Swapan Chattopadhyay Associate Director for Accelerators, Jefferson Lab

Contact:

• Center for Advanced Studies of Accelerators
  Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
  12000 Jefferson Avenue, Newport News, VA 23606
• 757-269-7001 (phone)
  757-269-5024 (fax)
• swapan@jlab.org

Education:

• Ph. D. University of California Berkeley, 1982

Career:

• Scientific Attaché, CERN, Geneva, 1982 - 1984
• Head, Center for Beam Physics, LBL, 1984 - 2001
• Associate Director for Accelerator, Jefferson Lab
• Visiting Professor, UC Berkeley, 1987
• Visiting Professor, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1991
• JAERI (Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute) Distinguished Visiting Scientist, 1995

Affiliations and Honors:

• Fellow, American Physics Society (APS)
• Senior Member, Institute for Electric and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• Member of European Physics Society (EPS)
• Member of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• Member of Optical Society of America
• Member of Executive Committee of Division of Physics of Beam of APS
• Member of International Committee on Future Accelerators (Western Hemisphere)
• Senior Editor, "The Physics and Technology of Particle and Photon Beams", Monograph Series by Harwood Academic Publishers
• ALS/LBL Prize (team award), 1996
• DOE Certificate of Distinction for Mentorship in Energy Research Undergraduate Laboratory Fellowship Program, 1999
• National Scholar (1967) and National Science Talent Scholar (1967-72), Govt. of India

Research Highlights:

• Particle and photo beam physics, classical and quantum statistical physics, synchrotron radiation, free electron lasers, beam-plasma physics, nonlinear dynamics, collider physics, novel accelerators and radiation sources, ultrafast processes, quantum optics and quantum computers

Selected Recent Publications

• "Alight a Beam and Beaming Light: A Theme with Variations", Physics of Plasmas, Volume 5, Number 5, p. 2081 (1998)
  
  
• "Femtosecond X-ray Pulses at 0.4 Å Generated by 90^o Thomson Scattering: A Tool for Probing the Structural Dynamics of Materials", (with R.W. Schoenlein et al.), Science, 274, 11 October 1996, p. 236
  
  
• "Laser-Based Sub-Picosecond Electron-Bunch Characterization Using 90^o Thomsom Scattering", (with W.P. Leemans et al.), Phys. Rev. Lett., 77, 4182 (1996)
  
  
• "Generation of Femtosecond X-rays by 90^o Thomson Scattering", (with K.-j. Kim and C. Shank), Nucl. Instrum. Methods in Phys. Res., A341, 351-354 (1994)
  
  
• "Accelerator Issues and Challenges at the IsoSpin Laboratory", Particle Accelerators, 1994, 47, No. 3-4, pp. 119 -126.
  
  
• "Physics and Design Issues of Asymmetric Storage Ring Colliders as B-Factories", Particle Accelerators, 1990, Vol. 31, pp. 121-133.