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Michael F. Crommie - Professor, Physics
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
The electrical conductance of 2D materials strongly depends on the presence of atomic defects and so understanding how defects scatter electrons is crucial for engineering the properties of 2D devices. Up to now, most studies of the influence of defects on device behavior have focused solely on transport measurements where...
Mathematical and Physical Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesMichael F. Crommie - Professor, Physics
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Moiré materials are a class of materials prepared by twisting two atomic materials on top of each other. These classes of materials have become a preferred platform for studying correlated phases due to their tunability of correlation through the moiré period. For example, non-conventional superconductivity, correlated insulating states, quantum...
Mathematical and Physical Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesMichael F. Crommie - Professor, Physics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Air sensitive transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) is a class of material hosting interesting quantum phenomena, such as quantum spin liquid, Mott insulator, quantum spin hall insulator etc. To reach different quantum phases of materials, one important tuning parameter is the carrier concentrations inside the material which can be controlled by...
Mathematical and Physical Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesAmin Jazaeri - Director of Instructional Support, Physics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Students will design experiments that can be controlled remotely through the internet...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesYury Kolomensky - Professor, Physics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
Mu2e is a medium-scale Particle Physics experiment currently under construction at Fermi National Lab, with UCB and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab as collaborating institutions. Mu2e will search for the ultra-rare process whereby a muon particle converts directly into an electron, without the emission of any neutrinos. Though not...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesYury Kolomensky - Professor, Physics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
Mu2e is a medium-scale Particle Physics experiment currently under construction at Fermi National Lab, with UCB and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab as collaborating institutions. Mu2e will search for the ultra-rare process whereby a muon particle converts directly into an electron, without the emission of any neutrinos. Though not...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesYury Kolomensky - Professor, Physics
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Mu2e is a medium-scale Particle Physics experiment currently under construction at Fermi National Lab, with UCB and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab as collaborating institutions. Mu2e will search for the ultra-rare process whereby a muon particle converts directly into an electron, without the emission of any neutrinos. Though not...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesYury Kolomensky - Professor, Physics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Superconducting sensors, such as Transition-edge sensors (TESs) coupled with superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs), are used in many applications, from quantum computing to astrophysics to particle physics. For rare-events search experiments, such as neutrinoless double beta decay, a multiplexed readout is necessary for low-temperature experiments which operate...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesAdrian Lee - Professor, Physics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
We are working on precision measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) – the relic thermal radiation that decoupled from the primordial plasma when the universe was just 0.003% of its current age. Measurements of the CMB have been central to the formation of the modern picture of the universe, and...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesAdrian Lee - Professor, Physics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
The cosmic microwave background (CMB) is a unique window to fundamental physics. It can be used to probe primordial gravitational waves, which are a distinct sign that the early universe has experienced an exponentially rapid expansion at its age of ~10^-32 seconds. The CMB photons also probe the properties...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesAdrian Lee - Professor, Physics
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
Precision measurement of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) have been a spectacular success. Measurement of CMB spectrum that beautifully matched to a black body spectrum confirmed the big bang model of the universe. Measurement of small temperature fluctuations within CMB allowed us to learn about geometry of universe, existence of Dark...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesKam-Biu Luk - Professor, Physics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
Neutrino is a sub-atomic particle that was thought to be massless. Recently, a new phenomenon called neutrino oscillation, a transformation of one type of neutrino to another kind, has been discovered in experiments. These important findings imply that neutrinos have mass and they can mix among themselves. Neutrino oscillations...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesKam-Biu Luk - Professor, Physics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
We are active in a number of different areas of data analysis, using data from the DUNE near and far detector prototypes, using data from the T2K experiment, and with simulation studies in planning for the upcoming DUNE experiment. Potential analysis work includes tasks focused on the use of machine...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesEric Y. Ma - Professor, Physics
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Highly sensitive microwave (MW) reflectometry, like those used in Microwave Impedance Microscopy for probing local electronic properties in solids (see e.g. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/350/6260/538), have been built with bulky, expensive, highly specialized, mostly manually controlled components so far. This project aims to explore the possibility of using all-digital...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Mathematical and Physical SciencesEric Y. Ma - Professor, Physics
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
The future of work is being shaped by a combination of extended reality, robotics and real-time virtualization -- the “digital twins” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_twin). In this project you will design and build the digital twin of a modern Physics/EE lab that provides nearly real-time info on...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Mathematical and Physical SciencesEric Y. Ma - Professor, Physics
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Having a virtual assistant who has read and internalized decades of scientific literature is a dream that may come true in the next decade. Such an assistant will significantly speed up scientific discovery and understanding by human scientists, and eventually become agents of new knowledge itself. To make this a...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Mathematical and Physical SciencesSaul Perlmutter - Professor, Physics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Our group has developed a new model for inferring the distances between Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) that is about twice as accurate as previous models. In order to determine the present day expansion rate, or the Hubble Constant, we need to determine a zero point calibration for the model...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Mathematical and Physical SciencesSaul Perlmutter - Professor, Physics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
Strong gravitational lenses are very rare occurrences and are a powerful tool in studying dark matter and dark energy, two mysterious entities that together account for 95% of the energy in the universe. The strong lensing team works on a range of projects with state-of-the-art computation/ML...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Mathematical and Physical SciencesSaul Perlmutter - Professor, Physics
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Type Ia supernovae are used to measure the rate at which our Universes is expanding, today and over the past 10 billion years. In the past we used Type Ia supernovae to discover that the expansion of the universe is speeding up. Now we have developed new techniques for making...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Mathematical and Physical SciencesSaul Perlmutter - Professor, Physics
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
Sense & Sensibility & Science is a project which brings together researchers and educators to improve the way we use science to make decisions. Humans make decisions every day. As individuals, voters, and citizens of the world, the choices we make have the power to shape the world around us. The problem...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Mathematical and Physical SciencesMarjorie Shapiro - Professor, Physics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the most powerful particle accelerator ever built and researchers use its data to study what the universe was like shortly after the big bang. Researchers at Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) play a key role in all aspects of the ATLAS...
Mathematical and Physical Sciences Arts & HumanitiesMarjorie Shapiro - Professor, Physics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
Important collections of historical sound recordings exist in archives, libraries, and museums worldwide. Many of these items are delicate and cannot be played by normal means. In this research project we are applying modern optical scanning methods - confocal microscopy and high resolution digital imaging - in order to obtain detailed maps...
Mathematical and Physical Sciences Arts & HumanitiesMarjorie Shapiro - Professor, Physics
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The aim of this project is to systematically recover and preserve a set of 2700 sound recordings, made in the early 20th Century, of Native American speakers across California. This project is a collaboration between Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and the UC Libraries, The Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology, and...
Mathematical and Physical Sciences Arts & HumanitiesHaichen Wang - Professor, Physics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the most powerful particle accelerator ever built and researchers use its data to study what the universe was like shortly after the big bang. Researchers at Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) play a key role in all aspects of the ATLAS...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesHaichen Wang - Professor, Physics
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Do you want to contribute to the development of future particle colliders? We are currently developing key analysis tools for future superconducting magnets. The main scope of these tools will be the ability to predict the superconting coil mechanical properties and failure mechanisms during their operation. We are looking for...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesHaichen Wang - Professor, Physics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
High-energy physics data analysis deals with a huge amount of data. Machine learning applications are often developed to assist the analysis of data and to improve our understanding of fundamental physics laws. My research group is developing multiple applications for high energy physics experiments, such as the ATLAS experiment...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesHaichen Wang - Professor, Physics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
Reliably simulating detector response to hadrons is crucial for almost all physics programs at the Large Hadron Collider. The core component of such simulation is the modeling of hadronic interactions. Unfortunately, there is no first-principle theory guidance. The current state-of-the-art simulation tool, Geant4, exploits phenomenology-inspired...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesMartin White - Professor, Physics
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI, https://desi.lbl.gov) is making the world's largest 3D map of the universe. In this project you will help us develop web-based data access, visualization, and analysis tools for use by thousands of scientists worldwide...
Mathematical and Physical Sciences Digital Humanities and Data Science