Physics
Department Faculty and Staff -- 2008-2009
Erin Flater, Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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B.A. in Physics and Spanish, Luther College, Decorah, Iowa
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Research Interests: Atomic Force Microscopy, friction and wear at the nanoscale, determination of chemical and physical properties of surfaces and probes.
Ken Larson
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Department Technician
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Todd
Pedlar, Ph.D. in Experimental Elementary Particle Physics, Northwestern
University, Evanston, Illinois
B.A. in Physics,
Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington
Postdoctoral Research: The Ohio State University. Stationed at CLEO at Cornell
University
Research Interests: Development of electronics and software for particle physics
experiments, Meson structure and binding, Heavy quark physics
James
Perez, Ph.D. in Computational Physics, University of Missouri-Rolla
B.S., M.S. in
Physics, University of Missouri-Rolla
Research Interests: Interactions between slow, highly charged ions and surfaces,
Physics of very highly charged ions, Atomic collision simulations
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- Jeffrey Wilkerson, Dept. Head, Ph.D. in Experimental Astrophysics, University of California, Berkeley
- M.S. in Physics,
University of California, Berkeley
B.S. in Physics, Indiana University
Postdoctoral Research: University of California, Berkeley
Research Interests: Photometry of open star clusters, short-timescale transient events in stars, stellar luminosity stability, temporal changes in variable stars, x-ray detectors.
Emeritus
Dennis
Barnaal, Ph.D. in Experimental Solid State Physics, University
of Minnesota
- B.S., M.S. in
Physics, University of Minnesota
Richard Kellogg, Ph.D. in Geophysics, Michigan State University
- B.S., M.S. in
Geology, Michigan State University
David T.
Nelson, Ph.D. in Experimental Solid State Physics, Iowa State University
- M.A. in Physics,
University of Rochester
B.A. in Physics, Luther College