Physics and Astronomy

http://www.phys.utk.edu/

Hanno Weitering, Head
Marianne Breinig, Associate Department Head
Kate Jones, Associate Department Head
Steven Johnston, Director of Graduate Studies
Christine Nattrass, Director of Undergraduate Studies

Professors
Batista, C.D. (Lincoln Chair of Excellence), PhD – Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (Argentina)
Breinig, M.J., PhD – Oregon
Dagotto, E.R. (Distinguished Professor), PhD – Bariloche (Argentina)
Del Maestro, A., PhD – Harvard
Efremenko, Y.Y. (Joint Faculty), PhD – ITEP (Russia)
Eguiluz, A.G., PhD – Brown
Grzywacz-Jones, K.L., PhD – Surrey (England)
Guidry, M.W., PhD – Tennessee
Hix, W.R., (Joint Faculty), PhD – Harvard
Kamyshkov, I., PhD – ITEP (Russia)
Mannella, N., PhD – California (Davis)
Mezzacappa, A., PhD – Texas (Austin)
Moreo, A. (Joint Faculty), PhD – Bariloche (Argentina)
Papenbrock, T.F. (Joint Faculty), PhD – Heidelberg (Germany)
Read, K.F. (Joint Faculty), PhD – Cornell
Siopsis, G., PhD – California Institute of Technology
Spanier, S.M., PhD – Mainz (Germany)
Tennant, A., PhD – Oxford
Weitering, H.H., PhD – Groningen (Netherlands)

Associate Professors
Fomin, N., PhD – Virginia
Johnston, S., PhD – Waterloo (Canada)
Liu, J., PhD – Arkansas
Mannik, J., PhD – New York (Stony Brook)
Nattrass, C., PhD – Yale
Parigger, C. (UTSI), PhD – Otago (New Zealand)
Platter, L., PhD – Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms (Germany)
Steiner, A., PhD – Stony Brook
Zhou, H., PhD – Texas (Austin)

Assistant Professors
Holmes, T., PhD – California (Berkeley)
Lavrentovich, M., PhD – Harvard
Lee, J.S., PhD – Penn State
Lee, L., PhD – Yale
Madurga Flores, M., PhD – Madrid
Zhang, R., PhD – Penn State

Senior Lecturers
Abdelrazek, M., PhD – Florida State
Lindsay, S., PhD – New Mexico State

Lecturer
Pokhrel, N.R., PhD – Florida International

Director of Undergraduate Laboratories
Cheney, C., PhD – Vanderbilt
 

Interdisciplinary Graduate Minor in Computational Science (IGMCS)

The Department of Physics and Astronomy participates in the interdisciplinary graduate minor in computational science (IGMCS) program. Any student pursuing a master’s or PhD with a major in Physics can receive a minor in computational science by completing the appropriate IGMCS requirements. For additional information, see the description of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Minor in Computational Science  listed under Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science or visit the IGMCS website. The Department of Physics also contributes courses to the IGMCS program curriculum.