Olivia DrakeTsampikos Kottos, assistant professor of physics, and physics and mathematics major Gim Seng Ng '08 are co-authors of "Avalanches of Bose-Einstein condensates in leaking optical lattices," published in New Journal of Physics, 11, 073045 in 2009. The paper is about novel properties of Bose-Einstein condensates (ultra-cold atoms) in open systems. This project constituted a large part of Ng's senior honors thesis in physics.
Tsampikos Kottos, assistant professor of physics, is the co-author of "Exponentially Fragile PT-Symmetry in lattices with Localized Eigenmodes," published in Physical Review Letters 103,030,402 in 2009. The paper discusses the effects of disorder on a previously excluded class of quantum mechanical systems.
Tsampikos Kottos, assistant professor of physics, Joshua Bodyfelt Ph.D '09 and Mei Zheng '10 are the co-authors of "Probing Localization in Absorbing Systems via Loschmidt Echos" published in Physical Review Letters, 102, 253901 in 2009.
Tsampikos Kottos, assistant professor of physics; Moritz Hiller, a former visiting scientist; and Katrina Smith-Mannshott BA '08, MA '09 are the co-authors of the article, "Occupation Statistics of a BEC for a Driven Landau-Zener Crossing," published in Physical Review Letters, Issue 102, in 2009.
Tsampikos Kottos, assistant professor of physics, and Moritz Hiller are co-authors of the article "Wave-packet dynamics in energy space of a chaotic trimeric Bose-Hubbard system," published Physical Review A Issue 79, No. 023621 in 2009.
From the day Carl T. West ’11 arrived on Wesleyan's campus, he wanted to study the fundamentals of quantum mechanics. Although reluctant at first, Tsampikos Kottos, assistant professor of physics, welcomed the eager frosh to his "Complex Quantum Dynamics and Mesoscopic Phenomena" research group. "To be honest, Carl was a kind of an experiment, for me," Kottos says. "I usually take sophomores and above at my group, but Carl was so confident on what he wanted, so I decided to involve a freshman in our research. It was a good and decision." In the past two years, West wrote an article…
An emerging worldwide energy crisis demands a new approach for a sustainable energy future. "How we adapt will determine our future on this planet," said physicist Fred Schlachter, during the Department of Physics' Colloquium Series Feb. 26 in Exley Science Center. Schlachter, a guest speaker from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Advanced Light Source Division, is the co-author of Energy Future: Think Efficiency, a report that examines how America can look within to achieve energy security and reduce global warming. At Wesleyan, he gave a presentation titled "Over a barrel: A world wide energy crisis." The topic of energy is…
David PesciThe Wesleyan University Board of Trustees affirmed the promotion with tenure, effective July 1, 2009, of the following members of the faculty: Jane Alden, associate professor of music, was appointed assistant professor of music at Wesleyan in 2001. Prior, she was an acting assistant professor at Stanford University, and an instructor at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Alden was awarded a Wesleyan Center for the Humanities Fellowship and was a visiting research associate at Harvard University. She has been the recipient of a Mellon Center Mini-Grant, a Wesleyan University seed grant, and Wesleyan University Snowdon funding for a symposium.…
Tsampikos Kottos, assistant professor of physics, was invited to the 7th Christmas Symposium of Physicists Dec. 11-13. The event will be held at the University of Maribor's Center for Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics in Maribor, Slovenia. Kottos will be one of the main speakers and an honorary distinguished guest. The scientific meeting involves several distinguished guests from abroad, covering all research disciplines in physics.