Education
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PhD, Heriot-Watt University, 1983
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BSc, Heriot-Watt University, 1980
Employment
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The University of Arizona: Optical Sciences,
Professor, 1999-date; Associate
Professor, 1993-1999; Assistant Professor, 1990-1993; Assistant
Research Professor, 1987-1990; Research Associate, 1985-1987
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Max-Planck-Institut fur
Quantenoptik: Research Associate, 1983-1985
Teaching
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Opti 310
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Opti 447
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Opti 546
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Opti 553
Research
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Theory of ultracold atomic gases, generation of
macroscopic superpositions of superfluid flows for Bose-Einstein
condensates in ring traps, atom dynamics in the presence of novel laser
fields, atomic anyons, quantum dynamics of strongly interacting
one-dimensional atomic gases. Theory and simulation of optically bound
matter in the presence novel laser beams, optical beam clearing.
Nonlinear optics of colloidal suspensions, pattern formation and
solitons, relation to large scale organization of nanoparticles due to
optical binding. Broken PT-symmetry in light-matter interactions.
08-2009
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