Dr. Warren W. Buck, III, is interested in lots of areas of physics and has performed research in Plasma Physics, Nuclear Physics, High Energy Physics and Laser Physics. He has experience in building a national lab for the USDOE and overseeing the completion of the initial UW Bothell campus. His present interests are in Flavor Atoms; such as the pion and its flavor dependent states. He paints and writes poetry and has interests in how meditative absorption states resemble physics.