Hoff Lu Fellowship

A fellowship for graduate students created by Mike and Lester Lu. This fellowship was endowed in honor of their father, the late Hoff Lu (Ph.D. 1941). Lu was a distinguished alumnus of the University, working in Al Nier's laboratory during the period when the Professor completed his famous work on U235 and U238. Hoff Lu is known as the father of theoretical nuclear physics in China.

Give to the Lu Fellowship

Longyu Qing: "I am originally from China. My research focuses on soft condensed matter physics, particularly theoretical and computational studies of liquid crystals, including nematic ordering, elasticity, and topological defects in semiflexible molecular assemblies and related systems."

Elliot Bell: "My research is in quantum Hall phenomena and magnetotransport in and out of equilibrium in both high and low Landau levels. Specifically, my work explores exotic nematic quantum phases in GaAs quantum wells, the role of an in-plane magnetic in mediating quantum Hall stripe reorientations and monolayer-to-bilayer transition of a two-dimensional electron gas, and magnetoresistance oscillations in the radio-frequency regime."

Kazi Ranjibul Islam: "Broadly speaking, my field of research is Condensed matter theory. I particularly focus on high temperature superconductor materials. Currently I am trying to understand what makes these materials an unconventional superconductor and how they are different from the conventional ones." 

Yi Huang
Yi is originally from Guangdong China. His research area is in condensed matter theory, mostly focusing on disorder physics, in collaboration with experimentalists. 

Ting Gao
Ting is originally from China. "I will use the fellowship to pay living expenses, as well as support my research.on high energy phenomenology. My research focuses on physics within and beyond the Standard Model, with a particular interest in CP violation and electric dipole moments."

Kate Yang

Theo Jacobson

Theo is from San Diego, CA. The fellowship will fund his research during the summer of 2020 on the behavior of strongly-coupled quantum field theories. In particular, he is interested in theories relevant to nuclear physics which exhibit non-perturbative features similar to quantum chromodynamics.

Yusuf Buyukdag

Yusuf is from Turkey. He plans to use the fellowship to focus on two different research projects. It will give him the opportunity to publish the results of those projects by the end of fellowship duration. His research is on the theoretical side of the “Beyond Standard Model” topics. This includes dark matter, supersymmetry, extra dimensions from the AdS/CFT correspondence perspective and partial compositeness.