Advanced Computational Physics Instrumentation
Abstract
An advanced program in Computational Physics can conduct research III students in broad areas of physics and computational technology, and be responsive to needs of the Department of Defense. The first serves the Departmental mission, the second gives the preparation for careers in physics or in informational technology (IT), and the third advances our military preparedness. We note that the IT sector currently has approximately one million unfilled opportunities in the United States. Three areas of computationally based research have been selected with these criteria. They are: (1) power compression technology, specifically the study of ultrahigh (approximately equal 10(exp 21) W/cu cm) power densities, (2) basic physical interactions, which has potential applications to navigation and code-breaking, and (3) protein dynamics, an area related to new potentialities in defense against biological attack. The computational equipment associated with this program have yielded results on: (A) the stability of self-trapped plasma channels produced with intense femtosecond ultraviolet (248 mm) pulses, (B) the mechanism of gamma-ray bursts, (C) the fusion of the concepts of mass and space, and (D) the potential existence of a new organizing-principle in biology that has a direct physical counterpart in the group structure of elementary particle states.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 01, 1999
- Accession Number
- ADA385793
Entities
People
- Charles K. Rhodes
Organizations
- University of Illinois at Chicago