Present Visitors

Anantharaman Kumarakrishnan (September  '05 - December '06 )


Research Interests

Coherent transient phenomena in atomic samples


Ken Spears (-August '06)

Research Interests

Chemical dynamics studies with ultrafast laser techniques.
Electron transfer kinetics and peptide conformation kinetics.
Picosecond and femtosecond infrared lasers.
Charge transfer complexes in liquids.
Medical applications of lasers in ophthalmology and in new imaging methods.

Past Visitors

Francis Robicheaux (July '05)

Francis Trobicheaux Research Interests

Electron Wave Packets 
Electron atom/ion dynamics in a strong laser field 
Direct solution of the time dependent Schrodinger equation 
One photon radiation damping 
Negative ions 





Jim Rabchuk (January-June 2005)

 



Research Interests

 Studies of RF Paul ion traps. Investigations of novel trap designs and methods for controlling the gross motion of ions in those traps.


Other Past Visitors

Aurelien Dantan (France) was at FOCUS for two weeks and worked on spin squeezing

Michel Pinard (France) was at FOCUS for two weeks and worked on spin squeezing

Jean-Louis LeGouët (France) was at FOCUS for one month, Coherent transients and spin squeezing

Neil Gershenfeld (MIT) was at FOCUS for several days, Quantum computing/ NMR

Jason Taylor (MIT) was at FOCUS for 3 months, Quantum computing/ NMR

Ralph Conti (Veridian) was at FOCUS for all of 2002 and was involved in Collaborative Research

Yizhak Yacoby (Hebrew University Jerusalem) was at FOCUS from 7/1/02 to 7/8/02 and worked on Coherent Bragg Rod Scattering and Interface Ferroelectricity

Professor Ajay Sood (Indian Institute of Science, India) was at FOCUS for 6 weeks and worekd on Ultrafast Experiments on C-nanotubes



FOCUS Contact Information
Professor Chris Monroe, Director,Randall Laboratory,University of Michigan,500 East University Ave.,Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1120 Phone: (734) 764-8459, Fax: (734) 764-5153 email:mamurn@umich.edu