4^th International Conference on Atomic and Nuclear Physics October 26-27, 2018
Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Manijeh Razeghi joined Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, as a Walter P. Murphy Professor and Director of the Center for Quantum Devices in Fall 1991, where she created the undergraduate and graduate program in solid-state engineering. She is one of the leading scientists in the field of semiconductor science and technology, pioneering in the development and implementation of major modern epitaxial techniques. Her current research interest is in nanoscale optoelectronic quantum devices. She has authored or coauthored more than 1000 papers, more than 31 book chapters, and 18 books. She holds 55 U.S. patents and has given more than 1000 invited and plenary talks. She received the IBM Europe Science and Technology Prize in 1987, the Achievement Award from the SWE in 1995, the R.F. Bunshah Award in 2004 and many best paper awards. Dr. Razeghi is an elected Fellow of SWE (1995), SPIE (2000), IEC (2003), OSA (2004), APS (2004) IOP (2005), IEEE (2005) and MRS (2008). And IBM teacher of excellence 2013, and the 2016 Jan Czochralski Award. She is editor , associate, and Board member of many journals, including Nano Science and Nano technology.

Dr. Razeghi developed and implemented most major modern epitaxial growth techniques such as low pressure metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD), vapor phase epitaxy (VPE), molecular beam epitaxy (MBE), GasMBE, and MOMBE for entire compositional ranges of III-V compound semiconductors and heterostructures. Developing these tools was fundamental in enabling her to achieve high purity semiconductor crystals with a consistency and reliability that was often unmatched, thereby leading to new physics phenomena in InP and GaAs based semiconductors and quantum structures.

BranislavVlahovic is Director of the National Science Foundation Computational Center of Research Excellence, NASA University Research Center for Aerospace Device, and NSF Center Partnership for Research and Education in Materials at North Carolina Central University. In 2004, he was awarded by the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina Oliver Max Gardner statewide award for his research and contribution to science. He has published more than 300 papers in peer-reviewed journals.

Theoretical and experimental research on few body atomic, nuclear, and hypernuclear systems. Study of nanostructures, tunnelling and charge transfer between nanostructures, pulsed laser deposition of nanostructures, nonlinear optics, detectors and devices based on quantum confinement, nanophotonics, semiconductor structures, and photovoltaics.

Dr. Athanasios Petridis completed his Ph.D. degree in Theoretical Particle Physics at Iowa State University in 1992. He was a member for the PHENIX collaboration which produced the first evidence for Quark-Gluon Plasma for eight years. He is currently a faculty member and Chairman of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa where he teaches and is engaged in research on theoretical particle and nuclear physics together with his students. He is the author or co-author of many papers in reputed journals. His work has been cited many thousands of times. He is also an academic editor of the Current Journal of Applied Science and Technology.

Particle and Nuclear Physics

Grant J. Mathews completed his Ph.D. degree at University of Maryland in 1977. He is currently the Professor and Director of Center for Astrophysics at Notre Dame University (CANDU).

Nuclear Astrophysics

Professor Gregory Lapicki has completed his PhD at the age of 30 from New York University and continued with postdoctoral studies for two years in the Radiation and Solid Laboratory at NYU. In 1991-92, worked at Centro Atómico, Bariloche, Argentina on the Fulbright Award. In 2013-2017, served on the International Advisory Committee for Particle Induced X-ray (PIXE) Conferences; presented opening invited talks at five of these conferences. In 2017, elected to the International Honorary Committee for PIXE. Multiple times presented invited talks at the International Symposium on Ion-Atom Collisions and the Conference on Applications of Accelerators in Research and Industry, for which in 2017 served as atomic and molecular physics topic editor. Published almost 200 refereed papers in journals such Physical Review A, Nuclear and Instruments and Methods in Research B, Journal of Physics B, Journal of Physics and Chemistry Data, X-Ray Spectrometry, Radiation Physics and Chemistry, with a link to one of the most recent publications in Atomic and Nuclear Data Tables.

Theoretical atomic physics. Inner-shell ionization and energy loss of charged particles in matter. Development and improvement of the ECPSSR theory of K-, L-, and M-shell ionization that is widely used for comparison with x-ray and Auger-electron production cross sections; in particular in PIXE analysis.

Andreas Hanke wrote his diploma thesis with Prof. W. Zwerger at the Physics Department of the Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Germany, on a topic of mesoscopic quantum systems. In his Ph.D. thesis with Prof. S. Dietrich at the University of Wuppertal, Germany, he studied critical Casimir forces between colloidal particles. After postdocs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, Oxford University, UK, and University of Stuttgart, Germany, he joined the faculty at the Physics Department of the University of Texas at Brownsville. He is now Professor at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. His areas of research are mesoscopic quantum systems, Casimir effect, and biological physics. He has published more than 40 papers.

Mesoscopic Quantum Systems, dynamical Casimir effect, Biologica Physics

Cristian Bahrim received his Ph.D. from University of Paris at Orsay, in 1997, after being for five years a French Government scholar. In 1998, he joined as postdoc the Theoretical Atomic Physics Group and the J.R. McDonald Laboratory at Kansas State University. He came to Lamar University in 2001 and in 2015 he became Full Professor of Physics. Starting with 2005, Dr. Bahrim holds a joint-appointment position with the Phillip M. Drayer Department of Electrical Engineering. He was Interim Chair of the Physics Department, visiting professor of the Summer China Program at Shanghai International Studies University, and held many appointments in the organizing committees of various physics conferences, including the Chairman position of the Joint 2016 Spring Meeting of the Texas Sections of the American Physical Society, American Association of Physics Teachers and the Society of Physics Students Zone 13. Presently he is the Assistant Director of the Office of Undergraduate Research at Lamar, and starting with March 2018, he is the President Elect of the Texas Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers. Dr. Bahrim is referee to several journals in the United States, Europe and Asia, and published more than 130 papers in journals, books, and conference proceedings.

Dr. Bahrim’s research interest is in areas of theoretical atomic physics, including atomic collisions and interactions, quantum optics, lasers, electron scattering on heavy alkali atoms, as well as in areas of experimental physics, including atomic spectroscopy, interaction between light and dielectric surfaces, and slowing down light.

Alla S. Safronova received her Ph.D. degree in atomic physics from the Institute of General Physics, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, in 1986. She joined University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) in 1994, where currently she is a Research Professor. She has published more than 220 papers on atomic and plasma physics of Z-pinches, high-power laser plasmas, and tokamak plasmas. Her former PhD students are working at Sandia National Laboratories, Naval Research Laboratory, at UNR, and also abroad. She organized, chaired and co-chaired the series of International workshops on Radiation from High Energy Density Plasmas (RHEDP 2011, 2013, and 2015) and the 10th International Conference on Dense Z-pinches (2017).

Current research includes studying radiation from High Energy Density Plasmas such as Z-pinch and high-power laser plasmas, and tokamak plasmas, including dielectronic recombination and x-ray line polarization of multiply ionized ions. She is also interested in application of nuclear physics methods in atomic and plasma physics.

Xiaodong Li (born in 1951 in China), Ph.D. from Université de Montréal (1993, crystal structure of mesophase molecules); M.S. from Nankai University (1981, functional polymers), B.S. from Tianjin University (1977). He is a senior professor in NUDT (National University of Defense Technology) researching and teaching in the fields of polymer chemistry and physics, material chemistry, ceramic fibers and composites, material engineering, environmental chemistry, crystal chemistry, structure chemistry and nuclear chemistry and structure.

Nuclear Chemistry and Structure

Alexander V. Chaplik. Graduated from the Saratov State University, PhD in the Institute for Radioelectronics Siberian Branch, Ac.of Sci. of the USSR. Since 1964 minor research worker, senior research worker, Head of Laboratory at the Institute of Semiconductor Physics.

Electronic processes in Nanostructures, Nuclear Physics