Overview of the

NSF Center of Research Excellence

CREST - Computational Center for Fundamental and Applied Science and

Education

Dr. Branislav Vlahovic North Carolina Central University

February 13, 2012

Main objective

• Enhance research• Integrate research and education• Result in improvement of Education• Support for students 30% of funding• Support for post doctorates• Summer support for faculty• Infrastructure

CREST - Main Research Projects

• Nanotechnology Computational Research• n-d and p-d Scattering Above Break Up Threshold• Hypernuclear physics - Bound States and Low-Lying

Resonances• Co-operative Autonomous Mobile Robotic Systems

(CAMRS)• Integrative Geophysical Investigation of the New

Madrid Seismic Zone • Seed Projects – Positron Beam, Biochemical detector

metallic nanoparticles, THz radiation, graphene

Investment in Research

• Leading majority universities

99.5% of total funding

• Minority Institutions

0.5% of total funding

• Minority high school students 40% of total population

February 13, 2012

Building sustainable research infrastructure

• Historically teaching institutions

reason for rejecting research investment

• High quality teaching requires research

training-practice-instrumentation

• Minority Research Seed Centers

research

Instrumentation

February 13, 2012

CREST Impact On• Major instrumentation• Experimental capabilities• Research programs - publications per year• Graduate programs• Post doctorates• Research faculty• Faculty load• Research opportunity for faculty – summer

research

CREST – CCFASE Research and Education

• Research infrastructure• Enhance and modernize curriculum• Establish and enhance graduate programs• Opportunities for graduate and undergraduate

students in research • Research Seminars• Summer research – faculty student research teams• Student learning center - provides tutors 9am-5pm• Interactive support web page

Manpower and collaborations

• 30 faculties• 6 post doctorates• 24 graduate students• 39 undergraduate

students• 4 faculty students

summer research teams• K-12 High School

Summer program 30 students

• Jefferson National laboratory

• NASA Goddard and Glenn Centers

• Cornell University• NREL • MRSEC – Colorado• Duke, NCSU, UNC,

NC A&T, Shaw, Fayetteville

New International Collaborations

• Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio (IAFE), Buenos Aires Argentina.

• Kamioka Liquid-scintillator Anti-neutrino Detector collaboration – Japan

• Department of Computation Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina.

• London Centre for Nanotechnology• University College London and Imperial College

London. • St. Petersburg University, Russia• IRB, Croatia, Vinca Insitute, Serbia

Collaboration with community Local Universities

• Duke – experiment – DOE award – laboratory – received PEEM equipment (about $1M)

• UNC – common research grant and REU grant • NCSU – IGARET proposal – research projects – computer resources • Shaw – DOD award – share postdoctorate, faculty, research projects• A&T Greensboro – Educational program• Fayetteville – Share faculty • School of Mines Co – PREM proposal• SUNY Albany – Shepard project• University of Reno – Student summer program

New degree programs• Dual Degree Program in physics and engineering. It is 3+2

years combined degree program: students will study 3 years at NCCU and +2 years at NC A&T. They will receive diploma from NCCU in Physics and Engineering degree at NC A&T.

• Dual degree program with Duke and Georgia Tech.• Bridge Program: NCCU MS degree to A&T’s Engineering

PhD program• Collaborative Research with NASA-URCs (NCCU URC- for

Aerospace Device Research and NC A&T’s Center for Aviation Safety).

• Developing Computational program across science disciplines

• Active role in established Ph.D. program

Collaboration with community colleges

• Durham Tech Community College

Dr. Bijoy Patnaik and students

• Wake Tech Community College

Dr. Kai Wang and students

Nanotechnology program – classes at Wake Tech Lab at CREST

• Piedmont Community College

students

Collaboration with High Schools• NC School of Science and Mathematics

Student attended CREST program and enrolled at the Physics Department

• J.D. Clement Early College High School housed at NCCU

- pending high school educational board approval

for 25 students to attend 3 courses per week

during fall semester

A few students enrolled at NCCU STEM

departments

• Recruitment at high schools

• Summer program for high schools (this summer 30 students)

13 grant awards $7,765,313 in the first 2 years

1) Principal Investigator B. Vlahovic, Computational Development of Novel Detection Concepts Based

on Quantum Confinement., NSF $500,000.

2) Principal Investigator M. Wu, MRI-R2: Acquisition of an Environmental Field Emission Scanning

Electron Microscope for Research and Education at North Caroline Central University National

Science Foundation, $489,000.

3) Principal investigator K. Vinodgopal, Raman spectrometer, UNC general administration, $350,000.

4) Principal Investigator B. Crowe, A Proposal to Measure the Space Star Cross Section Neutron-

Deuteron Breakup in a Recoil Geometry Setup, Department of Energy, $339,000.

5) Principal Investigator J. Sexton, NIH R01: 1R01DK088248-01A1, High-Content Screening for

Peroxisome Biogenesis for Type-II Diabetes. $250,000. annual direct.

6) Principal Investigator M Wu, Production and Characterization of Novel Photovoltaic Materials,

Department of Energy, $293,379.

7) Principal Investigator A. Karoui, Optimization of photovoltaic panel, sub award (B.

Vlahovic), DOD grant, $119,000. 

8) Principal Investigator I. Bondarev, Electromagnetics of pristine and atomically doped carbon

nanotubes. Theoretical studies of basic phenomena and physical principles for novel applications;

The US Army Research Office, $100,000.

9) Principal Investigator M. Wu, Exploration of Novel Nanostructured Materials for Optoelectronic Devices:

Theoretical Studies and Ultrafast Pulsed Beam Production of Novel Nanostructures US Army Research Office,

$99,934.

10) Principal Investigator B. Vlahovic, Production of high intensity positron beam by FEL, Nanotube composites: near-

field electrodynamics and applications, research, the US National Science Foundation, $100,000.

11) Principal Investigator I. Bondarev, "Nanotube composites: near-field electrodynamics and applications", the US

  National Science Foundation, $75,000.

12) Principal Investigator B. Vlahovic, U.S. Department of Energy and President Obama’s American Recovery and

Reinvestment Act, $50,000.

13) NASA URC-Center, B. Vlahovic, $5,000,000.

86 Per Review Publications in the first 2 years  

1. I. Filikhin, S. G. Matinyan, B.K. Schmid and B. Vlahovic, Physica Electronic and level statistics properties of Si/SiO2

quantum dots, E 42 (2010) 1979–1983.

2 . I. Filikhin, S. G. Matinyan and B. Vlahovic, Disappearance of Quantum Chaos in Coupled Chaotic Quantum Dots, arXiv:submit/0057510, Accepted for Phys. Lett. A (2010).

3. I. Filikhin, V. M. Suslov, M. Wu and B. Vlahovic, InGaAs/GaAs quantum dots within an effective approach, Physica E 41, 1358-1363 (2009).

4. I.V.Bondarev ’Asymptotic exchange coupling of quasi-1D excitons in carbon nanotubes’ Submitted to Physical Review B: Rapid Communications. E-print: arXiv1010.6035v1, 2010.

5. I.V.Bondarev, L.M.Woods, and A.Popescu ’Exciton-plasmon interactions in individual carbon nanotubes’ E-print: arXiv:1011.0957v1, 2010.

6. A.Popescu, L.M.Woods, and I.V.Bondarev ’Chirality dependent carbon nanotube interactions’ Submitted to Physical Review Letters.

7. I.V.Bondarev, L.M.Woods, and A.Popescu ’On the role of interband surface plasmons in carbon nanotubes’ Optika i Spektroskopiya [English version: Opt. Spectrosc., New–York] (in print).

8. I.V.Bondarev ’Electrostatic field control of exciton-plasmon coupling and optical response of individual carbon nanotubes’ Physica Status Solidi B ”Basic Solid State Physics”, Wiley-VCH, Germany (in print).

9. I.V.Bondarev ’Exciton-plasmon coupling and biexcitonic nonlinearities in individual carbon nanotubes’ Superlattices and Microstructures, Elsevier, North-Holland (in print).

10. I.V.Bondarev ’Surface electromagnetic phenomena in pristine and atomically doped carbon nanotubes’ (invited review article for the special issue on ”Technology Trends and Theory of Nanoscale Devices for Quantum Applications”, American Scientific Publishers, USA) Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, Vol. 7, p. 1673, 2010.

11. Yongan Tang, Branislav Vlahovic, et al. "Light Propagating in Metal Sub-wavelength-hole Arrays", NANO in press, Vol. 5, No. 5, DOI No: 10.1142/S1793292010002207 ((2010).

12. Yongan Tang, Branislav Valhovic, et al. “Erbium Doped Fiber Ring Laser for Optical Wavelength Conversion” Optik in press, 10.1016/j.ijleo.2010.01.007 (2010).

13. Cheenou Yang; Jaouad Mamouni; Yongan Tang; Liju Yang, “Antimicrobial Activity of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes: Length Effect”, Langmuir, 26(20), 16013–16019 (2010).

14. Yongan Tang, et al. "A Wavelength Conversion Based on Cross-Gain Modulation of Semiconductor Optical Amplifier Fiber Ring Loop" Volume 18, Number 2, 309-318 Journal of Nonlinear Optical Physics & Materials (JNOPM), (2009).

15. I.V.Bondarev, K.Tatur, and L.M.Woods ’Surface exciton-plasmons and optical response of small-diameter carbon nanotubes’ Optika i Spektroskopiya, Vol. 108, p. 412, 2010 [English version: Opt. Spectrosc. (NY), Vol. 108, p. 376, 2010].16. I.V.Bondarev, L.M.Woods, and A.Popescu ’Exciton-plasmon interactions in individual carbon nanotubes’ A book chapter in edited collection ”Plasmons: Theory and Applications”, ed. K. Helsey. Nova Publishers, USA, 2010 (in print).17. I.V.Bondarev ’Electrostatic field control of exciton-plasmon coupling and optical response of individual carbon nanotubes’ In: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on excitonic and photonic processes in condensed and nano materials (EXCON10, July 11–16, 2010, Brisbane, Australia), Physica Status Solidi C ”Current Topics in Solid State Physics”, Wiley-VCH, Germany (in print).18. Jonathan Z. Sexton  and Christopher J. Ackerson, Determination of Rigidity of Protein Bound Au144 Clusters by Electron Cryomicroscopy.  In Press, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2010.19. Sexton JZ, Brenman JB; High Content Screening for Non-Classical Peroxisome Proliferators. International Journal of HighThroughput Screening. Accepted, 2010.20. Sexton JZ, Wigle TJ, He Q, Singleton SF, Yeh LA: Novel Inhibitors of E. coli RecA ATPase Activity. Accepted: Current Chemical Genomics, 2010.21. I.V.Bondarev ’Quantum electrodynamic phenomena in atomically doped carbon nanotubes’ In: Basic and Applied Physical Research (2002–2009), ed. V. G. Baryshevsky. Belarusian State University Press, Minsk, 2009, p. 213. 22. I.V.Bondarev, L.M.Woods, and K.Tatur ’Strong exciton-plasmon coupling in semiconducting carbon nanotubes’ Physical Review B, Vol. 80, p. 085407, 2009 23. I.V.Bondarev, K.Tatur, and L.M.Woods ’Optical response of small-diameter semiconducting carbon nanotubes under exciton-surface-plasmon coupling’, Optics Communications, Vol.282, p. 661, 2009.24. I. Musatov, A Photon Polarimeter for High Energy Astrophysics Studies Using Micro Strip Silicon Detectors, will be submitted to Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A.25. Abe, S. et al. (Dr. Markoff, KamLAND Collaboration), Production of Radioactive Isotopes through Cosmic Muon Spallation in KamLAND, Phys. Rev. C 81, 025807 (2010). 26. Berger, B. et al. (Dr. Markoff, KamLAND Collaboration), The KamLAND Full Volume Calibration System, JINST 4, P04017 (2009). 27. Gando, A. et al. (Dr. Markoff, KamLAND Collaboration), Constraints on q13 from a Three-Flavor Oscillation Analysis of

Reactor Antineutrinos at KamLAND. Submitted to Physical Review D, October 2010. (arXiv:1009.4771v2)28. Gando, A. et al. (Dr. Markoff, KamLAND Collaboration), Geoneutrino Measurement with KamLAND: Towards a Test of the Earth’s Composition Models. Full draft under collaboration review. Proposed submission to Science December 2010.29. I. Filikhin, V. M. Suslov and B. Vlahovic, Faddeev calculations for the 9

ΛBe spectrum EPJ Web of Conferences 3, 07004

(2010) 07004-p.130. I. Filikhin, V.M. Suslov and B. Vlahovic, 9Be low-lying spectrum within a three-cluster model, accepted for publication in Few-Body Systems (2010), DOI: 10.1007/s00601-010-0135-3.

31. V. M. Suslov, M. A. Braun, I. Filikhin, B. Vlahovic and I. Slaus, Configuration-space Faddeev calculation for nucleon- deuteron elastic scattering observables, accepted for publication in Few-Body Systems (2010).32. B. Vlahovic, A New Interpretation of the Size of the Visible Universe and its Implications, will be submitted for Science, http://arxiv.org/abs/1005.4387.33. I. Filikhin, V.M. Suslov and B. Vlahovic, Spectroscopy of 9

ΛBe9 with a cluster model, submitted to J. Physics G (2010).

34. V.M. Suslov, M.A. Braun, I.N. Filikhin, B. Vlahovic, I. Slaus, A study of nucleon-deuteron elastic scattering in configuration space, arXiv:1006.1888; submitted to J. Physics G (2010).35. I.V.Bondarev ’Asymptotic exchange coupling of quasi-1D excitons in carbon nanotubes’ Submitted to Physical Review B: Rapid Communications, E-print: arXiv1010.6035v1, 28 Oct 2010.36. A.Popescu, L.M.Woods, and I.V.Bondarev ’Chirality dependent carbon nanotube interactions’ accepted to Physical Review B: Rapid Communications.37. I.V.Bondarev, L.M.Woods, and A.Popescu ’On the role of interband surface plasmons in carbon nanotubes’ Optika i Spektroskopiya [English version: Opt. Spectrosc., New–York] (in print).38. I.V.Bondarev ’Electrostatic field control of exciton-plasmon coupling and optical response of individual carbon nanotubes’, Physica Status Solidi B ”Basic Solid State Physics” (Wiley-VCH, Germany), Vol. 248, p. 468 (2011).39. I.V.Bondarev, L.M.Woods, and A.Popescu ’Exciton-plasmon interactions in individual carbon nanotubes’ A book chapter in edited collection ”Plasmons: Theory and Applications”, ed. K. Helsey. Nova Publishers, USA, 2010 (in print), E-print: arXiv:1011.0957v1, 3 Nov 2010. 40. Yongan Tang, Branislav Vlahoviv, David J Brady, "Light propagation in metalsub-wavelength-hole arrays" NANO: Brief Reports and Reviews Vol. 5, No. 5 (2010) 295–300.41. Jaouad Mamouni, Yongan Tang, Marvin Wu, Branislav Vlahovic, Liju Yang, Nanotubes Coupled with Near-Infrared Laser for Inactivation of Bacterial Cells, accepted for Juornal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology.42.  S. Riordan (et all, B. Vlahovic Hall A collaboration) Measurements of the Electric Form Factor of the Neutron up to Q2=3.4 GeV2 using the Reaction He3(e,e'n)pp, Phys.Rev.Lett.105:262302,2010.43. V.M. Suslov, M.A. Braun, I.N. Filikhin, B. Vlahovic, I. Slaus, A study of nucleon-deuteron elastic scattering in configuration space, proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Meson-Nucleon Physics and the Structure of the Nucleon May 31-June 4, 2010, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, USA, 44.  Igor Filikhin, Sergei Matinyan, Branislav Vlahovic, Disappearance of Quantum Chaos in Coupled Chaotic Quantum Dots, Phys Letters A, arXiv:1006.3803.45.  I. Musatov, A Photon Polarimeter for High Energy Astrophysics Studies Using Micro Strip Silicon Detectors", submitted to Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, A.

46. K.H. Kim, George M. Irwin, Excitation of Low-lying Isomeric Level in Th-229, Proceedings of the 3th International Conference on Particle and Physics with CEBAF at JLAB, Dubrovnik, Croatia, October 3-8, 2010.

47. V.M. Suslov, M. A. Braun, I. Filikhin, and B. Vlahovic and I. Slaus, Faddeev calculations for elastic nucleon-deuteron scattering at 3 MeV lab energy, proceedings 3rd International Conference on Nuclear and Particle

Physics with CEBAF at Jefferson Lab ,Dubrovnik, Croatia, October 3-8, 2010, 48. I. Filikhin, V.M. Suslov and B. Vlahovic, Spin-flip doublets of 9Be spectrum, proceedings 3rd International Conference

on Nuclear and Particle Physics with CEBAF at Jefferson Lab October 3-8, 2010, Dubrovnik, Croatia.49. C.R. Howell, W. Tornow, B. Vlahović, I. Šlaus, X. Aslanoglow, R.W. Finlay, J. Rapaport, F.P. Brady, J.R. Drummond,

J.L. Romero, R.C. Haight, N.S.P. King, A. Ling, P.W. Lisowski, C.L. Morris, D.S. Sorensen, J.L Ullmann, B.K. Park, H. Witala, M. Smoluchowski, W. Glöckle, Relativistic effects in neutron-deuteron elastic scattering at incident neutron energies E = 105 – 250 MeV, Proceedings of the 3th International Conference on

Particle and Physics with CEBAF at JLAB, Dubrovnik, Croatia, October, 3-8, 2010. 50. A. Medhin, R. N. Uma and Alade O. Tokuta, Algorithms for Improved Network Lifetime of Cooperative Autonomous

Mobile Robotic Systems, Proceedings, The 2010 Military Communications Conference, Networking Protocols and Performance Track, San Jose, October 31 – November 3, 2010.

51. I. Filikhin, S.G. Matinyan, and B. Vlahovic, Disappearance of quantum chaos in coupled chaotic quantum dots, arXiv:1006.3803. Physics Letters A 375 (2011) 620–623.

52. I. Filikhin, V.M. Suslov and B. Vlahovic, 9Be low-lying spectrum within a three-cluster model, Few-Body Systems (2010), DOI: 10.1007/s00601-010-0135-3.53. V. M. Suslov, M. A. Braun, I. Filikhin, B. Vlahovic and I. Slaus, Configuration-space Faddeev calculation for nucleon- deuteron elastic scattering observables, accepted for publication in Few-Body Systems (2010).

66 Conference Presentations During the First 2 Years

1.V. Suslov, M. Braun, I. Shlaus, I. Filikhin, and B. Vlahovic, Neutron-deuteron scattering in configuration space, Third Joint Meeting of the Nuclear Physics Divisions of the American Physical Society and The Physical Society of Japan, October 13-17, 2009, Waikoloa, Hawaii.2. Filikhin, S.G. Matinyan, and B. Vlahovic, Si/SiO2 Quantum Dots: Electronic Properties, 2009 MRS Fall Meeting, November 30 – December 4, Boston, MA, USA3. B. Vlahovic, nanotechnology and high energy photon polarimeter, Invited seminar, IAFE Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio, Buenos Aires, Argentina November 10, 2009.4. I. Bondarev, Carbon nanotube nanophotonics, Invited seminar in the Department of Physics at the Duke University, Durham, NC, USA (October 15, 2009).5. B. Vlahovic, I. Filikhin, V.M. Suslov, H. Milikyan, M. Wu, Modeling of InGaAs/GaAs quantum dots with non-parabolic approximation and effective potential, The Solar Energy Research Center (SERC) at UNC-Chapel Hill meeting on the theme "Solar Fuels and Energy Storage: The Unmet Needs", January 14-15, 2010.6. I. Bondarev and J, McConnel, “Electrostatic Field Control of Exciton-Surface-Plasmon Coupling in Carbon Nanotubes”, The Solar Energy Research Center (SERC) at UNC-Chapel Hill meeting on the theme "Solar Fuels and Energy Storage: The Unmet Needs", January 14-15, 2010.7. J. Sexton, High Content Screening, NC Biotech Center, Bioprocess Development Meeting, Durham, NC, January 2010. 4. J. Sexton, High-Content International, San Francisco CA, January 2010.8. M. Wu. Overview of the nanotechnology research program in the NASA-University Research Center for Aerospace Devices Research and Education, NC A&T University, Greensboro, January 29 2010.9. B. Vlahovic Overview the sensors and device research program in the NASA-University Research Center for Aerospace Devices Research and Education, NC A&T University, Greensboro, January 29 2010.10. G.Vlahovic, attended student day at the Fourth Annual Department of Homeland Security University Network Summit, Washington, DC, March 9-12, 2010.11. B. Vlahovic, I. Filikhin, and S. G. Matinyan, Statistical properties of electron levels in quantum dots, Bulletin of the American Physical Society, APS March Meeting 2010 Volume 55, Number 2, BAPS.2010.MAR.P9.8, March 15–19, 2010; Portland, Oregon.12. J. Nimmo, I. Filikhin, V. M. Suslov and B. Vlahovic, Continuous analytical solutions for strain applied to quantum dot and rings Bulletin of the American Physical Society, APS March Meeting 2010 Volume 55, Number 2, BAPS.2010.MAR.P9.11, March 15– 19, 2010; Portland, Oregon.13. L.M.Woods, A.Popescu, and I.V.Bondarev, “Carbon nanotubes interactions: effects of chirality” In: Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Vol. 55, No 2, p. B20.00005 (APS March Meeting, March 15–19, 2010, Portland, OR, USA).14. I.V.Bondarev, L.M.Woods, and K.Tatur, “Exciton emission under strong exciton-plasmon coupling in carbon nanotubes” In: Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Vol. 55, No 2, p. H20.00013 (APS March Meeting, March 15–19, 2010, Portland, OR, USA).

15. M.Green and I.V.Bondarev, “Two-qubit atomic entanglement in metallic carbon nanotubes” In: Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Vol. 55, No 2, p. J31.00010 (APS March Meeting, March 15–19, 2010, Portland, OR, USA).16. Filikhin, S.G. Matinyan, and B. Vlahovic, Neighboring Levels Statistics and Shape of Quantum Dots: Si/SiO2, World Conference and Expo 2010, to be held June 21-25, 2010 in Anaheim, California, U.S.A. 17. Filikhin, S.G. Matinyan, and B. Vlahovic, Si/SiO2 quantum dots and statistical properties of electron levels, E-MRS 2010 Spring Meeting, June 7-11, 2010, Congress Center, Strasbourg, France.18. B. Vlahovic, I. Filikhin, V.M. Suslov, Low-lying spectra of 9LBe and 9Be within three-cluster model, 12th International Conference on Meson-Nucleon Physics and the Structure of the Nucleon May 31-June 4, 2010, College of William and Mary Williamsburg, Virginia. 19. V.M. Suslov, M.A. Braun, I. Filikhin, I. Slaus, and B. Vlahovic, Configuration-space Faddeev calculation for nucleon-deuteron observables at energy Elab=3MeV. 12th International Conference on Meson-Nucleon Physics and the Structure of the Nucleon May 31-June 4, 2010, College of William and Mary Williamsburg, Virginia. 20. Yongan Tang, and Branislav Vlahovic Yongan Tang “Light in metallic hole arrays” 6/9-6/12, 2010, JAM, Washington DC.21. I. Filikhin, V. M. Suslov, B. Vlahovic, Low-lying resonances of 9Be, The Division of Human Resource Development (HRD) 2010 Joint Annual Meeting (JAM) June 6-9, 2010, Washington, DC.22. I. Filikhin, H. Melikyan, V.M. Suslov and B. Vlahovic, Electron properties of Si/SiO2 quantum dots: from single to array, The Division of Human Resource Development (HRD) 2010 Joint Annual Meeting (JAM) June 6-9, 2010, Washington, DC.23. B. Vlahovic, V.M. Suslov, M.A. Braun, I. Filikhin, D. Mitnik, Configuration-space Faddeev calculation for nucleon-deuteron observables at energy Elab=3MeV, The Division of Human Resource Development (HRD) 2010 Joint Annual Meeting (JAM) June 6-9, 2010, Washington, DC.24. Filikhin, S.G. Matinyan, and B. Vlahovic, Neighboring Single Electron Level Statistics in Double Quantum Dot, The Division of Human Resource Development (HRD) 2010 Joint Annual Meeting (JAM) June 6-9, 2010, Washington, DC.25. I.V.Bondarev, L. M. Woods, and A.Popescu 'On the role of interband surface plasmons in carbon nanotubes', In: XIIIth International Conference on quantum optics and quantum information3rd International Symposium on Methods of Computational Chemistry (May 28 – June 1, 2010, Kiev, Ukraine). Book of abstracts, p. 35.26. I.V.Bondarev, K. Tatur, and L. M. Woods, Electrostatic field control of exciton-surface-plasmon coupling in individual carbon nanotubes, in collaboration with L.M.Wood’s group, University of South Florida Contributed talk at the CLEO/QELS conference (May 16-21, 2008, San Jose, CA, USA).27. I.V. Bondarev, L.M.Woods, and K.Tatur 'Exciton-plasmon coupling and biexcitonic nonlinearities in individual carbon nanotubes', In: 10th International Conference ”Physics of Light-Matter Coupling in Nanostructures” (April 12–16, 2010, Cuernavaca, Mexico). Book of Abstracts, p.20.28. M. Wu, Ultrafast Pulsed Laser Ablation Production of Quantum Dots, National Science Foundation Joint Annual Meeting (June 8 –9, 2010, Washington DC).29. D. Markoff, participation in KamLAND experiment. Participation and contribution to KamLAND-ZEN neutrino-less double beta decay project.

30. I. Bondarev, Surface electromagnetic phenomena in pristine and atomically doped carbon nanotubes, Invited advanced seminar at the 2nd International School of nanophotonics and photo-voltaics (September 15–22, 2010, Tsakhkadzor, Armenia). 31. I. Bondarev, Electrostatic field control of exciton-plasmon coupling and optical response of individual carbon nanotubes, Contributed talk at the 10th International Conference on excitonic and photonic processes in condensed and nano materials (July 11–16, 2010, Brisbane, Australia). 32. I. Bondarev, Exciton-plasmon coupling and biexcitonic nonlinearities in individual carbon nanotubes, [in collaboration with L.M.Wood’s group, University of South Florida] Contributed talk at the 11th International Conference on the science and application of nanotubes (June 27 – July 2, 2010, Montreal, Canada).33. I. Bondarev, Surface electromagnetic phenomena in pristine and atomically doped carbon nanotubes, Contributed talk at the 6th International Symposium on computational challenges and tools for nanotubes (June 27–28, 2010, Montral, Canada).34. B. Vlahovic, New interpretation for the size of the visible universe, 7th Symposium in Honour of Jean Pierre Vigier (July 12 - 14, 2010 in London, UK).35. M. Wu, Production of Novel Nanoscale Materials by Pulsed Laser Deposition, Renewable Energy Academic Partnership Annual Review Meeting, Vail, CO 8/2010 36. I. Filikhin, V.M. Suslov and B. Vlahovic, 9Be low-lying spectrum within a three-cluster model, Presented at the 21st European Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics, Salamanca, Spain, 30 August - 3 September 2010.37. V. Suslov, M. A. Braun, I. Filikhin, B. Vlahovic and I. Slaus Configuration-space Faddeev calculation for nucleon-deuteron elastic scattering observables, Presented at the 21st European Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics, Salamanca, Spain, 30 August - 3 September 2010.38. I. Filikhin, S.G. Matinyan, and B. Vlahovic, Neighbouring levels statistic for Si/SiO2 quantum dots, International Conference on Theoretical Physics "Dubna-Nano2010", July 5-10, 2010, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia.39. I. Filikhin, V.M. Suslov and B. Vlahovic, Spin-flip doublets of 9Be spectrum, 3rd International Conference on Nuclear and Particle Physics with CEBAF at Jefferson Lab October 3-8, 2010, Dubrovnik, Croatia.40. V.M. Suslov, M. A. Braun, I. Filikhin, and B. Vlahovic and I. Slaus, Faddeev calculations for elastic nucleon-deuteron scattering at 3 MeV lab energy, 3rd International Conference on Nuclear and Particle Physics with CEBAF at Jefferson Lab October 3-8, 2010, Dubrovnik, Croatia.41. K.H. Kim, George M. Irwin, Excitation of Low-lying Isomeric Level in Th-229, 3th International Conference on Particle and Physics with CEBAF at JLAB, Dubrovnik, Croatia, October 3-8, 2010. 42. I. Bondarev, New concepts for the development of novel carbon nanotube materials and devices Invited seminar in Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering, North Carolina A&T State University and University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC, USA (October 8,2010). 43. M. Wu, Pulsed laser deposition of nanostructures, Invited presentation at University College London, January 24, 2011. 44. B. Vlahovic, Quantum Chaos in nanostructures, Invited presentation at University College London, January 24, 2011.

Conclusion• Cutting edge research projects• Modernize and improve education• Support for students and faculty• Opportunities for students – participate in

original theoretical and experimental approaches

• Productive in research publications, grants, and public outreach

• Strong collaboration with research institutions and industry that we would like to expand

Mesh-Micromegas Detector

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• In collaboration with Jefferson national laboratory and textile institute at NCSU

• High speed and high resolution• Not expensive, reliable, works under high radiation

doses• Suitable for many application

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June 8-11, 2009 Joint Annual MeetingHuman Resource Development

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