Department of Physics

Department of Physics Apple - Gravity

Phone (701) 231-8974, fax (701) 231-7088

The Department comprises eight full-time faculty members, a laboratory technician, and an administrative assistant. We are research-oriented with active efforts in theoretical and computational condensed matter physics (soft matter/complex fluids), optics (laser spectroscopy), and particle physics.

We offer M.Sc. and Ph.D. graduate programs and an undergraduate major with options in Computational Physics and Optical Science and Engineering.

Faculty

Daniel Kroll
Department Head

Charles Sawicki
Associate Professor

Orven Swenson
Associate Professor

Alan Denton
Associate Professor

Alexander Wagner
Assistant Professor

Thomas Ihle
Assistant Professor

Sylvio May
Assistant Professor

Terry Pilling
Assistant Professor

Erkan Tuzel
Research Assistant Professor

Stuart Croll
Adjunct Professor

Mahendra Sinha
Emeritus Professor

Douglas Kurtze
Adjunct Professor

Richard Hammond
Adjunct Professor

Staff Members

Patty Hartsoch
Administrative Secretary

Jeffrey Hansen
Laboratory Technician

Postdoctoral Fellows

Guoai Pan
Post-Doctoral Position in Soft Matter Physics

Emmanuel Mbamala
Post-Doctoral Position in Soft Matter Physics
Graduate Students

Eric Foard
Ph.D. Program

Goetz Kaehler
Ph.D. Program

Qun Li
Ph.D. Program

Stephan Loew
Visiting Scholar

Ben Lu
Ph.D. Program

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Teaching Assistants

Andrew Buck
Lab Instructor
PHYS 212L and PHYS 252L

Eric Foard
Lab Instructor
PHYS 251L

William Huhn
Lab Instructor
PHYS 212L

Goetz Kaehler
Lab Instructor
PHYS 252L

William Casper
Lab Instructor
PHYS 212L

Mason Swanson
Lab Instructor
PHYS 212L

Allen Goodman
Lab Instructor
PHYS 120L

Prashanth Vanguru
Lab Instructor
PHYS 252L

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Alumni

Physics Alumni
Past NDSU physics graduates


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