PHYSICS PROFESSOR RECEIVES GUGGENHEIM FELLOWSHIP

   COLUMBUS -- Tin-Lun (Jason) Ho of WESTERVILLE, professor of physics at The Ohio State University, has been granted a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship for 1999-2000. He is one of four Ohio State faculty members to receive the fellowships this year.

   Ho received the grant to work on a project relating to the new physics of quantum gases of alkali atoms and a phenomenon that Albert Einstein proposed 70 years ago involving condensation of particles.

   “I’m pleased at the recognition that Jason’s work has been receiving as exemplified by this Guggenheim award,” said Robert Gold, dean of the College of Mathematical and Physical Sciences. “Research of this caliber is a credit to the Department of Physics and Ohio State.”

   An Ohio State faculty member since 1983, Ho is a member of his department’s condensed matter theory group, conducting research in the areas of Bose-Einstein condensation of atomic gases, quantum Hall effect and quasicrystals. He is a past Alfred P. Sloan Foundation fellow and is currently a member of the Aspen Center for Physics.

   Ho has served as a visiting scientist at U.S. institutions and universities abroad and has helped organize several international conferences. Ho’s work on dilute quantum gases is supported by grants from NASA and the National Science Foundation. He has received more than 20 invitations to discuss his research results at major institutions and international conferences in the past year. He also is a principal investigator of an NSF-funded project headed by the low temperature physics group of Cornell University to study the low temperature properties of superfluid Helium three.

   Ho received his bachelor’s degree from Chinese University of Hong Kong, conducted graduate studies at the University of Minnesota and earned his Ph.D. in physics from Cornell.

   Guggenheim Fellowships support scholars and artists for six to 12 months. The Foundation awarded 179 U.S. and Canadian Fellowships this year; the average grant amount is $33,866. There were 2,785 applicants. Because the program helps provide fellows with blocks of time in which they can work with as much creative freedom as possible, grants carry no special conditions.

Contact: Tin-Lun (Jason) Ho, (614) 292-2046

For information on the other Guggenheim fellowship recipients, contact Emily Caldwell in University Communications, (614) 292-8309.