ANDREW FISHER
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Department of Physics and Astronomy
University College London
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT
Tel (+44) 20 7679 1378
Fax (+44) 20 7679 1360
Email Andrew.Fisher@ucl.ac.uk
PGP key: 525CE608
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I am a Professor of Physics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy
at University College London. I
and
my group form part of the Condensed
Matter and Materials Physics area of the Department, and of the new
London Centre for
Nanotechnology (a joint venture between UCL and Imperial College,
London).
We are part of the newly
announced IRC
(Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration) in Nanotechnology,
involving the Universities of Cambridge
and Bristol as well as UCL.
See
also
We are also involved in several exciting
interdepartmental research initiatives at UCL, including:
- The HiPerSPACE
Centre (High-Performance Service for Physics, Chemistry, Astronomy
and Earth Sciences), a massive new computing facility for the
physical sciences at UCL
- The UCL Centre for Cosmic
Chemistry and Physics
- The UCL Centre
for Materials Research
- The new London Centre for Nanotechnology:
see the
The last two are produced by Powerpoint and optimized
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To find our present offices in UCL see our directions page. We will be moving to
the new LCN
building in the course of 2004.
My research
Along with a group of colleagues and students, I am
interested in understanding the behaviour of electrons in tiny
`nanostructures'. We predict the behaviour of the electrons using the
laws of quantum mechanics, and compare our calculations with those of
the many experiments now being done in this rapidly moving field.
My teaching
- I teach the 2nd-year course PHAS2222 Quantum
Physics
at UCL. The course homepage can be found here.
- I am organizing a postgraduate course on open
quantum systems during the summer term of 2004.
- Course timetable (PDF)
- Main course notes (LaTeX,
PDF, HTML)
- Notes for lecture by Jonathan Tennyson on
R-matrix methods (Powerpoint, PDF)
- Notes for lecture by Marshall Stoneham on
spin-lattice relaxation. Note that there are two separate files, which do not
contain the same information: handout notes (Word, PDF) and a
powerpoint presentation (Powerpoint,
PDF).
- Notes for lecture by Thornton Greenland on
master-equation unravellings (PDF).
My background
I have been at UCL since October 1995. I moved here
from being a Lecturer in the Department
of Physics at Durham University
(1993-5).
Before that I was a Junior Research Fellow at St
John's College Oxford, working in the Clarendon Laboratory of the Oxford Physics Department
(1989-93). I also spent a year during this period at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory
(1991-2).
If you really want more information, here is a short
on-line CV.
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