Brian DeMarco

Professional Bio

Originally from upstate NY, I did my undergraduate work at SUNY Geneseo where I got my start in research. While at Geneseo, I worked for Steve Padalino and Kurt Fletcher in the Nuclear Structure Laboratory on calibrating neutron detectors. That first taste of real research was enough to ignite my interest in experimental physics for life, and in 1996 I left NY for Boulder, Colorado to pursue a PhD in physics. I originally started as a research assistant for Eric Cornell at JILA, switching to work with Deborah Jin in 1997. Together, Debbie and I produced the first Fermi gas of atoms. I defended my dissertation in 2001, and went down the road to NIST in Boulder to work with David Wineland on trapped ion quantum computing experiments. In August 2003, I left mountainous Boulder, Colorado to join the faculty of the Physics department at UIUC in the flatlands of Illinois. Click the CV link above for a full listing of publications and awards. My family blog can be found here. You can listen to my appearance on Car Talk at this link.

Research Program

Research Team

I'm lucky to work with a fantastic team of students and postdocs. Click the people link for more details.

Teaching

I reguarly teach a graduate course on Atomic Physics. A copy of my DAMOP 2008 lecture on quantum degenerate gases is here (or here in PDF).

Midwestern Cold Atom Workshop

The first annual Midwestern Cold Atom Workshop was held at UIUC on November 19, 2005. Click here for more information. The second MCAW was held in Madison on November 3, 2007. MCAW 2008 will probably be at Argonne, hosted by Zheng-Tian Lu.

Job Openings

Some of the material in this website is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0448354. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of B. DeMarco and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.