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New Brunswick Undergraduate Catalog 2022-2024 Programs of Study and Courses for Liberal Arts and Sciences Students Programs, Faculty, and Courses Physics 750  

Physics 750 (Includes Astronomy)

Department of Physics and Astronomy, School of Arts and Sciences


Chair: John P. Hughes

Undergraduate Program Director: Jolie A. Cizewski

Distinguished Professor and Board of Governors Professor:

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

Distinguished Professors:

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

Girsh Blumberg, M.S., Tartu (Finland); Ph.D., Estonian Academy of Sciences

Jak Chakhalian, B.S., St. Petersburg Technical (Russia); M.S., Ph.D., British Columbia

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

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

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

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

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

Yuri Gershtein, B.S., Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology; Ph.D., Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (Moscow)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Professors:

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

Gyan Bhanot, M.S., Indian Institute of Technology; M.S., SUNY (Stony Brook); Ph.D., Cornell

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 (Russia)

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

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

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

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

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

Anirvan Sengupta, B.A., Calcutta; Ph.D., Bombay

David Shih, A.B., Harvard; M.Phil., Cambridge; Ph.D., Princeton

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 Professors:

Alyson Brooks, B.A., Macalester College; M.S., Ph.D., Washington

Matthew Buckley, B.A., Kenyon College; M.A., Ph.D., California (Berkeley)

John P. Chou, A.B., Princeton; A.M., Ph.D., Harvard

Jedediah Pixley, B.S., California (Santa Cruz); M.S., Ph.D., Rice

Sevil Salur, B.A., California (Berkeley); M.S., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale

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

Assistant Professors:

Blakesley Burkhart, B.S. Louisville; M.S. Physics Wisconsin-Madison, M.A. Astronomy
Wisconsin-Madison; Ph.D. Wisconsin-Madison

Srivatsan Chakram Sundar, M.S., IIT-Kanpur, India; Ph.D., Cornell
 
Sang-Hyuk Lee, B.S., M.S., Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology; Ph.D., New York

Andrew Mastbaum  , B.S., Lehigh, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

Kristen McQuinn, B.S., Lehigh; M.S., Boston; Ph.D., Minnesota

Ananda Roy  , M.Sc, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India; M.S., M. Phil, Ph.D., Yale

Teaching Professor:

AbdelBaki Brahmia, DES, Annaba (Algeria); Ph.D., Warwick (UK)

Assistant Teaching Professors:

Michael Gentile, B.S., The College of New Jersey; M.S., Rutgers

Roy Montalvo, B.S., Stony Brook; M.S., California State (Long Beach); Ph.D., Texas A&M

Associate Professor of Practice:

Geraldine Cochran, B.S., Chicago State; Ph.D., Ed.S., Florida International

Assistant Professor of Practice:

Charles Ruggieri, B.S., The College of New Jersey; Ph.D., Rutgers

Distinguished Research Professor:

Philip Batson, B.S., Ph.D., Cornell

Assistant Research Professor:

Sylvie Rangan, B.A., Cergy-Pontoise (France); M.S., Ph.D., Pierre and Marie Curie (Paris)
 
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