The Integrated Science Program
Advisory Committee
Craig Bina (ISP & Earth and Planetary Sciences)
Regan Thomson (ISP & Chemistry)
Bill Halperin (ISP & Physics)
SonBinh Nguyen (ISP & Chemistry)
Indira Raman (ISP & Biological Sciences)
Fred Rasio (ISP & Physics)
Mike Stein (ISP & Mathematics)
Sandy Zablell (ISP & Mathematics)
Program Director
SonBinh Nguyen
ispdir@northwestern.edu
(847) 467-3347
Office: Ryan Hall Nanotechnology Institute,
Room 2015 (second floor)
2190 Campus Drive
SonBinh Nguyen has been the Director of the ISP since 2003 and a Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern since 1993. He received his B.S. in Chemistry from Pennsylvania State University and his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology. He was an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at the Scripps Research Institute. He has been recognized as a Weinberg College Distinguished Teaching Award recipient, a McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence, and as a Dow Chemical Company Research Professor. The Nguyen research group studies three divisions in chemical science: inorganic/organometallic chemistry, organic synthesis, and polymer science. He also investigates environmental friendly catalysis and biomaterials.
Program Coordinator
Steve Daut
ispadmin@northwestern.edu
(847) 491-7219
Office: ISP House, 616 Noyes
Freshman Advisers
William Halperin
w-halperin@northwestern.edu
(847-491-3686)
Tech F117
William Halperin's research is focused on low-temperature physics (mainly liquid 3He and superconductivity), NMR studies of high-temperature superconductors, and fluid transport in porous media. In an exciting recent development, his research group has discovered how to produce impurity suppression of the thermodynamic transition of superfluid 3He, thus bringing together the practical aspects of fluid confinement in porous media and the basic science of superfluidity
Mike Stein
mike@math.northwestern.edu
(847) 491-5524
Lunt 308, 2033 Sheridan Road
Michael (Mike) Stein joined the Mathematics Department at Northwestern in 1970, and has been Director of Undergraduate Studies there since 2002. He directed the ISP from 1983-1988 and has been an ISP freshman adviser since 2001. He received his B.A. from Harvard College and his Ph.D. from Columbia University. A past winner of the Weinberg College Distinguished Teaching Award, his research focuses on certain extensions and generalizations of braid groups. He is also interested in questions concerning central extensions and Schur multipliers of Chevalley groups and Kac-Moody groups over commutative rings.
