"After spending some 15 years at Yale University and climbing through the ranks to an Associate Professor, I moved to the University of Connecticut where I assumed the position of full professor of Physics and established the new Laboratory for Nuclear Science. I am primarily involved in research in Nuclear Astrophysics and the Solar Neutrino problem." Dr. Gai was recently elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society; he also joined the UConn polo team (national champions in 1996 and 1997) and is proud to complete practice sessions, still seated on his horse.

"I support, as a contractor, all of the Department of Defense Science & Technology programs in Directed Energy Weapons to ensure these efforts are coordinated and exchanging information routinely."

"I am a theoretical particle physicist at the Dutch National Institute for Nuclear & Particle Physics. I very much enjoyed my Stony Brook time and still enjoy going back on occasion."

"I am finishing up a 3-year postdoc at SLAC working on SLD/SLC and am moving on to NASA Ames to work on super-computer R&D. I’m grateful to Stony Brook and wish her the best!"

"I was President of the Mexican Academy of Sciences 1994-95; President of the US/Mexico Foundation for Science since 1997 and am doing research at the Physics Institute, National University of Mexico."

"We have a pretty sizeable group of Stony Brook alumni here in Heidelberg and I was pleased to find out that the name ‘Stony Brook’ is well-known and respected here."

"I had a sabbatical leave from Penn State for 1996-97, which I spent partly at the University of Beilefeld, Germany and 4 months on a Fulbright Scholarship at the University of Wroclaw in Poland."

"I am project manager for permanent magnets for the Fermilab Recycler program. By the end of the summer we expect to have 350 gradient magnets ready for the new ring. I also supervise the magnet testing for the Main Injector, also nearing completion. I’ve learned enough about this business that I was asked to teach a one-week class on magnetic measurements at the US Particle Accelerator School in Austin this past January. Many more interesting projects await in the future."

"I’m currently working as a consultant to the Department of Defense in the areas of counter-proliferation; defending against nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons and National Missile Defense. It’s a long way from gravitation theory but rewarding in its own way!"

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