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accelerator - Kim
aggregates - Witten
applied physics - Crewe, Kim, Levi-Setti
astrophysics, experimental -
...Carlstrom, Collar, Cronin, Hildebrand, Meyer, Müller, Schiffer, Swordy
astrophysics, theoretical - R.Rosner, Carroll, Turner
atomic physics, experimental - Abella
Auger Observatory - Cronin, J.Rosner, Swordy
avalanches - Jaeger, Nagel

baryon asymmetry - Turner
beam - Kim
biophysics - Cluzel, Crewe
biopolymers - Cluzel
black holes - Wald
boson - Frisch, Merritt, Shochet

Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix - Pilcher, J.Rosner, Savard
CERN - Merritt, Oreglia, Pilcher
chaos - Kadanoff
chemical physics, experimental - Abella, Guyot-Sionnest
Chicago Air Shower Array (CASA) - Cronin, Swordy
cold plasmas - Schiffer
colloidal particles - Witten
colloidal systems -
condensed matter physics, experimental -
...Guyot-Sionnest, Jaeger, Kang, Nagel, Rosenbaum
condensed matter physics, theoretical -
...Kadanoff, Levin, Mazenko, Wiegmann, Witten
cosmic microwave background radiation - Meyer
cosmic rays - Collar, Cronin, Müller, Swordy
cosmology - Carlstrom, Carroll, Turner, Winstein
CP violation - Blucher, Wah, Winstein

disorder - Jaeger, Nagel, Rosenbaum
disordered magnets - Levin
duality - Harvey, Oehme
dynamical systems - Jaeger, Kadanoff, Nagel

electrochemical deposition -
electromagnetic - Freund
electron microscopy - Crewe
electron systems - Kang
electroweak physics - Blucher, Merritt, Oreglia, Pilcher, J.Rosner, Savard
elementary particles, theoretical - Turner, Wagner

Fermilab - Frisch, Shochet, Wah, Winstein
fermion masses - Nambu
field theory - Freund, Nambu, Oehme, J.Rosner
fluids, dissipative - Geroch
flux lattices - Jaeger, Rosenbaum
formation - Carlstrom, Turner
fractional quantum Hall effect - Kang
free electron laser - Kim

Gamma Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) - Oreglia
gamma-ray astronomy - Cronin, Oreglia
gauge field theories - Oehme, Kutasov
general relativity - Carroll, Geroch, Wald
geometry - Freund
glass transition - Mazenko, Nagel
granular materials - Jaeger, Kadanoff, Mazenko, Nagel, Witten
gravitational fields - Wald

high-energy astrophysics - Müller
high-temperature superconductivity -
...Jaeger, Levin, Rosenbaum, Wiegmann
hydrodynamics - Kadanoff

infrared astronomy - Hildebrand
infrared astrophysics - Meyer
ion microscopy - Levi-Setti
ion-solid interaction - Levi-Setti
ion trapping - Savard, Schiffer

kaon - Blucher, Wah, Winstein
kinetics - Mazenko
KTeV - Blucher, Wah, Winstein

laser coherent transients - Abella
laser spectroscopy - Abella, Guyot-Sionnest
light collectors -
liquid drops - Nagel
low-temperature physics - Jaeger, Kang, Rosenbaum

magnetic fields - Hildebrand
Manhattan Project
magnetic systems - Levin
magnetism - Rosenbaum
Materials Research Center (MRSEC)
mathematical physics - Wiegmann
medical physics - Radiology, Radiation & Cellular Oncology
mesoscopic physics - Jaeger
metal-insulator transition - Rosenbaum
metastability - Witten
metastable systems - Jaeger, Mazenko, Nagel

nanomaterials/-physics - Guyot-Sionnest, Jaeger, Rosenbaum, Witten
neutrino physics - Collar
non-equilibrium systems - Cluzel
non-linear systems - Kadanoff
nonlinear optical spectroscopy - Guyot-Sionnest
nonperturbative dynamics - Martinec
nuclear physics - Savard, Schiffer
nucleosynthesis - Schiffer, Turner

observational cosmology - Meyer
Omni-Purpose Apparatus for Large Electron-Positron Collider (OPAL - LEP) - Merritt, Pilcher
optics - Guyot-Sionnest
ordered domains - Mazenko
ordered states - Schiffer

particle physics, experimental -
...Blucher, Cronin, Frisch, Merritt, Oreglia, Pilcher, Shochet, Wah, Winstein
particle physics, theoretical -
...Carroll, Freund, Harvey, Kutasov, Lykken, Martinec, Nambu, Oehme, J.Rosner, Sethi, Wagner
pattern formation -
phase transitions - Jaeger, Kadanoff, Levin, Martinec, Mazenko, Rosenbaum
plasma dynamics - R.Rosner
polarization - Hildebrand
polymer thin films - Jaeger, Witten
polymers - Cluzel, Jaeger, Witten

QCD - Kutasov
quantum field theory - Carroll, Harvey, Kutasov, Martinec , Sethi, Wiegmann
quantum mechanics - Rosenbaum
quantum optics. Abella
quantum theory - Wald
quark - Frisch, J.Rosner, Shochet

radiation - DOE Nuclear Energy links,
Medical Physics, Radiation & Cellular Oncology, Radiation Safety Office, Radiology
random field systems - Levin
rare-earth laser material - Abella

scanning probe microscopies (AFM, STM) - Guyot-Sionnest, Jaeger
secondary ion mass spectrometry - Levi-Setti
self-assembly - Jaeger, Nagel, Witten
semi-conductors - Guyot-Sionnest, Kang
silicon thin films -
solar energy - O'Gallagher
solar physics - R.Rosner
solid state physics, experimental -
...Guyot-Sionnest, Jaeger, Kang, Nagel, Rosenbaum
solid state physics, theoretical -
...Levin, Mazenko, Wiegmann
space physics - Swordy
statistical mechanics - Wiegmann
statistical physics - Kadanoff, Mazenko
string theory - Freund, Kutasov, Martinec, Sethi
structured fluids - Witten
superconductivity - Jaeger, Kang, Levin, Nambu, Rosenbaum, Wiegmann
superstring theory - Harvey
supersymmetry - Carroll, Harvey, Nambu, Oehme, Lykken, Turner, Wagner
surface dynamics - Guyot-Sionnest
surface nonlinear optics - Guyot-Sionnest
surface physics - Crewe

topological field theories - Wiegmann
unstable systems - Mazenko
vacuum energy - Carroll, Nambu

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