CHAIR OF THE DEPARTMENT:
Professor David G. Grier
212-998-7710

DIRECTOR OF GRADUATE STUDIES:
Professor Andrew D. Kent
212-998-7708

The Department of Physics offers courses leading to the degrees of Master of Science, Master of Professional Studies, and Doctor of Philosophy. There are opportunities for study and research in both experimental and theoretical physics. Areas of specialization include astrophysics and cosmology, atomic molecular and optical physics, condensed matter physics, elementary particle physics, quantum field theory and string theory, many-body and statistical physics, and nonlinear dynamics. Although the curriculum is designed primarily to meet the needs of full-time students, opportunities also exist for part-time students.

Faculty

Michael Blanton, Assistant Professor. Ph.D. 1999, M.A. 1997, Princeton; B.A. 1995, Cornell.
Cosmology.

Burton Budick, Professor. Ph.D. 1962, California (Berkeley); B.A. 1959, Harvard.
Experimental atomic and nuclear physics; weak interactions.

Paul Chaikin, Professor. Ph.D. 1971, Pennsylvania; B.S. 1966, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Condensed matter physics.

Georgi Dvali, Professor. Ph.D. 1992, Georgian Academy of Sciences; M.A. 1985, Tbilisi State.
Theoretical particle physics and cosmology.

Glennys R. Farrar, Professor. Ph.D. 1971, Princeton; B.A. 1967, California (Berkeley).
Theoretical particle physics, astrophysics, and cosmology.

Gregory Gabadadze, Associate Professor. Ph.D. 1998, Rutgers; B.S./M.S. 1994, Moscow State.
Theoretical particle physics; astrophysics; cosmology.

David G. Grier, Professor; Chair, Department of Physics. Ph.D. 1989, Michigan; B.A. 1984, Harvard.
Experimental condensed matter physics.

Andrei Gruzinov, Associate Professor. Ph.D. 1995, California (San Diego); M.S. 1987, Moscow Institute of Physics.
Theoretical astrophysics.

David Hogg, Assistant Professor. Ph.D. 1998, California Institute of Technology; B.S. 1992, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Observational astrophysics; astronomy.

Pierre Hohenberg, Professor. Ph.D. 1962, M.A. 1958, B.A. 1956, Harvard.
Condensed matter.

Patrick Huggins, Professor. Ph.D. 1975, M.A. 1974, B.A. 1970, Cambridge.
Observational astrophysics.

Andrew D. Kent, Professor. Ph.D. 1988, M.S. 1985, Stanford; B.S. 1982, Cornell.
Experimental condensed matter physics; mesoscopic magnetic systems; spin-transport and quantum spin dynamics.

Matthew Kleban, Assistant Professor. Ph.D. 2003, Stanford; M.A. 2000, California (Berkeley); B.A. 1996, Reed College.
String theory; particle physics; theoretical cosmology.

Peter M. Levy, Professor. Ph.D. 1963, M.A. 1960, Harvard; B.M.E. 1958, City College (CUNY).
Theoretical condensed matter physics; magnetic thin films and superlattices.

John H. Lowenstein, Professor. Ph.D. 1966, M.S. 1963, Illinois (Urbana-Champaign); B.A. 1962, Harvard.
Nonlinear dynamics and chaos.

Allen Mincer, Professor. Ph.D. 1984, Maryland (College Park); B.S. 1978, Brooklyn College (CUNY).
Experimental high-energy particle physics; astroparticle physics.

Aditi Mitra, Assistant Professor. Ph.D. 2002, Indiana; M.S. 1995, Indian Institute of Technology; B.S. 1993, Residency College (India).
Condensed matter.

Peter Nemethy, Professor. Ph.D. 1968, B.A. 1962, Columbia.
Experimental high-energy particle physics; astroparticle physics.

Jerome K. Percus, Professor, Mathematics, Physics. Ph.D. 1954, M.A. 1948, B.S. 1947, Columbia.
Statistical physics; mathematical physics; biophysics.

David Pine, Professor. Ph.D. 1982, M.S. 1979, Cornell; B.A. 1975, Wheaton.
Experimental condensed matter physics.

Massimo Porrati, Professor. Dip. di Sci. 1985, Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa); Laurea 1984 (fisica), Pisa.
Theoretical elementary particle physics; quantum field theory; string theory.

Robert W. Richardson, Professor. Ph.D. 1963, M.A. 1958, B.S.E. 1958, Michigan.
Theoretical low-temperature physics; many-body and statistical physics; energy studies.

Englebert L. Schucking, Professor. Dr.rer.Nat. 1956, Dip. Math. 1955, Hamburg; Dip. Math. 1950, Göttingen.
Theoretical astrophysics; cosmology; relativity.

Roman Scoccimarro, Assistant Professor. Ph.D. 1996, Chicago; B.S. 1991, Buenos Aires.
Theoretical cosmology.

Alberto Sirlin, Professor. Ph.D. 1958, Cornell; Doc. en Cien. 1953, Buenos Aires.
Theoretical elementary particle physics; quantum field theory.

Tycho Sleator, Associate Professor. Ph.D. 1986, M.A. 1982, California (Berkeley); B.S. 1979, Illinois (Urbana-Champaign).
Experimental and theoretical atomic physics; quantum optics.

Alan D. Sokal, Professor. Ph.D. 1981, Princeton; M.A., B.A. 1976, Harvard.
Computational physics; quantum field theory; statistical physics.

Daniel L. Stein, Professor, Physics, Mathematics; Dean for Science, Faculty of Arts and Science. Ph.D. 1979, M.S. 1977, Princeton; B.S. 1975, Brown. Quenched disorder in condensed matter systems; stochastic escape phenomena; fluctuations in mesoscopic systems.

H. Henry Stroke, Professor. Ph.D. 1954, M.S. 1952, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; B.S. 1949, Newark College of Engineering.
Experimental atomic, molecular, low-temperature, and nuclear physics; optical spectroscopy.

Neal Weiner, Assistant Professor. Ph.D. 2000, California (Berkeley); B.A. 1996, Carleton College.
Theoretical particle physics; astrophysics; cosmology.

George M. Zaslavsky, Professor. Dip. 1978, Krasnoyarsk State; Ph.D. 1964, Novosibirsk State; M.A. 1957, Odessa State.
Nonlinear dynamics and chaos; statistical physics; quantum chaos.

Jun Zhang, Assistant Professor, Physics, Mathematics. Ph.D. 1994, Copenhagen; M.S. 1990, Hebrew (Jerusalem); B.S. 1985, Wuhan (China).
Nonlinear dynamics; fluid dynamics, biomechanics, complex systems.

Daniel Zwanziger, Professor. Ph.D. 1960, B.A. 1955, Columbia.
Theoretical elementary particle physics and quantum field theory.

FACULTY EMERITI

Benjamin Bederson, Lawrence A. Bornstein, Sidney Borowitz, Alfred E. Glassgold, Edward Robinson, Leonard Rosenberg, John Sculli, Larry Spruch, Leonard Yarmus.