Rutgers University Department of Physics and Astronomy

2006-07 Handbook for Physics and Astronomy Graduate Students

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The Graduate Faculty and Their Research

Members of the Graduate Faculty

Abrahams, Elihu (Emeritus)

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1952.
Bernard Serin Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Theoretical condensed matter physics.

Andrei, Eva Y.

Ph.D., Rutgers, 1980.
Experimental condensed matter physics.

Andrei, Natan

Ph.D., Princeton, 1979.
Theoretical elementary particle/condensed matter physics.

Baker, Andrew

            Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 2000.

            Observational astrophysics.

Banks, Thomas

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1973.
Theoretical elementary particle physics.

Bartynski, Robert

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1986.
Experimental surface science physics.

Bergman, Douglas

Ph.D. Yale, 1997
Astroparticle physics.

Bronzan, John B. (Emeritus)

Ph.D., Princeton, 1963.
Theoretical elementary particle physics.

Carr, Herman Y. (Emeritus)

Ph.D., Harvard, 1953.
Experimental condensed matter physics.

Chabal, Yves

Ph.D. Cornell, 1980
Experimental condensed matter physics.

Chandra, Premala

Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara, 1988.
Theoretical condensed matter physics.

Cheong, Sang-Wook,

Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles, 1989.
Experimental condensed matter physics and material science

Cizewski, Jolie A.

Ph.D., State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1978.
Vice Dean, Graduate School
Experimental nuclear physics.

Coleman, Piers

Ph.D., Princeton, 1984.
Theoretical condensed matter physics.

Croft, Mark

Ph.D., Rochester, 1977.
Experimental condensed matter physics.

Devlin, Thomas

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1961.
Experimental elementary particle physics.

Diaconescu, Duiliu-Emanuel

Ph.D. Rutgers, New Brunswick 1998.
Theoretical particle physics.

Douglas, Michael

Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1988.
Theoretical particle physics.

Etkina, Eugenia

            Ph.D., Moscow State Pedagogical Institute 1997

            Physics and Astronomy Education Research.

Friedan, Daniel

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1980.
Theoretical elementary particle physics.

Garfunkel,Eric

Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1983.
Experimental surface science

Gershenson, Michael E.

Ph.D., Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics (Moscow), 1982.
Experimental condensed-matter physics.

Gilman, Ronald

Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 1985.
Experimental nuclear physics.

Glashausser, Charles

Ph.D., Princeton, 1966.
Chair of the Department
Experimental nuclear physics.

Goldin, Gerald

            Ph.D., Princeton

            Mathematical learning, theoretical physics

Goldstein, Sheldon

Ph.D., Yeshiva, 1973.
Statistical mechanics, mathematical physics
Foundations of quantum mechanics.

Gustafsson, Torgny

D.Sc., Chalmers University of Technology, 1973.
Experimental condensed matter physics.
Experimental surface physics.

Halkiadakis, Eva

            Ph.D.,  Rutgers, New Brunswick, 2001.

            Experimental elementary particle physics

Haule, Kristjan

Ph.D. Ljubljana (Slovenia), 2002.
Theoretical condensed matter physics.

Hinch, B. Jane

Ph.D., Cambridge, 1987
Surface studies using atomic and molecular scattering

Horton, George K.

Ph.D., Birmingham, 1949.
Theoretical condensed matter physics.

Hughes, John

Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1984.
Observational astronomy

Ioffe, Lev

Ph.D., Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics (Russia), 1985.
Theoretical condensed matter physics.

Joseph, Charles L.

Ph.D. Colorado, 1985.
Observational astronomy and detector development

Kalelkar, Mohan S.

Ph.D., Columbia, 1975.
Undergraduate Coordinator and Associate Chair
Experimental elementary particle physics.

Keeton, Charles

Ph.D., Harvard, 1998
Theoretical and observational astrophysics.

Kiryukhin, Valery

Ph.D., Princeton, 1977.
Experimental condensed matter physics.

Kloet, Willem M.

Ph.D., Utrecht (Netherlands), 1973.
Theoretical nuclear physics.

Kojima, Haruo

Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1972.
Experimental condensed matter physics.

Koller, Noémie B.

Ph.D., Columbia, 1958.
Experimental nuclear physics.

Kotliar, B. Gabriel

Ph.D., Princeton, 1983.
Theoretical condensed matter physics.

Kruse, Theodore H. (Emeritus)

Ph.D. Columbia, 1959
Experimental Nuclear Physics

Langreth, David C.

Ph.D., Illinois, 1964.
Theoretical condensed matter physics.

Lath, Amitabh

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994.
Experimental high-energy physics.

Leath, Paul L.

Ph.D., Missouri-Columbia, 1966.
Theoretical condensed matter physics.

Lebowitz, Joel

Ph.D., Syracuse, 1956.
George William Hill Professor of Mathematics and Physics
Statistical mechanics of equilibrium and non equilibrium systems, mathematical physics.

Lindenfeld, Peter (Emeritus)

Ph.D., Columbia, 1954.
Experimental condensed matter physics.

Lovelace, Claud

B.S., Cape Town (South Africa), 1954.
Theoretical elementary particle physics.

Lukyanov, Sergei

Ph.D. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics (Moscow), 1989.
Quantum field theory and statistical mechanics.

Madey, Theodore

Ph.D., Notre Dame, 1963.
Director, Surface Modification and Interface Dynamics Lab.
Experimental surface science physics

Matilsky, Terry A.

Ph.D., Princeton, 1971.
Experimental astrophysics.

Mekjian, Aram

Ph.D., Maryland, 1968.
Theoretical nuclear physics.

Moore, Gregory

Ph.D., Harvard, 1985.
Theoretical high-energy physics.

Murnick, Daniel E.

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1966.
Experimental nuclear and atomic physics.

Neuberger, Herbert

Ph.D., Tel Aviv, 1979.
Theoretical elementary particle physics.

Olsen, Wilma K.

Ph.D. Stanford, 1971.
Experimental surface science.

Plano, Richard J. (Emeritus)

Ph.D., Chicago, 1956.
Experimental elementary particle physics.

Pryor, Carlton

Ph.D., Harvard, 1982.
Experimental astrophysics.

Rabe, Karin

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987.
Theoretical condensed matter and surface physics.

Ransome, Ronald

Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1981.
Graduate Program Director and Associate Chair
Experimental nuclear physics.

Robbins, Allen B. (Emeritus)

Ph.D. Yale, 1956.
Experimental nuclear physics.

Ruckenstein, Andrei E.

Ph.D., Cornell, 1984.
Theoretical condensed matter physics and biophysics.

Sak, Joseph (Emeritus)

Ph.D., Institute of Solid-State Physics (Czechoslovakia), 1968.
Theoretical condensed matter physics.

Schnetzer, Stephen R.

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1981.
Experimental elementary particle physics.

Sellwood, Jeremy

Ph.D. Manchester Univ.(U.K.), 1977.
Theoretical Astrophysics.

Sengupta, Anirvan

Ph.D. Bombay (India), 1994
Biophysics

Shapiro, Joel

Ph.D., Cornell, 1967.
Theoretical elementary particle physics and computer-aided Physics tutorials.

Sigel, George H.

Ph.D., Georgetown, 1968.
Experimental materials science.

Somalwar, Sunil

Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1988.
Experimental elementary particle physics.

Thomas, Scott

Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1993.
Theoretical elementary particle physics.

Thomson, Gordon

Ph.D., Harvard, 1972.
Astroparticle physics.

Vanderbilt, David

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1981.
Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics
Theoretical surface physics.

Van Heuvelen, Alan

Ph.D. University of Colorado, 1963.
Physics and astronomy education research.

Watts, Terence (Emeritus)

Ph.D., Yale, 1963.
Experimental elementary particle physics.

Williams, Theodore B.

Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1974.
Experimental astrophysics.

Wu, Weida

            Ph.D., Princeton, 2004.

            Experimental condensed matter physics.

Yuzbashyan, Emil

Ph.D. Princeton, 2004
Theoretical condensed matter physics.

Zamick, Larry

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1961.
Theoretical nuclear physics.

Zamolodchikov, Alexander

Ph.D., Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (Moscow) 1978.
Theoretical Particle Physics.

Zapolsky, Harold S.

Ph.D., Cornell, 1962.
Theoretical astrophysics.

Zimmermann, Frank M.

Ph.D., Cornell, 1995.
Experimental surface science physics

Associate Members of the Graduate Faculty

Cohen, Morrel

Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1952.
Theoretical condensed matter physics.

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