FACULTY/DEPARTMENT MEMBERS:
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NAME
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POSITION
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EXPERTISE
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PUBS
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CTNS
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Beamish, John
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Professor |
Phase transitions in restricted geometries; Acoustics of porous media |
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0
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Boninsegni, Massimo
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Professor |
Theoretical condensed matter and statistical physics.
Quantum many-body problems.
Computational physics. |
100
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0
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Chow, Kim
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Associate Professor |
nanoscale and bulk semiconductors; impurities and defects; optical properties of low-dimensional semiconductors; spin-polarized radioactive ion beams; magnetic resonance techniques; optical spectroscopy methods; magnetism in novel magnetic materials |
0
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0
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Fenrich, Frances R
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Professor |
Current research involves a combination of ground-based and spacecraft observations together with global modeling to understand the physics of interaction between the solar wind, magnetosphere, and ionosphere.
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0
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0
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Frolov, Valeri P
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Professor |
Black Holes; Classical and Quantum Gravity; Cosmology |
0
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0
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Marchand, Richard
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Professor |
Theoretical and computational plasma physics.
Space plasmas, Earth magnetosphere and solar wind interaction with Earth magnetosphere.
Thermonuclear fusion and magnetic confinement.
Finite element modelling, automatic generation of structured and unstructured meshes, visualization. |
0
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0
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Morsink, Sharon
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Professor |
Relativistic Effects in Accreting Neutron Stars and Black Holes; Neutron Star Oscillations and Instabilities |
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0
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Page, Don
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Professor |
The goal of quantum cosmology is to try to understand the universe as a whole within the current fundamental framework of physics, quantum theory. Quantum theory normally differs significantly from classical theory only for small systems, so one may question its application to the entire universe. However, the universe was apparently once so small that a quantum description would have been essential. The present universe may be viewed as a relict of processes that occurred in its very early evolution. Thus a quantum understanding of these processes may help explain certain basic features observed today. For example, the observed cosmos is large, old, nearly flat, fairly homogeneous and isotropic at the largest observable distances, lumpy and complex on smaller scales, and out of thermal equilibrium, exhibiting a pervasive arrow of time. These basic features are mysterious, in the sense that it would apparently be consistent with our present theoretical understanding of physics for the universe not to have any of these properties. Can we enlarge our understanding to include fundamental principles that would explain these observed features of the cosmos? In particular, we need principles for the boundary conditions of the universe, to select the actual universe from the apparently infinite set of possible universes obeying the same complete set of dynamical laws. There have recently been proposals for this that would specify the quantum state of the universe, such as the Hartle-Hawking no-boundary proposal and the Vilenkin tunneling proposal. Research is being done on the implications of these and other proposals to see whether or not they can explain the observed features of our mysterious universe. |
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0
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Pogosyan, Dmitri
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Associate Professor |
Theoretical cosmology:
Inflation, initial cosmological perturbations, origin and evolution of the Large-Scale Structure in the Universe, Cosmic Microwave Background, tests for Cosmological Theories.
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0
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0
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Rozmus, Wojciech
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Professor |
Parametric instabilities in laser produced plasmas; Nonlocal plasma transport models |
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0
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Samson, John
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Professor |
In space physics, Dr. Samson concentrates on the mechanisms for the formation of auroral arcs, polar magnetic substorms, and ultra low frequency plasma waves. His research in information theory involves the development of estimators for estimating the parameters of propagating polarized waves in multichannel data. His studies in parallel computing involve the implementation of magnetohydrodynamic codes on large scale parallel systems. Dr. Samson is also interested in space plasma physics. |
0
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0
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Spirin, Denis V
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Other |
Theoretical physics; magnetism; low-dimensional systems. |
0
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0
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Sydora, Richard D
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Professor |
Theoretical and Computational methods for the study of turbulence in plasmas and fluids; dynamics of N-body systems; Techniques and applications of parallel computing methods in physics; Controlled thermonuclear fusion plasma physics; mainly in the area of heat and particle diffusion in magnetically confined systems; Space and astrophysical plasma physics; mainly in the areas of magnetic field reconnection, Alfven wave turbulence, charged particle acceleration and particle and energy transport processes in space plasmas
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0
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0
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Please note that the total of members' statistics may not equal the department/faculty
statistics due to joint authorship.
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