Faculty and Staff
Barbara
S. Andereck (Department of Physics and Astronomy)
Ph.D., Rutgers University. Specialty: theoretical solid state
physics. Teaches an array of physics and astronomy courses.
Research interests: physics of liquid crystals, especially phase
transitions. Project title: Coupled
Mechanical Oscillators, Experiment and Computer Simulation.
Robert
O. Harmon (Department
of Physics and Astronomy)
Ph.D., University of Chicago. Specialty: computational and
observational
astrophysics. Teaches courses on astronomy, astrophysics, and physics.
Research interests: photometry, stellar surface imaging, inverse
theory. Project title:
Stellar Surface Imaging via Light-Curve Inversion.
Robert A. Kaye
(Department
of Physics and Astronomy)
Ph.D., Florida State University. Specialty: experimental
nuclear physics. Teaches courses on introductory physics, advanced
physics
laboratory, and electronics. Research interests: high-spin nuclear
structure studies via gamma-ray spectroscopy, particle-gamma branching
ratios in nuclear astrophysical reactions. Project title: Nuclear Structure of Exotic
Proton-Rich Nuclei.
Scott Linder
(Department of Mathematics and Computer Science)
Ph.D.,
The Ohio State University. Specialty: Statistics and the analysis of
data subject to censoring. Teaches primarily statistics courses
(mathematical and applied), probability, calculus and other mathematics
courses. Project titles: Sampling
Distribution of Regression Statistics with Data Subjected to Type II
Censoring and Comparison of Conditional and
Unconditional Inferential Methods.
Sean McCulloch
(Department of
Mathematics and Computer Science)
Ph.D., The
University of
Virginia. Teaches courses in computer science. Specialty: algorithm
design for graph theory, computational geometry, and design automation
for computer chips. Project title: Shared
Shortest Paths in Graphs.
Brad R.
Trees (Department
of Physics and Astronomy)
(REU Program Principle Investigator) Ph.D., Ohio
State University. Speciality: theoretical
condensed matter physics. Teaches introductory and upper-level physics
courses. Research interests: dynamics of Josephson junction arrays and
synchronization
of coupled oscillators. Project title: Coupled Nonlinear Systems: the
Rich Physics of Josephson Junction Arrays and Micro- and Nanomechanical
Oscillators.
Kail
Secrest (Physics and Astronomy Technician)
A.A., Columbus State University. Specialty: electronics. Maintains
department laboratory apparatus, and sets up experiments in the
teaching labs.