Faculty Profile

Members of the faculty hold doctorates from many of the nation's leading universities. Each is a dedicated teacher and many publish their research in the world's major physics journals. Present faculty members and their specialties are listed below.

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

  • Brian K. Clark (Ph.D., University of Missouri-Rolla, 1986) "We observe how gases and light affect each other."
  • Rainer Grobe (Ph.D., University of Essen, Germany, 1989) "It is fascinating to explore laser pulses which can penetrate any material without destroying it."
  • George H. Rutheford (Ph.D., University of Oregon, 1983) "I explore lives of exotic atomic species like 'hollow' and 'planetary' atoms."
  • Qichang Su (Ph.D., Rice University, 1991) "My students and I study the role of electron spin in collisions involving excited atoms."

Condenses Matter Physics

  • Ross Bogue (Ph.D., Purdue University, 1989) "I enjoy teaching students how to simulate physical systems."
  • Hiroshi Matsuoka (Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1985) "By simulating the motion of atoms with a computer, I study how melting in a small cluster of atoms changes with the cluster size."
  • Shang-Fen Ren(Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 1986) "Macroscopic properties of matter are governed by conservation laws and broken symmetries."

Mathematical Physics

  • Sadri D. Hassani (Ph.D., Princeton University, 1980) Mathematics is the language of Nature, Physics its poetry."

Physics Education

  • Carl J. Wenning (MAT, Michigan State University, 1978) "I enjoy showing future physics teachers the utility of computers in the lab setting."

Space Plasma Physics

  • Daniel L. Holland (Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles, 1990) "It never ceases to amaze me that you can obtain so much information about the global structure of the magnetotail from a few little wiggles in the ion distribution function."
  • Richard F. Martin, Jr. (Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1983) "My work on the Earth's space environment is motivated by a long-term fascination with the question of how complicated, but ordered systems form spontaneously and evolve in time."