Here's a list of professors and the undergrads that are working for them at the moment. ("The moment" being March 2005.) You might email a professor who's indicated to be looking for students, or talk to one of the students listed here. The important part is for you to go out and make things happen!
Nima Arkani-Hamed
Professor of Physics
PhD 1997, UC-Berkeley
None
Howard Berg
Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology & Professor of Physics
PhD 1964, Harvard University
Bryan Chen
Professor Berg would like another student, so contact him if you are interested!Nicolaas Bloembergen
Gerhard Gade University Professor, Emeritus
PhD 1948, Leiden
None
George W. Brandenburg
Senior Research Fellow and Director of the High Energy Physics Laboratory
PhD 1970, Harvard University
None
A message from Professor Brandenburg for interested students:
"Thanks for you inquiry about research assistant positions at the High Energy Physics Lab (HEPL). We have five groups, all of which
have had undergrads working on various projects: CDF (Franklin and
Foland) which is studying proton-antiproton physics at Fermilab,
MINOS (Feldman) which is looking for neutrino oscillations at
Fermilab and the Soudan Mine, BABAR (Morii) which is studying CP
violation in electron-positron collisions at SLAC, the ATLAS project
which is building a muon detector for a future experiment at CERN's
Large Hadron Collider (Huth and myself), and our new Dark Energy
group (Stubbs and Franklin) which is doing R&D for upcoming
astrophysics projects. You can find more information at
htpp://www.hepl.harvard.edu.
The work at HEPL ranges from physics data analysis (i.e. software)
to detector R&D and fabrication (i.e. hardware). There are usually
jobs for students at all levels of experience. For a summer job you
would be expected to work at least two months, and our term-time
students typically work 10-15 hours/week.
I can't say for sure which HEPL projects currently have "openings"
-- you will need to check directly with the faculty involved. You
can reach everyone I mentioned above using @physics as an
address. In the meantime I'd be happy to give you more details and a
short tour. Send me an email if you'd like to stop by the lab sometime."
Nina Byers (Visiting Scholar in Physics)
Research Professor and Professor Emeritus, UCLA
PhD 1956, University of Chicago
None
Sidney R. Coleman
Donner Professor of Science
PhD 1962, California Institute of Technology
None
Eugene Demler
Assistant Professor of Physics
PhD 1998, Stanford University
John M. Doyle
Professor of Physics
PhD 1991, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Saee Paliwal
Alex Ellis
Henry Ehrenreich
Clowes Research Professor of Science & Research Professor
PhD 1955, Cornell University
Only thesis advising occasionally, anyone interested is welcome to stop by Pierce Hall 205A
Gary J. Feldman
Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science
PhD 1971, Harvard University
Daniel S. Fisher
Professor of Physics
PhD 1979, Harvard University
None
Andrew Foland
Assistant Professor of Physics
PhD 1999, Cornell University
Josh Rosaler
Currently Prof Foland has no more openings, but contact him in the futureMelissa Franklin
Professor of Physics
PhD 1982, Stanford University
Gerald Gabrielse
George Vasmer Leverett Professor of Physics
PhD 1980, University of Chicago
Aram Avetisyan
Susannah Dickerson
Peter L. Galison
Mallinckrodt Professor of the History of Science and of Physics
PhD 1983, Harvard University
One student doing thesis research and another RA
Howard M. Georgi
Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics
PhD 1971, Yale University
None
Sheldon L. Glashow
Higgins Professor of Physics, Emeritus
PhD 1959, Harvard University
None
Roy J. Glauber
Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics
PhD 1949, Harvard University
Jene A. Golovchenko
Gordon McKay? Professor of Applied Physics & Professor of Physics
PhD 1972, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Bertrand I. Halperin
Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy
PhD 1965, University of California, Berkeley
Currently none, but contact if interested
Lene Vestergaard Hau
Gordon McKay? Professor of Applied Physics & Professor of Physics
PhD 1991, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Thomas C. Hayes
Lecturer on Physics
JD 1969, Harvard University
None
Eric J. Heller
Professor of Physics
PhD 1973, Harvard University
One physics undergrad
One chem. Undergrad
Usually Prof Heller has more studentsJenny Hoffman
Assistant Professor of Physics
PhD 2003, University of California, Berkeley
Currently no available positions, but check again next year
Gerald Holton
Mallinckrodt Research Professor of Physics and Research Professor of the History of Science
PhD 1948, Harvard University
Paul Horowitz
Professor of Physics
PhD 1970, Harvard University
Pratheev Sreetharan
Steve Howard
John Huth
Professor of Physics & Chairman, Department of Physics
PhD 1985, University of California, Berkeley
Arthur M. Jaffe
Landon T. Clay Professor of Mathematics and Theoretical Science
PhD 1966, Princeton University
None
Efthimios Kaxiras
Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics & Professor of Physics
PhD 1987, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Andrew Kiruluta
Assistant Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School
PhD 1997, University of Toronto/Cambridge University
Mikhail Lukin
Assistant Professor of Physics
PhD 1998, Texas
None
Charles Marcus
Professor of Physics
PhD 1990, Harvard University
Room for 1-2 more in the subject of experimental quantum information and nanofabricationPaul C. Martin
John H. Van Vleck Professor of Pure and Applied Physics
PhD 1954, Harvard University
Eric Mazur
Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics & Professor of Physics
PhD 1981, Leiden University
Rishi Jajoo
Yuyin Chen
Erik Hoke
Joanna Huey
Jonathan Kamler
Nathaniel Brooks
Amy Tao
(only first five are physics concentrators)Shiraz Minwalla
Assistant Professor of Physics
PhD 2000, Princeton University
None
Masahiro Morii
Assistant Professor of Physics
PhD 1994, University of Tokyo
Ben Smith
No room for more until next fallDavid Morin
Lecturer on Physics and Assistant Head Tutor
PhD 1996, Harvard University
None
Lubos Motl
Assistant Professor of Physics
PhD 2001, Rutgers University
None, no appropriate projects but undergrads always welcome to discuss
Sekazi Mtingwa (Visiting Professor in Physics)
Professor of Physics, North Carolina A&T State University
PhD 1976, Princeton University
None
Venkatesh (“Venky”) Narayanamurti
John A. and Elizabeth S. Armstrong Professor of Engineering and
Applied Sciences, Dean of the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences,
Dean of the Physical Sciences, Professor of Science
PhD 1965, Cornell University
Edward Likovich
Gopal Sarma
Always open to undergradsDavid R. Nelson
Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics
PhD 1975, Cornell University
David Norcross
Director of the Physics Laboratories
PhD 1970, University College London
* None
William Paul
Mallinckrodt Professor of Applied Physics & Professor of Physics, Emeritus
PhD 1951, University of Aberdeen
* None
Hongkun Park
Professor of Chemistry and of Physics
PhD 1996, Stanford University
* Justin McCarty?
* Annie Shawn
* Elizabeth Thrall
Always open to working with undergraduates, though can only have a max of 3-4 at one time.Peter S. Pershan
Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics & Professor of Physics
PhD 1960, Harvard University
Robert V. Pound
Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, Emeritus
BA 1941, University of Buffalo
* None
Mara Prentiss
Professor of Physics
PhD 1986, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lisa Randall
Professor of Physics
PhD 1987, Harvard University
None
Norman Ramsey
Higgins Professor of Physics, Emeritus
PhD 1940, Columbia University
None
Aravinthan Samuel
Assistant Professor of Physics
PhD 1999, Harvard University (behavioral neuroscience)
Rose Laughlin
Alex Dahlen
Albert Kao
Cynthia Chi
Timothy Lee
Alessandro Lazzarini
Irwin I. Shapiro
Timken University Professor
PhD 1955, Harvard University
None
Isaac F. Silvera
Thomas D. Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences
PhD 1965, University of California, Berkeley
None this semester but usually 1-2 working in high pressure, optics, Raman scattering, etc.
Andrew Strominger
Professor of Physics
PhD 1982, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
None
Christopher Stubbs
Professor of Physics
PhD 1988, University of Washington
Michael Tinkham
Rumford Professor of Physics and Gordon McKay? Professor of Applied Physics
PhD 1954, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cumrun Vafa
Donner Professor of Science
PhD 1985, Princeton University
None
Ronald L. Walsworth
Senior Lecturer
PhD 1991, Harvard University
None
David A. Weitz
Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics & Professor of Physics
PhD 1978, Harvard University
Robert Westervelt
Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics & Professor of Physics
PhD 1977, University of California, Berkeley
Richard Wilson
Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics & Research Professor
DPhil 1949, Oxford
Tai T. Wu
Gordon McKay? Professor of Applied Physics & Professor of Physics
PhD 1956, Harvard University
Matias Zaldarriaga
Professor of Astronomy
PhD 1998, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
None (currently)
Xiaowei Zhuang
Assistant Professor of Chemistry and of Physics
PhD 1996, University of California, Berkeley