Physics Department, Princeton University

• Scaling Limits of Self Avoiding Walks and of Percolation Cluster Perimeters, and the Stochastic Loewner Evolution in Two Dimensions

• Communication between cells
• Physics of molecular motors
• Ratchets in biology
• DNA rigidity and protein expression
• Solitons in biology
• Nanotechnology and biology

• Theoretical problems at the interface of physics and biology

• Neutrino Astrophysics

• Quantum Field Theory, Particle Physics and Theoretical Biology
• Applications of quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics and field theory to problems in particle physics and biophysics.

•  Study of the intermediate energy (CNO, pep) neutrinos with the Borexino detector.
•  Commissioning of the first depleted-argon dark matter detector.
•  Calibration of argon dark matter detectors with low-energy internal conversion sources.
•  Simulation of a ton-scale depleted-argon dark matter detector.

•  The physics of embryonic development
•  Noise and precision of genetic regulation
•  Self-assembly and self-aggregation of multicellular biological systems
•  Collective behavior in eukaryotic cell populations

• Optical/IR (Space) Interferometry
• CubeSat - a Small Satellite Project
• Whatever related to Astrophysics and Cosmology

• "String theory and dissipative phenomena". 

• Condensed Matter Theory

• Black Holes in LHC

• Lasers with high average power
• Physics of millimeter waves
• Remote detection of magnetic fields
• Atomic clocks

• Topological Phases of Quantum Matter
• Quantum Spin Hall Effect
• Novel Routes to High Tc Superconductivity

• Holographic uncertainty principle

• Topics in phase transitions

David Huse

• Measurements and analysis of surface turbulence of liquid gallium
• Measurements of stability of a rotating water disk

•   Long duration cryogenics for balloon flight applications.
•  A Superconducting Fluxoid Detector (Huh!) What is it good for? Absolutely nothing.
•  Dazed and Confused: systems and algorithms for autonomous attitude reconstruction.

• 1-dimensional Solitons, Fractional Charge and Polyacethylene

• Mathematical Physics

• Is an in-house (in Jadwin) parity violation measurement feasible?
• Radio telescope on Jadwin's roof: do an upgrade.
• Lepton Jets
• Tracking Detectors Based on Diamonds
• Dark Matter

• Experimental measurement of biological signal processing capabilities
• Principles of signaling fidelity in interconnected biological networks
• Evolution of biological networks
• Microfluidics development for biophysics experiments

• Long Baseline Neutrino Physics Dark Matter Searches with Cryogenic Detectors

• Experimental searches for Dark Matter
• Liquid argon detectors for Dark Matter searches (topics involving design and simulations as well as lab-based prototyping)

• Black Holes in Two Dimensions
• Supersymmetry at LHC

• Nanotubes, superconductivity in Fullerene films, Bose condensation

• Do neutrinos travel faster than light?
• Search for the Higgs boson

• Cosmic Microwave Background Analysis and Measurement
• Detectors for mm-wave radiation
• Dark Matter Searches
• Tests of Gravity

• Quantum teleportation
• Semiconductor nanowires
• Quantum control

• Theoretical High Energy Physics

• General Relativity, Computational Physics

• Optics and bioimaging
• Dynamical modeling of viruses and protein aggregates
• Microfluidics for biophysics

•   Measurement of an imaginary cross-section between K atoms
• Quantum non-demolition measurements in atoms
• Monte-carlo simulations of quantum spin noise 
• Optical detection of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

•  Cell motility
•  Cellular Mechanics
•  Molecular motors
•  Experimental techniques in biophysics

• Experimental High Energy Physics

• Topological Order

• Superconducting Millimeter Detectors: Theory and Reality Analysis of
• Cosmic Microwave Background Data Optics for Next Generation
• Balloon-borne Millimeter Instruments Hands-on Cosmic Microwave 
• Background Experimentation

•   What happens at a Big Crunch
•   Cosmic gravitational waves
•   Problems with inflationary cosmology
•   Searching for natural quasicrystals

• Active Control of Disease Processes
• Gene Regulatory Networks
• Neural Network Analysis of DNA Microarray Data

• Biophysics

• Order Metrics in Condensed Matter

• String Theory

• New physics signal at the LHC