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New Brunswick Undergraduate Catalog 2007-2009 Programs of Study for Liberal Arts Students Programs, Faculty, and Courses Physics 750  

Physics 750 (Includes Astronomy)

Department of Physics and Astronomy, School of Arts and Sciences

Website: http://www.physics.rutgers.edu

Chair: Torgny Gustafsson

Undergraduate Program Director: Mohan Kalelkar

Professors:

Elihu Abrahams (Emeritus), A.B., Ph.D., California (Berkeley)

Eva Y. Andrei, B.S., M.S., Tel Aviv; Ph.D., Rutgers

Natan Andrei, B.S., M.S., Tel Aviv; Ph.D., Princeton

Thomas Banks, B.A., Reed College; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Robert Bartynski, B.A., Cornell; Ph.D., Pennsylvania

John B. Bronzan (Emeritus), B.S., Stanford; Ph.D., Princeton

Herman Y. Carr (Emeritus), A.B., A.M., Ph.D., Harvard

Yves Chabal, B.A., Princeton; M.S., Ph.D., Cornell

Premala Chandra, B.S., Yale; Ph.D., California (Santa Barbara)

Sang Wook Cheong, B.S., Seoul National (Korea); M.S., Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)

Jolie Cizewski, B.A., Pennsylvania; M.A., Ph.D., SUNY (Stony Brook)

Piers Coleman, B.A., Cambridge; Ph.D., Princeton

Mark C. Croft, B.A., Johns Hopkins; M.A., Ph.D., Rochester

Thomas J. Devlin Jr., B.A., LaSalle College; M.A., Ph.D., California (Berkeley)

Michael R. Douglas, B.A., Harvard; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology

Daniel Friedan, A.B., Princeton; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)

Michael Gershenson, M.Sc., Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology; Ph.D., Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics, Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow)

Ronald Gilman, S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Ph.D., Pennsylvania

Charles Glashausser, B.S., Boston College; Ph.D., Princeton

Gerald Goldin, B.A., Harvard; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton

Torgny Gustafsson, D.Sci., Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden)

George K. Horton, B.S., A.R.C.S., Imperial College (England); Ph.D., Birmingham

John Hughes, A.B., Ph.D., Columbia

Lev Ioffe, M.S., Moscow Physical Technical Institute; Ph.D., Landau Institute for
Theoretical Physics

Mohan S. Kalelkar, B.A., Harvard; M.A., Ph.D., Columbia

Willem M. Kloet, B.S., M.S., Ph.D., Ultrecht (Netherlands)

Haruo Kojima, B.S., M.S., Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)

Noémie B. Koller, A.B., A.M., Ph.D., Columbia

B. Gabriel Kotliar, B.S., M.S., Hebrew; Ph.D., Princeton

Theodore H. Kruse (Emeritus), A.B., Ph.D., Columbia

David C. Langreth, B.S., Yale; M.S., Ph.D., Illinois

Paul L. Leath, B.S., M.S., Ph.D., Missouri

Joel Lebowitz, B.S., M.S., Ph.D., Syracuse

Peter Lindenfeld (Emeritus), B.A.S., M.A.S., British Columbia; Ph.D., Columbia

Claud W. Lovelace, B.S., Capetown (South Africa)

Theodore Madey, B.S., Loyola College; Ph.D., Notre Dame

Aram Mekjian, B.S., California Institute of Technology; Ph.D., Maryland

Gregory Moore, A.B., Princeton; Ph.D., Harvard

Herbert Neuberger, B.S., M.S., Ph.D., Tel Aviv

Richard J. Plano (Emeritus), B.S., M.S., Ph.D., Chicago

Carlton Pryor, B.S., California Institute of Technology; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard

Karin Rabe, A.B., Princeton; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Ronald Ransome, B.S., Colorado School of Mines; Ph.D., Texas (Austin)

Allen Robbins (Emeritus), B.S., Rutgers; Ph.D., Yale

Andrei E. Ruckenstein, A.B., Harvard; M.S., Ph.D., Cornell

Joseph Sak (Emeritus), M.S., Charles (Prague); Ph.D., Institute of Solid State Physics, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences (Prague)

Stephen R. Schnetzer, B.S., California Institute of Technology; M.A., Ph.D., California (Berkeley)

Jeremy Sellwood, B.S., Bristol (UK); Ph.D., Manchester (UK)

Joel A. Shapiro, B.S., Brown; Ph.D., Cornell

George H. Sigel Jr., B.S., St. Joseph's College; M.S., Ph.D., Georgetown

Sunil V. Somalwar, M.Sc., Indian Institute of Technology; Ph.D., Chicago

Matthew Strassler, A.B., Princeton; Ph.D., Stanford

Gordon B. Thomson, B.S., Illinois Institute of Technology; Ph.D., Harvard

David Vanderbilt, B.A., Swarthmore College; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Alan Van Heuvelen, B.S., Rutgers; Ph.D., Colorado

Terence Watts (Emeritus), B.S., London; Ph.D., Yale

Theodore B. Williams, B.S., Purdue; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology

Larry Zamick, B.A., Manitoba; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Alexander Zamolodchikov, B.S., Moscow College for Physics and Technology; Ph.D. and Doctor of Science, Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (Moscow)
 
Harold S. Zapolsky (Emeritus), B.A., Shimer College; Ph.D., Cornell

Associate Professors:

Valery Kiryukhin, M.S., Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology; Ph.D., Princeton

Amitabh Lath, B.S., Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Sergei Lukyanov, M.A., Moscow Engineering Physical Institute; Ph.D., Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics
 
Terry A. Matilsky, B.S., Michigan; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton

Anirvan Sengupta, B.A., Calcutta (India); Ph.D., Bombay (India)

Scott Thomas, B.S., Utah State; Ph.D., Texas

Frank Zimmermann, M.S., Ph.D., Cornell

Assistant Professors:

Andrew Baker, A.B., Harvard; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology

Douglas Bergman, A.B., Chicago; M.S., Ph.D., Yale

Duiliu-Emanuel Diaconescu, B.Sc., Iasi (Romania); Ph.D., Rutgers

Eric Gawiser, A.B., Princeton; M.A., Ph.D.,  California (Berkeley)

Eva Halkiadakis, B.S., Ph.D., Rutgers

Kristjan Haule, B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D., Ljubljana (Slovenia)

Saurabh Jha, A.B., A.M., Ph.D., Harvard

Charles Keeton, B.A., Cornell; Ph.D., Harvard

Alexander Morozov, Honors Diploma, Rostov State (Russia); M.S., Ph.D., Washington

Seongshik Oh, B.S., M.S., Seoul National (Korea); Ph.D., Illinois

Vitaly Podzorov, B.S., M.S., Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (Russia); Ph.D., Rutgers

Weida Wu, B.S., Science and Technology of China (Heifei); M.S., Northwestern; Ph.D., Princeton

Emil Yuzbashyan, M.S., Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology; Ph.D., Princeton

Associate Research Professor:

Charles Joseph, B.S., Michigan State; M.S., Ph.D., Colorado

 
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