PHYSICS FACULTY

Anthony Aguirre, Cosmology, both of the early and late universe: inflation and the global structure of cosmological models; the intergalactic medium and its enrichment with heavy elements; galaxy formation, evolution, and feedback processes; dark matter and theories of modified gravity. Ph.D. Harvard University, 2000

Glenn Alers (Adjunct Professor), Condensed matter experiment, PhD University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1991. Nanoscale devices, copper interconnects.

William B. Atwood (Adjunct Professor), Particle Astrophysics with particular interest in high-energy phenomena and cosmology, Ph.D. Stanford University, 2001.

Tom Banks, Elementary particle physics, PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1973.
Theoretical elementary particle physics, cosmology and superstring/M Theory.

David Belanger, Department Chair, Condensed matter experiment, PhD UC Santa Barbara, 1981.
Phase Transitions in random and frustrated systems.

Frank Bridges (Emeritus/Research Professor), PhD UC San Diego, 1968.

George Brown, (Emeritus), Condensed matter experiment, PhD Cornell Univ., 1973.

Sue Carter, Condensed matter experiment, PhD Univ. of Chicago, 1993.
Novel electronic and polymer materials.

Don Coyne, (Adjunct Emeritus), PhD Cal Tech, 1967.

Josh Deutsch, Condensed matter theory, PhD Cambridge Univ., 1983.
"The Polymator" - theory of polymers and protein folding.

Michael Dine, Elementary particle theory, PhD Yale University, 1978.
Standard model and beyond, especially supersymmetry, superstrings and cosmology.

David Dorfan, (Emeritus), PhD Columbia University, 1967.

George Gaspari, (Emeritus), PhD UC Riverside, 1964.

Gey-Hong Gweon, Condensed matter experiment, PhD University of Michigan, 1999.
Electron spectroscopy on novel emergent materials; high-Tc, low-d systems, semi-metals, AF-magnetic materials, nano-materials.

Howard Haber, Elementary particle theory, PhD Univ. of Michigan, 1978.
Particle theory: standard model, especially Higgs phenomenology; supersymmetry phenomenology.

Clemens Heusch, Elementary particle experiment, PhD Univ of Munich, 1959.

Robert Johnson, Elementary particle experiment, PhD Stanford University, 1986.
Experiments at CERN (ALEPH at LEP), SLAC (B factory), high energy astrophysics.

Fred Kuttner (Continuing Lecturer), Physics Education, Interpretation of quantum mechanics, PhD UC Santa Cruz, 1977.

Alan Litke (Adjunct Professor), Elementary particle experiment, PhD Harvard University, 1970.

Onuttom Narayan, Condensed matter theory, PhD Princeton University., 1992.
Dynamics of granular and disordered systems

Michael Nauenberg, (Emeritus), PhD Cornell University., 1960.

Jason Nielsen, Elementary particle experiment, PhD University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2001.
High-energy collider experiments at Fermilab (CDF) and CERN (ATLAS); particle detector development

Joel Primack, Cosmology, PhD Stanford University, 1970.
Theoretical cosmology, dark matter, galaxy formation, and high energy astrophysics

Stefano Profumo, Theoretical high energy physics and particle astrophysics, PhD SISSA-ISAS, 2004.

Michael Riordan (Adjunct Professor), History of Physics, Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1973. 

Bruce Rosenblum, (Emeritus), PhD Columbia University., 1958.

Hartmut Sadrozinski (Adjunct Professor), Elementary particle experiment, PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1973. Experiments at SLAC and DESY.

Terry L. Schalk (Adjunct Professor), Elementary particle experiment, PhD Iowa State University, 1969.
Experiments at SLAC, accelerator design, computing issues in high energy physics

Zack Schlesinger, Physics of Correlated Electron Systems, PhD Cornell University, 1981.

Bruce Schumm, Elementary particle experiment, PhD University of Chicago, 1988.

Peter Scott, (Emeritus), PhD UC Berkeley, 1962.

Abraham Seiden, Director of the Institute for Particle Physics, Elementary particle experiment,
PhD UC Santa Cruz, 1974.

B. Sriram Shastry, Condensed matter physics, strongly correlated matter, Mott Hubbard physics, high Tc superconductivity, quantum magnetism, exactly integrable systems, exactly solvable models of many body systems and in statistical mechanics, quantum chaos, geometric frustration. Ph.D. Tata Institute, India, 1976.

David M. Smith, High-energy astrophysics; X-ray and gamma-ray detectors and instrumentation;
solar, terrestrial, and planetary sources of gamma radiation, Ph.D University of California, Berkeley, 1993.

David A. Williams (Adjunct Professor), Elementary particle experiment, PhD Harvard University, 1987.
Milagro Gamma-Ray Telescope (Los Alamos)

Peter Young, Condensed Matter Theory, D. Phil. Oxford, 1973.
Numerical simulation, disordered systems