Yehuda Band
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Yehuda B. Band (born December 1, 1946) is Professor of Chemistry, Electro-optics and Physics and a member of the Ilse Katz Center for Nano-Science at the Ben-Gurion University in Beer Sheva, Israel.
[edit] Biography
Band was born in Munich, Germany. Upon immigrating with his family to the United States in 1951, he grew up in Brooklyn, New York. He received his B.S. from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 1968, and his M.S. and Ph.D. from University of Chicago in 1970 and 1973 respectively. Dr. Band, his wife, Renee Band, M.D., and his family made Aliya in 1978 and he accepted a position with Ben-Gurion University. He has four children; Alisa, David, Miriam and Sharon.
[edit] Academics
Dr. Band has been affiliated in the past with Argonne National Laboratory, Allied-Signal Inc., National Institute for Standards and Technology, University of Chicago, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and Harvard University.
Dr. Band's research interests include:
- collision theory
- light scattering
- nonlinear optics and electro-optics
- laser physics and chemistry
- electronic transport properties of matter
- molecular dissociation
- thermodynamics
His foremost expertise is in quantum scattering and the interaction of light with matter.
He has worked on:
- photodissociation of molecules
- transport of electrons in small electronic devices
- ultra-cold collision phenomena in laser-cooled atom traps
- Bose-Einstein condensation
- quantum-degenerate fermionic systems
- coherent matter waves
- thermodynamics of processes occurring in finite time with finite rates
- the relationship of absorption and emission in multilevel systems
- application of the birefringence of solid-state laser media to laser line narrowing
- light-induced population transfer in molecules
- nonlinear optical properties of atoms and molecules
- pulse compression and mode-locking of lasers
- second harmonic generation
- three-wave and four-wave mixing of light and matter waves
- stimulated Raman processes
- pulse compression in fiber Raman lasers
- self-focusing of light
- optical and matter-wave solitons.
Professor Band is the author of well over two hundred scientific publications in these fields, and holds numerous patents. He is the author of Light and Matter: Electromagnetism, Optics, Spectroscopy and Lasers, published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. He was awarded the Barecha Fund Fellowship for Outstanding Young Scientists (1978), the Allied-Signal Inventor Award (1988), the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowship (1997), and has been a Harvard University Fellow (1991-92). He is a member of the Israel Physical Society, the Israel Chemical Society and was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1996.
