Alexander Chao
Professor (Emeritus)
Particle Physics and Astrophysics
Professional Academic History
Research Associate, SLAC, 1974 - 1976. Experimental Physicist, SLAC, 1976 - 1984. Senior Scientist, SSC, Central Design Group, 1984 - 1989. Senior Scientist, SSC Laboratory, 1989 - 1994. Professor, SLAC, Stanford, 1994 - present. Adjunct Professor, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Department of Physics, 1991 - present.
Areas of Interest and Research
Accelerator physics; nonlinear beam dynamics; collective instabilities of high intensity beams; polarization effects beam-beam interaction in storage rings; advanced acceleration schemes.
Education
B.S., 1970, Physics, National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan. Ph.D., 1974, Physics, State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Awards & Honors
Fellow, American Physical Society, 1989; Academician, Academia Sinica,Taiwan, 2002; Outstanding alumni, Tsinghua University, 2002; European Physical Society, Wideroe Prize, 2008.
