Prof. Webb obtained his PhD from UCSD under the supervision of J.C. Wheatley for his work on He3. He continued his research on He3, and extended his work to SQUID's measurements while at Argonne National Labs. He then moved to IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center and continued his work on Josephson junctions. He worked on restricted dimensional transport in MOSFET's and made the first experimental observation of the Aharanov-Bohm effect and universal conductance fluctuations, which won him the Buckley Prize in 1992. He then moved to the University of Maryland, where he worked on decoherence in mesoscopic systems, Kondo effect, Luttinger liquids, persistent currents, electron spin entanglement, shot noise in point contacts and tunnel barriers, and spin transport.

Dr. Garzon finished his PhD at UMD. His research focused on spin transport in nonlocal spin valve geometries and magnetic force microscopy detection of spin currents. Some of his measurements include spin precession (Hanle effect) in Copper, magnetoresistance in Py-Cu-Py and Co-Cu-Co structures, and the temperature dependence of the spin-dependent nonlocal resistance in resistive Co-Cu-Co spin valves, which suggested the existence of interfacial spin-flip scattering at ferromagnetic-normal metal junctions. His current interests are 1) the measurement of shot noise in magnetic tunnel junctions for understanding the details of interfacial spin transport, and 2) the macrospin to spin wave transition in nanopillars and point contacts subject to spin torques.

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