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Physics


Program Description | Faculty | Course Descriptions


Faculty and Professional Interests

Professor

Thomas Banks
String and particle theory, quantum gravity, and cosmology

David P. Belanger
Experimental condensed matter physics, phase transitions

Frank G. Bridges
Experimental condensed matter physics, microwave spectroscopy, synchrotron radiation absorption spectroscopy, planetary physics

George Brown
Experimental condensed matter physics

Joshua M. Deutsch
Condensed matter theory

Michael Dine
Theory of elementary particles

David E. Dorfan
Experimental high-energy physics, astroparticle physics

Stanley M. Flatté, Emeritus

George D. Gaspari, Emeritus

Howard E. Haber
Theory and phenomenology of fundamental particles and their interactions

Clemens A. Heusch
Experimental high-energy physics

Robert P. Johnson
Experimental high-energy physics, astrophysics

Michael Nauenberg, Emeritus

Joel R. Primack
Theory of fundamental particles, cosmology, astrophysics

Bruce Rosenblum, Emeritus

Matthew Sands, Emeritus

Zack Schlesinger
Experimental condensed matter physics, correlated electron systems, novel materials

Bruce Schumm
Experimental particle physics

Abraham Seiden
Experimental high-energy physics

B. Sriram Shastry
Condensed matter physics, strongly correlated matter, Mott-Hubbard physics, high Tc superconductivity, quantum magnetism, exactly integrable systems, exactly solvable models of many-body systems and in statistical mechanics, quantum chaos, geometric frustration

A. Peter Young
Condensed matter theory, statistical mechanics

Associate Professor

Sue A. Carter
Experimental condensed matter physics, polymer physics, molecular electronics, phase transitions, electronic and optical properties of materials

Onuttom Narayan
Theoretical condensed matter physics

Peter L. Scott, Emeritus

Assistant Professor

Anthony Aguirre
Cosmology of the early and late universe: inflation and the global structure of cosmological models; the intergalactic medium and its enrichment with heavy elements; galaxy formation, evolution, and feedback processes; dark matter; theories of modified gravity

David M. Smith
High-energy astrophysics; X-ray and gamma-ray detectors and instrumentation; solar, terrestrial, and planetary sources of gamma radiation

Lecturer

Fred Kuttner

Foundations of quantum mechanics; physics education

Professor

George R. Blumenthal (Astronomy and Astrophysics)
Cosmology, galaxy formation, high-energy astrophysics

William G. Mathews (Astronomy and Astrophysics)
Galaxies, high-energy astrophysics, gaseous nebulae; cornetto (music)

Adjunct Professor

William Atwood

Donald Coyne

Alan Litke

Michael Riordan

Hartmut F.-W. Sadrozinski

Terry L. Schalk

Jerome D. Swalen

David A. Williams

Research Physicist

Alexander Grillo

William Lockman

Assistant Research Physicist

Linda Kelley

Postgraduate Research Physicist

Patrick Fox

Juergen Kroseberg

Jennifer Lotz

Gavin Nesom

Dumitru Petrusca

Pablo Saz Parkinson

Alexander Sher

Assaf Shomer

Mutsumi Sugizaki

David C. Williams

Marcus Ziegler