Charles Falco holds a Named Professorship—UA Chair of Condensed Matter Physics—at the University of Arizona, where he has been a Professor of Optical Sciences since 1992, and a joint appointment in Physics.  He received his Ph.D. in experimental condensed matter physics in 1974 from the University of California, Irvine, after which he joined Argonne National Laboratory as Assistant Physicist (1974–77), and Physicist (1977–82) (Group Leader, Superconductive and Novel Materials Group 1978–82).  He held visiting positions as Maitre de Recherche (May–July, 1979) and Professeur Invité (May–June, 1986) at the Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay, and was an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Senior Distinguished Visiting Scientist at the Technical University of Aachen, Germany, June–November, 1989.  He has served on a number of scientific panels, advisory boards, and review committees for various government agencies and universities, the editorial boards of two journals, and as a member of organizing, program, advisory, etc. committees of 20 international conferences and workshops.  He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Optical Society of America, and the Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) and served two-year terms as Councillor of the APS and Member of the Executive Committee of the Division of Condensed Matter Physics of the APS (1992–1993), and four years as Secretary/Treasurer of the Forum on International Physics of the APS (1994–1998).  Falco's principal research interests are the growth (by Molecular Beam Epitaxy-MBE and sputtering), structure (using a wide range of probes, including x-ray and electron diffraction, in situ and ex situ surface probes, electron microscopy, scanning probe microscopies, etc.), and studies of the physical properties of metallic superlattices and ultra-thin films, including research on magnetism, superconductivity, x-ray optics, elastic properties, and nucleation and epitaxy of thin films, as well as computerized image analysis.  He has authored or co-authored over 250 papers, six book chapters, six U.S. patents, and co-edited two books, as well as given over 150 invited talks at conferences in 24 countries and over 200 seminars at universities and research institutions in 15 countries.

In addition to his scientific research, Charles Falco served as co-curator for an award-winning design exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and recently has been collaborating with the artist David Hockney to discover scientific evidence that demonstrates lenses were used by certain artists as optical aids as early as the onset of the Renaissance.  For this latter work he gave the National Art Education Association's 2008 Ziegfeld Lecture, awarded for his role in developing 'The Hockney-Falco Thesis,' and for its relevance to the field of art education.

Research Professor Tim Reith

Tim Reith is a Research Professor in the Surface Science Division of the University’s College of Optical Sciences.  He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in physics and a Ph.D. in materials science from Syracuse University.  Before joining the University of Arizona, he worked at the IBM Corporation for many years in several different technologies including: vacuum system design and construction, semiconductor device metallization schemes, Ohmic and Schottky barrier diode contacts to silicon and germanium, thin magnetic films for recording heads, magneto-optic recording media using rare earth-transition metal alloys, and hard disk drive recording media.  His most recent responsibilities before leaving IBM included disk design for all future high-end server drives as well as managing the liaison between IBM Almaden Research and the IBM Storage Technology Division for future strategic advanced media research and development.  In 1996, he was among the first 18 IBM Distinguished Engineers named world-wide and was the first to hold this position at their San Jose site.  He holds 20 U.S. Patents in several technical fields and has authored more than 50 publications.  He was named a member of the IEEE Magnetics Society Editorial Board in 2002 and the Advances in Magnetics Editor a year later.  His current interests include the growth and characterization of lower-dimensionality epitaxial magnetic films, with an emphasis on Co-based structures for potential ultra-high density recording applications.

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Mr. Corrado Coccorese
Università di Salerno, INFN Frascati, Italy
November 1994-November 1995

Professor Annamaria Cucolo
Università di Salerno, Italy
December 1983

Dr. Pierre Dhez
Université de Paris-Sud, France
September 1991-August 1992

Professor Rajka Djajic-Jovanovic
University of Novi Sad, Yugoslavia
July-August, 1989

Professor Félix Fernández
University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
January 1988

Professor Gilberto González
Universidad de Sonora, México
July; October 1991

Dr. Nobuyoshi Hosoito
Kyoto University, Japan
December 1991-January 1992

Ms. Kyoko Hyomi
Asahi Komag Co. Ltd., Japan
August 1996-April 1999

Professor Lian Jie
Shan Dong University, Jinan, PR China
August 2006-August 2007

Mr. Satoru Kaneko
Industrial Research Institute of Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
September 1996-June 1997

Dr. Kenji Kawaguchi
National Chemical Laboratory, Tsukuba, Japan
July 1991-June 1992

Dr. Akira Kikitsu
Toshiba Corporation, Japan
October 1996-April 1998

Professor Sukmock Lee
Inha University, Inchon, Korea
December 1999-January 2001
December 2001-February 2002
June 2002-August 2002

Professor Shuang Liu
University of Electronic Science and Technology, Chengdu, PR China
February 2008-March 2009

Dr. Christian Marliére
Institut d´Optique, France July 1994-June 1995

Dr. Luigi Maritato
Università di Salerno, INFN Frascati, Italy
February 1984-December 1984
April 1985-March 1986 
July-August 1987
November 1988
July-August 1989

Dr. Ko Mibu
Kyoto University, Japan
December 1991

Mr. Alessandro Mirone
University of Trieste, Italy
February 1992-August 1992

Mr. Claude Montcalm
Institut National de La Recherche Scientifique, Québec, Canada
February 1993-April 1993

Dr. Akihiro Murayama
Asahi Komag Co. Ltd., Japan
April 1996-April 1999

Mr. Masafumi Nakada
NEC Central Research Laboratory, Japan
August 1989-August 1990

Professor Sungkyun Park
Pusan National University, Busan, Korea
June-September 2009

Professor Raúl Pérez-Enriquez
Universidad de Sonora, México
July 1991

Professor Vasily Rashkovan
Khaérkov Aviation Institute, Ukraine
October-November 1997
October-November 1998

Professor Arturo Rosas
Universidad de Sonora, México
October 1991

Dr. Dian Hong Shen
Institute of Physics, Beijing, PR China
October 1991-January 1992

Professor Teruya Shinjo
Kyoto University, Japan
March 1992
November 1992

Professor Ruggero Vaglio
Università di Salerno, Italy
September-October 1983
August-September 1984
June 1985

Mr. Ahmet Varilci
Karadeniz Technical University, Turkey
May-October 1996

Dr. Bernard Vidal
Université d'Aix-Marseille, France
April-June 1984 

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University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, PR China
August 2005-September 2006

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