Research
The Physics and Astronomy Faculty are engaged in research in several fields, with regular publications in international journals and presentations in international conferences, and supported by external funding agencies like the National Science Foundation. Students are encouraged to participate in the research process, and several students have presented their research at conferences. Currently the research interests in the department cover the following fields:
- Astrophysics
- Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
- Nanoscale and Mesoscopic physics
- Optics
- Statistical Physics
- String Theory
Some Recent Publications by the Faculty:
M. Gajdacz, T. Opatrný and K. K. Das, Transparent, Non-local, Species-selective Transport in an Optical Superlattic Containing Two Interacting Atom Species, Phys. Rev. A 83, 033623 (2011).
K. K. Das, Transport Dynamics and Interferometry with Wavepackets of Ultracold atoms: Effects of Quantum Coherence and Interactions, (to appear as Phys. Rev. A Rapid Comm., 2011).
S. Fernando and M. Gunaydin, "SU(2) deformations of the minimal unitary representation of OSp(8*|2N) as massless 6D conformal supermultiplets, Nucl. Phys. B 843, 784 (2011).
Phillip A. Reed, "A 116 Year Record of Mass Transfer in R Arae", Information Bulletin on Variable Stars, 5975, 1-4 (2011).
S. Fernando and M. Gunaydin, "Minimal unitary representation of SU(2,2) and its deformations as massless conformal fields and their supersymmetric extensions" J. Math. Phys. 51, 082301 (2010)
Haug, E. W., Kraal, E. R., Sewall, J. O., van Dijk, M. V, and Chong, G. "Modeling paleo-flow events on alluvial fans in the Atacama Desert, Chile", Geomorphology (2010).
Phillip A. Reed, et al., 2010, "Ultraviolet study of the active interacting binary star R Arae using archival IUE data", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 401, 913-923 (2010).