Departmental Directory

Faculty

• Bill Atkinson,  M.Sc. (U. Alberta), Ph.D. (McMaster).Office: PB 222, Phone: 748-1011 ext. 7716
  • E-mail:billatkinson@trentu.ca
  • Graduate Student Coordinator
  • Research Interests: Computational and theoretical models of high temperature superconductors.

• Peter Dawson,  M.Sc. (Trent), Ph.D. (Victoria). Office: PB 321, Phone: 748-1011 ext. 7628
  • E-mail:pdawson@trentu.ca
  • Research Interests: Stellar populations and galactic structure.

• Jim Jury,   M.Sc., Ph.D. (Toronto). , Office: PB 327.1, OC 102.3, Phone: 748-1011 ext. 7549
  • E-mail:jjury@trentu.ca
  • Research Interests: Photonuclear reactions and radiation detection.

• David Patton,  B. Math (Waterloo), Ph.D. (Victoria). Office: PB320, Phone: 748-1011 ext. 7462
  • E-mail:dpatton@trentu.ca
  • Department Chair
  • Research Interests: Observational astronomy: galaxy evolution, galaxy mergers.

• Ralph Shiell (pronounced "Raif"),  B.A. (Oxford), Ph.D.(Newcastle).Office: SC 213, Phone: 748-1011 ext. 7023
  • E-mail:ralphshiell@trentu.ca
  • Research Interests: Atomic, molecular and optical physics, the manipulation of quantum states using laser radiation.

• Alan J. Slavin,  M.Sc.(Toronto), Ph.D.(Cambridge).Office: PB 221, Phone: 748-1011 ext. 7289
  • E-mail:aslavin@trentu.ca
  • Research Interests: Metal surfaces: nanostructure and chemical interactions.

• Rachel Wortis,  B.Sc. (Harvard), M.Sc., Ph.D. (Illinois). Office: PB 326 Phone: 748-1011 ext. 7714
  • E-mail:rwortis@trentu.ca
  • Research Interests: Condensed matter theory: superconductivity and strongly correlated electrons.

Postdoctoral Fellows

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Research Associates

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Staff

• John Breukelaar,  B.Sc.(York), M.Sc(Trent). Office: PB 322, Phone: 748-1011 ext. 7700
  • Senior Laboratory Demonstrator
  • E-mail:jbreukelaar@trentu.ca

• Dave Marshall,  B.Sc.(Waterloo). Office: PB319, Phone: 748-1011 ext. 7461
  • Laboratory Demonstrator (and web page guy)
  • E-mail:dmarshall@trentu.ca

• Gina Collins,Office: PB 327, Phone: 748-1011 ext. 7715, Fax: 748-1652
  • Canada Wide Science Fair 2005
  • Departmental Secretary
  • office hours 9:00-12:00, 1:00-4:00
  • E-mail:gcollins@trentu.ca

• Ralph Frederick, Office:SC Workshop, Phone: 748-1011 ext. 1534
• Ed Wilson, Office:SC Workshop, Phone: 748-1011 ext. 7734

Graduate Students

• Wilfred Blight, , Office:Grad Portable

• Sinan Bulut, , Office:PB 217

• Oltion Kodra, Office:PB 220

• Jeffrey Philippson, Office:SC 213

• Bahereh Samie, Office:PB 220

Emeritus Faculty

• Roland Alfred, 
  • Research Interests: Electronic structure of metallic systems, electrochemistry, mass spectroscopy.

• John Earnshaw, 
  • E-mail:jearnshaw@trentu.ca
  • Research Interests: Physics education research.

• Ron Johnson, Office: PB324, Phone: 748-1011
  • E-mail:rjohnson@trentu.ca
  • Research Interests: Galactic astronomy.