Robert Joynt

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Robert Joynt received his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland in 1982 and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Cavendish Laboratory of the University of Cambridge and the Institute for Theoretical Physics at ETH-Zurich.  Since 1986, he has been Professor of Physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  He is Associate Chair of the Department of Physics, and is the founding Director of the MS program in Physics-Quantum Computing.  He is a Senior Fellow at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Sciences at the Institute of Physics in Beijing.  His research has ranged from the quantum Hall effect to high-Tc superconductivity to neutron stars to quantum computing.