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January 19, 2006
UNM Professors elected Fellows of the American Physical Society
UNM Physics and Astronomy Professors Ivan Deutsch and Rob Duncan were recently elected Fellows of the American Physical Society. With their election, Deutsch and Duncan become the sixth and seventh current APS Fellows in the Physics and Astronomy Department.
For Deutsch his election as APS Fellow came upon the nomination by the Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics (DAMOP) for his citation reading "For fundamental contributions to the theory of optical lattices and quantum logic using neutral atoms."
It's a wonderful honor to be recognized by your peers, said Deutsch. The Information Physics Group at UNM attracts excellent students who are an integral part of this achievement.
Deutsch received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1992. His areas of specialty include quantum information theory, quantum optics/atomic physics: laser cooling and trapping, optical lattices, and coherent control. He has been at UNM since 1995
Duncan was recommended in the Topical Group on Instrumentation & Measurement Science. His citation read, "For pioneering advances in experimental studies of dynamic critical phenomena near the superfluid transition in 4He, and for the development of novel instrumentation and measurement techniques for use on earth and in space."
I would like to thank my colleagues in the American Physical Society who recommended me for Fellowship, said Duncan. This is an exciting time. Recent developments of instrumentation at the statistical and quantum limits of measurement science are advancing science, engineering, and medicine at an unprecedented rate. It is an honor to collaborate with excellent physicists here in New Mexico, and to educate students at UNM who will soon bring their own creativity to this exciting discipline.
Duncan, who has been on the regular UNM faculty since 1996 and on the Caltech physics faculty since 1998, received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1988. His research interests include low-temperature physics instrumentation and measurement science, critical phenomena, transport phenomena, nonlinear science, and statistical physics.
Duncan was a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff (DMTS) at Sandia National Laboratories before joining UNM. He recently completed a sabbatical year as a Gordon and Betty Moore Distinguished Scholar at Caltech.
The APS Fellowship Program was created to recognize members who may have made advances in knowledge through original research and publication or made significant and innovative contributions in the application of physics to science and technology. They may also have made significant contributions to the teaching of physics or service and participation in the activities of the Society.
Each year, no more than one-half of one percent of the then current membership of the Society are recognized by their peers for election to the status of Fellow in The American Physical Society.
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