Dr. Gabor J. Kalman | Boston College Physics

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Dr. Gabor J. Kalman

Distinguished Research Professor of Physics

617-552-3581
Higgins Hall 330B
kalman@bc.edu

Education

Diploma of E.E. Polytechnical University, Budapest, Hungary, D.Sc. (T. A.: Nathan Rosen)
Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Areas of Research

Strongly coupled Coulomb systems: plasmas, electron liquid in 3 and 2 dimensions.
Charged particle layered systems, bilayers.
Complex (dusty, colloidal) plasmas; plasma crystals.
Dense plasmas; plasma phase transitions.
Linear and nonlinear response functions and fluctuation-dissipation theorems.

Professional Experience

Research Professor, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
Visiting Professor, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Directeur de Recherche, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université de Paris, Orsay, France
Professeur Associé, Université de Paris, Orsay, France
Lecturer, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Research Scientist, Central Research Institute for Physics Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
Visiting Fellow, Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
Expert, Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories
Visiting Scientist, Observatoire de Paris, Meudon, France
Visiting Scientist, Groupe de Recherches Ionospheriques du CNRS, Orleans, France
Senior Visiting Scientist, University of Oxford, Great Britain
Professeur d'Echange, Université de Paris and Observatoire de Paris, Meudon, France
Associate (Honorary), Centre for Astrophysics, Harvard University
Research Leader, Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy
Visiting Scholar, UCSD, La Jolla, CA
Consultant, UCSD, La Jolla, CA
Director, NATO Summer Institutes
Int. Adv. Board, Int. Conf. on Strongly Coupled Coulomb Systems and Int. Workshop on the Physics of Nonideal Plasmas.

Professional Memberships

Fellow: New York Academy of Sciences
Fellow: American Physical Society
Member: European Physical Society
Association for the Advancement of Science

Selected Publications

"Non-linear Oscillations and Non-stationary Flow in a Zero Temperature Plasma I./II," Ann. Phys. (N.Y.) 10 (1) 29 (1960).
"Lagrangian Formalism in Relativistic Dynamics," Phys. Rev. 123, 384 (1961).
"Non-Linear Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem," with K.I. Golden and M.B. Silevitch, J. Stat. Phys. 6, 87 (1972).
"Hydrogenic Stark-Zeeman Spectra for Combined Static and Dynamic Fields," with P. Bakshi and A. Cohn, Phys. Rev. Lett. 31, 1576 (1973).
"Linear Stark Effect Due to Resonant Interactions of Static and Dynamic Fields," with P. Bakshi and A. Cohn, Phys. Rev. Lett. 29, 326 (1973).
"Longitudinal Massive Photon in an External Magnetic Field," with R.A. Cover, Phys. Rev. Lett. 33, 1113 (1974).
"New Approach to Strongly Coupled Electron Plasmas," with K.I. Golden and M.B. Silevitch, Phys. Rev. Lett. 33, 1547 (1974).
"Relativistic Fermi Gas Interacting through a Scalar Field," Phys. Rev. D 9, 1656 (1974).
"Superdense Neutron Matter," with V. Canuto and B. Datta, Astrophysical J. 221, 274 (1978).
"Approximation Schemes for Strongly Coupled Plasmas: Dynamical Theory," with K.I. Golden, Phys. Rev. A 19, 2112 (1979).
"Electromagnetic Response in Strong Magnetic Field - I/II," with P. Bakshi and R. Cover, Phys. Rev. D 14, 2532 (1976); D20, 3015 (1979).
"Quadratic Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem: The Quantum Domain," with Xiao- Yu Gu, Phys. Rev. A 36, 3399 (1987).
"Thomas-Fermi Model for Dense Plasmas," with R. Ying, Phys. Rev. A 40, 3927 (1989).
"Response Functions and Plasmon Dispersion for Strongly Coupled Coulomb Liquids," with K.I. Golden, Phys. Rev. A 41, 5516 (1990).
"Response Function of the Second Kind in Many Body Systems," with Xiao-Yu Gu and Z.C. Tao, J. Stat. Phys. 70, 887 (1993).
"Correlations Destroy Acoustic Plasmons in Superlattices," with K.I. Golden, Phys. Status Solidi 180, 533 (1993).
"Analytical Properties of the Quadratic Density Response and Quadratic Dynamical Structure Functions: Conservation Sum Rules and Frequency Moments," with J.M.Rommel, Phys. Rev. E 54, 3518 (1996).

Selected Books Edited, Chapters in Books

Topics on Plasma Response Functions in Plasma Physics, Ecole d'Ete de Physique Theorique - Les Houches: 1972, edited by C. deWitt, Gordon and Breach, NY (1975), p. 349.
Strongly Coupled Plasmas, edited by Gabor J. Kalman and Paul Carini, Plenum Press, NY (1977).
Strongly Coupled Coulomb Systems, edited by Gabor J. Kalman, Martin P. Rommel and Krastan B. Blagoev, Plenum Press, NY (1997).

Recent Publications

"Phases in Strongly Coupled Electronic Bilayers," with V. Valtchinov and K.B. Blagoev, Phys. Rev. E 56, 4351 (1997).
"Plasmons and Shear Waves in Correlated Superlattices," with K.I.Golden, L. Miao and R.R. Snapp, Phys. Rev. B 55, 16349 (1997).
"Dust Acoustic Waves in Strongly Coupled Dusty Plasmas," with M. Rosenberg, Phys. Rev. E 56, 7166 (1997).
"Collective Modes in Strongly Coupled Electronic Bilayer Liquids," with V. Valtchinov, K.I. Golden, Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3124 (1999).
"Quasilocalized Charge Approximation in Strongly Coupled Plasma Physics" (review paper), with K.I. Golden, Phys. Plasmas 7, 3124 (2000).
"Static and Dynamic Properties of Electronic Bilayers," with V. Valtchinov and K.I. Golden, in Condensed Matter Theories 13, edited by Joao de Providencia and F.B. Malik, Nova Science Publishers, Commack, NY,1998.
"Collective Modes in Strongly Correlated Yukawa Liquids: Waves in Dusty Plasmas," with M. Rosenberg and H. de Witt, Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 26 (2000).
"Molecular Dynamics Studies of Solid–Liquid Phase Transition in 2-D Yukawa Systems," with P. Hartmann, Z. Donko, P.M. Bakshi, S. Kyrkos, IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci. 35 (2), 332 (2007).
"Ground State of Magnetic Dipoles on a Two-Dimensional Lattice: Structural Phases in Complex Plasmas," with J. D. Feldmann, P. Hartmann, and M. Rosenberg, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 085001 (2008).
"Beam-Plasma Instabilities in a 2D Yukawa Lattice," with S. Kyrkos and M. Rosenberg, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 225006 (2009).

Recent Invited Talks

Theory of Quadratic Response, 23th Int. Workshop on Condensed Matter Theories, Ithaca, Greece (1999).
Charged Particle Bilayers: Equilibrium and Dynamics, Int. Conference on Strongly Coupled Coulomb Systems, St. Malo, France (1999).
Theoretical Methods for Strongly Coupled Dusty Plasmas, Tutorial Talk, APS-PPD Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA (1999).
Collective Modes in Electronic Bilayers, 9th Int. Workshop on the Physics of Nonideal Plasmas, Rostock, Germany (1998).
Strongly Coupled Coulomb Systems, Nonequilibrium Many Body Dynamics, RIKEN BNL Research Center, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY (1997).

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