Daniel L. Stein

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

2000 State of the Department Address (continued)

We mounted two searches last year, one for a theoretical astrophysicist and the other for a high-energy nuclear theorist as part of the RIKEN Fellows program. Junior faculty members who are accepted into the RIKEN program spend half their time in their home departments and the other half at Brookhaven, where they work with physicists at the new RHIC accelerator (that's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider). We were unable to hire an astrophysicist at the level we wanted, so we're going to try again this year. We were very pleased, though, that in the RIKEN search we managed to attract our first choice, Bira van Kolck from Caltech. He's spending his first semester at Brookhaven and will join us in January. I hope you all join me in welcoming him to our department, and we look forward to our department's branching out into yet another exciting new area of physics.

The year 2000 also saw two retirements, of two of our most distinguished and longest-serving faculty, Doug Donahue and Don Huffman. But both are remaining very active, and I hope that doesn't change for a long time. I'm especially glad to see the Donahues here tonight. They may have retired, but they haven't stopped partying.

This year we are conducting a second faculty search in addition to the astrophysics search; this one is for either an experimental atomic physicist or an experimental condensed matter physicist. Both are needed, and eventually, over the next few years, I hope we're able to attract one of each. But for now we'll take the very best person in either category.

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