Tsampikos Kottos

Address:	Wesleyan University, Dept. of Physics 265 Church Street Middletown, CT 06459, USA
Office:	Exley Science Tower, Room 251
Phone:	+001-(860)685-2036
Fax:	+001-(860)685-2031
Email:	tkottos@wesleyan.edu
Also at:	Max-Planck-Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Dept. of Nonlinear Dynamics Bunsenstr. 10 D-37073 Göttingen, Germany

Personal Information

Date of birth:	3 October 1969.
Marital status:	Married, two children

Curriculum Vitae

1991:	B. Sc. (Physics), University of Crete, Greece.
1991:	Third Prize, Summer School of Advanced Physics, Univ. of Crete, Greece.
1994:	ERASMUS scholarship.
1995:	M. Sc. (Solid-State Physics), University of Crete, Greece.
1996:	Visiting Research Fellow, Instituto Nazionale di Ottica, Italy.
1997:	United States European Office of Air Force Research and Development Fellowship.
1997:	Ph. D. `` Electron Dynamics and diffusion properties in 1D and quasi-1D random lattices ''
1997:	Feinberg Fellowship, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
1997-1999:	Visiting Researcher, Weizmann Institute of Science, Inst. of Complex Systems, Israel.
1999-2002:	Visiting Researcher, MPI für Strömungsforschung.
2003-present:	Staff Scientist, MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization
2005-present:	Assistant Professor, Wesleyan University
2006:	International Stefanos Pnevmatikos Award for Research in Non-Linear Phenomena
2007:	Visiting Fellow: Newton Institute, Cambridge, UK

Research activity

Research conducted in our group is primarily concerned with fundamental questions emerging when a macroscopic object is miniaturized. The physical properties of the resulting structures is the subject of a relatively new field refers to as "Mesoscopic" Physics. The origin of the word is Greek and it means "observing" (skopo) the "in between" (meso). Mesoscopic systems are fundamentally non-macroscopic, since they are described by quantum mechanical laws instead of the familiar laws of the macro-world. On the other hand, a mesoscopic system is too big (consist of many atoms and contain many impurities) to be described by the traditional methods employed in the physics of individual atoms. Our objective is to close the gap between the microscopic and macroscopic worlds and to develop theories and models that will help us to understand the intricate dynamics on the mesoscopic scale. Such theories will find immediate applications in building and manipulating nano-devices, such as small quantum boxes (quantum dots) with few electrons.

Publications (including links to preprints)

Conference Organization

New England Mesoscopic Systems Symposium , October 26, 2008 Middletown, CT
(Scientific Coordinator and Organizer)

Aspects of Quantum Chaotic Scattering , March 7-12, 2005 Dresden (Germany)
(Member of the Organizing Committee)

IV. Workshop on chaotic and disordered billiards, October 7, 2004 , Göttingen (Germany)
(Member of the Organizing Committee)

Spectral and Transport Properties of Random Network Models , December 4-8, 2000 Göttingen (Germany)
(Member of the Organizing Committee)

Fluctuations, Nonlinearity and Disorder , 30/09/96-04/10/96 Crete (Greece)
(Member of the Local Committee)

Collaborations

Prof. Andrey Chabanov , Physics Dept., UTSA (USA)
Prof. Doron Cohen , Physics Dept., Ben Gurion University (Israel)
Prof. Theo Geisel , MPI fuer Stroemungsforschung, Goettingen (Germany)
Dr. Antonio Politi , Istituto Nazionale di Ottica Applicata (Italy)
Prof. Tomaz Prosen , Physics Dept., University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
Prof. Giorge Tsironis , Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Crete, (Greece)
Prof. Uzy Smilansky , Dept. of Physics of Complex Systems , WIS (Israel)
Prof. Hans-Juergen Stoeckmann , Physics Dept., University of Marburg (Germany)
Dr. Matthias Weiss , EMBL, Meyerhofstr. 1, D-69117 Heidelberg, (Germany)