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. The research topics he is most interested in at present include coherent matter-waves (e.g., four-wave mixing of matter-waves, superfluidity, Cooper pairing of fermions, matter-wave interference, matter-wave solitons) and nonlinear optics (optical-solitons, acousto-optics, harmonic genereration).

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 (see CV for details [[1]] -- this page can be used to download recently published scientific articles authored by Professor Band). He is the author of the book entitled Light and Matter: Electromagnetism, Optics, Spectroscopy and Lasers [[2]], 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.