Colgate Physics & Astronomy
Faculty and Staff
Current Faculty:
Joseph Amato (Professor, Physics)
Kurt Andresen (Teaching-Research Post-Doctoral Fellow, Physics)
Patrick Crotty (Assistant Professor, Physics)
Eric McKenzie (Teaching-Research Post-Doctoral Fellow, Astronomy)
Sarah Marcellus (Administrative Assistant)
Lyle Roelofs (Professor, Physics; Dean of the Faculty)
Retired/Emeritus Faculty:
Jack Dodd
Charles Holbrow
Jim Lloyd
Shimon Malin
Our faculty does scientific and educational research in the following areas:
Archaeoastronomy; Meso-American astronomy-- Aveni;
Astronomy; Quazars; Galaxy surveys-- Balonek, McKenzie
Biophysics; Cell membranes-- Buboltz
Computational physics; Neural transport dynamics-- Crotty
Computational physics; Solid state physics-- Roelofs
Condensed matter physics; Nanotubes and molecular magnets-- Parks
Granular Materials; Crater formation-- Amato
Optical Physics; Optical vortices-- Galvez
Physics education; New physics laboratories-- Amato, Galvez
Physics education; Modern introductory physics-- Amato, Galvez, Holbrow, Lloyd, Parks, Andresen
Quantum mechanics fundamentals; Photon experiments-- Galvez
Superconductivity/low temperature physics; Photon detectors-- Segall
Superconductivity/low temperature physics; Thin-films-- Amato
Superconducting electronics; Josephson-junction arrays-- Segall
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