Dr. Joshua N. Milstein
Sloan-Swartz Fellow
Senior Postdoctoral Scholar

Division of Biology 216-76
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, Ca. 91125

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Josh Milstein

Research Interests

I work on understanding theoretical problems within biology with an emphasis on biological computation and genetic regulation.

In neural systems, my research has focused on how the biophysics of neurons allows them to function within the electrically active environment of the brain. I'm also interested in gaining a mechanistic understanding of genetic regulation within bacteria.

A relative newcomer to biology, in the past, I have worked on theoretical issues related to superfluidity within cold Bose and Fermi gases.

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Refereed Publications

Biophysics

Neuronal Shot Noise and Brownian 1/f^2 Behavior in the Local Field Potential,
J. N. Milstein and C. Koch, (in process) (2008).

Dynamic Moment Analysis of the Extracellular Electric Field of a Biologically Realistic Spiking Neuron,
J. N. Milstein and C. Koch, accepted to Neural Computation (2007).

Cold Atomic Gases

A study of classical field techniques for condensates in one-dimensional rings at finite temperatures,
A. Nunnenkamp, J. N. Milstein, and K. Burnett, Phys. Rev. A 75, 1 (2007)

Superfluidity and binary-correllations within clusters of fermions,
J. N. Milstein and K. Burnett, J. Phys. B 39, 1965 (2006).

Resonant formation of strongly correlated paired states in rotating Bose gases,
S.G. Bhongale, J. N. Milstein and M. J. Holland, Phys. Rev. A 69, 053603 (2004).

The nature of superfluidity near a Feshbach resonance
,
Jelena Stajic, J. N. Milstein, Qijin Chen, M.J. Holland and K. Levin,
Phys. Rev. A 69 063610 (2004).

Feshbach resonances and collapsing Bose-Einstein condensates,
*Quantum Gases Focus  Issue*
J. N. Milstein, C. Menotti and M. Holland, N. J. Phys. 5 (2003).

Resonance theory of the crossover from Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer superfluidity to Bose-Einstein condensation in a dilute Fermi gas,
J. N. Milstein, S. J. J. M. F. Kokkelmans and M. J. Holland,
Phys. Rev. A 66, 043604 (2002).

Resonance superfluidity: Renormalization of resonance scattering theory,
S. J. J. M. F. Kokkelmans, J. N. Milstein, M. L. Chiofalo, R. Walser and M. J. Holland,
Phys. Rev. A 65, 053617 (2002).
   
Signatures of resonance superfluidity in a quantum Fermi gas,
M. L. Chiofalo, S. J. J. M. F. Kokkelmans, J. N. Milstein and M. J. Holland,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 090402 (2002).

Other Publications

From Cooper Pairs to Molecules: Effective field theories for ultra-cold atomic gases near Feshbach resonances,
PhD Thesis, JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder (2004).
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