Daniel L. Stein

Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics, Biophysics.
Ph.D., Princeton University, 1979
dls@physics.arizona.edu

1998 State of the Department Address (continued)

This year we are conducting one new faculty search, for a theoretical particle physicist. Last year we involved the entire faculty, and the graduate and undergraduate students in our searches, and I hope that everyone remains equally involved this year. Our plans for next year include searches for both an experimental atomic physicist and a theoretical astrophysicist.

The department has initiated many new programs over the past year, and I'll mention some of these over the next few minutes. We were highly fortunate in obtaining the very successful Applied Mathematics Laboratory, which is an invaluable graduate teaching lab created by Michael Tabor (the director of the Applied Math program). I am also very pleased about our stunning success i acquiring an IGERT (Integrative Graduate Education, Research, and Training) grant. This was one of only 16, out of 630 proposals, awarded nationwide. Ours is a $2 million, 5-year grant, and is a multi-departmental collaborative effort in training graduate students at the interface of biology, mathematics, and physics: co-PI's on the grant cover five different departments, and Ray Goldstein from Physics has played a central role in our participation in this endeavor. The training lab itself will be housed in physics. Finally, our accelerator mass spectrometry group received a $1.3M award from the NSF to purchase a new accelerator. The activity in this lab has the rare distinction of achieving exciting results at the intersection of physics, geology, astronomy, and even, occasionally, history. Results produced by the AMS Lab have many times been featured on the world stage, including its now-famous work on dating the Shroud of Turin and the Dead Sea Scrolls, and in analyzing the purported evidence that the Mars

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