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Faculty

Miles Blencowe
Professor
Department Chair

(Ph.D., London, 1989) Mesoscopic condensed matter theory; open quantum systems; the quantum-classical correspondence

Office: 248 Wilder
Phone: (603) 646-2969
Email: Miles.P.Blencowe@Dartmouth.EDU

 

Robert Caldwell
Professor

(Ph.D., Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1992) Theoretical cosmology, gravitation, and relativistic astrophysics.

Office: 237 Wilder
Phone: (603) 646-2742
Email: Robert.R.Caldwell@Dartmouth.EDU

 

Brian Chaboyer
Professor

(Ph.D., Yale, 1993) Structure and evolution of stars, theoretical stellar astrophysics, formation of the Milky Way.

Office: 238 Wilder
Phone: (603) 646-3684
Email: Brian.Chaboyer@Dartmouth.EDU

 

Robert A. Fesen
Professor

(Ph.D., Michigan, 1981) Optical, UV and X-ray studies of supernovae and supernova remnants, the interstellar medium, shock waves, and Wolf-Rayet stars.

Office: 342 Wilder
Phone: (603) 646-2949
Email: Robert.A.Fesen@Dartmouth.EDU

 

Marcelo Gleiser
Professor

(Ph.D., London, 1986) Field theory, cosmology, and non-equilibrium physics.

Office: 116 Wilder
Phone: (603) 646-1489
Email: Marcelo.Gleiser@Dartmouth.EDU

 

Ryan C. Hickox
Assistant Professor

(Ph.D., Harvard, 2007) The cosmological evolution of galaxies and supermassive black holes, through X-ray, optical, and infrared observations

Email: Ryan dot C dot Hickox at dartmouth dot edu

 

Mary K. Hudson
Professor

(Ph.D., UCLA, 1974) Space plasma theory, plasma simulation; auroral particle acceleration and heating, ring current-plasmapause interaction, radiation belts and effects of geomagnetic storms.

Office: 236 Wilder
Phone: (603) 646-2976
Email: Mary.K.Hudson@Dartmouth.EDU

 

James W. LaBelle
Professor

(Ph.D., Cornell, 1985) Ionospheric and magnetospheric physics; plasma measurements in space; remote sensing of ionospheric plasma processes.

Office: 336 Wilder
Phone: (603) 646-2973
Email: James.W.LaBelle@Dartmouth.EDU

 

Kristina Lynch
Associate Professor
Chair, Graduate
Admissions

(Ph.D., Univ. of New Hampshire, 1992) Auroral space plasma physics, ionospheric and mesospheric sounding rocket experiments, instrumentation, and data analysis, wave-particle interactions in the auroral ionosphere.

Office: 303A Wilder
Phone: (603) 646-9311
Email: Kristina.Lynch@Dartmouth.EDU

 

Robyn Millan
Associate Professor

(Ph.D., U.C. Berkeley, 2002) Space physics; radiation belt electron losses, X-ray instrumentation for studying relativistic electron precipitation.

Office: 244 Wilder
Phone: (603) 646-3969
Email: Robyn.M.Millan@Dartmouth.EDU

 

Chandrasekhar Ramanathan
Assistant Professor

(Sc.D. MIT 1996): Experimental condensed matter physics and quantum information science: electron and nuclear spin resonance, measurement and control of many-body spin dynamics.

Office: 245 Wilder
Phone: (603) 646-9780
Email: Chandrasekhar.Ramanathan@Dartmouth.EDU

 

Alexander J. Rimberg
Associate Professor

(Ph. D., Harvard, 1992) Electrical transport measurements of nanostructures: quantum information science and quantum measurements; controlled physical realizations of open quantum systems; quantum noise and non-equilibrium effects.

Office: 101 Wilder
Phone: (603) 646-6569
Email: Alexander.J.Rimberg@Dartmouth.edu

 

Barrett N. Rogers
Professor
Undergraduate Advisor

(Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991) Theoretical and computational plasma physics, space and astrophysical plasmas, controlled fusion, magnetic reconnection, plasma turbulence.

Office: 246 Wilder
Phone: (603) 646-0186
Email: Barrett.N.Rogers@Dartmouth.EDU

 

John R. Thorstensen
Professor

(Ph.D., UC-Berkeley, 1980) Optical studies of close binary stars; large-scale structure of the universe.

Office: 239 Wilder
Phone: (603) 646-2869
Email: John.R.Thorstensen@Dartmouth.EDU

 

Lorenza Viola
Associate Professor

(Ph.D., Padua, 1996) Quantum information physics: Modeling and control of quantum noise; fault-tolerant quantum information processing; physical realizations of information; characterization and measures of entanglement; quantum measurement; quantum-classical correspondence.

Office: 247 Wilder
Phone: (603) 646-2528
Email: Lorenza.Viola@Dartmouth.EDU

 

Gary A. Wegner
Professor

(Ph.D., Washington, 1971) Cosmology, large-scale structure of the universe, end states of stellar evolution.

Office: 221 Wilder
Phone: (603) 646-3329
Email: Gary.A.Wegner@Dartmouth.EDU

 

Martin N. Wybourne
Professor
Vice-Provost for Research

(Ph.D., Nottingham, 1980) Non-equilibrium transport in small structures, energy relaxation and charging effects in metal wires and nanoclusters, and collective effects in semiconductor quantum point contacts.

Office: 201A Wilder
Phone: (603) 646-4091
Email: Martin.N.Wybourne@Dartmouth.EDU

Research Faculty

Philippe Crane
Research Professor

(Ph.D. Yale, 1969) Interstellar Medium; Astrophysical Jets; Galactic Nuclei.

Email: Philippe.Crane@Dartmouth.EDU

 

Richard Denton
Research Professor

(Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1986) Computational plasma physics involving linear theory and particle and fluid simulations. Recent subject of study; wave phenomena and wave-particle interactions in magnetosphere, reconnection.

Office: 301A Wilder
Phone: (603) 646-2732
Email: richard dot e dot denton at dartmouth dot edu

 

Brian Kress
Research Associate Professor

(Ph.D., Dartmouth, 2002) Fluid and magnetofluid dynamics; numerical methods in fluid dynamics; space plasma physics; radiation belt dynamics.

Office: Observatory
Phone: (603) 646-3238
Email: Brian.T.Kress@Dartmouth.EDU

 

Kavah Knodjasteh Lakelayeh
Research Assistant Professor

(PhD, University of Southern California, 2007) quantum information science; quantum control; study of decoherence

Office: 201 Wilder
Phone: (603) 646-3970
Email: Kaveh.Khodjasteh.Lakelayeh@Dartmouth.edu

 

John Lyon
Research Professor

(Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1972) Space plasma physics and magnetospheric physics; numerical simulation and computational physics.

Office: 240 Wilder
Phone: (603) 646-1242
Email: John.G.Lyon@Dartmouth.EDU

 

Hans Müeller
Research Associate Professor

(Ph.D., Dartmouth College, 1997) Space plasma physics and heliospheric physics; numerical simulations and theoretical astrophysics.

Office: Shattuck Observatory
Phone: (603) 646-0428
Email: Hans.Mueller@DartmouthdotEDU

 

Timothy Smith
Research Assistant Professor

(Ph.D., Univ. of Massachusetts at Lowell, 1990) Experimental intermediate energy physics; the distribution of quarks in neutrons and protons.

Office: Observatory
Phone: (603) 646-9346
Email: Timothy.P.Smith@Dartmouth.EDU

Visiting Faculty

Yorke Brown
Visiting Associate Professor

(Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1979) Low temperature physics, psychophysics of vehicle simulation, motion control engineering, and astronomical instrumentation.

Email: yorke.brown@dartmouth.edu

 

Roberto Onofrio
Visiting Professor

( Ph.D. Rome, 1991 ) Macroscopic quantum phenomena, elementary particle physics, cosmology and astrophysics.

Phone: (603) 646-2962
Email: Roberto.Onofrio@Dartmouth.edu

Adjunct Faculty

Alain Brizard
Adjunct Associate Professor

(Ph.D., Princeton, 1990) Low-frequency nonlinear gyrokinetic theory, relativistic quasilinear transport driven by arbitrary-frequency electromagnetic flucuations, variational formulations of exact and reduced, kinetic and fluid plasmas equations, applications of Lie-transform methods in plasma physics.

Department of Chemistry and Physics
Saint Michael's College, Box 254
One Winooski Park, Colchester, VT 05439
Email: abrizard@smcvt.edu

 

Theodore Fulton
Adjunct Professor

(Ph.D., Cornell, 1966) Condensed matter physics

Email: Theodore.A.Fulton@Dartmouth.edu

 

Christopher G. Levey
Adjunct Associate Professor

(Ph.D., Wisconsin, 1984) Microfabrication technology, micro optical and electromechanical systems (MEMS)

Office: 217 Cummings
Phone: (603) 646-2071
Email: Christopher.Levey@Dartmouth.EDU

 

Jifeng Liu
Adjunct Assistant Professor

(Ph.D., MIT 2006) Optoelectronics materials and devices; Nanophotonics for solar cells and concentrated solar power (CSP); Electtronic-Phontonic Integration

Office: 227 Cummings
Phone: (603) 646-9885
Email: Jifeng.Liu@Dartmouth.edu

 

William Lotko
Adjunct Professor

(Ph.D., Physics, University of California, Los Angeles 1981) Geospace environment; space plasma physics, modeling, simulation; electromagnetic fields and waves.

Office: 217b Cummings
Phone: (603) 646-3485
Email: William.Lotko@Dartmouth.edu

 

Robert A. Naumann
Adjunct Professor

( Ph.D. Princeton, 1953 ) Adjunct Professor; Professor Emeritus Chemistry and Physics, PrincetonUniversity. Nuclear spectroscopy; muonic atoms

Email: Robert.A.Naumann@Dartmouth.EDU

 

Brian W. Pogue
Adjunct Professor

(Ph.D., Medical Physics, McMaster University (Canada) 1996) Biomedical optics and lasers; medical imaging; image guided spectroscopy of cancer; photodynamic therapy; modeling of tumor pathophysiology and contrast

Phone: (603) 646-3861
Email: Brian.Pogue@Dartmouth.edu

 

Francesco Ticozzi
Adjunct Assistant Professor

(Ph.D., Padova, 2007) Modeling and control of quantum dynamical systems, (as well as) engineering and protection of quantum information.

Office:
Phone:(603) 646-9946
Email: Francesco.Ticozzi@Dartmouth.edu

 

John Weaver
Adjunct Professor

(Ph.D., University of Virgina, 1983) Medical imaging, magnetic nanoparticle sensing and imaging, MRI, MR elastography, radiation dosimetry

Office: DHMC
Phone:(603) 650-7443
Email: John.B.Weaver@Dartmouth.EDU

Emeritus Faculty

William Doyle
Emeritus Professor

(Ph.D., Yale, 1955) Physical properties of inhomogeneous media; magnetic and optical effects in insulating crystals.

Office: 203 Wilder
Phone: (603) 646-2965
Email: William.T.Doyle@Dartmouth.EDU

 

Joseph D. Harris
Emeritus Professor

(Ph.D., Purdue, 1955) General relativity and cosmology.

Email: Joseph.D.Harris@Dartmouth.EDU

 

Elisha R. Huggins
Emeritus Professor

(Ph.D., Cal. Tech., 1962) Normal and superfluid vortex dynamics. Use of computers in teaching.

Email: Elisha.R.Huggins@Dartmouth.EDU

 

Walter E. Lawrence
Emeritus Professor

(Ph.D., Cornell, 1970) Condensed matter theory; electron correlations and electron-phonon interactions, quantum information theory, decoherence and quantum measurement.

Office: 249 Wilder
Phone: (603) 646-2963
Email: Jay.Lawrence@Dartmouth.EDU

 

David C. Montgomery
Emeritus Professor

(Ph.D., Princeton, 1959) Theoretical fluid mechanics and plasma physics; recent topics of interest include relaxation of an electron plasma in a Malmberg-Penning trap and "spontaneous spin-up" in a two-dimensional turbulent fluid field.

Office: 203 Wilder
Phone: (603) 646-3219 or (603) 643-2937
FAX: (603) 646-1446
Email: David.C.Montgomery@Dartmouth.EDU