FOCUS SPEAKER:
Barbara Jones
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 About
Barbara Jones
Dr. Barbara Jones currently leads the theoretical and computational
physics group at IBM’s Almaden Research Center in San Jose,
California. Since 1997 she has also been a Consulting Professor
at Stanford University in Physics and Applied Physics Departments,
and supervises Ph.D. students. She is a co-PI of the NSF-funded
Stanford Center for Probing the Nanoscale. Currently her interests
are with projects involving theories of quantum interactions
in nanoscale magnetic systems. Her research has predicted
the complex phase diagrams of spin torque switching of magnetization,
the effects of spin polarized current through a nanowire of
magnetic material, as well as differential spin polarized
current through magnet-insulator layers in Magnetic Tunnel
Junctions. She is also leading a project to calculate the
effects of magnetic atoms, in clusters or nanolattices, on
metallic/insulating surfaces, as engineered and measured by
STM.
Dr. Jones has over a hundred publications and invited talks
worldwide, and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
She is the 2001 recipient of a TWIN Award (Tribute to Women
in Industry). She is currently Chair of the Solid State Sciences
Committee of the National Academy of Science. She is the Chair
and Founder of the APS/IBM Research Internship for Undergraduate
Women, member and past Chair of the APS’s Committee on the
Status of Women in Physics (1999-2002), and immediate Past
Chair of the IBM Almaden Diversity Council; she is strongly
interested in promoting opportunities in science and math
for all students.
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