Flight Definition Tasks


California

Professor David L. Goodstein 
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA
The CQ Experiment: Enhanced Heat Capacity of Superfluid Helium 
in a Heat Flux

Dr. Inseob Hahn 
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Pasadena, CA
Measurement of the Coexistence Curve in 3He near the Liquid-Gas 
Critical Point in Microgravity

Connecticut

Dr. Mark A. Kasevich 
Yale University
New Haven, CT
Atom Interferometer Test of the Equivalence Principle

Massachusetts

Dr. Irwin, I. Shapiro 
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Cambridge, MA
Test of the Principle of Equivalence in an Einstein Elevator

Maryland

Dr. William D. Phillips 
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg, MD
Condensate Laboratory Aboard the Space Station (CLASS)

Ground-Based Tasks

Arizona

Professor Pierre Meystre 
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ
Atom Optics in Controlled and Microgravity Environments

California

Dr. Guenter Ahlers 
The Regents of the University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA
The Superfluid Transition of 4He Under Unusual Conditions


Dr. Talso C. Chui 
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Pasadena, CA
Heat Current, Q, Effects on the Superfluid Transition (QUEST)

Dr. Melora E. Larson 
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Pasadena, CA
Experiments Along Coexistence near Tricriticality (EXACT)

Dr. John Andrew Lipa 
Leland Stanford Junior University
Stanford, CA
The Effects of Large-Scale One-Dimensional Confinement on the 
Specific Heat of Helium Very Near the Lambda Line and Testing 
the Renormalization Group Theory of Matter near the Superfluid 
Transition of Helium on the Space Station

Dr. Yuanming Liu 
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Pasadena, CA
Effects of Heat Current on the Superfluid Transition in a Low-
Gravity Simulator

Professor Douglas Dean Osheroff 
Stanford University
Stanford, CA
Tests of Fundamental Physics through Studies of Superfluid 
Helium Three

Dr. Adrian Ponce 
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA
Biomimetic Self-Assembly of Mesostructures in Microgravity: The 
Nature of the Capillary Bond

Dr. Fang Zhong 
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Pasadena, CA
Measurements of the Thermal Conductivity near the Liquid-Vapor 
Critical Point of Helium-3 and Helium-4

Colorado

Dr. Leo W. Hollberg 
NIST, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Boulder, CO
Advanced Optical Frequency Standard for Space

Florida

Dr. Efstratios Manousakis 
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL
Predicting Static and Dynamic Critical Properties of Bulk and 
Confined Helium


Georgia

Professor David P. Landau 
University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc.
Athens, GA
Computer Simulations of Confined Quantum Systems in 
Microgravity

Illinois

Professor David M. Ceperley 
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
Urbana, IL
Prediction of the Properties of Liquid Helium from Computer 
Simulation

Indiana

Professor V. Alan Kostelecky 
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN
Theoretical Studies of Lorentz and CPT Symmetry

Massachusetts

Professor Wolfgang Ketterle 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
Towards Precision Experiments with Boise-Einstein Condensates 
II

Dr. Ronald L. Walsworth 
Smithsonian Institution, Astrophysical Observatory
Cambridge, MA
Probing Planck Scale Physics with a 21Ne/3He Zeeman Maser

Professor Richard A. Ferrell 
University of Maryland, College Park
College Park, MD
Theory of Phas Transitions and Simulations in Superfluid Helium 
of Cosmological Phenomena

Montana

Dr. Kenneth L. Nordtvedt 
Northwest Analysis
Bozeman, MT
Optimizing Science from a STEP Mission: Equivalence Principle 
Violating Multipole Moments of the Non-Spherical Earth and 
Mission Observation Schedules

New Mexico

Professor Alex V. Babkin 
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM
Surface Physics with Helium Crystals in Microgravity


North Carolina

Professor John E. Thomas 
Duke University
Durham, NC
Quantum Coherence in Ultracold Fermionic Vapors

New Jersey

Dr. Harry Kojima 
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Piscataway, NJ
Stress Driven Instability on Helium-4 Crystals

New York

Professor Carl A. Batt 
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
Biodegradable Polymers

Dr. Morris A. Benjaminson 
NSR-Touro Collge Applied Bioscience Research Consortium
Bay Shore, NY
Gravity, Time Interactions and the Cycle of Life

Professor Lois Pollack 
Cornell Univeristy
Ithaca, NY
Microscale Mixer for Protein Folding

Ohio

Professor Tin-Lun (Jason) Ho 
The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH
Quantum Gases in Novel Environments: Optical Lattices and 
Rapidly Rotating Potentials

Professor Charles S. Rosenblatt 
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, OH
Simulated-Microgravity Measurement Techniques for the Study of 
Dynamic Effects in Phospholipid Surfactants

Dr. Allen Wilkinson 
Microgravity Fluid Physics Branch, NASA Glenn Research Center
Cleveland, OH
Measuring the Distribution Function Moments of Sub-Correlatin 
Length Critical Fluid Fluctuations

Pennsylvania

Dr. Tauseef Butt 
LifeSensors, Inc.
Malvern, PA
Microfabrication of a Cell-bases Estrogen Sensor Switch on a 
Plastic Microchip

Professor Moses H.W. Chan 
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA
Critical Casimir Forces

Rhode Island

Professor Humphrey J. Maris 
Brown University
Providence, RI
Coalescence of Superfluid Helium Drops in a Microgravity 
Environment

Professor James M. Valles 
Brown University
Providence, RI
Magnetic Field Gradient Levitation System for Physics and 
Biophysics

Texas

Professor Daniel J. Heinzen 
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX
Search for Time Reversal Symmetry Violation with Laser-Cooled 
Atoms

Professor Randall G. Hulet 
Rice University
Houston, TX
Superfluid Phase Transition in an Ultracold Fermi Gas

Washington

Professor Eric G. Adelberger 
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
Feasibility Study for a Space-Based Test of the Strong 
Equivalence Principle using Lunar Laser Ranging

Dr. Warren Nagourney 
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
Ultrahigh Resolution Optical Frequency Standard Using 
Individual Indium Ions

Wisconsin

Professor Thad G. Walker 
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI
All-Optical High Density Cold Atom Sources