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// Function to generate arrays
   function makeArray(len) {
       for (var i = 0; i < len; i++) this[i] = null;
       this.length = len;
   }

   // Function to generate a random number
   function rand(n) {
      var now = new Date()
      var seed = now.getTime() % 0xffffffff
      seed = (0x015a4e35 * seed) % 0x7fffffff;
      return (seed >> 16) % n;
   }

   // Initialize first array
   ideas = new makeArray(15);

   ideas[0] = "<img src='/images/research/jhan_research.gif' width=198 border=0 alt='Buckyballs'>"
   ideas[1] = "<img src='/images/research/xhu_research.jpg' width=200 border=0 alt='ESEEM'>"
   ideas[2] = "<img src='/images/research/gonsalves_research.jpg' width=198 border=0 alt='Feynman diagram generator'>"
   ideas[3] = "<img src='/images/research/kinney_research.jpg' width=198 border=0 alt='Cosmic Microwave Background'>"
   ideas[4] = "<img src='/images/research/baur_research.jpg' width=198 border=0 alt='Neutrino detector'>"
   ideas[5] = "<img src='/images/research/ho_research.jpg' width=198 border=0 alt='Liquid Crystal Electron Diffraction'>"
   ideas[6] = "<img src='/images/research/wackeroth_research.gif' width=198 border=0 alt='ParticleCollider'>"
   ideas[7] = "<img src='/images/research/gasparini.jpg' width=193 border=0 alt='CriticalBehavior'>"
   ideas[8] = "<img src='/images/research/luo.jpg' width=200 border=0 alt='LuoImage'>"
   ideas[9] = "<img src='/images/research/cystatin.gif' width=200 border=0 alt='MarkelzImage'>"
   ideas[10] = "<img src='/images/research/petrou.gif' width=200 border=0 alt='PetrouImage'>"
   ideas[11] = "<img src='/images/research/mccombe.jpg' height=200 border=0 alt='McCombeImage'>"
   ideas[12] = "<img src='/images/research/cerne.jpg' height=200 border=0 alt='CerneImage'>"
   ideas[13] = "<img src='/images/research/weinstein.jpg' height=200 border=0 alt='WeinsteinImage'>"
   ideas[14] = "<img src='/images/research/zutic_research.jpg' height=200 border=0 alt='IgorZutic'>"

   // Initialize second array
   captions = new makeArray(10);

   captions[0] = "Carbon atoms form these amazingly beautiful <em> soccer-ball</em> shaped molecules -- known as <span class='caption_bold'>fullerenes</span> or bucky-balls.<br> <a class='feature' href='faculty/JHan.html' target='_blank'>Dr. Han</a>'s group studies correlated electronic dances such as superconductivity in the fullerene solid, using quantum mechanical simulations"
   captions[1] = "A recent study by <a class='feature' href='faculty/XHu.html' target='_blank'>Dr. X. Hu</a> and collaborators on the electron spin decoherence in Si:P system due to electron-nuclear spin hyperfine interaction.  This work provides a clear understanding of the initial rapid drop of spin coherence and the subsequent Electron Spin Echo Envelope Modulation (ESEEM) in Si:P, and is important to the study of <span class='caption_bold'>spin-based quantum information processing</span> in Si.  <a class='feature' href='http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRB/v76/e035212'>PRB 76, 035212 (2007)</a>"
   captions[2] = "Screenshot of an interactive Feynman diagram generator and editor for multi-loop calculations in high energy physics, developed by C. Choi working with <a class='feature' href='faculty/RGonsalves.html' target='_blank'>Dr. Gonsalves</a>."
   captions[3] = "An image of the <span class='caption_bold'>Cosmic Microwave Background</span> from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe satellite, showing the conditions in the universe when it was only 300,000 years old. <a class='feature' href='faculty/WKinney.html' target='_blank'>Dr. Kinney</a>'s group uses such cosmological observations to study the physics of the universe shortly after the Big Bang."
   captions[4] = "Mike Stamatikos, a UB physics graduate student of <a class='feature' href='/faculty/UBaur.html' target='_blank'>Dr. Baur</a>, is on the AMANDA/ICECUBE experiment at the South Pole. AMANDA/ICECUBE telescope detects Cherenkov radiation generated by neutrinos passing through the clear polar ice. Mike is searching for <span class='caption_bold'>Gamma Ray Bursts</span>, incredibly powerful explosions in the universe which are very poorly understood at the moment."
   captions[5] = "Electron diffraction pattern from a <span class='caption_bold'>thin hexatic liquid-crystal film</span> studied by <a class='feature' href='/faculty/JHo.html' target='_blank'>Dr. Ho</a>'s group, confirming the novel intermediate phase predicted in the defect-mediated theory of melting in two dimensions."
   captions[6] = "An artistic view and a real <a class='feature' href='http://www.fnal.gov/pub/now/live_events/index.html'>event display</a> of the production of a top anti-top quark pair, as seen at the <a class='feature' href='http://www.fnal.gov'>Fermilab</a> proton anti-proton collider.  <a class='feature' href='http://ubpheno.physics.buffalo.edu/~dow/'>Dr. Wackeroth</a> group develops theoretical predictions for, and simulations of particle collider experiments carried out at the World's most powerful accelerator facilities."

   captions[7] = "<span class='caption_bold'>Studies of critical behavior</span> of the specific heat of confined <sup>4</sup>He in <a class='feature' href='/faculty/FGasparini.html'>Dr. Gasparini group</a> reveal a strong dependence on dimensionality, and influence of surfaces and edges in the confining geometry. <a class='feature' href='http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v92/e115301'>(PRL <underline>92</underline>, 115301, 2004)</a>"

   captions[8] = "Patterns and movement of magnetic domains in a MnAs thin film as a function of  temperature, measured with  magnetic force microscopy.  Studies (including MBE growth and fabrication) of <span class='caption_bold'>nanometer scale semiconductor and magnetic semiconductor structures</span> are the main focus in <a class='feature' href='/faculty/HLuo.html'>Dr. Luo</a> group"

   captions[9] = "Calculated <span class='caption_bold'>motions of the protein cystatin</span> from <a class='feature' href='http://www.molmovdb.org/molmovdb/'>database for molecular motions</a> at Yale. (M. Gerstein, W. Krebs, Nucleic Acids Res 26, 4280-90 (1998)). The <a class='feature' href='/markelz'>Markelz Group</a> works on measuring these motions and understanding what initiates and inhibits them.  The group uses a variety of experimental and computational techniques including ultrafast terahertz time domain spectroscopy"

   captions[10] = "The use of carrier spin in semiconductors is a promising route towards new device functionality and performance. <a class='feature' href='/faculty/APetrou.html'>Dr. Petrou Group</a> studies spin transport in <span class='caption_bold'>ferromagnetic semiconductor devices</span>. Experiment shown here is on electrical spin injection from an n-type ferromagnetic semiconductor into a III-V device heterostructure.(Nature Materials, 2004)  "

   captions[11] = "<a class='feature' href='/faculty/BMcCombe.html'>Dr. McCombe's group</a> is studying <span class='caption_bold'>quantum dots, spintronic materials and semiconductor nanoparticles</span>. Excitons in so-called interface fluctuation quantum dots (inset sketch) are probed by photoluminescence and Optically Detected Resonance spectroscopies. The plot shows the first observation of internal transitions of negatively charged excitons in a single dot."

   captions[12] = "In addition to providing new challenges to our basic understanding of materials, <span class='caption_bold'>strange metals</span> and <span class='caption_bold'>magnetic semiconductors</span> (eg, Ga<sub>x</sub>Mn<sub>1-x</sub>As as here) hold great technological promise. By exploring the polarization of transmitted and reflected infrared light induced by a magnetic field, the <a class='feature' href='/faculty/JCerne.html'>Cerne Group</a> searches for new structure that is hidden from more conventional measurements."

   captions[13] = "High-pressure Raman scattering studies by <a class='feature' href='/faculty/BWeinstein.html'>Dr. Weinstein's</a> experimetal <a class='feature' href='/weinsteinlab/webpage/weinsteinlab.html'>group</a> on anharmonic interactions in II-VI semiconductors allowed observation of this large-to-small band gap phase transition in an isotopically pure crystal of ZnS within the diamond-anvil cell. <a class='feature' href='http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRB/v69/e014301'>[PRB 69 14301 (2004)]</a> Similar studies have focused most recently on the vibron modes in InP-CdS core-shell nanocrystals. <a class='feature' href='http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/121541656/PDFSTART'>[Phys. Stat. Sol. (b) 246, 477 (2009)]</a>"
   
   captions[14] = "Proposal by <a class='feature' href='/faculty/IZutic.html'>Dr. Zutic</a> and collaborators, for spin injection and detection is silicon, the key material in conventional electronics which also has desirable <a class='feature' href='http://scitation.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=PRLTAO000097000002026602000001&idtype=cvips&gifs=yes'>spin-dependent properties</a>. Subsequent experiments have confirmed this proposal.  A related field of research studying spin-dependent properties in various materials is also known as spintronics and has been recognized by the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics."

   // Derive a random number that can be
   // used by both arrays simultaneously
   var randomIndex = rand(ideas.length);
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