Physics
Professor, School of Physics and Astronomy
Superconducting and Magnetic Proximity Effects in F/S nanostructures; Exotic forms of superconductivity; Charge and Spin Transport in F/S nanostructures; Superfluid Hydrodynamics; Dynamics of quantum Crystals.
Distinguished McKnight University Professor (MIfA Director of Graduate Studies)
Director , Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics
Galaxy formation and evolution: Massive galaxies, Evolution of galaxy structure.
Lyα line as a cosmological tool: Escape of Lyα photons, Large-scale structure, Lyα blobs.
Reionization: Lyman continuum escape fraction, IR background fluctuations.
http://homepages.spa.umn.edu/~scarlata/research.html
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Professor, School of Physics and Astronomy
Our Solar System: What Triggered Its Formation?
About 4.6 billion years ago, some event disturbed a cloud of gas and dust, triggering the gravitational collapse that led to the formation of the solar system. One hypothesis is that a nearby supernova - a star exploding at the end of its life cycle - initiated this event. My collaborators and I have examined why earlier forensic evidence based on studies of extinct radioactive…
Gloria Becker Lubkin Chair in Theoretical Physics, William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute
Distinguished McKnight University Professor, School of Physics and Astronomy
Member, Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics
My research is in the area of particle physics and cosmology. The main topics on which I work are: big bang nucleosynthesis, which is an explanation of the origin of the light element isotopes through 7Li; particle dark matter; big bang baryogenesis, which is an explanation of the matter-antimatter asymmetry observed in nature; and inflation which is a theory constructed to resolve many outstanding problems in standard cosmology.
- Accepting new graduate research students
