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Welcome to the Department of Physics.
Distinguished Professors Rainer Grobe and Q. Charles Su, co-directors of the
department's Intense Laser Physics Theory Unit, have recently been awarded
a research grant entitled “Spatial and temporal dynamics of matter in intense
laser fields” from the National Science Foundation. The three year $300,000
grant is the eighth consecutive grant from the NSF, the nation's premier agency
for funding basic science research. The two faculty members have acquired
a total of about 1.8 Million Dollars in NSF funds for ISU.
They plan to use this grant to study the subject of particle-antiparticle pair
creation processes under the extreme external force field conditions. They are
seeking new undergraduate students to join their research group, to perform computer
simulations and to analyze the data produced from the simulations.
Since 1996, 57 undergraduate students have participated in their research
efforts producing 64 student co-authored articles in scientific journals,
295 student presentations were made at various regional, national, and
international meetings. Some of their research students have won research
prizes at ISAAPT and APS meetings, as well as the top national award for undergraduate
research, the APS LeRoy Apker Award.
Congratulations to Drs. Grobe and Su!