Roger McWilliams
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Image 1: UC Irvine physics & astronomy professor Roger McWilliams may look old-fashioned with his trademark bow tie, but the devices he invents are futuristic.
Image 2: McWilliams (right) confers with research physicist Heinz Boehmer (left) and graduate student Shu Zhou in his lab in the basement of Reines Hall.
Image 3: The smallest of McWilliams' plasmas and lasers are one-tenth of a human hair in diameter. These infrared lasers are used for telecommunications.
Image 4: At UCI's Croul Hall, McWilliams plays the saxophone with the Interactions Jazz Ensemble during a party for a fellow faculty member.
Image 5: McWilliams learned to play jazz from faculty members in the Claire Trevor School of the Arts' music department.
Image 6: McWilliams, Jerry Mandel, James McGaugh, Keith Woerpel and Hal Moore (from left) make up the horn section of the Interactions Jazz Ensemble.
Image 7: Bassist Jack Prather plays with the Interactions Jazz Ensemble during a gig at UCI.
Image 8: McWilliams flips through sheet music during a campus performance with his jazz band.
Image 9: McWilliams (left) and fellow saxophonist Jerry Mandel play a tune.
Image 10: In his UCI lab, McWilliams shows off a plasma device he invented for fusion energy research.
Image 11: McWilliams' lab in the basement of Reines Hall is a hodgepodge of old office furniture, books, occasional car parts, bikes, pumps, fans, coils and other equipment.
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