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David Roberts

Feynman Fellow
CNLS

Theoretical Physics

David Roberts

Office: TA-03, Building 1690, Room 123
Mail Stop: B213
Phone: (505) 667-6871
Fax: (505)665-2659

dcr@lanl.gov
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Research highlight
 Educational Background/Employment:
  • B.Sc. Engineering Physics, Cornell University, 1999
  • M. Eng. Environmental Geophysics, Cornell University, 1999
  • D. Phil. Theoretical Physics, Oxford University, 2003
  • Marie-Curie Fellow, Ecole Normale Superieure, 2004-2006
  • Lewis-Sigler Institute, Princeton, 2006
  • Director Funded Postdoctoral Fellow, CNLS/T-13, LANL, Nov. 2006-Mar. 2008
  • Feynman Fellow, CNLS/T-13, LANL, Mar. 2008-present

Research Interests:

  • Bose-Einstein condensates
  • Superfluidity
  • Synchronization of weakly coupled oscillators
  • Quantitative genetics

Selected Recent Publications:

  1. D.C. Roberts and Razvan Teodorescu. A linear path toward synchronization: Anomalous scaling in a new class of exactly solvable Kuramoto models, Accepted to Eur. Phys. J. arXiv:0801.3449.
  2. Y. Pomeau and D.C. Roberts. On the Hydrodynamic Boundary Condition for Superfluid Flow, Phys. Rev. B 77, 144508 (2008).
  3. D.C. Roberts. A Linear reformulation of the Kuramoto model of self-synchronizing coupled oscillators, Phys. Rev. E 77, 031114 (2008).
  4. E.O. Perlstein, D.M. Ruderfer, D.C. Roberts, S.L. Schreiber and L. Kruglyak. Genetic basis of individual differences in the response to small molecule drugs, Nature Genetics 39, 496 (2007).
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