Quantum Mechanics

Guo-ping Zhang is a professor of physics at Indiana State University. He received his B.S. degree from Nanjing Normal University, M.S. degree from Shanghai Jiao-Tong University, and Ph.D. degree from Fudan University. He was a visiting scientist at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, with postdoctoral appointments at the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics and the University of Tennessee. He taught for one year at the State University of New York, College at Buffalo.

His research interests include nanoscience, ultrafast dynamics, magnetic and topological quantum materials, femtomagnetism, all-optical spin switching, laser-induced femtosecond demagnetization, soft x-ray spectroscopy, high-harmonic generation, nonlinear optics, Liouville equation, density functional theory and quantum chemistry methods, quantum computing, Alzheimer diseases, conjugated polymers and strongly correlated materials. He has coauthored 140 papers and 4 books. He was the principal investigator on a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to study laser-induced ultrafast demagnetization. He is the recipient of the Theodore Dreiser Distinguished Research and Creativity Award from Indiana State University.

He enjoys working with students. He is a reviewer for scientific journals and funding agencies.

Mingsu Si is a professor of Physics at Lanzhou University. He received his M.S. and Ph.D degrees in 2003 and 2008 from Lanzhou University, with postdoctoral appointments at Indiana State University and Michigan Technological University. His research interest includes first-principles electronic structure, femtosecond magnetism, and nonlinear optics. He has published 110 research papers.

Thomas F. George (chancellor/professor emeritus) served as chancellor and professor of chemistry and physics at the University of Missouri-St. Louis from