DANIEL COX

Title: Professor

Co-director:Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter (ICAM) Note - ICAM has sponsored the just opened Emergent Universe online museum of science (see the image at right!)

Degree: Ph.D., Cornell University, 1985

Research and pedagogical interests:

Theoretical modelling of aggregation processes in biology (especially amyloid diseases--Mad Cow and Alzheimer's).
Electrical Properties of DNA
Environmental Issues and Science

Contact Information:

Address: Department of Physics, University of California, 1 Shields Ave., Davis, CA 95616
Fax: (530)752-4717
Email: cox@physics.ucdavis.edu

NOTE: The background image is a model for a mammalian prion fibril embedded in 30 angstrom resolution density maps from the Saibil/Collinge labs in the UK. This work is taken from the dissertation of Dr. Kay Kunes.

Currently, besides myself, my group consists of Ms. Sunny Dai, , Mr. Jesse Singh,Mr. Youval Dar, , and Ms. Jamie Romnes, and I collaborate extensively with Prof. Rajiv Singh and his student Mr. Robert Hayre,

CLASSES

Winter 2011: Physics 9HB-Honors physics, relativity and thermodynamics/stat. mech.
Alums
Recently departed group members include Dr. Monte Labute (who has moved to a staff position at Livermore National Labs , Dr. Robert Endres who has joined the faculty of Imperial College London Dr. Arnd Huebsch who is a financial consultant in Germany, Dr. Rahul Kulkarni who is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at Virginia Polytechnic University), Dr. David Mobley, an assistant professor of chemistry at the University of New Orleans, Dr. Jong-Chin Lin, a postdoctoral researcher in biological physics at the University of Maryland, Dr. Jianping Pan, who has moved into the finance world, Dr. Kay Kunes, a staff scientist at Raytheon in Tucson AZ, and Dr. Cynthia Trevisan, a tenure track professor at the California Maritime Academy in Vallejo.

Information on former students

Information on past postdoctoral research associates

Prof. Cox is involved in the campus initiative on Nanoparticles in the Environment, Agriculture, and Technology, and a member of the Graduate Group in Biophysics.

Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

My review article with A. Zawadowski, ``Exotic Kondo effects in metals...'' (Adv. Phys. 47, 599 (1998)) is available as a book from Taylor and Francis also (look here).
Here you can find some recent notes from three lectures I gave on ``Quantum Impurity Theory'' at the 2003 Boulder Condensed Matter Physics summer school.

Click here to look some recent papers

Maintained by D.L. Cox; last update July 2008