Physics and Astronomy

Research

Bennett Hall houses the faculty, staff, and student offices, classrooms, computer clusters, electronics shop, chemistry room, machine shop, and many of the departmental research laboratories. The Laboratory for Surface Science and Technology (located in ESRB, the Engineering Science and Research Building) also houses some of the departmental faculty, staff, students, and research laboratories.

Research Concentrations

Optical and Biological Physics

• R. Dean Astumian
• Sam Hess
• James McClymer
• Susan McKay
• Robert Meulenberg

Cooperating Faculty:

• Michael Mason
• David Neivandt
• Paul Millard
• Andre Khalil

Astrophysics

• David Batuski
• Neil Comins

Cooperating Faculty:

• Andre Khalil

Nuclear, Health, and Synchrotron Physics

• C.T. Hess
• Robert Meulenberg

Nanotechnology and Surface/Interface Science

• Robert J. Lad
• Robert Meulenberg

Collaborating Faculty

• Scott Collins
• Brian Frederick
• Paul Millard
• Jay Rasaiah
• Rosemary Smith
• Carl Tripp

Condensed Matter Theory and Nonlinear Systems

• Susan McKay
• R. Dean Astumian

Physics Education Research

• MacKenzie Stetzer
• John Thompson
• Michael Wittmann

Cooperating Faculty

• Jonathan Shemwell
• Natasha Speer

Astronomy Education Research

• Neil Comins

Chemical Physics

• Jay Rasaiah
• Samuel Hess

Low-Temperature Physics

• Rob Meulenberg

Condensed Matter Experiment

• Jim McClymer