Research Interests

Dilute ultracold quantum gases have been of intense interest for the past decade.  Bosonic gases condense to become superfluids, analogous to superfluid helium, but considerably simpler and therefore amenable to theoretical analysis.  Fermionic gases become superfluids through a pairing mechanism analogous to conventional metallic superconductors.  Both of these systems serve as laboratories for the study of quantum superfluids under various extreme or unusual conditions such as fast rotation or confinement in optical lattices.  Current problems of interest are the structure and arrangement of quantized vortices in rapidly rotating Bose-Einstein condensates.

• Theoretical Condensed Matter
• Superconductivity

Specialty: (currently) Bose-Einstein Condensation 

Career History

• A.B., Williams College, MA, valedictorian, 1958 
• Rhodes Scholar, Balliol College, Oxford University 
• Scott Prize in Physics, 1960 
• Ph.D., Harvard University, 1963 
• Miller Research Fellow, University of California at Berkeley, 1963-65 
• Associate Professor at Stanford, 1968-74 
• Professor, 1974-2007 
• Emeritus Professor, 2007-present 
• Associate Dean of Humanities and Sciences, 1990-93 
• Walter J. Gores award for teaching, 1974 
• Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching, 1994 
• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow, Cambridge, England 1970-71 
• Fellow of the American Physical Society 
• Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 
• Alumni Trustee of Williams College.
• Chair of Stanford Physics Department, 1985-90
• Director, Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, 1996-97
• Director, Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, 1999-2002