Research

• Laser-Cluster Interactions at short wavelengths (x-rays)
  (Movie of an Argon cluster in a 13nm ultra- Intense/Short pulse where the electrons are in white and the ions range from blue for neutral and become increasingly red as they ionize)
  
• High Harmonic generation in clusters
• Nanomachining with IR beyond the diffraction limit
• Dynamical basis for drug resistance in Hepatitis C virus (catalytic triad movie)
  

Recent Publications

• A 3D structural model and dynamics of hepatitis C virus NS3/4A protease (genotype 4a, strain ED43) suggest conformational instability of the catalytic triad: implications in catalysis and drug resistivity
• Recombination effects in soft-x-ray cluster interactions at the xenon giant resonance
• Explosion of Non-spherical Clusters Due to Irradiation with Intense Femtosecond X-rays (movie)
• Nonlinear grid mapping applied to an FDTD-based, multi-center 3D Schrödinger equation solver
• Augmented collisional ionization via excited states in XUV cluster interactions  
  
• Clusters in intense XUV pulses: Effects of cluster size on expansion dynamics and ionization

Courses Regularly Taught

• Intermediate Mechanics: Phys 321
• University Physics I: Phys 151
• University Physics I Lab: Phys 151L
  
• Conceptual Physics: Phys 111
• Conceptual Physics Lab: Phys 112
• Principles of Quantum Mechanics: Phys 416
  

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