The State of the Department

Paul Grannis, Sept. 14, 2004

http://sbhep1.physics.sunysb.edu/~grannis/dept.html

Paul Grannis, ChairmanPam Burris, Assistant to Chairman

Laszlo Mihaly, Director of Graduate StudiesPat Peiliker, Assistant Director of Graduate Studies

Emilio Mendez, Director of Undergraduate StudiesElaine Larsen, Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies

Bob Segnini, Director of Physical LabsRich Berscak, Building Manager

Sara Lutterbie, Business ManagerDiane Siegel, Main OfficeMaria Hofer, Main Office

Joe Feliciano & Frank Chin, Instructional Labs.Chuck Pancake, Electronics CenterWalter Schmeling, Machine Shop

Sal Natale, Receiving

Department StaffDepartment Staff

New faculty

New appointments:

Adam Durst, condensed matter theory. Adam studies high Tc superconductors and 2-dimensional electron gases. Adam is presently a postdoc with Subdir Sachev at Yale. He will join Stony Brook in January 2005.

Science June 18 – Cooking a 2-dimensional electron gas with microwaves

Dominik Schneble, atomic physics experiment. Dominik studies strongly correlated atoms in optical lattices. Dominik has just completed a postdoc at MIT with Wolfgang Ketterle. He will arrive in Stony Brook in January 2005. He and wife Elisa just had a baby girl on Sept. 5.

New faculty

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

Phil Solomon Peter Stephens Tom Kuo

Dima Averin Michael Gurvitch

On leave this year:

Barbara Jacak Chris Jacobsen (fall) Chang Kee Jung (spring)

Janos Kirz Ken Lanzetta Kostya Likharev (spring)

Jim Lukens Mike Marx Edward Shuryak (spring)

Bill Weisberger (spring)

News of the faculty

News of the faculty

A special welcome back to Peter Paul after 6 years as Deputy for Science and Technology and Acting Interim Director at Brookhaven Lab.

Axel Drees was promoted to full professor

Concha Gonzalez-Garcia and John Hobbs were promoted to

associate professor

Janos Kirz has been named Interim Director of Advanced Light

Source at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Peter van Nieuwenhuizen was elected “Ridder in de Orde

van de Nederlandse Leeuw” (knight of the order of the Dutch

lion)

Norbert Pietralla won the Academy Prize for Physics from

Academy of Sciences in Göttingen

Edward Shuryak was Dirac Lecturer at University of New

South Wales in March and won the Dirac Medal

News of the faculty

Hal Metcalf was elected to the chair line (vice chair) of the

Division of Laser Science of the APS

Laszlo Mihaly received the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence

in Teaching

George Sterman was named the 2004 Distinguished Alumnus

by the University of Maryland Physics Department

Chang Kee Jung was given an Academy of Teacher-Scholar

Award

Vladimir Litvinenko (BNL, adjunct in dep’t) was made APS Fellow. Vladimir won the 2004 Free Electron Laser Prize for "outstanding contributions for the Free electron Laser science and technology".

News of the faculty

Feynman diagram illustrating an alternative production mechanism for glueballs; the glueball (a bound-gluon state predicted by QCD) is accompanied by a charmonium state H. The calculated cross section for this process in e+e- annihilation suggests that recent anomalous results from the Belle Collaboration may be due in part to production of charmonium-glueball pairs.

Cover of 9/12/03 PRL: Brodsky, A.S. Goldhaber, J. Lee

KOPIO experiment (~$50M) approved by Congress as NSF MRE project; Mike Marx is project leader. Ko → o decay is a clean and direct measure of CP violation.

Barbara Jacak featured on NPR “Talk of the Nation: Science Friday” on Jan. 20, 2004, discussing the new RHIC quark gluon plasma results.

Barbara has also joined a distinguished roster of speakers at NSF, exploring the science future for ‘Quarks and the Cosmos’

Ken Lanzetta conceived and organized “Astronomers Under Glass”, a public analysis of Hubble Deep Field images at the Rose Center of the American Museum of Natural History in March.

News of the faculty

CERN Courier, May 2004: article by M. Rocek and G. Sterman on result from 1st Simons Workshop in 2003:“Space goes quantum at Stony Brook”Does a melting crystal provide the key to developing a quantum description of gravity? Advances at the first Simons Workshop point to a connection.

This year’s workshop just finished: Superstrings and Topological Strings

News of the faculty

Adjunct Faculty

The department made new adjunct faculty appointments to:

Praveen Chaudhari – BNL Director, materials science

Jim Davenport – theoretical condensed matter physics at BNL

Peter Johnson – experimental condensed matter physics at BNL

David Sayre – retired from IBM, affiliated with the x-ray optics group

Jin Wang – theoretical physics of biology, Asst. Prof. in SB Chemistry

Also appointed those outside the department who are supervising PhD theses on 1 year renewable terms as affiliated or adjunct faculty.

Aug. 2003: (18 degrees)

Lilia Anguelova Univ. Michigan postdoc

Seth Aubin Univ. Toronto postdoc

Tigran Bacarian

Tirthabir Biswas McGill Univ.

Fernando Camino Stony Brook postdoc

Javier Cardona Univ. de los Andes faculty

Matthew Cashen Stanford postdoc

Alberto Iglisias New York Univ. postdoc

Jiangyong Jia Colombia postdoc

Bertram Klein GSI Darmstadt postdoc

Takeshi Koike Stony Brook postdoc

Peter Langfelder Perimeter Inst., Waterloo CA postdoc

Mathew Malek Fermilab postdoc

Graduate student PhDs awarded

August 2003 cont’d

Jaan Mannik Stony Brook postdoc

Filipe Moura Ecole Polytechnique postdoc

Joe Reiner NIST postdoc

Kevin Schultz Ohio State postdoc

John Wilson Duke medical imaging postdoc

December 2003 (7 degrees)

Yiing-rei Chen Columbia chemistry postdoc

Gary Gluckman Radiation Oncology, Stony Brook

Loic Grandchamp-Desraux Lawrence Berkeley Lab postdoc

Athanasios Hatzikoutelis Univ. Virginia postdoc

Oleg Kritsun Stony Brook postdoc

Tianfang Li Stony Brook medical imaging postdoc

Tevfik Mentes INFN Trieste postdoc

Graduate student PhDs awarded

May 2004 (7 degrees)

Tobias Beetz Brookhaven Nat’l Lab

Nathan Clisby Univ. Melbourne postdoc

Alok Gambhir Stony Brook medical school

Tibor Kucs Deutsche Bank, London

Diyar Talbayev William & Mary postdoc

Zhong Min Wang Radiation oncology, Univ. Penn

Valeriu Zetocha Financial industry in New York

August 2004 (1 degree)

Marian Zdrazil Lawrence Berkeley Lab postdoc

Graduate student PhDs awarded

MSI, May 2004 (2 degrees)

Bob Azmoun BNL tech position

Susan Metz Photon Research Associates

Stony Brook is one of the leading universities in number of Ph.D. degrees granted.

Ranking of 2001-2 PhDs granted

1. Illinois/Champaign Urbana 332. MIT 323. Stony Brook 293. Texas Austin 295. Harvard 276. Ohio State 257. UC Berkeley 238. Cornell 229. Stanford 2010. UC San Diego 18

In 2003-4: 32 PhDs

Graduate student degrees awarded

Almeida Leandro Florida Inst. Technology USAmparo Denis Joseph Ateneo de Manila Univ. PhilippinesAnderson William Gettysburg College USChen Chin-Hao National Taiwan Univ. TaiwanClow Stephen Portland State, Rice Univ. USDai Peng Nanjing Univ. ChinaDixon Keri Univ. Illinois Urbana/Champain USDusling Kevin Cooper Union USFaherty Jacqueline Notre Dame, Columbia USFarley Christopher Fordham Univ. USGoodson Jeremiah Univ. Colorado, Boulder USGrimes Jacob Southwest Texas State USHaeming Marc Univ. WürzburgGermanyHuang Lei USTC ChinaJohannsen Tim Univ. Würzburg GermanyJung Jay Hoon Sungkyun Univ. KoreaKamin Jason Hampshire College USKnochel Alexander Univ. Würzburg GermanyKrejca Brian U. Mass Lowell/U. Illinois UC USKuo Yueh-Cheng National Taiwan Univ. Taiwan

Incoming graduate students

Incoming graduate students

Lapidus Saul Rochester Inst. Technology USLepzelter David MIT USLi Rundong Beijing UniversityChinaLiao Jinfeng Tsinghua Univ. ChinaLim Yeunhwan Seoul National Univ. KoreaLin Shu Beijing Univ. ChinaLopez Glenn Univ. Michigan USMeans Nathan Cornell College USNesteroff James Clarkson Univ. USPatu Ionel Univ. Bucharest RomaniaPomoni Elli Univ. Athens GreeceReeves Jason Knox College USRiedmann Matthias Univ. Würzburg GermanyRyb Itai Hebrew Univ. JerusalemIsraelSchiff Philip Truman State Univ. USShen Xiao Fudan Univ. ChinaStaedele Verena Konstanz GermanySteinbrener Jan Univ. Würzburg GermanyStewart Steven SUNY Oneonta USStone Kevin Univ. California Berkeley US

Incoming graduate students

Strauss Emanuel Johns Hopkins Univ. USTan Zhongkui Beijing Univ. ChinaTschann-GrimmKathryn UCLA USXu Jianhua USTC ChinaYou Sifang USTC ChinaYoung Clint SUNY Binghamton USZhang Yan USTC China

US

Asia

Europe

Where do new students come from?

47 incoming graduate students this year; 39 PhD candidates; 6 exchange students (MA); 2 MSI

Bachelor degrees , December 2003 (3)

Alisha Cramer

Yoshitaka Yamagata

Meng Yan

May 2004 (12)

Sevan Aydin

Zoe Berger Law school

Stuart Fishkin seeking jobs

Philip Grandin Vanderbilt planetarium; grad school ‘05

Taiga Inoue (PHY minor) graduate school, systems science

Jason Pawlowski graduate study, physics - Colorado

Amy Roberts BNL research

Undergraduate Degrees

Jude Schneck graduate school, chemistry - Boston

University

Ki Wi Song (PHY minor)

Anthony Traglia undecided; graduate school in future

Chui Yi Woo graduate school, physics - Duke

Adi Zolotov research at Stony Brook; graduate school

August 2004 (4)

Eirini Anastasiou Pharmaceutical industry/ medical

school

Spiro Kartsonis industry

James Scholtz undecided

Sebastian Trujillo research at Stony Brook; graduate school

Undergraduate Degrees

last yr. this yr.AST101 141 161AST105 262 266AST248 230 225PHY113 50 50 New “Physics of Sport” -- market seems >100PHY121 351 426PHY122 133 150PHY131 302 270PHY132 91 59PHY125 87 98PHY126 81

PHY301 44 31PHY303 42 28

Introductory course enrollments continue high. Junior level courses down somewhat but still larger than we’ve seen in the past.We continue to need to improve in finding opportunities for research projects for undergraduates, and the increased number of majors amplifies this need.

Enrollments

2004 Teacher of the year

Emilio Mendez

The great softball challenge

In a warm up for the Olympic games on August 19, the graduate student Team Tiger took on the dream team, Godzilla made up of faculty, staff (and a few ringers).

Final score: Team Godzilla 21 (base 4) : Team Tiger 20 (base 8)

Age and treachery will always overcome youth and enthusiasm!

Better luck next year to the grad students!

The bequest by the Simons Foundation will be used this year to sponsor two special lecturers who will visit the department for a week or more and give a combination of colloquium and seminar level talks. The lecturers will also be available for discussions and interactions with students and faculty.

Lecturers were chosen to present recent theoretical advances of physics and astronomy, and to represent theoretical fields not strongly represented at Stony Brook.

Paul Steinhardt of Princeton University will talk on alternatives to big bang cosmology and quasi-crystals during his visit from Oct. 25 – 29. (Host: Bill Weisberger)

Sir Michael Berry of the University of Bristol will discuss optical singularities, chaos and Riemann zeroes, non-hermitian degeneracies and asymptotic oscillatory phenomena. He will visit Jan. 31 – Feb. 11 (Host: Hal Metcalf)

Simons Lecturers

Li Hua Yu (PhD with C.N. Yang in 1984) of Brookhaven Lab received the 2003 Free Electron Laser prize.

Alumni News

Abid Patwa (PhD 2002 with M. Rijssenbeek) got the DØ Forward Preshower Module installed in a Museum of Modern Art (NY) exhibition, and subsequently at the Palais de la Decouverte in Paris.

Bill Weng, BNL director of Center for Particle Accelerators (1974 PhD with Tom Kuo) named fellow of IEEE

Alumni News

Joo Sang Kang (PhD 1970, Ben Lee), now on the faculty at Korea University, has established the Benjamin W. Lee Memorial Fellowship, to be used in preference for graduate students from Korea.

Sergei Maslov, PhD 1996 (Phil Allen) (now Adjunct Professor) won the Presidential Science and Engineering Award this year.

Rajiv Kamilla (PhD 1997, Jainendra Jain), now at Goldman Sachs in NY, won a $10,000 prize for innovation in futures trading – and donated it to the Department! (upcoming colloquium)

Mohsen Yeganeh, BS summa cum laude in ~1987, is now at Exxon Mobil Laboratories. He is a candidate for the Forum of Industrial and Applied Physics Sec’y/Treasurer position in the APS.

Events

On Oct. 1 at 5PM (Wang Center) Carolyn Porco, Stony Brook BS in 1974

and now Cassini imaging team leader at the Space Science Institute in

Boulder, CO will give a Provost’s Lecture describing the recent studies of

Saturn and its moons and rings. This lecture is part of the Alumni

Homecoming Weekend activities.

Colloquium

Carolyn Porco: Special Physics, Astronomy, Geosciences Colloquium

on THURSDAY, Sept. 30 “The Rings of Saturn as Seen by Cassini”,

Harriman Hall 137.

Sept. 21 Jin Wang, Department of Chemistry and new affiliated member of Physics and Astronomy: “Biomolecular Folding and Recognition-Energy Landscape Perspectives”

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 to expand our horizons. It is our responsibility to join in this central activity of the Department.

OutreachThe popular Open Night Friday night series for the general public continues. Deane Peterson and Tom Hemmick are planning a star-studded roster for 2003 – 2004. Friday nights at 7:30 PM (ESS 001)

Worlds of Physics

Astronomy Open Nights

Astronomy Open Nights Fall 2003:This is the 21st year anniversary of Astronomy Open Nights

Jim Lattimer “What is a neutron star made of”(Sept. 3)

Fred Walter: “SMARTS: Big science with small telescopes” (Oct. 1)

Phil Solomon: “The Spitzer telescope: a new look at the infrared universe” (Oct. 29) … and more

Worlds of Physics Fall 2003Abhay Deshpande: Nucleon spin: from crisis to a puzzle (Sept. 10) Laszlo Mihaly: Spin resonance and spin echo (Oct. 8)

… and more

Also ‘Geology Open Nights and The Living World series.

Astronomy Open Night

Outreach

2005 is the ‘Year of Physics’, commemorating the 1905 Einstein publications of Brownian motion, special relativity and photoelectric effect.

http://www.physics2005.org/

Outreach, interactions with schools, special events.

We and our students should be involved.

PHYSICS AND MATH BUILDING MASONRY REPAIR STATUS:

Masonry probes were performed in 2003 to determine the condition of the masonry facade, corner soldier brick courses, masonry column enclosures, and relieving angle structures by all the windows.

Scope of Work for the masonry repairs are defined. Budgetary Cost estimates for masonry repair and new roof were completed: $1.86M

We are at the top of the list -- Hoping for the NY State budget to pass!

Over the past year, many repairs made to the AC systems on the roof – new catchment trays for condensate water, redo plumbing. So far, the most awful leaks seem to be gone!

The building

This year I asked for one slide that represents the work of each of the research groupings. Thus this summary is NOT complete, but I hope that it gives the students a flavor for the research opportunities that the Department offers.

Organizing principle for areas is from smallest to largest.

Research highlights of the past year

Physical Sciences and Math research expenditures

~ $13.3M in AY’03 (14th in the nation); highest in the university

The physics mistakes in presenting these are mine!!

Phys/Astro merger

Old idea (1988), recently revived and extended (December, 2003) New string theories, for just 4 dimensions Actually describe particles, not strings Tailored to describe Quantum Chromodynamics (as part of maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills) Directly give known simple results for tree graphs (Born approximation scattering) Much simpler than Feynman diagrams; possible replacement Use topology, twistors, superspace, worldsheet instantons May generalize to new kinds of QCD strings Work by Stony Brook people: Roiban (former student); Berkovits (former postdoc); Siegel (faculty); Giombi, Ricci, Robles-Llana, Trancanelli (students) One of the topics at the Simons Workshop here, “Superstrings & Topological Strings”, July 26 - August 27, 2004

Twistor superstrings(Nair; Witten; Roiban, Spradlin, & Volovich; Berkovits; Vafa;

...)

Stringy ideas are now influencing understanding of phenomena observed in the lab; may lead to ability to calculate complex higher order supersymmetry processes at LHC.

W. Siegel

Concha Gonzalez-Garcia

Nucleon Decay and Neutrino Group

Best Fit

No OscillationsNormalized to the number of entries

K2K Confirmation of Neutrino Oscillation

C.K. Jung, C. McGrew, C. Yanagisawa,A. Sarrat, K. Kobayashi, T. Kato, D. Kerr, R. Terri, L. Whitehead, L.P. Trung

Super-Kamiokande, K2K, T2K, and UNO

K2K Allowed RegionExclude Null Osc. by 3.9σ

Evidence for Neutrino Mass not in Standard Model

Topics: Neutrino Mass and Mixing, Solar Neutrinos, Supernova Neutrinos, Atmospheric Neutrinos, Experimental Tests of Grand Unification, Proton Decay, Accelerator and Non-Accelerator based High Energy Particle Physics, Neutrino Cross Section Measurements

NSKobs=108

NSKexp (best fit)=104.8

N(no oscillation) ~ 150

Marian Zdrazil's Thesis

Search for doubly charged Higgs Bosons

H++ or H--

Look for decays into like sign dimuons

Expected in some models extending the

Standard Model.

New limit on the mass

m(H++) > 119 GeV

To be published in PRL soon

1st DØ publication from upgraded detector

Experimental high energy physics at accelerators

Sr. staff: Rod Engelmann, Paul Grannis, John Hobbs, Mike Marx, Bob McCarthy, Michael Rijssenbeek, Dean Schamberger

Run-3 submitted to PRL

Run 5 will refine the measurement and help unravel the proton “spin crisis”

In central collisions the particle production associated with both mesons and baryons in Au Au is similar and significantly higher than observed in pp and dAu collisions. This suggests that baryons are produced in jets, rather than by recombination of thermal quarks.

#overlapped nucleons

Part

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s near

trig

ger

Experiments at RHIC

fragmentation

A. Sickles, B. Jacak

Study production asymmetry (ALL) from two polarized protons. This asymmetry is sensitive to the fraction of the proton spin carried by gluons. First publication (A. Deshpande et al.) established the technique and the polarization measurement. The result is consistent with DIS measurement of gluon contribution to proton spin.

Newly discovered chiral partners of charm-strange mesons by experiments at SLAC, Cornell, KEK (Japan) and Fermilab

Predicted by Nowak, Rho, Zahed (1993)Bardeen, Hill (1994)

QCD Phase Diagram of theStrongly Coupled Quark GluonPlasma as currently probedAt RHIC

Shuryak and Zahed (2003)Brown, Shuryak (2004)

Nuclear Theory Group

Adiabatic trajectories of experiments

Cold superconducting phase

Normal hadronic phase

Boundaries for decomposing various quark systems

density

tem

pera

ture

Ismail Zahed

Proton-neutron Proton-neutron asymmetric structureasymmetric structure

Scissors Mode

Chiral doublet bands

Gamma Ray Spectroscopy GroupGamma Ray Spectroscopy Group

long

Int

short

jj

R

long j

RInt

(Mixed-Symmetry States)

Stony CUBE

N. Pietralla, G. Rainovski, C. Vaman,T. Koike, A. Costin, T. Ahn, K. Dusling,T.-C. Lu

COLLIMATING ATOMS WITH COLLIMATING ATOMS WITH THE BICHROMATIC FORCETHE BICHROMATIC FORCE

Why the bichromatic force ???

It’s HUGE, and it spans a

HUGE velocity range!!!

The bichromatic force offers a new domain of optical forces to exploit for control of atomic motion. Here it collimates a metastable He beam to high intensity and brightness for use in atomic lithography. (Thesis of Matt Partlow).

Electrostatic forces act on neutral atoms ONLY through an induced dipole moment, a process efficient ONLY in Rydberg atoms. Here the Rydberg states (high n) have been produced by a novel process and focused to a small spot. (Thesis of Oleg Kritsun).

FOCUSING ATOMS WITH FOCUSING ATOMS WITH A DC ELECTRIC FIELDA DC ELECTRIC FIELD

Why electrostatic forces ???

This is a new domain for atom optics and control.

Note – even though these look similar, they are indeed very different images.

Condensed matter theory

P. B. Allen, A. G. Abanov, R. Requist, cond-mat/031104

Spontaneous Quantum Electrical Dipole Predicted in Triangular Molecules

The work includes self-assembly of single-

molecule devices on pre-fabricated metallic

nanowires, experimental and

theoretical study of electron transport in

these devices, and development of novel

bio-inspired architectures for CMOL

circuits.

A collaboration including Phil Allen, Kostya Likharev and Jim Lukens, as well as experts from several other SBU departments (Chemistry, Material Sciences, and Neurobiology & Behavior) and ORNL, develops scientific basis for future hybrid semiconductor/molecular (“CMOL”) integrated circuits.

CMOSstack

CMOSwiringand

plugs

goldnanowire

levels(nanoimprint)

MOSFET

self-assembledmolecular devices

interfacepin

Si wafer

N

R

R

NN

O

O

O

O

R = hexyl

N

R

R

C C

n n

n = 3

goldelectrodes

5 nm gap

A molecular single-electron transistor… ...and its I-V curve

CMOL circuit concept

Nanodevice physics

Large Charge Quanta in Supercond/Semicond/Supercond

JunctionsF. Camino, V. Kuznetsov, and E. E. Mendez

Sketch of the semiconductor/superconductorstructure used in this work. Electron Cooper pairs are transferred from one Nb electrodeto another via a two-dimensional electron gas formed in the InAs semiconducting layer.

(F. E. Camino et. al., cond-mat/0406650)

Dependence of noise on current, measured at 1.2 K. The thick solid line is the experimental curve. The dashed line is the calculated noise assuming a charge equal to e, while the thin solid line considers a charge q 6e.

X-ray optics group• H. Fleckenstein, B. Hornberger, X. Huang, C. Jacobsen,

B. Larson, M. Lerotić, E. Lima, M. Lu, H. Miao, D. Sayre, D. Shapiro, S. Wirick

• Departures: J. Kirz as Acting Director of Advanced Light Source, Berkeley; T. Beetz to postdoc at BNL

(May 2003 photo)

Center for Environmental Molecular Sciences Nanofabrication of diffractive optics

Scanning microscopy at BNL: cluster analysis of Clostridium sp. forming a spore (bacterium can reduce U in soils, decreasing mobility). With J. Gillow, A.J. Francis, BNL.

Spectra reveal organic functional groups

Lensless imaging of yeast at LBL: image reconstructed from diffraction data alone. This sample freeze-dried; now working with frozen hydrated cells. With A. Niemann, Stony Brook; P. Thibault, V. Elser, Cornell.

Chris Jacobsen

Observational astronomy: Aaron Evans, Ken Lanzetta, Deane Peterson, Mike Simon, Phil Solomon, Fred Walte

Use telescopes in Chile, Hawaii, Owens Valley, Vancouver(!) and elsewhere

From the 2MASS (2 mm All Sky Survey) list of 100 largest galaxies in the near infrared.

Work of Aaron Evans in collaboration with CalTech, Univ. Massachusetts.

Many of our students find good thesis research beyond the Department

Accelerator physics: our adjunct professors Peggs, Ben-Zvi, Litvinenko, MacKay at BNL offer many theoretical and experimental topics. (Note the Accel. Phys course this fall by Waldo MacKay)

Research outside the Department

also opportunities in chemical physics, medical imaging etc.

About 20 students supervised in these external areas.

Particle theory and Lattice Gauge: BNL adjuncts Creutz and Dawson

Condensed Matter and Materials Science at BNL: (Abbamonte, Chaudhari, Davenport, Dierker, P. Johnson, Kao, Ku, Liang, Mazlov, Tsvelik) – both theory and experiment.

Biological Physics: Opportunities in genomics, brain design, bio computation at Cold Spring Harbor Lab (Chklovskii, Zhang); on campus topics in biophysics, structural biology, protein folding, radiation oncology, pharmacology (Kisker, Liang, McLaughlin, S. Smith, J. Wang)

Atmospheric physics: the physics of our atmosphere through the Marine Sciences Research Center (Geller, de Zafra)

Reception outside the Department Office (in the keg circle) follows !

A wealth of exciting physics and astronomy has emerged your work over the past year. I have only scratched the surface (more reports to come in colloquia, seminars, Friday presentations)

The students, research associates and faculty at Stony Brook are recognized as being at the leading edge in many of the most important areas of science.

We welcome the new students to our community, and wish you every success in the exciting enterprises to come.

This talk: http://sbhep1.physics.sunysb.edu/~grannis/dept.html