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Eugene Oks
Department of Physics
Professor Emeritus

Research Areas: Theoretical Atomic, Laser and Plasma Physics

Office: Allison Lab #215

Address: 206 Allison Laboratory
Auburn, AL 36849-5319

Phone: (334) 844-4362

Email: goks@physics.auburn.edu

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Education
Doctor of Sciences (awarded to about top 2% of Ph.D. physicists for developing a new research field of a great practical importance), Academy of Sciences, Moscow, USSR
1985
Ph.D., Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (University), Moscow, USSR
1975
M.S., Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (University), Moscow, USSR
1972


Professional Employment
Professor (tenure), Department of Physics, Auburn University
1995 - present
Professor (tenure-track), Department of Physics, Auburn University
1992 - 1995
Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Auburn University
1990 - 1992
Visting Professor, Ruhr-University, Institute for Experimental Physics 5, Bochum, F.R. Germany
1989 -1990
Department Head, Theoretical Physics Department, All-Union Research Center for Study of Surface and Vacuum, Moscow, USSR
1984 - 1988
Senior Research Fellow, All Union Research Center for Study of Surface and Vacuum, Moscow, USSR
1982 - 1984
Senior Research Fellow, All Union Research Center for Study of Surface and Vacuum, Moscow, USSR
1978 - 1982
Research Associate, All Union Research Center for Study of Surface and Vacuum, Moscow, USSR
1975 - 1978


Honors and Awards
Appointed to the Editorial Boards of the journals “Symmetry”, “Dynamics", and "American Journal of Astronomy & Astrophysics"
2020 - present
Appointed to the Editorial Board of the "Open Journal of Microphysics"
2013 - present
Appointed as the Editor-in-Chief of a new international research journal “International Review of Atomic and Molecular Physics”
2009 - present
Appointed to the Editorial Board of the "International Journal of Spectroscopy”
2008 - present
Appointed by the French Government as a Visiting Professor at the University of Paris-6 (Paris)
Summer 2006 - 2007
Appointed by the French Government as a Visiting Professor at the University of Provence (Marseille),
Summer 2005
Elected as a permanent member of the International Committee of the Zvenigorod Conference on Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
2004 - present
Appointed by the French Government as a Visiting Professor at the University of Paris-6 (Paris)
Summer 2004
Appointed by the French Government as a Director of Research at the LULI/Ecole Polytechnique - the top French military research center (Paris)
1999 - 2000, [sabbatical]; Summers of 2001, 2002, 2003
Appointed by the French Government as a Visiting Professor at the University of Provence (Marseille)
Summer 1998
Awarded by the Dean as the best researcher of the College of Sciences and Mathematics
1996
Appointed (for 9 years) to the Editorial Board of the "Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer”
1994 - 2002
Elected as a permanent member of the International Committee of the conference "Spectral Line Shapes”
1994 - present
Awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
1988


Professional Activities
Permanent Member: International Committee of the Conference "Spectral Line Shapes", International Committee of the Zvenigorod Conference on Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
Referee: American Physical Society Journals, Institute of Physics Journals (London), Journals published by the "Elsevier Publishing Co."
Member of the American Physical Society


Research and Teaching Interests

  • Conducted research in 6 areas – ATOMIC, MOLECULAR, and OPTICAL PHYSICS; LASER PHYSICS; PLASMA PHYSICS; ASTROPHYSICS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; FUNDAMENTALS OF QUANTUM MECHANICS - with applications to the following topics:
    • Laser-plasma interactions
    • Laser fusion/Nuclear stockpile stewardship
    • Magnetic fusion
    • Plasma-based-lasers (infrared, visible, ultraviolet, and x-ray ranges)
    • Plasma sources of incoherent x-ray radiation
    • Technological microwave discharges\
    • Dark matter
    • Solar physics
    • Binary stars
    • Flare stars
    • White dwarfs 
  • Founded/co-founded and developed NEW RESEARCH FIELDS:
    • INTRA-STARK SPECTROSCOPY (new class of nonlinear optical phenomena in plasmas)
    • MASING WITHOUT INVERSION (advanced schemes for generating/amplifying coherent microwave  radiation)
    • QUANTUM CHAOS (nonlinear dynamics in the microscopic world)
  • Made BREAKTHROUGH DISCOVERIES in:
    • X-RAY LASERS
    • HIGH-ORDER HARMONIC GENERATION
  • Developed NEW ANALYTICAL METHODS of quantum and celestial mechanics
  • Directed/supported COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH PROJECTS with various experimental and theoretical groups from:
    • USA
    • France
    • Germany
    • Japan
    • United Kingdom
    • Russia
    • Czech Republic
  • Authored/co-authored about 500 PUBLICATIONS, including papers in the leading, high-impact physical journals, such as, for example:
    • Physical Review Letters
    • Optics Express
    • Physical Review E
    • Physical Review A
    • Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
    • Astrophysical Journal
  • Published 8 books as the sole author


Selected Publications

  1. Oks, E., book “Advances in X-Ray Spectroscopy of Laser Plasmas”, 2020, IOP Publishing, Bristol, UK

  2. Oks, E., book “Analytical Advances in Quantum and Celestial Mechanics: Separating Rapid and Slow Subsystems”, 2020, IOP Publishing, Bristol, UK

  3. Oks, E., book “Unexpected Similarities of the Universe with Atomic and Molecular Systems: What a Beautiful World”, 2019, IOP Publishing, Bristol, UK.

  4. Oks, E., book “Diagnostics of Laboratory and Astrophysical Plasmas Using Spectral Lineshapes of One-, Two-, and Three-Electron Systems”, 2017, World Scientific, Singapore.

  5. Oks. E., book “Breaking Paradigms in Atomic and Molecular Physics”, 2015, World Scientific, Singapore.

  6. Oks, E., book “Stark Broadening of Hydrogen and Hydrogenlike Spectral Lines in Plasmas: The Physical Insight”, 2006, Alpha Science International, Oxford, UK.

  7. Oks, E., book "Plasma Spectroscopy: The Influence of Microwave and Laser Fields", 1995, Springer Series on Atoms and Plasmas, vol. 9, Springer, New York.

  8. Oks, E., “Two Flavors of Hydrogen Atoms: a Possible Explanation of Dark Matter”, Atoms 2020, 8, 33.

  9. Oks, E., “Alternative Kind of Hydrogen Atoms as a Possible Explanation of the Latest Puzzling Observation of the 21 cm Radio Line from Early Universe”, Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2020, 20(7), 109.

  10. Oks, E., “Alternative Way to Detect and Measure Parameters of a Compact Dark Matter Object as a Component of a Binary System”, New Astronomy, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.newast.2020.101521

  11. Oks, E., “Analytical Solution for the Three-Dimensional Motion of a Circumbinary Planet Around a Binary Star”, New Astronomy, 2020, 74, 101301.

  12. Oks, E., “Mini-Review: Hydrogen Atoms in a High-Frequency Laser Field”, Atoms, 2019, 7(3), 83.

  13. Oks, E., “Center-of-Mass Effects for Hydrogen Atoms in a Nonuniform Electric Field: Applications to Magnetic Fusion, Radiofrequency Discharges, and Flare Stars”, J. Phys. Communications, 2018, 2, 045005

  14. E. Oks, E. Dalimier, A.Ya. Faenov, P. Angelo, S.A. Pikuz, T.A. Pikuz, , I.Yu. Skobelev, S.N. Ryazanzev, P. Durey, L. Doehl, D. Farley, C.D. Baird, K.L. Lancaster, C.D. Murphy, N. Booth, C. Spindloe, P. McKenna, N. Neumann, M. Roth, R. Kodama  and N. Woolsey, “In-Depth Study of Intra-Stark Spectroscopy in the X-Ray Range in Relativistic Laser-Plasma Interactions”, J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys., 2017, 50, 245006

  15. Oks, E., Dalimier, E., Faenov, A.Ya., Angelo, P., Pikuz, S.A., Tubman, E., Butler, N.M.H., Dance, R.J., Pikuz, T.A., Skobelev, I.Yu., Alkhimova, M.A., Booth, N., Green, J., Gregory, C., Andreev, A., Zhidkov, A., Kodama, R., McKenna, P., and Woolsey, N.,“Using X-ray spectroscopy of relativistic laser plasma interaction to reveal parametric decay instabilities: a modeling tool for astrophysics”, Optics Express, 2017, 25, 1958.






Last updated: 10/20/2020