Schedule for Spring 2009

   Curriculum Vitae

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   Teaching

            Spring 2009

            Physics 122 - General University Physics II

            Physics 352 - Electromagnetic Theory II

            Past courses

            PHYS 121- General University Physics I

            PHYS 212 - Waves and Optics

            PHYS 305 - Analytical Mechanics

            PHYS 310 - Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics          Class photo   

            PHYS 351 - Electromagnetic Theory 

   Research

            General interests

                    Optics and lasers

                    Ultrafast optical processes in semiconductors

                    Terahertz pulse generation and detection

                    Excited state absorption in organometallic molecules

                    White light interferometry

            Current projects      

                    Setting up an experimental optics lab at the University of Puget Sound.  First

            experiments involve measuring dispersion coefficients of liquid samples using a white    

            light Michelson interferometer.

            Recent publications

                    A.G. VanEngen Spivey, C.N. Borca, and S.T. Cundiff, "Correlation coefficient    

                             for dephasing of light-hole excitons and heavy-hole excitons in GaAs