Physics

211 Interdisciplinary Sciences Building
(831) 459-2329
http://physics.ucsc.edu

Faculty and Professional Interests

Professor

Thomas Banks
String and particle theory, quantum gravity, and cosmology

David P. Belanger
Experimental condensed matter physics, phase transitions

Frank G. Bridges, Emeritus

George Brown
Experimental condensed matter physics

Sue A. Carter
Experimental condensed matter physics, polymer physics, molecular electronics, phase transitions, electronic and optical properties of materials

Joshua M. Deutsch
Condensed matter theory

Michael Dine
Theory of elementary particles

David E. Dorfan, Emeritus

Stanley M. Flatté, Emeritus

George D. Gaspari, Emeritus

Howard E. Haber
Theory and phenomenology of fundamental particles and their interactions

Clemens A. Heusch
Experimental high-energy physics

Robert P. Johnson
Experimental high-energy physics, astrophysics

Onuttom Narayan
Theoretical condensed matter physics

Michael Nauenberg, Emeritus

Joel R. Primack
Theory of fundamental particles, cosmology, astrophysics

Bruce Rosenblum, Emeritus

Matthew Sands, Emeritus

Zack Schlesinger
Experimental condensed matter physics, infrared and optical spectroscopy, strongly correlated electron systems, novel materials, negative thermal expansion, underconstraint and geometrical frustration

Bruce Schumm
Experimental particle physics

Abraham Seiden
Experimental high-energy physics

B. Shastry
Condensed matter physics, strongly correlated matter, Mott-Hubbard physics, high Tc superconductivity, quantum magnetism, exactly integrable systems, exactly solvable models of many-body systems and in statistical mechanics, quantum chaos, geometric frustration

A. Peter Young
Condensed matter theory, statistical mechanics

Associate Professor

Peter L. Scott, Emeritus

Assistant Professor

Anthony Aguirre
Cosmology of the early and late universe: inflation and the global structure of cosmological models; the intergalactic medium and its enrichment with heavy elements; galaxy formation, evolution, and feedback processes; dark matter; theories of modified gravity

Gey-Hong Gweon
Experimental condensed matter physics

Jason Nielsen
Experimental high-energy physics

David M. Smith
High-energy astrophysics; X-ray and gamma-ray detectors and instrumentation; solar, terrestrial, and planetary sources of gamma radiation

Lecturer

Fred Kuttner
Foundations of quantum mechanics; physics education

Professor

George R. Blumenthal (Astronomy and Astrophysics)
Cosmology, galaxy formation, high-energy astrophysics

Wentai Liu (Electrical Engineering)
Retinal prosthesis, biomimetic systems, integrated neuro-electronics, molecular electronics, CMOS and SOI transceiver design, current mode band limited signaling, microelectronic sensor, timing/clock recovery and optimization, noise characterization and modeling, and computer vision/image processing

William G. Mathews (Astronomy and Astrophysics)
Galaxies, high-energy astrophysics, gaseous nebulae; cornetto (music)

Richard Montgomery (Mathematics)
Celestial mechanics, differential geometry, gauge theory, mechanics (quantum and classical), and control theory

Associate Professor

Joel Kubby (Electrical Engineering)
Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems (MEMS), adaptive optics, integrated optics, bio-MEMS

Ali Shakouri (Electrical Engineering)
Semiconductor device physics, heat generation and cooling in microscale devices, optoelectronics, photonic switching, fiber optics communication systems

Assistant Professor

Pascale Garaud (Applied Mathematics and Statistics)
Astrophysics, geophysics, fluid dynamics, numerical resolutions of differential equations, and mathematical modeling of natural flows

Holger Schmidt (Electrical Engineering)
Integrated optics for biomedicine and quantum optics, nano-magento-optics, semiconductor physics, optoelectonic and photonic devices, ultrafast optics, quantum interference

Adjunct Professor

William Atwood

Donald Coyne, Emeritus

Alan Litke

Michael Riordan

Hartmut F.-W. Sadrozinski

Terry L. Schalk

David A. Williams

Research Physicist

Vitaliy Fadeyev

Alexander Grillo

William Lockman

Postgraduate Research Physicist

Linda Carpenter

Sofia Chouridou

Christian Flacco

Patrik Jonsson

Juergen Kroseberg

Michael Peterson

Pablo Saz Parkinson

Troy Porter

Alexander Sher

Assaf Shomer

Nalini Sundaram

Michael Wilson

Marcus Ziegler