William A. Lester, Jr. Dept of Chemistry theoretical and physical chemistry, advances in basic theory, computational methods, study of molecular electronic structure, quantum Monte Carlo method, Born-Oppenheimer approximation
Raphael Bousso Dept of Physics physics, quantum mechanics, gravity, unified description of nature, string theory, quantum properties of black holes, geometry of spacetime, covariant entropy bound, cosmological constant
William H. Miller Dept of Chemistry theoretical chemistry, chemical dynamics, quantum mechanical and semiclassical theories, dynamical chemical processes at the molecular level, photodissociation, femtosecond pump-probe spectroscopy, calculations of rate constants for chemical reactions