William Sacks

Fonction et rattachement

Professor of Physics

Carrière

2001-present :  Professor of Physics, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Paris

Director of the graduate program: Materials Science and Nano-Objects (40-50 students)

Duties and responsibilities:

Graduate program administration (admissions, curriculum and careers)

National Council of Universities (Ministry of Education and Research),

Doctoral Committee (Physics and Chemistry of Materials)

PhD examination boards (~ 50)

Teaching experience:

Quantum states of matter, surface physics (Graduate)

General physics :  mechanics, thermodynamics, relativity (Bachelors)

Mathematics using Mathematica™ (Bachelors)

1988-2001 :  Associate Professor of Physics, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris

Research : Groupe de Physique des Solides, Campus Jussieu, Paris

1986-1988 :  Teaching and Research Assistant,  Université de Reims, France

1985-1986 :  Postdoctoral position, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris

1981-1985 : Teaching Assistant, Georgetown University, Washington D.C.

Publications

(2016) Unconventional temperature dependence of the cuprate excitation spectrum

Eur. Phys. J. B (2016) 89: 183

(2015) Pair-pair interactions as a mechanism for high-Tc superconductivity,
W. Sacks, A. Mauger, Y. Noat,
Supercond. Sci. Technol. 28, 105014

 (2015) Tunneling and electronic structure of the two-gap superconductor MgB2
J. A. Silva-Guillen, Y. Noat, T. Cren, et al.
Physical Review B 92, 064514

(2014) Mean-field approach to unconventional superconductivity,
W. Sacks, A. Mauger, Y. Noat, Physica C 503 (2014) 14–24

Diplômes français et étrangers

2001 : Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches  (HDR)

Université Pierre et Marie Curie, UPMC, Paris VI, France

1985 : Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), ‘with distinction’

Georgetown University, Washington, DC 

1980 : Bachelor of Science (BSc), ‘cum laude’,

Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts