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Photo: Alexander W. Chao, SLAC HEP Faculty

Alexander Wu Chao
Professor

E-mail: achao@slac.stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 926-2985
Group: Accelerator Research Department A
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Education

B.S., 1970, Physics, National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan. Ph.D., 1974, Physics, State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Professional Academic  History

Research Associate, SLAC, 1974 - 1976. Experimental Physicist, SLAC, 1976 - 1984. Senior Scientist, SSC, Central Design Group, 1984 - 1989. Senior Scientist, SSC Laboratory, 1989 - 1994. Professor, SLAC, Stanford, 1994 - present. Adjunct Professor, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Department of Physics, 1991 - present. 

Awards and Honors

Fellow, American Physical Society. Academician, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.

Research Areas

Accelerator physics; nonlinear beam dynamics; collective instabilities of high intensity beams; polarization effects  beam-beam interaction in storage rings; advanced acceleration schemes. 

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