BEHRINGER GROUP

Jie Ren uses photoelastic particles to understand jamming for granular materials.

TILING PATTERNS

Local Action, Global Impact: A single shape has been found that can fill 3D space, but only in a non-periodic way.

BEHRINGER GROUP

Junyao Tang investigates flow in a hopper using photoelastic particles.

Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos

Seth Cohen uses the high-speed chaos produced by a nonlinear electronic circuit for novel sensing applications.

ELECTRONIC NANOSTRUCTURES

Postdoctoral fellow Sarah Goldberg analyzes self-assembled DNA nanostructures in the Finkelstein lab.

MEPG GROUP MEMBERS

(from left to right): Qiang Ye, Xing Zong, Nadira Williams, Sarah Clairborne, Georgio Laskaris, Haiyan Gao, Xin Qian, Min Huang, Wei Che.

Network Dynamics

David Rosin uses a field programmable gate array to perform experiments on large networks of coupled oscillators.

Quantum Communication

Hannah Guilbert aligns the optics in a quantum communication system using low power visible light.

Nonlinear Optics

Joel Greenberg and Bonnie Schmittberger inspect the vacuum cell that they use to study the collective behavior of rubidium atoms upon interaction with light.

UPCOMING EVENTS  [see all]

Duke Physics Colloquium:
Michael Pepper (University College London)

"Semiconductor Nanostructures - The Engineering of Physics"
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
3:30 PM
Physics 128

Condensed Matter Seminar:
Michael Pepper (University College London)

"Spin Effects in One Dimensional Electronic Conduction"
Thursday, May 17, 2012
11:00 AM
Physics 298

Triangle Nuclear Theory Colloquium:
Michael Strickland (Gettysburg College)

"Anisotropic Hydrodynamics"
Monday, May 21, 2012
3:30 PM
Physics 298

TUNL Seminar Series:
Josh Klein (University of Pennsylvania)

"Neutrino and Neutrinoless Physics with SNO+"
Thursday, May 31, 2012
2:00 PM
Physics 298

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