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  Graduate School-New Brunswick 2003-2005 Programs, Faculty, and Courses Physics and Astronomy 750 Members of the Graduate Faculty  

Members of the Graduate Faculty

Elihu Abrahams, Bernard Serin Professor of Physics and Astronomy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Theoretical condensed-matter physics

Eva Y. Andrei, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Rutgers
Experimental condensed-matter physics

Natan Andrei, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Princeton
Theoretical condensed-matter and particle physics

Thomas Banks, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, FAS-NB; Ph.D.,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Theoretical elementary particle physics

Robert A. Bartynski, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Experimental condensed-matter physics

John B. Bronzan, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Princeton
Theoretical elementary particle physics

Kieron Burke, Associate Professor of Chemistry, FAS-C; Ph.D., California (Santa Barbara)
Theoretical condensed matter, surface, and chemical physics

Herman Y. Carr, Professor Emeritus of Physics and Astronomy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Harvard
Experimental condensed-matter physics

Yves Chabal, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Chemistry, SE/FAS-NB; Ph.D., Cornell
Interface physics of electronic, photonic, and biomaterials

Premala Chandra, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., California (Santa Barbara)
Condensed matter theory

Sang-Wook Cheong, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)
Experimental condensed-matter physics and material science

Jolie A. Cizewski, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., SUNY (Stony Brook)
Experimental nuclear physics

Piers Coleman, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Princeton
Theoretical condensed-matter physics

John Conway, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Chicago
Experimental elementary particle physics

Patrick Coté, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., McMaster (Canada)
Observational astronomy and astrophysics

Mark C. Croft, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Rochester
Experimental condensed-matter physics

Thomas J. Devlin, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, FAS-NB; Ph.D.,
California (Berkeley)
Experimental elementary particle physics

Duiliu-Emanuel Diaconescu, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Rutgers
Theoretical high-energy physics

Michael R. Douglas, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
Theoretical elementary particle physics

Eugenia Etkina, Assistant Professor of Education, GSE; Ph.D., Moscow State Pedagogical
Physics education

Laura Ferrarese, Research Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins
Observational astronomy and astrophysics

Daniel Friedan, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, FAS-NB; Ph.D.,
California (Berkeley)
Theoretical elementary particle physics

Eric Garfunkel, Professor of Chemistry, FAS-NB; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Experimental surface science

Michael E. Gershenson, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics (Moscow)
Experimental condensed-matter physics

Ronald Gilman, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Experimental nuclear physics

Charles M. Glashausser, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Princeton
Experimental nuclear physics

Sheldon Goldstein, Professor of Mathematics, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Yeshiva
Foundations of quantum mechanics, mathematical physics

Torgny Gustafsson, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, FAS-NB; D.Sc., Chalmers (Sweden)
Experimental condensed-matter physics

David R. Harrington, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Carnegie Institute of Technology
Theoretical nuclear physics

B. Jane Hinch, Associate Professor of Chemistry, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Cambridge
Surface studies using atomic and molecular scattering

George K. Horton, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Birmingham
Theoretical condensed-matter physics

John Hughes, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Columbia Observational astrophysics

Lev Ioffe, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics
Condensed-matter theory

Charles L. Joseph, Assistant Research Professor of Physics and Astronomy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Colorado
Observational astronomy and detector development

Mohan S. Kalelkar, Associate Chairperson and Professor of Physics and Astronomy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Columbia
Experimental elementary particle physics

Valery Kiryukhin, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Princeton
Experimental condensed-matter physics

Willem M. Kloet, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Utrecht
Theoretical nuclear physics

Haruo Kojima, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)
Experimental condensed-matter physics

Noémie Koller, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Columbia
Experimental nuclear physics

Arthur Kosowsky, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Chicago
Theoretical astrophysics

B. Gabriel Kotliar, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Princeton
Theoretical condensed-matter physics

David C. Langreth, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Illinois
Theoretical condensed-matter physics

Amitabh Lath, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Experimental high-energy physics

Paul L. Leath, Chairperson and Professor of Physics and Astronomy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Missouri
Theoretical condensed-matter physics

Joel L. Lebowitz, George William Hill Professor Emeritus of Mathematics and Physics and Astronomy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Syracuse
Mathematical physics and statistical mechanics

Ronald Levy, Professor of Chemistry, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Harvard Biophysical chemistry, chemical physics, dynamics of macromolecules

Peter Lindenfeld, Professor Emeritus of Physics and Astronomy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Columbia
Experimental condensed-matter physics

Claud W. Lovelace, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, FAS-NB; B.S., Capetown
Theoretical elementary particle physics

Sergei Lukyanov, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics (Moscow) Quantum field theory and statistical mechanics

Theodore E. Madey, State of New Jersey Professor of Surface Science and Director of the Laboratory for Surface Modification, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Notre Dame Experimental surface science physics

Terry A. Matilsky, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Princeton
Observational astrophysics

Aram Z. Mekjian, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Maryland
Theoretical nuclear physics

David R. Merritt, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Princeton
Theoretical astrophysics

Gregory Moore, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Harvard
Theoretical high-energy physics

Daniel E. Murnick, Professor of Physics, FAS-N; Ph.D., Massachusetts
Institute of Technology Experimental nuclear and atomic physics

Herbert Neuberger, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Tel Aviv
Theoretical elementary particle physics

Wilma K. Olson, Mary I. Bunting Professor of Chemistry, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Stanford
Theoretical studies of nucleic acid structure and properties

Richard J. Plano, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Chicago
Experimental elementary particle physics

Carlton P. Pryor, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Harvard
Observational astrophysics

Karin Rabe, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Theoretical condensed-matter and surface physics

Ronald D. Ransome, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Texas (Austin)
Experimental nuclear physics

Andrei E. Ruckenstein, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Cornell
Theoretical condensed-matter physics

Joseph V. Sak, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Institute of Solid State Physics (Prague)
Theoretical condensed-matter physics

Stephen R. Schnetzer, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Experimental elementary particle physics

Jeremy Sellwood, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Manchester
Theoretical astrophysics

Anirvan M. Sengupta, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Bombay
Biological physics

Joel A. Shapiro, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Cornell
Theoretical elementary particle physics

Earl D. Shaw, Professor of Physics, FAS-N; Ph.D., California (Berkeley) Experimental laser physics

Boris I. Shraiman, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Harvard
Theoretical physics research

Sunil Somalwar, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Chicago
Experimental particle physics

Gordon Thomson, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Harvard
Experimental elementary particle physics

David Vanderbilt, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, FAS-NB; Ph.D.,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Theoretical condensed-matter physics

Alan Van Heuvelen, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Colorado
Physics education

Russell E. Walstedt, Distinguished Visiting Scientist in Physics and Astronomy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Experimental condensed-matter physics

Terence L. Watts, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Yale
Experimental elementary particle physics

Theodore Williams, Associate Chairperson and Professor of Physics and Astronomy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
Observational astrophysics

Steve Worm, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Texas
Experimental high energy physics

Larry Zamick, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Theoretical nuclear physics

Alexander Zamolodchikov, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (Moscow)
Theoretical elementary particle physics

Harold S. Zapolsky, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Cornell
Theoretical astrophysics

Frank M. Zimmermann, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Cornell
Experimental surface-science physics

Associate Members of the Graduate Faculty

Gerald Goldin, University Director, Science and Mathematics Partnerships, and Professor of Mathematics and Physics Education, GSE; Ph.D., Princeton
Mathematical physics; secondary education

George H. Sigel, Jr., Professor of Ceramics, and Director, Fiber Optics Materials Research Program, SE; Ph.D., Georgetown
Optic materials; infrared transmitting materials; radiation-resistant materials


 
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