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Professors

Dr. Anand Batra Batra, Anand P. - Office: Thirkield Hall, Room 113
- Phone: (202) 806-6733
- Fax: (202) 806-5830
- ABatra@Howard.edu
Research Fields: Condensed Matter
Degree: Ph.D., Rensselaer, 1966. Solid state physics
   
Dr. Robert Catchings Catchings, Robert M. - Office: Locke Hall, Room 101
- Phone: (202) 806-6700
- Fax: (202) 234-3947
- RCatchings@Howard.edu
Research Fields: Condensed Matter
Degree: Ph.D., Wayne State, 1970. Solid state physics
   
Dr. Tristan Hubsch Hubsch, Tristan

- Office: Thirkield Hall, Room 213
- Phone: (202) 806-6267
- Fax: (202) 806-5830
- THubsch@Howard.edu
- Website

Research Fields: Elementary particle physics; field theory, strings
Degree: Ph.D., Maryland, 1987, Physics

Selected Publications
"Calabi-Yau Manifolds—A Bestiary for Physicists"
(World Scientific, 1992, 2nd ed. 1994)

"Relating Doubly-Even Error-Correcting Codes, Graphs, and Irreducible Representations of N-Supersymmetry"
C.F. Doran, M.G. Faux, S.J. Gates, Jr., T. Hübsch, K.M. Iga and G.D. Landweber: in Discrete and Computational Mathematics, eds. F. Liu et al., (Nova Science Pub., Inc., Hauppage, 2008); arXiv/0806.0051.

"On Graph-Theoretic Identifications of Adinkras, Supersymmetry Representations and Superfields" with C.F. Doran, M.G. Faux, S.J. Gates, Jr., K.M. Iga and G.D. Landweber: Int. J. Mod. Phys. A22 (2007) 869-930; math-ph/0512016.

"Relating the Cosmological Constant and Supersymmetry Breaking in Warped Compactifications of IIB String Theory" with P. Berglund and D. Minic: Phys. Rev. D67 (2003) 041901; hep-th/0201187.

"Quantum Mechanics is Either Non-Linear or Non-Introspective"
Mod. Phys. Lett. A13 (1998) 2503-2512; quant-th/9712047.

"On A Stringy Singular Cohomology"
Mod. Phys. Lett. A12 (1997) 521-533; hep-th/9612075.

"On A Residue Representation of Deformation, Chiral and Koszul Rings"
with P. Berglund: Int. J. Mod. Phys. A10 (1995) 3381-3430; hep-th/9411131.

"Rolling Among Calabi-Yau Vacua"
with P. Candelas and P. S. Green: Nucl. Phys. B330 (1990) 49.

"Possible Phase Transitions Among Calabi-Yau Compactifications"
with P. Green: Phys. Rev. Lett. 61 (1988) 1163.

Dr. Gregory Jenkins Jenkins, Gregory

- Office: Thirkield Hall, Room 105
- Phone: (202) 806-6245
- Fax: (202) 806-5830
- GJenkins@Howard.edu
- Website

Research Fields: Atmospheric science
Degree: Ph.D., Michigan, 1991

Selected Publications
Late 20th century attribution of drying trends in the Sahel from the Regional Climate Model (RegCM3). G. S. Jenkins, A. Gaye, B. Sylla. GRL, 32, doi: 10.1029/2005GL024225 (2005).

Lightning-tropospheric ozone connections: EOF analysis of TCO and lightning data. Ryu, J-H, G. S. Jenkins, Atmospheric Environment, 39, 599-5805., 2005.

P. Misra, G. Carruthers and G. S. Jenkins. Development of an Earth and Space Science-Focused Education Program at Howard University, J. of Geoscience Education, 54(3), 339-345 (2006)

     
Dr. Vikram Kushawaha Kushawaha, Vikram S. - Office: Thirkield Hall, Room 101
- Phone: (202) 806-6253
- Fax: (202) 806-5830
- VKushawaha@Howard.edu
Research Fields: Laser spectroscopy; Atomic physics
Degree: Ph.D., Benaras Hindu (India), 1973
 
Dr. James Lindesay Lindesay, James - Office: Thirkield Hall, Room 201
- Phone: (202) 806-7203
- Fax: (202) 806-5830
- JLindesay@Howard.edu

Research Fields: Quantum Cosmology, Particle and Nuclear Physics, Condensed Matter Physics, Biophysics, Computational Physics
Degree: Ph.D., Stanford, 1981, Theoretical Physics

Selected Publications

CMB Fluctuation Amplitude from Dark Energy Partitions. James Lindesay, H. P. Noyes and E. D. Jones, Physics Letters B 633 (2006) 433-435, SLAC-PUB-10916, astro-ph/0412477, 7 pages.

An Introduction to Black Holes, Information, and the String Theory Revolution, James Lindesay, CERN Courier, Oct. 2005.

Scientific Eschatology. H. P. Noyes and J. Lindesay. Proceedings of the Silver Jubilee Meeting of the Alternative Natural Philosophy Association, Cambridge, UK (2004), SLAC-PUB-10571, SLAC-PUB-11063, physics/0503181, 22 pages (2005).

Evidence for a Cosmological Phase Transition on the TeV Scale. J. V. Lindesay and H. P. Noyes. SLAC-PUB-11437, astro-ph/0508450, 35pages (2005).

Evidence for a Cosmological Phase Transition from the Dark Energy Scale. J. Lindesay. astro-ph/0604342 (2006) 42 pages.

An Introduction of Multiple Scales in a Dynamical Cosmology. J. Lindesay. gr-qc/0605007 (2006) 8 pages.

Thermal Evolution of a Dual Scale Cosmology. James Lindesay, gr-qc/0605041 (2006) 8 pages.

Rights for Italian translation of World Scientific Press best seller An Introduction to Black Holes, Information, and the String Theory Revolution: The Holographic Universe, by L. Susskind and J. Lindesay, given November 2006

James Lindesay. Coordinates with Non-Singular Curvature for a Time Dependent Black Hole Horizon, gr-qc/0609019 (2006), accepted 15 March 2007, Foundations of Physics

James Lindesay. Consequences of a Cosmological Phase Transition at the TeV Scale, Foundations of Physics (online 13 March 2007)

     
Dr. Walter Lowe Lowe, Walter P. - Office: Thirkield Hall, Room 200
- Phone: (202) 806-9000
- Fax: (202) 806-5830
- WLowe@Howard.edu
Research Fields: Condensed Matter, Synchrotron radiation
Degree: Ph.D., Stanford, 1983, Physics
   
Dr. Prabhakar Misra Misra, Prabhakar (Interim Chair)

- Office: Thirkield Hall, Room 105
- Phone: (202) 806-6245
- Fax: (202) 806-5830
- PMisra@Howard.edu
- Website

Research Fields: Molecular spectroscopy, chemical physics
Degree: Ph.D., Ohio State, 1986, Physics

Selected Publications

S. Chakraborty, P. Misra and S. Wategaonkar, Zero Kinetic Energy Spectroscopy of Hydroquinone-Water (1:1) Complex: A Probe for Conformer Assignment, The Journal of Chemical Physics, 127, 124317 (2007).

X.L. Han, V. Pozdin, C. Haridas and P. Misra, Monte Carlo Least-Squares Fitting of Experimental Signal Waveforms, Journal of Information & Computational Science, 4: 2, 525-531 (2007).

   
Dr. Yehuda Salu Salu, Yehuda - Office: Thirkield Hall, Room 201
- Phone: (202) 806-6025
- Fax: (202) 806-5830
- YSalu@Howard.edu

Research Fields: Plasma Physics, Bio-electricity, Neural Networks, Micropsychology, Physics education
Degree: Ph.D., Tel Aviv University (Israel), 1973. Physics

Selected Publications

Physics for Architects. 2004, second edition 2008.
http://www.PhysicsForArchitects.com/

Micropsychology. 2008.
http://www.micropsychology.org

Understanding Brain and Mind: A connectionists Perspective
World Scientific 2001.
http://www.worldscibooks.com/compsci/4848.html

Salu, Y. The roots of sexual arousal and sexual orientation. Medical Hypotheses 76 (2011) 384-387. doi:10.1016/j.mehy.2010.10.048, PMID: 21095066,
Preprint:
  http://micropsychology.org/The_Roots_of_Sexual_Arousal_and_Sexual_Orientation.htm

Revisiting the Ladder on a Wall Problem. The Physics Teacher, vol 49, 289-290, 2011

   
Dr. Arthur Thorpe Thorpe, Arthur N. - Office: Thirkield Hall, Room 204
- Phone: (202) 806-6255
- Fax: (202) 806-5830
- AThorpe@Howard.edu

Research Fields: Magnetism; Solid state physics
Degree: Ph.D., Howard, 1964, Physics

Selected Publications

Senftle, F. E., A. N. Thorpe, J. R. Grant, A. Barkatt. Superparamagnetic Nanoparticles in Tap Water, Water Res. (2007) doi:10.1016/j.watres.2007.03.035

   
Dr. Demetrius Venable Venable, Demetrius D. - Office: Thirkield Hall, Room 200
- Phone: (202) 806-6245
- Fax: (202) 806-5830
- DVenable@Howard.edu
- Website

Research Fields: Optical physics
Degree: Ph.D., American 1974, Physics

Selected Publications

M. Adam, D. Venable, R. Connell, E. Joseph, D. N. Whiteman, B. B. Demoz. Performance of the Howard University Raman Lidar during 2006 WAVES campaign, (Accepted for publication in Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials)

Raman Lidar Measurements During the International H2O Project. I. Instrument and Analysis Techniques. D. N. Whiteman, H. Demoz, J. Comer, I. Veselovskii, K. Evans, Z. Wang, M. Cadirola, G. Schwemmer, B. Gentry, S. H. Melfi, B. Mielke, D. Venable, and T. Van Hove, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 23, 157-169 (2006).

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Professors Emeriti

Chung, David Y.
Research Fields: Solid state physics; Ultrasonics; Optics.
Degree: Ph.D., British Columbia (Canada), 1966.
 
Klein, Lewis S.
Research Fields: Laser spectroscopy; Plasma physics.
Degree: Ph.D., Yale, 1958.
 
Kumar, Cidambi K.
Research Fields: Astronomy: Astrophysics.
Degree: Ph.D., Michigan, 1969.

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Associate Professors

Dr. Marcus Alfred Alfred, Marcus - Office: Thirkield Hall, Room 202
- Phone: (202) 806-6258
- Fax: (202) 806-5830
- MarAlfred@Howard.edu
- Website

Research Fields: Nuclear and Particle Physics, Computational Physics, Biophysics, Statistical Physics
Degree: Ph.D., Howard, 2000. Physics

Selected Publications

"A Probabilistic Routing Algrorithm for DTNs of Randomly Moving Nodes". Proc. of Wireless Net. Devices. 2005. ", Jiang Li, Legand Burge, Kathleen Kaplan, Marcus Alfred

Analytic Representation of the Dirac Equation. Tepper L. Gill, W. W. Zachary, and Marcus Alfred, J. Phys A: Math. Gen. 38 (2005) 6955-6976.

     
Dr. Demoz Belay Demoz, Belay

- Office: Thirkield Hall, Room 213
- Phone: (202) 806-6267
- Fax: (202) 806-5830
- bbdemoz@Howard.edu
- Website

Research Fields: Atmospheric Physics and Chemistry, Meteorological Observations
Degree: Ph.D., University of Nevada-Reno and Desert Research Institute (DRI), 1992. Atmospheric Physics.
(Mesocale Atmospheric Processes Branch, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)

Selected Publications

Demoz, B., C. Flamant, T. Weckwerth, D. Whiteman, K. Evans, F. Fabry, P. Di Girolamo, D. Miller, B. Geerts, W. Brown, G. Schwemmer, B. Gentry, W. Feltz, and Z. Wang, 2006: The dryline on 22 May 2002 during IHOP_2002: Convective scale measurements at the profiling site. Mon. Wea. Rev. (January 2006)

D. N. Whiteman, B. Demoz, P. Di Girolamo, J. Comer, I. Veselovskii, K. Evans, Z. Wang, M. Cadirola, K. Rush, G. Schwemmer, B. Gentry, S. H.Melfi, B. Mielke, D. Venable, T. Van Hove, 2005: Raman Lidar Measurements During the International H2O Project. I. Instrumentation and Analysis Techniques. In Press. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Whiteman, D., B. B. Demoz, F. Schmidlin, F. Russo, I. Veselovski, S. Hannon, A. Gambacorta, Z. Wang, L. Miloshevich, B. Lesht, H. Vomel, C. Barnet, 2005: The AIRS Water Vapor Experiment and its Relationship to Aqua Validation, , In Press. J. Geoph. Research

Demoz, B., D. O'C. Starr, K.D. Evans, A. R. Lare, D. N. Whiteman, G. Schwemmer, R. A. Ferrare, J.E.M. Goldsmith and S.E. Bisson, 2005: The Cold Front of 15 April 1994 Over Central U.S.: Observations. Mon. Wea. Rev., 133, No. 6, pp 1525–1543.

Griaznov, V, I. Veselovskii, P. Di Girolamo, B. Demoz, and D. N. Whiteman, 2004: Numerical simulation of light backscattering by spheres with off-center inclusion. Application to the lidar case. Applied Optics. 43, 1-11.

Weckwerth, T., D. Parsons, S. Koch, S. Moore, M. LeMone, B. Demoz, C. Flamant, B. Geerts, J. Wang and W. Feltz, 2004: An Overview of the International H2O Project (IHOP_2002) and Some Preliminary Highlights. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 85, 253-277.

Di Girolamo, P., B. Demoz and D. Whiteman 2003: Model simulations of melting hydrometeors: A new lidar bright band from melting frozen drops. Geophys. Res. Lett., 30, 12, 1626.

Demoz, B. B., D. O'C. Starr, D. N. Whiteman, K. Evans, and D. Hlavka, 2000: Raman LIDAR detection of cloud base. Geophys. Res. Lett., 27, 13, 1899-1902.

Demoz, B.B., D.O'C. Starr, K.R. Chan, and S.W. Bowen, 1998: Wavelet Analysis of Dynamical Processes in Cirrus, Geophys. Res. Lett., 25, 9, 1339-1343.

Demoz, B. B., J. L. Collett, Jr., and B. C. Daube, Jr., 1996: On the design and performance of the California institute of technology cloudwater collector. Atmos. Res., 41, 47-62.

Demoz, B. B., R. Zhang, R. Pitter, and D. Mitchell, 1993: An analysis of Sierra Nevada winter orographic storms: Ground--based ice crystal observations. J Appl. Meteor., 42, 1826-1836.

Demoz, B. B., and A. W. Huggins, 1993: Field performance of a Spinning Reflector Microwave Radiometer. J. Atmos. Ocean. Technol., 10, 3, 420-427.

Demoz, B. B., J. A. Warburton, and R. H. Stone, 1990: The influence of rimming on the oxygen isotopic composition of ice-phase winter precipitation. Atmos. Res., 26 , 6, 463-489.

Fitting, H. J. and B. B. Demoz (1987): Electrical and Optical investigation of soil suspensions, rock crush solutions and Red Sea water, Wilhelm--Pieck--University of Rostock, GDR, 36, pp. 27--30.

 
Dr. Joseph Everette Joseph, Everette

- Office: Thirkield Hall, Room 200
- Phone: (202) 806-6256
- Fax: (202) 806-5830
- EJoseph@Howard.edu
- Website

Research Fields: Atmospheric Science
Degree: Ph.D., SUNY - Albany , 1997

Selected Publications

Ship-Based Measurements for Infrared Sensor Validation During AEROSE 2004-2005. N. R. Nalli, P. Clemente-Colon, P. Minnett, M. Szczodrak, V. Morris, E. Joseph, M. Goldberg, C. Barnet, W. Wolf, A. Jessup, R. Branch, R. O. Knuteson and W. F. Feltz, J. Geophys. Res., (Accepted)

Profile Observations of the Saharan Air Layer During: 2005 AEROSE 2004 2005. N. Nalli, Pablo Clemente-Colon, V. Morris, E. Joseph, M. Goldberg, M. Szczodrak, P. Minnett, and J. Shannahoff, Geophys. Res. L. (Accepted) 2005: "Hands-on" Diversity: Training Underrepresented Students Through Atmospheric Experimentation. E. Joseph, J. D. Fuentes, B. Demoz, D. Venable, E. Daniel Carre, F. Nzeffe, S. Walford, M. Robjhon, R. Pearson, K. Apodaca, R. Mahecha, H. Moore, J. Seymore, BAMS (Accepted)

Thompson , A. M., J B Stone , J. C Witte , S. K Miller , S. J. Oltmans , T. Kucsera, J. Merrill , G. Forbes , D. Tarasick , E. Joseph , F J Schmidlin , W. W. McMillan , J. Warner , E. J Hintsa, J. Johnson. IONS-04 (INTEX Ozonesonde Network Study, 2004). , J. Geophys. Res, (accepted), 2007

Thompson , A. M., J B Stone , J. C Witte , S. K Miller , S. J. Oltmans , T. Kucsera, J. Merrill , G. Forbes , D. Tarasick , E. Joseph , F J Schmidlin , W. W. McMillan , J. Warner , E. J Hintsa, J. Johnson. Tropospheric Ozone Budgets and Variability over Northeastern North America, J. Geophys. Res, (accepted), 2007

Thompson, A. M., J. B. Stone, J. C. Witte, R. B. Pierce, S. J. Oltmans, O. R. Cooper, B. F. Taubman, R. B.Chatfield, B. J. Johnson, E. Joseph, T. L. Kucsera, J. T. Merrill, G. A. Morris, S. Hersey, M. J. Newchurch, F. J. Schmidlin, D. W. Tarasick, V. Thouret, J. P. Cammas. IONS (INTEX Ozonesonde Network Study, 2004): Perspective on Summertime UT/LS (Upper Troposphere/Lower Stratosphere) Ozone over Northeastern North America, J. Geophys. Res., 10.129/2006JD007441, (accepted), 2007

Morris, V., P. Clemente-Colón, N. R. Nalli, E. Joseph, R. A. Armstrong, Y. Detrés, M. D. Goldberg, P. J. Minnett, R. Lumpkin (2006). Measuring Trans-Atlantic Aerosol Transport From Africa, Eos Trans. AGU, 87(50), 565, doi:10.1029/2006EO500001

Morris, V. T.-W. Yu, E. Joseph, R. Armstrong, R. Fitzgerald, R. Karim, X.-Z. Liang, and Q. Min 2006. The NOAA Center for Atmospheric Sciences (NCAS): Programs and Achievements. BAMS (accepted)

M. Adam, D. Venable, R. Connell, E. Joseph, D. N. Whiteman, B. B. Demoz. Performance of the Howard University Raman Lidar during 2006 WAVES campaign, (Accepted for publication in Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials)

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Assistant Professors

Dr. Silvina Gatica Gatica, Silvina

- Office: Thirkield Hall, Room 101
- Phone: (202) 806-6253
- Fax: (202) 806-5830
- SGatica@Howard.edu
- Website

Research Fields: Condensed Matter Physics, Computational Physics
Degree: Ph.D., University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1995. Physical Sciences

Selected Publications

Tight-Binding Calcium Clusters from Adaptive Tempering Monte Carlo Simulation. X. Dong, S. Gatica and E. Blaisten-Barojas, Computing Letters 4, (2005)

Capillary Condensation in cylindrical Nanopores. S. M. Gatica and M. W. Cole, Phys. Rev. E 72, 041602 (2005)

S. M Gatica, X. Dong and E. Blaisten-Barojas. Study of solid-liquid phase changes of Lennard-Jones nanoclusters by NPT Monte Carlo Simulations, J. of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience (2007)

   
Dr. Kimani Stancil Stancil Kimani - Office: Thirkield Hall, Room 205
- Phone: (202) 806-7665
- Fax: (202) 806-5830
- kstancil@howard.edu
Research Fields: Condensed Matter Physics
Degree: Ph.D., MIT, 2002

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Lecturers

Connell, Rasheen - Office:
- Phone:
- Fax:
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Research Fields: Atmospheric Physics
Degree: Ph.D., Howard, 2010. Physics
   
Finch, Tehani - Office: Thirkield Hall, Room 200
- Phone: (202) 806-3256
- Fax: (202) 806-5830
- tkfinch@howard.edu
Research Fields: Black Hole Physics
Degree: Ph.D., Howard, 2008. Physics
 
Intsiful, Peter - Office: Thirkield Hall, Room 202
- Phone: (202) 806-6258
- Fax: (202) 806-5830
- PIntsiful@Howard.edu
Research Fields: Experimental Physics
Degree: Ph.D., Howard, 2006. Physics
 
Mensah, Francis - Office: Thirkield Hall, Room 206
- Phone: (202) 806-6242
- Fax: (202) 806-5830
- FMensah@Howard.edu
Research Fields: Biophysics, Non-linear dynamics
Degree: Ph.D., Howard, 2006. Physics
   
Weldegaber, Mengsteab - Office: Thirkield Hall, Room 15
- Phone: (202) 806-6257
- Fax: (202) 806-5830
- mengshw@gmail.com
Research Fields: Atmospheric Physics
Degree: Ph.D., University of Maryland, 2009. Atmospheric Physics

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Research Associates

Senftle, Frank - Office: Thirkield Hall, Room 205
- Phone: (202) 806-6255
- Fax: (202) 806-5830
- FSenftle@Howard.edu

Research Fields: Condensed Matter
Degree: Ph.D., Toronto, 1947, Physics

Selected Publications

Senftle, F. E., A. N. Thorpe, J. R. Grant, A. Barkatt. Superparamagnetic Nanoparticles in Tap Water, Water Res. (2007) doi:10.1016/j.watres.2007.03.035

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