Research Activities
University of Miami Physics Department
Complexity in the Physical, Biological and Social Sciences
Collective behavior and emergent phenomena in complex systems;
complex networks and multi-agent populations. Applications
in biology, medicine, and social systems. Many-body-like
theoretical analysis of non-equilibrium situations, extreme
events.
Faculty contact:
Neil Johnson
Experimental X-ray Astrophysics
Development of cryogenic microcalorimeters for
X-ray astrophysics, study of the Diffuse X-ray
background and the interstellar and intergalactic
medium, data analysis from the Rosat, Chandra,
and XMM X-ray satellites
Faculty Contact: Dr. Galeazzi
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Experimental Nonlinear Dynamics.
Experimental and computational
study of instabilities and chaotic oscillations in systems exhibiting
complex dynamical behavior; dripping faucets, electronic circuits,
lasers, athletes, inert-gas plasmas at low fractional ionization.
Faculty Contact: Dr. Pardo.
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Experimental Environmental Optics.
Light scattering and absorption by
marine particulates; instrumentation for measurement of optical
properties of ocean water, the atmosphere.
Faculty Contact: Dr. Voss.
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Experimental Solid State Physics.
Ferromagnetic transmission
resonance in metals; spin relaxation; exchange energy; phonon excitation
and propagation; nonlinear phenomena (Alexandrakis). Transport and
magnetic properties of materials at low temperatures; high-temperature
and organic superconductors, and reduced dimensional systems (e.g.,
layered systems and thin films); electrical and thermal
conduction, thermoelectric effects; vortex dynamics, critical currents,
quantum tunneling. (Cohn, Zuo)
Faculty Contacts: Dr. Alexandrakis, Dr. Cohn, Dr. Zuo.
Theoretical Elementary Particles Physics.
Quantum field theory; supergravity; superstrings.
Faculty Contacts: Dr. Alvarez, Dr. Curtright, Dr. Mezincescu, Dr. Nepomechie.
Theoretical Environmental Optics.
Radiative transfer; remote determination of of ocean chlorophyll
concentrations.
Faculty Contact: Dr. Gordon.
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Theoretical Plasma Physics.
Numerical simulations in plasmas and other systems.
Faculty Contacts: Dr. Huerta, Dr. Nearing.
Theoretical Solid State Physics.
Electronic structure of solids; many-body physics;
high-temperature superconductivity; magnetism (Ashkenazi, Barnes).
Linear and nonlinear quantum transport; reduced dimensionality
systems; QED theory of radiative corrections in condensed
matter. (Van Vliet)
Faculty Contacts: Dr. Ashkenazi, Dr. Barnes, Dr. Van Vliet.
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