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Brewster, Robert C.
Ph.D. Student, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California--Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Research: Physical Origin of Lipid-Rich Domains in the Cell Membrane
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
September 2008 - June 2010

Campins, Humberto
Professor, Department of Physics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
Research: Low Perihelion Near-Earth Asteroids
Institute of Astrophysics of the Canaries, Tenerife, Spain
September 2008 - February 2009

Cowen, Douglas F.
Associate Professor, Physics Department, Eberly College of Science, Pennsylvania State University--University Park, University Park, PA
Lecturing and Research: Enhancing the Sensitivity of the IceCube Neutrino Telescope to Transient Astrophysical Sources Using Optical Follow-up Observations
Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
January 2009 - April 2009

Davis, Stanley Peter
Adjunct Professor, Department of Physics, St. John's College, St. John's University, Queens, NY
Research: Laboratory Astrophysical Transients with Applications for Inertial Confinement Fusion
University of Bordeaux I, Talence, France
January 2009 - December 2009

Leung, Pui Tak
Professor, Department of Physics, Portland State University, Portland, OR
Research: Computational Studies of the Quantum Effects in Plasmonics With Metallic Nanoparticles
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
September 2008 - July 2009

Lodhi, M. Arfin K.
Professor, Department of Physics, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
Lecturing and Research: Astronomy and Osmology; A) Quark-Gluon Plasma and B) Advanced Space Power Generation
U.S. Educational Foundation in Pakistan, Islamabad, Pakistan
March 2009 - August 2009

O'Donnell, Thomas Wilfred
Lecturer, The Residential College and the Science, Technology and Society Program, University of Michigan--Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI
Research: The Globalized Oil Order: A Comparison of Venezuela and Algeria's Internal and External Models Compared
Central University of Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela
October 2008 - January 2009

Shaver, Jonah
Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Applied Physics, Rice University, Houston, TX
Research: Temperature Dependent Time-Resolved Magneto-Photoluminescence of Individual Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
University of Bordeaux I, Talence, France
September 2008 - September 2009

Singleton, Douglas Alexander
Associate Professor, Department of Physics, College of Science and Mathematics, California State University--Fresno, Fresno, CA
Research: Classical and Quantum Fields in Gravitational Backgrounds
Russian University of Peoples' Friendship, Moscow, Russia
January 2009 - July 2009

Sullivan, Timothy Sean
Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH
Lecturing and Research: Computational Science Using Computer Clusters Created From Classroom Computers
University of Peradeniya, Kandy, Sri Lanka
October 2008 - July 2009

Thompson, John Robert
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Maine, Orono, ME
Lecturing and Research: Physics Concepts and Problem Solving
Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin, Ireland
September 2008 - July 2009

Usher, Timothy Dwight
Professor, Physics Department, California State University--San Bernardino, San Bernardino, CA
Lecturing and Research: Designing Multiferroic Materials at the Nanoscale
University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
September 2008 - June 2009

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