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Charles W Clark
Research interests:
Dynamics of ultracold atoms
Physical implementation of quantum information processing
Absolute optical radiometry with synchrotron radiation sources
Quantitative tomographic imaging
Atomic electronic excitation in nuclear reactions
Biography:
Honors and Awards:
R&D 100 Award, R&D Magazine, 2008
Distinguished Presidential Rank Award, U.S. Senior Executive Service, 2007
Gold Medal, U.S. Department of Commerce, 2004
Physical Sciences Award, Washington Academy of Sciences, 2003
Fellow, Washington Academy of Sciences, 2003
Archie Mahan Prize, Optical Society of America, 2002
Edward U. Condon Award, NIST, 2002
Safety Award, NIST, 2002
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2001
Fellow, Institute of Physics, 1999
Appointed to Senior Executive Service, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1997
Silver Medal, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1994
Fellow, Optical Society of America, 1994
Fellow, American Physical Society, 1992
Equal Employment Opportunity Award, NIST, 1991
Excellence in Research Award, National Bureau of Standards, Chapter of Sigma Xi, 1987
National Research Council Postdoctoral Research Associateship, NBS, 1981
Professional Activities:
Chair Elect, Physics Section, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2009-present
Chair, Advisory Board for the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Antimatter-Matter Studies, 2006-present
Chair, Division of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, American Physical Society, 2005-2006
Chair, Fellows and Honorary Members Committee, Optical Society of America, 2006
Chair, Organizing Committee, "Towards Quantum Standards: A Workshop on Quantum Information Technology," The Royal Society, London, 2006
Chair, NSERC Review Committee for the Institute for Quantum Computing, Waterloo, 2006
Dusan Sarenac, Connor Kapahi, Wangchun Chen, Charles W. Clark, David G. Cory, Michael G. Huber, Ivar Taminiau, Kirill Zhernenkov, Dmitry A. Pushin
Spin-orbit coupling of light has come to the fore in nano-optics and plasmonics, and is a key ingredient of topological photonics and chiral quantum optics. We
Charles S. Tarrio, Keith Codling, Ederer David, Uwe Arp, Charles W. Clark, Thomas B. Lucatorto
Interest in the use of Synchrotron Radiation (SR) as a source of continuum in the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) spectral region was stimulated by the 1956 Physical
Alan K. Thompson, Jacob McComb, Charles W. Clark, Michael A. Coplan, Mohamad Al-Sheikhly, Robert E. Vest
Far-ultraviolet (FUV) scintillation signals have been measured in heavy noble gases (argon, krypton, xenon) following boron-neutron capture (10B(n,α)7Li) in 10B
Stephen P. Eckel, Jeffrey Lee, Fred Jendrzejewski, Noel Murray, Charles W. Clark, Christopher J. Lobb, William D. Phillips, Edwards Mark, Gretchen K. Campbell
Atomtronics is an emerging interdisciplinary field that seeks new functionality by creating devices and circuits where ultra-cold atoms play a role analogous to