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2008-09 Physics and Astronomy Back

Alharbi, Abeer
Assistant Professor, Physics Department, College of Education-Science Section, Riyadh University for Women, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Research: New Nuclear Reaction Leading to Short-Lived Medical Radioactive Isotopes for Positron Emission Tomography
Texas A&M University--College Station, Department of Physics, The Cyclotron Institute, College Station, TX, c/o Dr. Robert E. Tribble
October 2008 - September 2009

Balitskii, Olexiy
Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics, Ivan Franko L'viv University, L'viv, Ukraine
Research: Formation and Characterization of Nanostructures, Based on III-IV Compounds
University of California--Merced, School of Natural Sciences, Merced, CA, c/o Dr. David F. Kelley
November 2008 - July 2009

Bejenari, Igor
Research Scientist, Institute of Electronic Engineering and Industrial Technologies, Academy of Sciences of Moldova, Chisinau, Moldova
Research: Electric Field Effect on Thermoelectric Properties of Bismuth Telluride Quantum Wires
University of California--Riverside, Materials Science and Engineering Program, Department of Electrical Engineering, Riverside, CA, c/o Dr. Alexander A. Balandin
September 2008 - May 2009

Di Bartolomeo, Antonio
Researcher, Department of Physics, University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy
Research: Carbon Nanotubes Networks as Temperature and Gas Sensors
Georgetown University, Department of Physics, Washington, DC, c/o Prof. Paola Barbara
June 2009 - December 2009

dos Santos Cardoso, Vitor Manuel
Research Scientist, Physics Department, CENTRA, Technical University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Research: Gravitational Wave Detection with Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory
University of Mississippi, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University, MS, c/o Prof. Marco Cavaglia
October 2008 - March 2009

Garcia March, Miguel
Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems, University of the Balearic Islands, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Research: Emergent Phenomena on the Border Between Many Body Quantum Mechanics and Semi-Classical Nonlinear Physics
Colorado School of Mines, Department of Physics, Golden, CO, c/o Dr. Lincoln D. Carr
May 2009 - April 2011

Gogberashvili, Merab
Senior Research Fellow, Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences, Andronikashvili Institute of Physics, Tbilisi, Georgia
Research: Applications of Various Kinds of Multi-Dimensional Spaces in Physics
California State University--Fresno, College of Sciences and Mathematics, Department of Physics, Fresno, CA, c/o Dr. Karen Carey
September 2008 - June 2009

Hashmi, Muhammad
Professor, Department of Physics, Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur, Pakistan
Research: Growth of Low-Cost, Large-Area and Quality-Grade Silicon Carbide Wafers on Porous Silicon by Low-Pressure Chemical Vapor Deposition
University of North Carolina--Charlotte, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Quantum Electronics and Materials Growth Lab, Charlotte, NC, c/o Dr. M.-A. Hasan
September 2008 - June 2009

Hippolyte, Boris
Assistant Professor, Department of Subatomic Research, Louis Pasteur University (Strasbourg I), Strasbourg, France
Research: Compared Studies of the Analysis Programs in Ultra-Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions at the Large Hadron Collider and the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
University of California--Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Nuclear Science Division, Berkeley, CA, c/o Dr. Hans-Georg Ritter
Yale University, Department of Physics, New Haven, CT, c/o Prof. John W. Harris
January 2009 - June 2009

Jelinek, Pavel
Research Scientist, Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
Research: Theory of Electron Transport in Complex Nanosystems
Arizona State University, Department of Physics, Tempe, AZ, c/o Prof. Otto F. Sankey
October 2008 - May 2009

Linden, Bengt Martin Erland
Ph.D. Student, Department of Theoretical Physics, Alba Nova University Center, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Research: Theoretical Biophysics of Protein Monitors
University of California--Berkeley, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Berkeley, CA, c/o Dr. George Oster
September 2008 - August 2009

Mann, Robert
Professor and Chair, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada
Research: The Edge of Spacetime
University of California--Santa Barbara, Department of Physics, Santa Barbara, CA, c/o Dr. Don Marolf
January 2009 - June 2009

Mathuthu, Manny
Principal Scientist, Energy and Technology Institute, Scientific and Industrial Research and Development Center, Harare, Zimbabwe
Research: Food Safety, Nutritional and Health-Related Studies Using a Small Research Reactor, the Plasma Focus Device
North Carolina State University, Department of Nuclear Engineering, Raleigh, NC, c/o Dr. Ayman I. Hawari
September 2008 - June 2009

Morones Ibarra, Jose
Professor and Head, Department of Physics, Autonomous University of Nuevo Leon, Monterrey, Mexico
Research: Symmetries in Chiral Effective Field Theory
University of Arizona, Department of Physics, Tucson, AZ, c/o Dr. Ubirajara Van Kolck
August 2008 - July 2009

Muslih, Sami
Professor, Department of Physics, Al-Azhar University of Gaza, Gaza, Gaza
Research: Fractional Derivatives and Their Applications in Physics
Southern Illinois University--Carbondale, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carbondale, IL, c/o Dr. Om Agrawal
July 2008 - June 2009

Onnela, Jukka-Pekka Johannes
Research Fellow, Physics Department, Said Business School, University of Oxford, Wolfson College, Oxford, United Kingdom
Research: Statistical Mechanics of Group Formation and Performance
Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, MA, c/o Prof. David Lazer
September 2008 - August 2009

Radovanovic, Voja
Associate Professor, Department of Physics, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia I
Research: Noncommutative Field Theory
University of California--Davis, Department of Physics, Davis, CA, c/o Dr. Nemanja Kaloper
October 2008 - November 2008

Reguera Gomez, Javier
Independent Scholar, Independent Scholar/Unaffiliated, Independent Scholar/Unaffiliated, Spain
Research: Study and Characterization of Supramolecular Self-Assemblies and Applications of Core-Shell Metallic Nanoparticles
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cambridge, MA, c/o Dr. Francesco Stellacci
May 2009 - April 2011

Revez Omar, Yasser Rashid
Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Technical University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Research: New Challenges in Quantum Information Theory: Quantum Authentication of Public Messages and Measures of Quantum Interference
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Research Laboratory of Electronics, Center for Extreme Quantum Information Theory, Cambridge, MA, c/o Prof. Seth Lloyd
September 2008 - December 2008

Roman, Benoit
Research Fellow, Department of Physics, Polytechnical College, Paris, France
Research: A Biomechanic Paradox: How Fungi Pierce a Liquid Interface
Harvard University, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Cambridge, MA, c/o Prof. Jaques Dumais
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mathematics, Cambridge, MA, c/o Dr. John Bush
August 2008 - December 2008

Rotschild, Carmel
Doctoral Student, Physics Department, Solid State Institute, TECHNION--Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Research: Cost-Effective Luminescent Solar Concentrators Based on Organic Materials
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Research Laboratory of Electronics, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Cambridge, MA, c/o Prof. Marc A. Baldo
July 2008 - June 2009

Sivan, Yonatan
Doctoral Candidate, School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Research: Optical Cloaking for a Wide Frequency Range
Purdue University, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, West Lafayette, IN, c/o Prof. Vladimir Shalaev
SUNY--University at Buffalo, Department of Electrical Engineering, Buffalo, NY, c/o Dr. Natalia Litchinister
September 2008 - August 2009

Sultana, Joseph
Lecturer, Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, University of Malta, Msida, Malta
Research: Particle Acceleration Mechanisms in Gamma-Ray Bursts
NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center, Astrophysics Sciences Division, Greenbelt, MD, c/o Dr. Demosthenes Kazanas
May 2009 - October 2009

Tamarit Degenhardt, Carlos
Collaborator, Department of Theoretical Physics I, Faculty of Physics, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Research: Formal and Phenomenological Aspects of Quantum Field Theories: Noncommutativity and Supersymmetry
University of California--Santa Barbara, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara, CA, c/o Prof. Joseph Polchinski
May 2009 - April 2011

Villafuerte, Manuel
Researcher, Department of Physics, National University of Tucuman, Tucuman, Argentina
Research: Electrocaloric Effect in Transition Metal Oxide Films
Los Alamos National Laboratory, LANL, Pulsed Field Facility, Los Alamos, NM, c/o Dr. Marcelo Jaime
September 2008 - December 2008

Zotov, Leonid
Research Scientist, Laboratory of Gravimetry, Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Lecturing: Theory of Filtration and Time Series Processing
Ohio State University--Columbus, College of Mathematical and Physical Science, School of Earth Sciences, Columbus, OH, c/o Dr. C.K. Shum
November 2008 - June 2009