Physics Faculty

Faculty

Jayaram Betanabhatla
Associate Professor

153 Durham Science Center, 554-3632. Email: jbetanabhatla@mail.unomaha.edu

Courses taught: General Physics (1110, 1120), Electronics (3010).

Research interests:

Robert Graham
Professor, Chairman

130/122 Durham Science Center, 554-3723. rgraham@mail.unomaha.edu

Courses taught: Physics of Life (1030).

Frank Hartranft
Part-time Lecturer

149 Durham Science Center, 554-3331. Email: frank@unomaha.edu. Web: www.unomaha.edu/~frank.

Courses taught: Physics of Life (1030).

Research interests: Chaos Theory, Fractals

Alex Holloway
Associate Professor

125 Durham Science Center. 554-3731, Email: aholloway@mail.unomaha.

Courses taught: General Physics (1110, 1120, 2110, 2120), Modern Physics (2130), Computer Tools for Physicists (3260), Introduction to Quantum Mechanics (4200).

Research interests: Magnetic texturing, ion bombardment of solid surfaces, biomedical physics, complex behaviors.

Dave Kriegler
Instructor

118 Durham Science Center, 554-3721.
dkriegler@mail.unomaha.edu

Courses taught: Astronony (1350), General Physics (2120).

Wai-Ning Mei
Professor

124 Durham Science Center, 554-3729. physmei@unomaha.edu

Courses taught: General Physics (1110, 1120, 2110, 2120), Mathematical Methods (3250), Computer Tools (3260), Classical Mechanics (3450), Quantum Theory (4210, 8226), Physics of Molecules & Solids (4220, 8216).

Research interests: Theoretical condensed matter physics; lattice dynamics; ferroelectricity; surface physics.

Iulia Podariu
Assistant Professor

167 Durham Science Center, 554-2639.
Email: ipodariu@mail. unomaha.edu.

Courses taught: General Physics (1110, 1120).

Research interests:

Renat Sabirianov
Assistant Professor

124 Durham Science Center, 554-3720. Email: rsabirianov@mail.unomaha.edu

Course taught: General Physics (1110, 1120, 2110, 2120).

Research interests: Theoretical solid state; theory of magnetic, magneto-optical, optical, transport, mechanical properties of metals and alloys, magnetic materials, amorphous materials, nanocomposites, quasicrystals.
Growth of patterned structures at nanoscale. Properties of nanostructures.

Robert Schmidt
Associate Professor

121 Durham Science Center, 554-3727. Email: rschmidt@mail.unomaha.edu

Courses taught: Intro to Physics (1050), Astronomy (1350).

Doug Showell
Lecturer

129 Durham Science Center, 554-2511. Email: dshowell@mail.unomaha.edu

Courses taught: Astronomy (1350).

Glenn Sowell
Associate Professor

126 Durham Science Center, 554-3724, Email: gsowell@mail.unomaha.edu, or sowell2@cox.net. Web: www.physics.unomaha.edu/sowell/

Courses taught: General Physics (1110, 1120, 2110, 2120), Mathematical Methods (3250), Computer Tools (3260), E&M (3750,3760).

Research interests: Computer algebra applications in physics, Chaos, Physics education.

Other interests: CAPOW program, fencing

Dave Vondra
Lecturer

168 Durham Science Center, 554-3730. Email: dvondra@mail.unomaha.edu, dvondra@yahoo.com

Courses taught: Astronomy (1350).

Daniel Wilkins
Professor

127 Durham Science Center, 554-3728. Email: dwilkins@mail.unomaha.edu

Courses taught: Astronomy (1350), Optics (3020), Thermal Physics (3850), Special Relativity /Nuclear (4230), Astrophysics (4350).

Research interests: General Relativity, Celestial Mechanics.

Vincent Woolf
Assistant Professor

128 Durham Science Center, 554-3031. Email: vwoolf@theusualUNO.edu (mail.unomaha.edu)

Courses taught: Astronomy (1350), General Physics (1110, 1120)

Research interests: Astronomy