Tycho Sleator

Associate Professor of Physics
New York University

Email: tycho.sleator@nyu.edu
Personal Homepage: http://www.physics.nyu.edu/~ts2/index.html 

Education

  • 1986 Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
    dc SQUID Detection of New Magnetic Resonance Phenomena
    Advisor: Erwin L. Hahn
  • 1982 M.A., University of California, Berkeley
  • 1979 B.S., University of Illinois, Urbana

Professional Employment

  • 1998-present: Associate Professor of Physics, New York University
  • 1992-1998: Assistant Professor of Physics, New York University
  • 1992: Research Scientist, Department of Physics, New York University
  • 1990-1992: Research Fellow, Department of Physics, University of Konstanz
  • 1988-1990: Research Scientist, Labor fur Festkorperphysik, ETH Zurich
  • 1986-1988: Postdoctoral Member of Technical Staff, AT&T Bell Laboratories
  • 1982-1986: Graduate Research Assistant, Physics Department, University of California, Berkeley
  • 1979-1982: Teaching Assistant, Physics Department, University of California, Berkeley

Awards

  • 2000 NYU "Golden Dozen" Award for Teaching Excellence
  • 1993-1998 David and Lucile Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering
  • 1990-1992 Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship

External Affiliations

  • American Physical Society
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science

Research Interests: 
Atomic and optical physics, optical manipulation of atoms, fundamental aspects of quantum mechanics