Rutgers University Department of Physics and Astronomy

2010-11 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.

Director, Laboratory for Surface Modification
Experimental surface science physics.

Blumberg, Gersh

Ph.D. Estonian Academy of Sciences, 1987
Experimental condensed matter physics.

Bhanot, Gyan V.

            Ph.D. Cornell, 1979

            Systems Biology, Cancer and Population Genetics

Bronzan, John B. (Emeritus)

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

Case, David A.

Ph.D., Harvard, 1977.
Theoretical chemistry of biomolecules.

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.
Experimental nuclear physics.

Cohen, Morrel

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

Coleman, Piers

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

Croft, Mark

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

Devlin, Thomas, (Emeritus)

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

Diaconescu, Duiliu-Emanuel

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

Etkina, Eugenia

            Ph.D., Moscow State Pedagogical Institute 1997

            Physics and Astronomy Education Research.

Feldman, Leonard

            Ph.D. Rutgers, 1967.

            Director, Institute for Advanced Materials, Devices, and Nanotechnology

            Experimental condensed matter physics.

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

Gawiser, Eric

            Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1999.

            Observational astrophysics, cosmology.

Gershenson, Michael E.

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

Gershtein, Yuri

Ph.D. Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology, 1996
Experimental particle physics.

Gilman, Ronald

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

Glashausser, Charles (Emeritus)

Ph.D., Princeton, 1966.
Experimental nuclear physics.

Goldin, Gerald

            Ph.D., Princeton, 1969.

            Mathematical physics and quantum theory

            Mathematical learning

Goldstein, Sheldon

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

Gustafsson, Torgny

D.Sc., Chalmers University of Technology, 1973.
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

Hughes, John

Ph.D., Columbia, 1984.
Astrophysics

Ioffe, Lev

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

Jha, Saurabh

            Ph.D., Harvard, 2002.

            Observational cosmology.

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. (Emeritus)

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. (Emeritus)

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.

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.

Morozov, Alexandre

            Ph.D., University of Washington, 2003

            Biophysics

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.

Oh, Seongshik (Sean)

            Ph.D. Illinois, 2003.

            Experimental condensed matter physics.

Olson, Wilma K.

Ph.D. Stanford, 1971.
Biophysics.

Plano, Richard J. (Emeritus)

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

Podzorov, Vitaly

            Ph.D., Rutgers, 2002.

            Experimental condensed matter 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.
Chair of the Department
Experimental nuclear physics.

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.

Shih, David

Ph.D., Princeton, 2006.
Theoretical elementary particle physics

Somalwar, Sunil

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

Strassler, Matthew,

            Ph.D., Stanford, 1993.

            Theoretical elementary particle physics.

Thomas, Scott

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

Vanderbilt, David

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

Van Heuvelen, Alan (emeritus)

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.
Graduate Program Director and Associate Chair
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. (emeritus)

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

Zimmermann, Frank M.

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

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