Physics and Astronomy

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Adrian Del Maestro, Head
Marianne Breinig, Associate Department Head
Robert Grzywacz, 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
Fomin, N., PhD – Virginia
Grzywacz, R., PhD – Warsaw University (Poland)
Grzywacz-Jones, K.L., PhD – Surrey (England)
Guidry, M.W., PhD – Tennessee
Hix, W.R., (Joint Faculty), PhD – Harvard
Johnston, S., PhD – Waterloo (Canada)
Kamyshkov, I., PhD – ITEP (Russia)
Mannella, N., PhD – California (Davis)
Mannik, J., PhD – New York (Stony Brook)
Mezzacappa, A., PhD – Texas (Austin)
Moreo, A. (Joint Faculty), PhD – Bariloche (Argentina)
Nattrass, C., PhD – Yale
Papenbrock, T.F. (Joint Faculty), PhD – Heidelberg (Germany)
Platter, L., PhD – Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms (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. (Chancellor’s Professor), PhD – Groningen (Netherlands)
Zhou, H., PhD – Texas (Austin)

Associate Professors
Liu, J., PhD – Arkansas
Madurga Flores, M., PhD – Madrid
Steiner, A., PhD – Stony Brook

Assistant Professors
Holmes, T., PhD – California (Berkeley)
Ko, W., PhD – Stanford
Lagergren, S., PhD – California Institute of Technology
Lee, J.S., PhD – Penn State
Lee, L., PhD – Yale
Ngyuen, D., PhD – Virginia
Zhang, R., PhD – Penn State
Zhang, Y., PhD – Max Planck Institute

Senior Lecturers
Lindsay, S., PhD – New Mexico State
Sternberg, J., PhD – Tennessee
Pokhrel, N.R., PhD – Florida International

Lecturers
Bangar, S., MS – Institute of Science & Education & Research, India
Guerinot, I., MS – Tennessee
Kokkas, E., PhD – Tennessee

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.

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