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  • Investigation of plasma instabilities in lower dimensional solid state systems (Professors Bakshi and Kempa; program sponsored by the U.S. Army Research.)

  • Nanostructures and quantum dots for ultrafast computing (Professors Bakshi, Broido, and Kempa).

  • Collective phenomena at surfaces of solids (Professor Kempa).

  • Theory of the high temperature superconductivity; Fermi liquid theory (Professor Bedell; program supported by the Department of Energy).

  • Strongly correlated electron systems, including pairing correlations in high-temperature superconductors, Fermi Liquid vs. non-Fermi Liquid behavior in two-dimensional systems, and the theory of local Fermi liquids and the metal-insulator transition. Computational physics. (Professor Engelbrecht).

  • Theory of novel electronic materials: localization, interaction, and metal-insulator transitions; quantum Hall effect; heavy fermion compounds; high temperature superconductors; quantum magnetism and electronic transport in high magnetic fields. (Professor Wang; program supported through U.S. Department of Energy and Research Corporation, and ACS Petroleum Research Fund).

  • Thermoelectric Transport in novel semiconductor materials (Professor Broido).

  • Effects of band structure on the electronic and optical properties of lower-dimensional semiconductor systems (Professor Broido).

  • Theory of strongly coupled Coulomb systems (Professor Kalman; program sponsored by the National Science Foundation ).


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