterials, BNLKen Lanzetta (Fall)Tom Kuo (Fall)Peter Stephens (Spring)Chris Jacobsen

Retired or left: Chi-chang Kao, adjunct professor, was appointed Director of the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource.Todd Satogata, adjunct professor, took a joint appointment at Jefferson Lab and Old Dominion University

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AAAS fellows:

Phil Allen, for “distinguished contributions to the field of condensed matter theory, particularly superconductors, transport properties of all forms of solids,

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News of the faculty

polarons, metal/insulator transitions, and properties of glasses.”

Barbara Jacak, for “distinguished contributions to the field of relativistic heavy ions, particularly for service as spokesperson of the PHENIX detector at BNL’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC).”

Chi-chang Kao (adjunct Professor), for “his many contributions to resonant elastic and inelastic x-ray scattering techniques and to x-ray spectroscopy, their applications to important materials, and his inspired leadership at the the r appl cat ons to mportant mater als, and h s nsp red leadersh p at the NSLS.

Jack Marburger has been appointed Vice President for Research

Laszlo Mihaly was elected external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

News of the faculty

Robert Spira (Adjunct Professor) won the 2009 IEEE Educational Activities Board Pre-University Educator award "for inspiring and motivating high school students through imaginative teaching and extracurricular activities to excel in the study of physics and to choose careers in science and engineering”

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Peter van Nieuwenhuizen won the 2010 Dean's Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching by a faculty

News of the faculty

member. This award recognizes excellence and creativity in classroom teaching of graduate students.

Meigan Aronson has received a five-year, $4.25m grant as one of the 11 scientists in the 2010 National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellowship program. The fellows were chosen from an initial

News of the faculty

pool of 800 nominees.

Marivi Fernandez-Serra won an Early Career Research Program grant from DoE. This new program, similar to NSF's CAREER program, and Marivi was one of the 69 awardees selected from a pool of 1,750 applicants.

Xu Du was one of the 34 young scientists funded by the Air Force Xu Du was one of the 34 young scientists funded by the Air Force Young Investigators Research Program.

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Adjunct and Affiliated Faculty

Cedomir Petrovic – BNL, condensed matter experiment group

Yue Hao, BNL Accelerator Physics

Nicholas Tsoupas, BNL Accelerator Physics

News of the staff

Pat Peiliker, Assistant Graduate Program Director, retired after more than 40 years of service.

Maria Hofer, Administrative Assistant

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BNL Research opportunities

Current and recent research:Highe energy theory (Dawson, Karsch) Accelerator physics (Litvinenko, Ben-Zvi) Condensed matter theory (Wei Ku)Biological Physics (Maslov)Biological Physics (Maslov)Electron microscopy (Yimei Zhu)Energy conversion (Ocko)Condensed matter exp. (Petrovic, Johnson)

Mendez, Stephens, Jacak, Deshpande, Hemmick, Drees

BNL Research opportunities

Future opportunities:Interdisciplinar Science Bldg., planned

Joint Photon Science Institute (JPSI)

Center for Accelerator Science and Education (CASE) Director: Tom Hemmick

NSLS II, under construction, will appoint60 beamline scientists

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Expected:

Simons Center opening

Building and other infrastructure

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Sculpture is being installed

Renovation of the “Concrete deck”, the area around the building, is scheduled.

Simons Center for Geometry and Physics

Simons Center

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Graduate student PhDs awarded

December, 200 Ph.D.s• Michael McCumber (Barbara Jacak) Fast Parton Interactions with Hot Dense

Matter

• Sung Tae Cho (Ismail Zahed) Classical Stongly Coupled Quark-Gluon Plasma

Graduate student PhDs awarded

• Peng Dai (Warren Siegel) World Graph Approach to Amplitudes

• David Lepzelter (Jin Wang ) Noise and Oscillation in Simple Gene Networks

• Cosmin Blaga (Louis Di Mauro) Atoms and Molecules in Strong Mid-infrared Laser Fields

• Kevin Stone (Peter Stephens) Structual Studies from Powder Diffraction

• Xiaojing Huang (Chris Jacobsen) Cryo Soft X-ray Diffraction Microscopuywith Biological Specimenswith Biological Specimens

• Le Trung (Clark McGrew) Event Reconstruction and Energy CallibrationUsing Cosmic Muons for the T2K Pizero Detector

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May, 2009 Ph.D.s• Zhongkui Tan (Konstatin Likharev): Experimental Study of Transport

through Few-nm Metal Oxide Tunnel Barriers T2K Pizero Detector

• Shu Lin (Edward Shuryak): Heavy Ion Collisions from AdS/CFT

Graduate student PhDs awarded

( y ) yCorrespondence

• Ping Lin (Vladimir Goldman): Quantum Transport in Electron Fabry-Perot: Interferometers in Quantum Hall Regime

• Ilmo Sung (George Sterman): Heav=vy Quarks and Interjet Radiation

• Elli Pomoni (Leonardo Rastelli): AdS/CFT beyond the N=4 SYM paradigm

• Leandro Almeida (George Sterman): Threshold Resummation in PairLeandro Almeida (George Sterman): Threshold Resummation in Pair Production

August 2009 Ph.D.s• Stephen Clow (Thomas Weinacht) Strong Field Control of Multilevel

Quantum Systems

• Feng Guo (Michael Rijssenbeek ) Ratio Method of Measuring the Mass

Graduate student PhDs awarded

Feng Guo (Michael Rijssenbeek ) Ratio Method of Measuring the Mass of the W-Boson

• Jan Steinbrener (Chris Jacobsen) X-ray Di raction Microscopy: Computational Methods and Scanning-type Experiments

• Lei Huang (Yoimei Zhu) Understanding Nanoscale Magnetization Reversal and Spin Dynamics by Using Advanced Transmission Electron Microscopy

• Jason Reeves (Harold Metcalf) Neutral Atom Lithography Using the 389Jason Reeves (Harold Metcalf) Neutral Atom Lithography Using the 389 nm Transition in He

• Clint Young ( Edward Shuryak) Charmonium in strongly-coupled quark-gluon plasma Christian Holzner ( Chris Jacobsen) Hard X-ray Phase Contrast Microscopy Techniques and Applications

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August 2009 Ph.D.s• Johanna Nelson (Chris Jacobsen) X-ray diffraction microscopy on frozen

hydrated specimens

• Rui Wei (Jiangyong Jia) High pT Azimuthal Anisotropy in Au+Au

Graduate student PhDs awarded

Rui Wei (Jiangyong Jia) High pT Azimuthal Anisotropy in Au AuCollisions at psNN = 200GeV

• Prasad Hegde (Frithjof Karsch) Charge Fluctuations in Lattice QCD with Domain-Wall Fermions

• Itai Ryb (Martin Rocek) Generalized Isometries in Superspace

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President’s Award

2010 Distinguished Doctoral Student:Leandro Almeida (Advisor George Sterman) ”For significant

and internationally-recognized research in theoretical high-energy physics especially in the study of threshold energy physics, especially in the study of threshold resummation, which will contribute to collider physics in the coming era of discovery.”

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President’s Award

2010 Distinguished Doctoral Student:Ilmo Sung (Advisor George Sterman) ”For significant and

internationally-recognized research in theoretical high-energy physics especially in the analysis of inter jet energy physics, especially in the analysis of inter-jet radiation and heavy quark production, which will contribute to collider physics in the coming era of discovery.”

President’s Award

2010 Distinguished Doctoral Student:Xiaojing Huang (Advisor Chris Jacobsen) “For the first

demonstration of high resolution lensless X-ray imaging of frozen hydrated eukaryotic cells ”frozen hydrated eukaryotic cells.

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Ahsan Asraf US Franklin Marshall CollegeBenjamin Bein Germany University of WürzburgAngel Campoverde Ecuador University of CuenaCong Chen China Tsinghua UniversityKaren Chen US Boston CollegeT l r C rb t US Alfr d Univ rsit

Incoming graduate students

Tyler Corbet US Alfred UniversityMichael Delos US University of VirginiaMalte Dyckmanns Germany Technical University of DortmundDaniel Elton US Renselaer Polytechnical InstituteThomas Fan US Brooklyn Polytechnical UniversityJudith Gabel Germany University of WürzburgElizabeth Gangone US Stony Brook UniversityFen Guan China Nankai UniversityElizaveta Guseva Russia Moscow State UniversityElizaveta Guseva Russia Moscow State UniversityXugang He China University of ConnecticutChia-Yi Ju Taiwan National Chung Hsing UniveristyKeuifu Lai Taiwan National Taiwan UniversityMadelena Lemos Portugal Technical University of LisbonMelissa Louie US Drew UniversityAndrea Massari Italy University of ParmaKazue Matsuyama Japan SBU

Daniel McNally Ireland The University of DublinCharlotte Mielke Germany Technical University of DortmundGustavo Monteiro Brazil Universidade Estadual PaulistJun Nian China University of HeidelbergOumarou Njoya Camaroun Michigan State UniversityYi n P n Chin N njin Univ rsit

Incoming graduate students

Yiwen Pan China Nanjing UniversityWolfger Peelaers Belgium Stony brook UniversityHarikrishnan Ramani India Chennai Institute of MathematicsPeter Sandor Hungary Technical University of BudapestAdrian Soto Cambres Spain University of ValenciaMichael Spillane US University of WashingtonVinay Uppal India Indian Institute of Techn. MumbaiYongki Utama Indonesia Hong Kong University of ScienceRicardo Vaz Portugal Technical University of LisbonRicardo Vaz Portugal Technical University of LisbonMatthias Vogt Germany Technical University of LisbonMatthew von Hippel US Tufts UniversityColin West US University of Colorado BoulderSerpil Yalcin Turkey Middle East Technical UniversityMohammed Yusuf Bangladesh Berea CollegeAungshuman Zaman Bangaldesh University of Dhaka

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Mao Zeng China University of CambridgeHong Zeng China Iowa State UniversityYaxing Zhang China Perimeter InstituteXin Zhao China University of AmsterdamYiming Zhong China Nankai University

Incoming graduate students

46 New Students: 37 in the PhD program and 9 in the Master Program

Nationality Continent of Last DegreeNorth America Asia

Europe

Elsewhere

Andrew Battisiti received an Undergraduate Recognition Award

Chang Kee Jung received the Outstanding Teaching Award

Bachelor Degrees December 2009 (7)

Undergraduate Degrees

Bachelor Degrees, December 2009 (7)Elizabeth Gangone our MSI ProgramAndre HamiltonThien NguyenJude Safo graduate school, SBU, EngineeringJulie SternAndrew TassoKenneth To

August 2010 (2)Dillon PiccioneEui Sang Song SUNY Albany, M.S. program in Nanoscale Engineering

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May 2010 (15)

Leonard Adams seeking a job. Plans for the future-teach physics or be a network administrator.

Andreas AdrahtasPeter Bass plans to work for two years and then apply to graduate

Undergraduate Degrees

Peter Bass plans to work for two years and then apply to graduate school to pursue a degree in AST

Andrew Battisti University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Ph.D. degreeprogam in AST

Luke Chaplinsky seeking a physics related jobBrian DobrinskyMeredith GuinanPawel Kurzyna teaching in Sachem School DistrictKieran Ramos University of Massachusetts Amherst Ph D degreeKieran Ramos University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Ph.D. degree

program in PHYMichael Savastio Cornell University, Ph.D. degree program in PHYJacqueline Schmidt s eeking physics related employmentJoshua Seidman seeking a career in journalismJustin Tian University of Rochester, Ph.D. program in PHY

Undergraduate enrollments

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

AST101 168 116 169 193 170 165

AST105 264 263 241 254 263 266

PHY 121 431 521 660 692 647 529

PHY122 149 144 133 153 130 220

1500

2000

2500

Fall enrollment in PHY and AST courses

AST101

AST105

PHY 121

PHY131 253 276 267 283 308 451

PHY132 61 81 69 66 86 74

PHY125 117 153 175 169 210 215

PHY126 81 72 96 102 104 148

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500

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2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

PHY122

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PHY132

PHY125

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Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU)

SUMMER 2010 Coordinated by Erle Graf

Jacob Chamoun (Cornell University), Marty Cohen, John Noé: Creating unconventionally polarized beams using stress birefringent wave platesA d i D t k (USB) Abh D h d Th ili t t k Andriy Dotsenko (USB), Abhay Deshpande:The silicon vertex tracker upgrade project Drummond Fielding (Johns Hopkins University), Michal Simon :Sodium line strength as surface gravity indicator Simon Freedman (Illinois Institute Of Technology), Daniel Pinghero(Clarkson University), Victoria Yu (Rutgers University), Thomas K. Hemmick. Richard Lefferts: Verifying The efficacy of an ion sourceVince Gregoric (Mount Union College) , Marty Cohen, John Noé: A precise measurement of the speed of light in air from the frequency separation of measurement of the speed of light in air from the frequency separation of longitudinal modes in an open-cavity HeNe laser Ewuin Guatemala (Usb), Martin Cohen, John Noé : Mode-locking a HeNelaser by extra-cavity acousto-optic modulation Heather Hill (Duke University), Marty Cohen, John Noé : Observing the Pancharatnam-Berry phase on the Poincaré sphere

Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU)

Max Katz (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Michael Zingale: Testing and using a modern 1d stellar evolution codeDaniel Pinghero (Clarkson University), Simon Freedman (Illinois Institute Of Technology), Victoria Yu (Rutgers University), Rich Lefferts Thomas Hemmick : Optical design considerations for a negative Lefferts, Thomas Hemmick : Optical design considerations for a negative ion source Ekaterina Sergan (University Of California, Davis), T. Sergan, V. Sergan, John Noé : Switchable diffraction patterns in liquid crystals Spencer Thomas (Usb), Marivi Fernandez-Serra: Potential energy comparisons between ab initio water simulations and classical analogs Victoria Yu (Rutgers University), Daniel Pinghero (Clarkson University), Simon Freedman (Illinois Institute Of Technology), Richard Lefferts, Thomas K. Hemmick : Design of a sample changing ion source g p g g

Astronomy: 2Condensed Matter: 1Laser Teaching Center: 5 Total of 12 projectsNuclear: 4

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Much of our research is related to Optical Vortices –beams of light with a phase or polarization singularity

Laser Teaching Center Marty Cohen, Hal Metcalf, John Noé

plus many other friends and mentors!

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Azure Hansen (BS 2007) , now at Univ. Rochester,  is co‐author of two PRLs on vortices in BEC. Summer 2010 group, with mentor “Laser Sam.” We had 

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An open-cavity laser creates rectangular Hermite-Gauss modes that can be converted to cylindrical Laguerre-Gauss vortex modes with a single cylinder lens. (Recently published work with a high school student.)

5 NSF‐REU Fellows & 3 Simons Fellows.  Each did a unique project.

Jacob Chamoun shows Pringles can top between crossed polarizers. Stresses create radial birefringence and a spatially-varying polarization.

LASERFEST is coming 9 November !!

We are increasingly recognized in the optics and education communities. (Invited

APS talk and article in May 2010 APS News. )

Developing advanced experiments for PHY445 and PHY452 students with new funding from the Simons Foundation.

Colloquium

Sept. 21 Dmitri Tsybychev (Stony Brook): Searches for new sources of CP violation

Sept. 28 Webster Cash (Colorado): The New Worlds Observer: Direct I i d S t f E th lik Pl tImaging and Spectroscopy of Earth-like Planets

Oct. 5 John Hobbs (Stony Brook)Toward the Unknown: First Physics from Atlas

Attending colloquium – Physics and Astronomy is a collection of special research areas that are all connected in deep and interesting ways. The weekly colloquium is our opportunity to learn about the richness of physics and expand our horizons. It is our responsibility to join in this central activity of the Department.

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Condensed Matter TheoryFaculty: Sasha AbanovStudent:Manas Kulkarni

Charge profiles (and spin profiles)for long ranged models: for long ranged models:arXiv:1006.0966 ,Physical Review B (2009),Nuclear Physics B (2010)

Density profile dynamics for a unitary Fermi gasRecent experiments in Duke are explained bythe nonlinear hydrodynamic theory (to be published)

Faculty: Dmitri Averin

Theory of electron transport and its applications to metrology and quantum information. A recent fundamental result obtained in collaboration with the group of P f J kk P k l (A l U i i H l i ki) i h d i h

Mesoscopic transport

Prof. Jukka Pekola (Aalto University, Helsinki), is the demonstration that the fluctuation-dissipation theorem is not valid for the heat transport, contrary to the view in at least some graduate textbooks.

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This result introduces new quantum limitation on thermometry.

D.V. Averin and J. Pekola, PRL 104, 220601 (2010).

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van der Waals interactions in water are theorigin of the density differences betweenwater and ice:

First Principles modelling of PhotocatalyticWater Splitting reactions at Semiconductor and Metal Interfaces.Photocatalytic Water Oxidation Process at the GaN (1010) - Water Interface Xiao Shen, Yolanda A. Small, Jue Wang, Philip B. Allen, M. V. Fernandez-Serra, Mark S. Hybertsen, and James T. Muckerman, 2010, J. Phys. Chem. C, 114, 13695, (2010)

Density Functional Theory and ComputationFaculty: Marivi Fernandez-SerraStudents: Adrien Poissier, Jue Wang, Sriram Ganeshan, Betul Pamuk

Water-Metal interactions are Hydrogenbonds:

90°

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Phys. Chem. C, 114, 13695, (2010)

Density, structure and dynamics of water: the effect of van der Waals interactionsJue Wang,1 G. Roman-Perez,2 Jose M. Soler,2 Emilio Artacho,3 and M.-V. Fernandez-Serra1, 4,

submitted: Arxiv:1005.2680

90°0°semiclassical

The role of hydrogen bonding in water-metal interactionsAdrien Poissier, Sriram Ganeshan, and M. V. Fernandez-Serra, submitted.

Grants: DOE early career award. interested students always welcome!!

Prof. Philip AllenTheory and ComputationSolids, Liquids, Chemical Physics.

SWaSSiT = “Solar Water SplittingSimulation Team”

Upper left: Y. Small and X. Shen have moved away to Asst. Prof.and post-doc positions. There are openings for new students.

Simulation Teamis now evolving into the” Center forSolar Water Splitting” (includingProf. Dawber and other experimenters.)

Prof. Artem Oganov’s “Universal Structure Predictor” is now being extended to surfacestructure. Here is our “unexpected” N3 motifon the GaN semiconductor surface.

input = sun-lightoutput = H2 solar fuel

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Artem Oganov (Geosciences, NYCCS)

Theory predicts a new structure of Na that is insulating and … transparent!

Sodium becomes transparent at ~200 GPa (Ma, Eremets, Oganov et al., Nature 2009)

Localized interestitial electron pairs make Na insulating. Structure – close packing of interstitial electron pairs!

•Ferroelectric superlattices with enhanced piezoelectricity, improper ferroelectricity and other cool properties•Engineered oxide surfaces for solar water splitting

Nano-engineered ferroelectrics and other oxidesFaculty: Matt Dawber’Students: 2 PhD students, 1 Masters, 1 Undergrad (Room for more!)

g p gteam involving Physics, Chemistry, Materials Science, Earth Sciences and BNL•TEM investigation of ferroelectric superlatticeswith Dong Su (SBU-BNL seed grant) and M.G. Han at CFN, BNL•In-situ x-ray diffraction during film growth at NSLS X21,BNL (NSF funded - SBU, UVM, BU collaboration)•Hybrid Graphene - ferroelectric devices

ith X Dwith Xu Du•Switching ferroelectrics with THz radiation with Tom Weinacht

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Graphene: synthesis and experimentFaculty: Xu Du2 Grad Students, 1 Undergrad, looking for more!

Suspended graphene with arbitrary contacts

(Al‐Graphene junction)

NATURE| Vol 462| 12 November 2009

CVD Graphene

Low frequency noise in graphene devices (to be submitted)

CVD Graphene 

Materials Synthesis Faculty: Cedomir Petrovic, BNL

Design, discovery and characterization of new materials in condensed matter physics

Vortex lattice symmetries and transitions in CeCoIn5 (Science 319, 180 (2008))

New synthesis/crystal growth methods: In – Situ Decanting High Temperature Flux (ISDHTF) method

Giant thermoelectric power factor n single crystals of FeSb2

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Th d di i ti

Physically and Logically Reversible ComputationFaculty: Vasili SemenovStudent: Jie Ren

The measured energy dissipation per a logic operation is extremely low. It is comparable with thermodynamic

threshold kBT ln 2. The energy dissipation of the best CMOS devices measured in kBT units is six orders of magnitude higher. The goal of our project is to experimentally cross the thermodynamic

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experimentally cross the thermodynamic threshold.

Recent publication: J. Ren, V.K. Semenov, Yu. A. Polyakov, D.V. Averin and J-S Tsai, “Progress towards Reversible Computing with nSQUID Arrays”, IEEE Trans. On Appl. Supercond., vol. 19, pp. 961-67, 2009

Demonstrated circuit contains two 8-stage shift register: one with direct and the other with reversed outputs

X-ray diffraction in Materials Physics – P.W. Stephens

Present:Saul Lapidusis working to

Past: Structure of molecule –based magnet with unexpectedly high transition temperature.K St Ph D 2009

is working to understand the relationship of crystal structure to the formation of molecular gels.

K. Stone Ph.D. 2009.

Future: NSLS-II under construction will have unprecedented capability to relate structures to properties of materials.

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Adding a spin to nonlinear atom optics

Ultracold atomic physics

Dressings, dips, and emulsions in ultracold mixturesPRL 105, 045303 (2010) PRL 104, 200402 (2010)

Faculty: Dominik SchnebleStudents: Daniel Pertot, Bryce Gadway, Jeremy Reeves (PhD) Matthias Vogt (MA) Gaku Nagashima (BA)

Polaroniceffects

Quantum emulsions

collinear 4-wave mixing of matter waves

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Quantum Control and SpectroscopyFaculty: Tom WeinachtStudents:

Funding: NSF & DoEUltrafast multidimensional spectroscopy of DNA

Strong field atomic interferometry

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To excite highest state, apply red light first !!

Chirped light and nanofabricationFaculty: Hal Metcalf

Students:Jason Reeves, Chris Corder, XiaoxuLu, Yuan Sun, Dan Stack, John Elgin

New Dr. Reeves (2 hours) and new bride (2 weeks).

atoms

Choreography on the Bloch sphere

Nanofabrication of 100 nm width lines. Adiabatic Rapid Passage in a new domain

Access to Palomar 5m Telescope: 2011–2013Faculty: Stan Metchev+astronomy group

• unique advantage: state‐of‐the art extreme contrast (1:107 at 2 /D) imaging system

Palomar Hale 5 m telescope

imaging system• partners: Caltech / NASA‐JPL / AMNH / 

SBU• 20 nights/year for SBU• open to all P&A faculty• proposals due Oct 8, 2010, semi‐

annually thereafter• SBU time‐allocation committee to 

include astronomers and physicistsinclude astronomers and physicists

• extrasolar multi‐planet system      HR 8799 bcd imaged with Palomar extreme adaptive optics system

Serabyn et al. (2010, Nature)

location of masked star

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CARMA & Nobeyama Survey of Molecular Gas Faculty Jin Koda

• Survey of molecular gas in galaxies at millimeter‐wave to study gas dynamics and star formation

• Obtained total of 1200 hours of observing time at

Nobeyama45m • Obtained total of 1200 hours of observing time at 

CARMA and Nobeyama observatories

• Status: observations are finishing. Starting science with the unprecedented data.

45m telescope

CARMA interferometer

Jin Koda & Jennifer Donovan Meyer

Nuclear and Computational Astrophysics

Statistical trends of 56Ni (green) and Fe-group (red) yields with metallicity from an ensemble of 2D simulations of type Ia supernovae by considering the microphysical effect of metallicity on turbulent combustion. Results are compared to an estimate from conserving lepton number (blue) and a 1D study (magenta).

Jackson et al. 2010, ApJ, 720, 99

A 2-d simulation of the thermo-nuclear burning and subsequent convection in the accreted atmosphere of a neutron star in the context of a Type I X-ray b l d i h C12

Mass of 56Ni produced in the explosion vs. central density. The radioactive decay of 56Ni powers the lightcurve, and is a measure of the brightness of the event. The curves show the results of three different realizations as central density varies. These three configurations do not match trend and are not monotonic, illustrating the need for an ensemble of simulations

• Faculty: Alan Calder, Jim Lattimer, Doug Swesty, Mike Zingale• Graduate students: Adam Jacobs, Aaron Jackson, Bryan Kim,

Brendan Krueger, Yeunhwan Lim, Chris Malone• Undergraduate students: Chetan Chauhan, Adam Siegel• REU students: Max Katz• 1 high school student

Highlights of recent papers led by our graduate students.

burst; plotted is the C12 mass fraction in the convective region.

Malone et al., likely submitted by the time this slide is shown.

need for an ensemble of simulations when exploring trends.

Krueger et al. 2010, ApJ, 719, L5

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C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics

Areas on Ongoing Research in 2009-2010:

Field Theory and String Theory, Supersymmetry & Supergravity

Statistical Mechanics & Quantum informationStatistical Mechanics & Quantum information

Collider Phenomenology: LHC & Tevatron

Quantum Chromodynamics: Jet Phenomenology, Perturbative andNon-perturbative QCD

String/Conformal Field theory Dualities & Strong Coupling Gauge Theories

Dualities and Condensed Matter Systems

Neutrino Phenomenology, Dark Matter and Astroparticle Physics

Standard Model Extensions: Supersymmetric and Dynamical Symmetry Breaking

2010 Grads (headed for)

Leo Almeida* (CNRS, Saclay), Ellie Pomoni** (Berlin), Itai Ryb (USC), Ilmo Sung* (Maryland)

* President’s Award for Distinguished Doctoral Research**Helmholtz Fellowship

2010 WorkshopsJanuary: Correlation Functions and Integrable Models (w/SCGP)March: Superstrings with Ramond-Ramond Backgrounds (w/SCGP)May: Brookhaven ForumJune: Loopfest, IX (w/BNL)

hJuly-August: 8th Simons Workshop in Math & PhysicsNovember: New Trends in Quantum Computation (w/SCGP)

2010-11: C.N. Yang Returns as Visiting Professor to YITP & SCGP

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YITP: Simons workshop July 26 - August 20, 2010

QCD and Quark-Gluon Plasma Faculty: Dmitri Kharzeev

Topologically induced effects in, weak and strong coupling methods; chiralfermions in QCD and in graphene

During the past year, published 9 papers (including 4 in Phys. Rev. Lett.); gave 16 invited talks; co-organized 4 conferences and workshops

E l h “ h l lExamples: the “Chiral Magnetic Spiral”(with G. Basar and G. Dunne, PRL 104, 232301 (2010)featured in the “Physics” magazine)

Chern-Simons-Maxwell theory andthe the“Chiral Magnetic Effect” Annals f Ph i 325 205(2010

Currently teaching a graduate course on “Particle physics” andis looking for students

of Physics 325, 205(2010

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Fluctuations at RHICFaculty: Derek TeaneyStudent: Yan LiPostdoc: Kevin Dusling (Ismail Zahed’s former student)

Event By Event Fluctuations Correlations at 0, ±2/3

Explains Exp. Correl. at ±2/3 Simulation

Fluctuations offer a new way to determine the shear viscosity of Quark Gluon plasma!

Topology and Wilson Dirac Spectra at a ≠ 0

Faculty: Jac Verbaarschot

Strictly speaking topology cannot be defined on a lattice.

F l h D • For zero lattice spacing the Dirac operator has (the topological index) eigenvalues equal to m .

• At finite lattice spacing, a, remnants of the topological charge are visible in the form of a distribution of the topological modes with a finite width ~ amodes with a finite width ~ a .

• The proportionality constant can be used to determine low energy constants.

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High Energy Physics Collider GroupFaculty: Engelmann, Grannis, Hobbs, McCarthy, Rijssenbeek, Schamberger, Tysbychev

DØ Experiment at the Fermilab TevatronDØ and CDF are closing in on the Higgs boson. Expect the SM Higgs 115 < MH < 160 GeV from i di t t lik M M Z ti

Recent measurement of CP violating asymmetry of B → and B → is inconsistent with SM and

indirect measurements like MW, Mtop, Z properties. Now exclude 158 < MH < 175 GeV and below MH= 109 GeV (almost overtaking LEP). Tevatron will run in 2011 and possibly through 2014, by which time, we expect to rule out SM Higgs wherever it does not exist, or find it at 3 CL up to 180 GeV.

BS→ and BS→ is inconsistent with SM and could provide an explanation of the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe.

Stony Brook played a central role in both these measurements and seeks students to join these 2 analyses. (We continue to do the high profile W mass measurement)

Atlas Experiment at CERN’s LHC

Running at a center of mass energy of 7 TeVfor nearly a year. Well along the path, seeing known massive particles: W and Z...

ee invariantmass

1st physics publications e.g. “Search for New Particles in Two-Jet Final States…”

Why do W+ and W-

cross sections differ?

Have O(10) top quark pair candidate events (consistent with expected yield)

Colloquium coming soon…

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The PHENIX Experiment Group

Students: N. Apadula, B. Bannier, S. Campbell, C.-H. Chen, Z. Citron, M. Connors, C. G l J M D h J K i P Gal, J. M. Durham, J. Kamin, P. Kline, A. Manion, S. Lee, R. Petti, J. Sun, H. Themann+Post Docs: B. Lewis, S. Taneja, E. T. Atomssa+Prof Abhay DeshpandeProf. Abhay DeshpandeProf. Axel DreesProf. Thomas HemmickProf. Barbara Jacak

Always room for excellent and ambitious students!

PHENIX @ RHIC Suggests initial

temperature of the QGP ~300-600 MeV!

Drees, Hemmick, Jacak

• Blackbody radiation probes QGP temp.

• Decay photons 

Blackbody

y p(0) swamp the signal.

• Measure virtual photons mee>m

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How do quarks and gluons make up the spin “ ½” of the nucleon?

2008:  PRL 103, 012003  

Deshpande

arXiv:1009.0505v1 [hep‐ex]

2009 T R

Anti‐Quark polarization via Direct Parity Violation in polarized pp at 500 GeV: Physics Runs NEXT 3‐4 YEARS l

+

2009 Test RunFinal signal after background subtraction for positron and electron final states

PHENIX VTX tracker: Data next 3-4 yrsInstallation in December 2010: GREAT opportunity for Ph.D. theses

Physics Goals: Measurement of heavy flovor production to probe the dense partonicmatter created in the high energy A+A collisions at RHIC and (measurements) of polarized gluon distribution with complimentary probes involving heavy quarks and photon+jet

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Neutrinos and Nucleon DecayFaculty: C K Jung, C McGrew, P Paul, C Yanagisawa, Postdocs: J Imber, I TaylorGrads: G Lopez, D Beznosko J Hignight, K Gilje, Trung Le (2009 grad.)Undergrads: K. Ramos, J. Schmidt, Arun Kumar, Jake Kim, Evgeny Yakimenko

T2K ND280 SK & T2K-SK at SBU

“SK”

Super-KamiokandeJPARC Beam Line

in Tokai Japan

ND280 Detector

at SBU

N t i O ill ti

40m

SK is a experiment in its own right

νμDetector Simulation: McGrew

Neutrino Oscillations:ν e appearance from ν μprecision ν μ disappearance

Neutrino cross sections

SK is a experiment in its own right, and also the far detector for the T2K experiment

Neutrino OscillationsAtmospheric, Solar,

BeamProton DecayAstro-Particle Physics

Working in JapanT2K data from 2010

First results end of this year

The NNGroup

Lowering the PØD into the ND280 Hall (That's the original

Everything Installed...

ND280 Hall (That s the original UA1 Magnet in Red)

First T2K Neutrino at SK

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THE END