Faculty Research - Physics & Astronomy

Faculty Research Areas

Stephen S. Lawrence, Chairperson
516-463-5584
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Prof. Lawrence's Faculty website

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Selected Publications:

E. Michael, R. McCray, R. Chevalier, A. Filippenko, P. Lundqvist, P. Challis, B. Sugerman, S. Lawrence, et al., "Hubble Space Telescope Observations of High-Velocity Lyα and Hα Emissions from Supernova Remnant 1987A: The Structure and Development of the Reverse Shock," Astrophysical Journal, 593, 809 (2003).
B. Sugerman, S. Lawrence, A. Crotts, P. Bouchet, and S. Heathcote, "Evolution and Geometry of Hot Spots in Supernova Remnant 1987A," Astrophysical Journal, 572, 209 (2002).
R. Fesen, J. Morse, R. Chevalier, K. Borkowski, C. Gerardy, S. Lawrence, and S. van den Bergh, "Hubble Space Telescope WFPC-2 Imaging of Cassiopeia A," Astronomical Journal, 122, 2644 (2001).
S. Lawrence, A. Crotts, B. Sugerman, R. Uglesich, P. Bouchet, and S. Heathcote, "On the Discovery and Nature of New Hot Spots in SNR 1987A," Astrophysical Journal, 537, L123 (2000).

Brett D. Bochner
516-463-9920
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Prof. Bochner's Faculty website

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Selected Publications:

B. Bochner and Y. Hefetz, "Grid-based simulation program for gravitational wave interferometers with realistically imperfect optics," Physical Review D, Vol. 68, No. 8, pp. 082001-082019 (2003).
B. Bochner, "Simulating a Dual-Recycled Gravitational Wave Interferometer with Realistically Imperfect Optics", General Relativity and Gravitation, Vol. 35, No. 6, pp. 1029-1057 (2003).
T. Tomaru, et al., "Evaluation of the performance of polished mirror surfaces for the TAMA gravitational wave detector using a wave-front tracing simulation", Applied Optics, Vol. 41, No. 28, pp. 5913-5920 (2002).

Mark A. Edwards
516-463-6273
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Research Interests:

Selected Publications:

M.A. Edwards, J. Howard, D Radcliffe, et al.; Effects of Pre-Sintering Particle Size on the Formation of Sintered EuBa2Cu3O7-x Superconductors, (in progress).
M.A. Edwards, General Physics Laboratory, 3rd ed., Whittier Publications, Inc. (1999).
M.A. Edwards, Elementary Physics Laboratory, 2nd ed., Whittier Publications, Inc. (1998)

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Rohana Garuthara
516-463-6379
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Selected Publications:

Rohana Garuthara, Withana Siripala, Photoluminescence characterization of polycrystalline n-type Cu2O films Journal of Luminescence 121, 173 (2006).
Rohana Garuthara, Ruwan Wijesundara, Withana Siripala
Characterization of CuInS2 thin films prepared by electrodeposition and sulfurization with photoluminescence spectroscopy; Solar Energy Materials & Solar Cells 79, 331-338, (2003).
R. Garuthara and G. Levine Photoluminescence of chemically deposited CdSe nanocrystallites: Effects of crystallite polydispersity; J Appl. Phys. 80, 401 (1996).
R.Garuthara, X.Z.Lu, S.Lee et al., Shock-Wave Effects on the Electron-Hole Plasma in CdSe, J.Appl. Phys. 64, 3737 (1988).

Harold M. Hastings, Professor Emeritus
516-463-5586
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Professor Hastings's Faculty website

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Selected Publications:

H.M. Hastings, S.G. Sobel, F.H. Fenton, S. Chaterpaul, C. Frank, J. Pekor and E. Russell, The onset of target waves in the ferroin-catalyzed Belousov-Zhabotinski reaction, Proceedings of the 7th Experimental Chaos Conference, ed. V. In, American Institute of Physics, 2003, pp. 275-280. (The last four authors - Stephen Chaterpaul, Claudia Frank, Jordan Pekor and Elizabeth Russell served as undergraduate research assistants on this paper.)
H.M. Hastings, R.J. Field and S.G. Sobel, Microscopic fluctuations and pattern formation in a supercritical oscillatory chemical system, J. Chem. Phys. 119, 3291-3296 (2003).
F.H. Fenton, E.M. Cherry, S.J. Evans and H.M. Hastings J, Multiple mechanisms of spiral wave breakup in a model of cardiac electrical activity, Chaos 12, 852-892 (2002).

Gregory C. Levine
516-463-5583
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Research Interests:

Selected Publications:

"Entanglement Entropy in a Boundary Impurity Model," G. C. Levine, Physical Review Letters 93, 266402 (2004).
"Entanglement of a Qubit with a Single Oscillator Mode," Gregory Levine and V. N. Muthukumar, Physical Review B69, 113203 (2004).
"Spinons in a Crossed-Chains Model of a 2D Spin Liquid," Oleg A. Starykh, Rajiv R. P. Singh and Gregory Levine, Physical Review Letters 88, 167203 (2002).
"Localization Transition in the Mermin Model," Gregory Levine and V. N. Muthukumar, Physical Review B63, 2451 (2001).

Maxim Marienko
516-463-5585
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Research Interests:

Selected Publications:

K. V. Samokhin and M.S. Mar'enko, Nonuniform mixed-parity superfluid state in dipolar Fermi gases, preprint cond-mat/0607569.
K. V. Samokhin and M.S. Mar'enko, Quantum fluctuations in Larkin-Ovchinnikov-Fulde-Ferrell superconductors, Physical Review B73, 144502 (2006).
M.S. Mar'enko, C. Bourbonnais, and A.-M.S. Tremblay, Effect of superconducting fluctuations on ultrasound in unconventional superconductor, Physical Review B72, 024508 (2005).
M.S. Mar'enko, C. Bourbonnais, and A.-M.S. Tremblay, Superconducting fluctuation corrections to ultrasound attenuation in layered superconductors, Physical Review B69, 224503 (2004).