Biophysics and Bioinformatics

Biochemical reaction networks; bioinformatics; biological molecules; computational biology; functional genomics; neural networks; polymers; spectroscopy of biomaterials.

Computational and Simulational Methods

Computational many-body perturbation theory; density functional theory; exact diagonalization; lattice dynamics; molecular dynamics; Monte-Carlo simulation; numerical renormalization group; parallel supercomputing; quantum Monte-Carlo.

Electron and Phonon Dynamics in Nanostructures

Carbon fullerenes and nanotubes; electron-phonon interactions in nanoparticles; mesoscopic and low-dimensional systems; optical properties of nanostructures; phonon dynamics in nanoparticles and nanocrystals; semiconductor films and superlattices.

Laser Spectroscopy Methods

Coherent transient spectroscopy; fluorescence line narrowing; IR spectroscopy; nonlinear spectroscopy; photoconductivity; photon avalanche; photon echo; spectral hole burning; thermoluminescence; ultrafast spectroscopy.

Magnetic Properties of 2D and 3D materials

Material Science

Ferroelectric materials; optoelectronic materials; phosphor materials; photorefractive materials; photovoltaic materials; semiconductors.

Materials Synthesis

Laser-heated pedestal growth; molecular-beam epitaxy.

Optical Properties of Solids

Charge transfer processes in insulators; dephasing and decoherence in solids; dynamical processes in glasses and solids; dynamics of elementary excitations; electron-phonon and phonon-phonon interactions; energy transfer and energy relaxation; molecular impurities; phonon dynamics in disordered and amorphous systems.

Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena

Dynamical critical phenomena; finite-size scaling; magnetic phase transitions; phase transitions in alloys; solid-solid phase transitions; spin dynamics.

Spin-electronics in Organics

Statistical Mechanics

Fick's law of diffusion; fractional statistics; hardsphere fluids; Langevin equation; low-dimensional fluids; nonequilibrium statistical mechanics; recurrence relation method.

Strongly Correlated Quantum Systems

Bose-Einstein condensation; colossal magnetoresistance; Hubbard model; Luttinger liquid theory; metal-insulator transitions; nonperturbative methods; quantum Hall effect; superconductivity; vortex dynamics in quantum fluids.

Surface Physics

Crystal growth; molecule-surface interactions; surface structure and reactivity; vibrational properties of molecules on surfaces.

Theoretical Materials Science

Density functional theory; electronic structure theory; high-pressure phenomena; periodic composites and superlattices; structure and dynamics of lattice defects; theory of compound solid solutions; transition-metal oxides.