Alexander Volya

• phone: 630/252-8264
  
• fax: 630/252-6008
  
• e-mail: volya@anl.gov
  
• home page: http://www.nscl.msu.edu/~volya/alexander/

Biographical sketch

• 1993 Exchange student, James Madison University and CEBAF,  Harrisonburg, Virginia
• 1995  Bachelor of Degree in Physics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
  
• 1996 Master of Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan  
• 2000 Ph. D., Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan   
  
• 2000-2001 Research Associate, National Superconducting Cyclotron Lab, East Lansing, Michigan
  
• 2002-Present Postdoctoral Fellow, Argonne National Laboratory
  
• Member, American Physical Society

Recent papers

1. Interplay of pairing and multipole interactions in a simple model,
   A. Volya,
   Phys. Rev. C 65, 044311 (2002).
2. Coherent and chaotic properties of nuclear pairing,
   A. Volya, V. Zelevinsky, B. A. Brown,
   Phys. Rev. C 65, 054312, (2002).
   
3. Proton Drip-Line Calculations and the Rp-process,
   B. A. Brown, R. Clement, H. Schatz, A. Volya and W. A. Richter,
   Phys. Rev. C 65, 045802 (2002).
   
4. A soft mode in a finite Fermi-system: anharmonic effects near the instability point,
   V. Zelevinsky, A. Volya,
   in Perspectives of nuclear structure and nuclear reactions, (JINR, Dubna, 2002) nucl-th/0112013
5. Randomness and collectivity in nuclear structure: Three theoretical puzzles,
   V. Zelevinsky, A. Volya,
   in Proceedings of the 7th International Spring Seminar on Nuclear Physics,(Maiori, Italy, 2001, World Scientific, Singapore) nucl-th/0112014
6. Exact solution of the nuclear pairing problem,
   A. Volya, B. A. Brown, and V. Zelevinsky,
   Phys. Lett. B 509, 37 (2001)
7. Do we understand the role of incoherent interactions in many body physics?
   V. Zelevinsky, D. Mulhall and A. Volya,
   Yad. Fiz.  64, 525 (2001)
8. Geometric chaoticity leads to ordered spectra for randomly interacting fermions,
   D. Mulhall, A. Volya and V. Zelevinsky
   Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 4016 (2000)
9. Random interactions: Shedding light on nuclear structure,
   D. Mulhall, A. Volya, and V. Zelevinsky,
   Nucl. Phys. A 682, 229c (2001)
10. Spin ordering of nuclear spectra from random interactions
    D. Mulhall, V. Zelevisnky and A. Volya,
    Acta Phys. Polon. B32, 2491 (2001)
11. Multiple pion production from an oriented chiral condensate,
    A. Volya, S. Pratt, and V. Zelevinsky,
    Nucl. Phys. A 671, 617 (2000)
12. Exploring the pion dispersion relation through the anomalous coupling photon->photon pion,
    A. Volya, K. Haglin, S. Pratt and V. Dmitriev,
    J. Phys. G 25, 2049 (1999)
13. Chaotic wave functions and exponential convergence of low-lying energy eigenvalues,
    M. Horoi, A. Volya  and V. Zelevinsky,
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 2062 (1999)
14. Modeling pionic fusion,
    A. Volya, S. Pratt, and V. Zelevinsky,
    Phys. Rev. C 59, 305 (1999)

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