Materials Science Division

Education

• Ph.D. Physics, Tulane University, 1983
  B.S. Physics, Louisiana State University - Shreveport, 1979 (Summa Cum Laude)

Honors

• LSUS Circle of Excellence Award (2008)
  University of Chicago Distinguished Performance Award (1999)
  Fellow of the American Physical Society (1995)

Professional Experiences

• 2011-present: Director, Materials Science Division
  2009-present: Principal Investigator, Center for Emergent Superconductivity
  2008-present: Argonne Distinguished Fellow
  2007-2010: Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University
  2000-2011: Head, Condensed Matter Theory Group, Argonne National Laboratory
  1998-2008: Senior Physicist, Argonne National Laboratory
  Fall 2003: Invited Professorship, ESPCI, Paris, France
  Fall 2001: Visiting Scientist, SPhT, Saclay, France
  Fall 2000, Winter 2005: Visitor, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara
  1989-2000: Principal Investigator, NSF S&T Center for Superconductivity
  1990-1998: Physicist, Argonne National Laboratory
  Summer 1994, 1998, 2001, 2004, 2007: Visitor, Aspen Center for Physics
  Fall 1992: Visiting Scientist, Department of Physics, Cambridge University, UK
  1986-1990: Assistant Physicist, Argonne National Laboratory
  1983-1986: Director's Postdoctoral Appointee, Argonne National Laboratory
  1983-1985: Research Associate, Department of Physics, Northwestern University

Conference Chairman

• 8. Competing Interactions and Colossal Responses in Transition Metal Compounds, July 18-22, 2011, Telluride, Colorado
  7. Superconductor-Insulator Transition, Nov. 16-19, 2010, ANL (co-chair)
  6. Vortices at Fifty Years, Nov. 7-8, 2008, ANL
  5. Symposium in Honor of the 70th Birthday of Alexei Abrikosov, Nov. 6,1998, Argonne National Laboratory
  4. Workshop on Poorly Conducting Metallic Oxides, June 10-12, 1998, Argonne National Laboratory (co-chair)
  3. The Pseudogap in High Temperature Superconductors: May 19-20, 1997, University of Illinois - Chicago (co-chair)
  2. High Temperature Superconductors: Pairing State and Mechanism, June 13-17, 1994, Argonne National Laboratory (co-chair)
  1. Superconductors in a Magnetic Field, August 24-28, 1992, Argonne National Laboratory

Other Conference Activity

• 6. Materials and Mechanisms in Superconductivity 2012 (program committee co-chair)
  5. Strong Correlated Electron Systems 2011, Aug. 29 – Sept. 3, 2011, Cambridge, England (program committee)
  4. 26^th International Conference on Low Temperature Physics, Aug. 10-17, 2011, Beijing, China (advisory board)
  3. International Conference on Neutron Scattering, May 3-7, 2009, Knoxville, TN (program committee)
  2. Gordon Research Conference on Superconductivity, Jan. 22-27, 2006, Buellton, CA (discussion leader)
  1. Spectroscopies in Novel Superconductors, March 17-19, 1993, Santa Fe, NM (conference summarizer)

Organizing Committee

• 8. Discovery in Basic Energy Sciences: The Role of Computing at the Extreme Scale, Aug. 13-15, 2009, Washington, DC
  7. Critical Issues Related to Higher Temperature Superconductors, June 22-26, 2009, KITP, Santa Barbara,
  6. Possibility of Room Temperature Superconductivity, June 10-11, 2005, Univ. of Notre Dame
  5. Quantum Phase Transitions, Jan. 10 – Apr. 29, 2005, ITP, Santa Barbara, CA
  4. Pseudogaps in Strongly Correlated Metals, Aug. 9 – Sep. 12, 2004, Aspen, CO
  3. Spectroscopies in Novel Superconductors, May 14-18, 2001, Chicago, IL
  2. Fundamental Processes of Electron Transport in High Tc Junctions, Aug. 23-24, 1996, Argonne National Laboratory
  1. Electronic Properties of Disordered Systems, Aug. 23-27, 1993, Argonne National Laboratory

Advisory Committee

• 4. U S Dept. of Energy, Basic Energy Sciences subcommittee on Facing our Energy Challenges, 2008-2009
  3. Science Advisory Board, UC/ANL Joint Theory Institute, 2006-2009
  2. US Dept. of Energy, Basic Energy Sciences subcommittee on Theory and Computation, 2004
  1. Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Superconductivity Program, 1998-2003 (Chair)

Editorial Board

• 1. Physical Review B, 2000-2005

Postdocs Supervised

• 1. Carlos Sa de Melo (1991-1993)
  2. Roland Fehrenbacher (1993-1995)
  3. Yuri Vilk (1995-1997)
  4. Denis Golosov (1996-1998)
  5. Gianfranco Preosti (1997-1998)
  6. Boldizsar Janko (1998-1999)
  7. Matthias Eschrig (1999-2001)
  8. Yaroslaw Bazalliy (2000-2003)
  9. Revaz Ramazashvili (2001-2004)
  10. Alexios Klironomos (2003-2006)
  11. Indranil Paul (2005-2007)
  12. Ashot Melikyan (2006-2008)
  13. Tobias Micklitz (2007-2009)
  14. Zoran Ristivojevic (2009-2010)
  15. Alex Levchenko (2009-2011)
  16. Jie Lin (2009-2011)
  17. Victor Vakaryuk (2010-2012)
  18. Jasper van Wezel (2010-2012)
  19. Vivek Mishra (2012-)

Talks on the Web

• Colloquium talk given at CORPES05, Dresden, Germany, April 4, 2005:
  Pseudogaps, strange metals, and coherent superconductors: The view from ARPES
  
  Conference organized at the KITP, Santa Barbara, January 10 - April 29, 2005:
  Quantum Phase Transitions
  
  Lecture at the Quantum Matter Workshop, Trieste, Italy, August 21, 2006:
  The Nodal Metal - A New State of Matter?
  
  Invited talk given at the A. I. Larkin Memorial Conference in Chernogolovka, Russia, June 27, 2007:
  The Nodal Metal in Cuprates - A New State of Matter?
  
  Invited talk given at the Optical Sum Rules Conference, Rome, Italy, July 2, 2007:
  Optical Integral Differences: Kinetic Energy Savings or a Cut-off Effect?
  
  Invited talk given at the BCS@50 Conference, Urbana, IL, October 11, 2007:
  High Temperature Superconductivity - After 20 years, where are we at?

• Invited talk given at the Workshop on Strong Correlations in Materials, Trieste, Italy, August 4, 2008:
  Fermi Arcs and Fermi Pockets in Cuprates

• Invited talk given at the Cuprate 2008 Workshop, College Park, Maryland, November 14-15, 2008:
  Arcs and Pockets - The Same or Different?

• Conference organized at the KITP, Santa Barbara, June 22-26, 2009:
  Critical Issues Related to Higher Temperature Superconductors

• Invited talk given at the Workshop on Emergence of Inhomogeneous Phases, Paris, France, July 3, 2009:
  The d-wave nodal liquid
  
  Invited talk given at the KITP Conference on Materials by Design, Santa Barbara, CA, February 12, 2010:
  Iridates - The New Frontier
  
  Invited talk given at the American Physical Society March Meeting, Portland, OR, March 17, 2010:
  Iron-age Superconductors

• Invited talk given at the Workshop on Emergent Quantum States in Complex Correlated Matter, Dresden, Germany, Aug. 23-27, 2010:
  The Electronic Phase Diagram of the Cuprates

• Lecture given at the Fourth MaNEP Winter School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, January 9-14, 2011:
  Iron-age Superconductors

• Invited talk given at the Workshop on Unconventional Superconductivity, Minneapolis, MN, April 22, 2011:
  Fermi-surface Reconstruction and the Origin of High-Temperature Superconductivity

• Colloquium at Columbia University, New York, April 25, 2011:
  AdS/CFT - Playing the Devil's Advocate

• Colloquium at Fermi National Laboratory, June 22, 2011:
  High Temperature Superconductivity - After 25 years, where are we at?

• Invited Talk at the First Centennial of Superconductivity, Cali, Columbia, June 29 - July 1, 2011:
  Cuprates - An Overview

• Seminar at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, October 21, 2011:
  Do Vortices Really Exist above T_c in Underdoped Cuprates?

• Invited Talk at the American Physical Society March Meeting, Feb. 28, 2012:
  The Challenge of Unconventional Superconductivity

• Invited talk at the Workshop "From Quantum Foundations to Quantum Fluids", Toulouse, France, April 5, 2012:
  Fermi-surface Reconstruction and the Origin of High-Temperature Superconductivity

• Invited Talk at the NSLS Users Meeting, Brookhaven Natl. Lab, May 22, 2012:
  What Novel Spectroscopic Techniques Can Tell us
  about the Physics of Strongly Correlated Materials

• Invited Talk at the American Conference on Neutron Scattering, Georgetown University, June 25, 2012:
  The Neutron spin Resonance in Superconductors:  Is It Really a Spin Triplet?

• Invited Talk at the Innovations in Strongly Correlated Electron Systems Workshop, Trieste, Italy, August 13, 2012:
  Arcs versus Pockets - To d-wave or not to d-wave, that is the question

• Invited Talk at Superconductivity 297K – Synthetic Routes to Room Temperature Superconductivity, San Jose, CA, Oct. 17, 2012:
  Stay Away from Theorists

Articles on the Web

• Personal Reminisces of the Nobel Ceremony, December 5-14, 2003:
  Diary of a Nobel Guest - II

• Trends Article in Physics, September 15, 2008:
  High Temperature Superconductivity in the Iron Pnictides

• Physics Image, APS March Meeting, 2009:
  Electron Emission from Stripes

• Trends Article in Physics, October 18, 2010:
  Fermi Surface Reconstruction and the Origin of High Temperature Superconductivity

• Argonne News Article, April 8, 2011:
  The Magnetism - and Mystery - of Superconductors

• Newspaper Article in Project Syndicate, July 8, 2011:
  A Hundred Years of Superconductivity

Videos on the Web

• Blackboard talk at the KITP, Santa Barbara, CA, February 14, 2005:
  Fermi Surfaces and Quantum Critical Points
  
  Invited talk at the BCS@50 Conference, Urbana, IL, October 11, 2007:
  High Temperature Superconductivity - After 20 years, where are we at?

• Invited talk at the KITP, Santa Barbara, CA, February 12, 2010:
  Iridates - The New Frontier
  
  Invited talk at the American Physical Society March Meeting, Portland, OR, March 17, 2010:
  Iron-age Superconductors

• Colloquium at Fermi National Laboratory, June 22, 2011:
  High Temperature Superconductivity - After 25 years, where are we at?

• Public Lecture at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, March 10, 2012:
  One Hundred Years of Superconductivity