Correction
A new faculty profile on Associate Professor Georg
Hoffstaetter, in the Jan. 16 edition, contained some errors. The complete profile is reproduced below.
Georg Hoffstaetter
Associate professor, physics
College: Arts and Sciences
Academic focus: The physics of beams and accelerator technology, especially related to the Energy Recovery Linear Accelerator (ERL) project at Cornell, the proposed
construction of a new type of synchrotron radiation facility, based on a superconducting linac and a one-turn storage ring, for the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS); nonlinear
optics design; space charge within a tightly focused beam; the creation of synchrotron light; and the back-reaction of coherently emitted light on the electron beam.
Previous position: Accelerator physicist, Deutsche Elektronen-Synchrotron, Hamburg,
Germany, and lecturer at the University of Hamburg.
Academic background: Diploma in physics, Darmstadt University of
Technology, Germany, 1991; M.S., physics, 1992, and Ph.D., physics, 1994, both at Michigan State
University; and Dr. habil. (doctor habilitatus), physics, Darmstadt University of
Technology, 2000.
January 23, 2003
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