Current Group members:

Haowu Duan (Graduate student, NCSU; supported by DOE grant)

Greg Johnson (Graduate student, NCSU)

Ming Li (Postdoctoral fellow, NCSU. Supported by DOE grant. Project: Saturation corrections/Color Glass Condensate/Electron Ion Collider)

Past and current undergraduate students: Andrew Connelly (Yang-Lee edge singularity) and Jack Featherstone (high-energy hadronic collisions).

Codes:

• A Monte Carlo implementation to probe the distribution of linearly polarized gluons and elliptic azimuthal anisotropy in DIS dijet production at high energy: MCDijet; see Refs. arXiv:1809.02615 and arXiv:1508.04438 for details.

Research Interests:

• non-perturbative methods of quantum field theory, the exact (functional) renormalization group

• finite temperature field theory

• deconfinement and chiral aspects of Quantum Chromo-Dynamics (QCD) phase transitions, effective models of QCD at finite temperature and density

• non-equilibrium field theory; transport properties, thermalization, non-perturbative particle production in coherent fields

• renormalization group, critical statics and critical dynamics in vicinity of a phase transition

• high energy QCD, structure of nuclei and hadrons, deep inelastic scattering, transverse momentum dependent parton distribution functions, three dimensional structure of nucleons and nuclei in momentum and configuration space; phenomenology of high-energy electron-proton/ion, hadron and heavy-ion collision

Courses:

• Spring 2014, Two sections of Calculus based Physics II (E&M), Western Michigan University

• Spring 2015, Calculus based Physics II (E&M), Western Michigan University

• Spring 2015, Statistical mechanics (graduate level), Western Michigan University

• Fall 2018, Algebra-based Physics I (Mechanics), North Carolina State University

• Fall 2019, Algebra-based Physics II (Mechanics), North Carolina State University: Moodle, WebAssign

• Fall 2020, Computational Physics (PY525)

• Fall 2021, Computational Physics (PY525)

Funding:

• US Department of Energy, Project title "Quantum Chromodynamics at extreme gluon densities"

• Riken-BNL Research Center

• ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI

Beyond Physics :

• Climbing:

  1. Climbing route setter at the Gravity Vault Melville from 2017 to present

  2. Climbing coach at the Gravity Vault Melville from 2017 to August 2018

• Triathlon