RESEARCH ENTERPRISE
Facilities
The Center for Applied Studies (CAPS) is located in Engineering Annex Facility and offers:
- ~20,000 ft2 of laboratory and office space,
- Machine shop, Electronic lab, Dark Room,
- Cerberus: 25-node community cluster with 908 cores and over 70 TB of combined storage,
- Shared human resources – technical and secretarial staff,
- 16 faculty from physics, electrical engineering, biology and math, and
- 2Tflops, 70TB community cluster.
Faculty and Staff
Dr. Dentcho Genov (Director)
J. J. Gordano and Entergy Endowed Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering Director, Center for Applied Physics Studies
Research Interests: Optical materials by design, metamaterials, electromagnetic invisibility, light localization in disordered media, percolation theory.
Department: Physics, Electrical Engineering
Phone: (318) 257-4190 Fax: (318) 257-2777 Office: Engineering Annex, Room 220
Website: www.phys.latech.edu/~dgenov/ Email: dgenov@latech.edu
Dr. Zeno D. Greenwood (Associate Director)
W.W. Chew Professor of Physics Director, Nuclear Center
Research Interests: High energy physics, Monte Carlo simulations, Grid and Cloud computing.
Department: Physics
Phone: (318) 257-2302 Fax: (318) 257-4228 Office: Engineering Annex, Room 113
Website: www.phys.latech.edu/~greenw/ Email: greenw@phys.latech.edu
Dr. Kathleen Johnston (Associate Director)
Joe D. Waggoner Professor of Physics
Research Interests: Neutrino oscillations, gravitational waves (LIGO), particle astrophysics, hadron structure and hypernuclear physics
Department: Physics
Phone: (318) 257-4318/4092 Fax:(318) 257-4228 Office: Engineering Annex, Room 219
Website: http://www.phys.latech.edu/~johnston/ Email: johnston@phys.latech.edu
Dr. Lee Sawyer
Charles and Newllyn Spruell Endowed Professor of Physics Academic Director for Chemistry, Physics, and Nanosystems Engineering & Program Chair for Physics
Research Interests: Experimental high-energy physics.
Departments: Chemistry, Physics, and Nanosystems Engineering
Phone: (318) 257-4053 Fax: (318) 257-3823 Office: Carson-Taylor Hall, Room 316
Website: www.phys.latech.edu/~sawyer/ Email: sawyer@phys.latech.edu
Dr. Neven Simicevic
Professor of Physics and Director, Center for Applied Physics Studies
Research Interests: Experimental techniques, design, and simulations in nuclear physics; electromagnetic, elastic, and acoustic wave propagation and interaction with the material, including biomaterial. Sensors.
Department: Physics
Phone: (318) 257-3591 Fax: (318) 257-4228 Office: Engineering Annex, Room 212 Website:http://www.phys.latech.edu/~neven/ Email: neven@phys.latech.edu
Dr. Bala “Ramu” Ramachandran
Vice President of Graduate Studies Hazel Stewart Garner Professor of Chemistry
Research Interests: Computational chemistry, structure, energetics, and reactivity of organolithium compounds; catalytic reactions of oxide clusters and surfaces.
Departments: Chemistry, Physics, Nanosystems Engineering
Phone: (318) 257-4314 Fax: (318) 257-4339 Office: Bogard Hall, Room 330B
Website: www.chem.latech.edu/~ramu/ Email: ramu@latech.edu
Dr. Steven P. Wells
Associate Professor of Physics
Research Interests: Nucleon structure, parity violation, nucleon-nucleon interaction.
Department: Physics
Phone: (318) 257-2194 Fax: (318) 257-4228 Office: Engineering Annex, Room 214
Website: http://www.phys.latech.edu/~wells/ Email: wells@phys.latech.edu
Dr. Markus Wobisch
Associate Professor of Physics
Research Interests: Quantum chromodynamics (QCD), collider physics.
Department: Physics
Phone: (318) 257-4974 Fax: (318) 257-4228 Office: Engineering Annex, Room 207
Website: www.phys.latech.edu/~wobisch/ Email: wobisch@latech.edu
Dr. Weizhong Dai
McDermott International Professor of Mathematics
Research Interests: Numerical methods for partial differential equations, fluid dynamic heat transfer, image processing.
Department: Mathematics and Statistics
Phone: (318) 257-3301 Fax: (318) 257-2182 Office: Carson-Taylor Hall, Room 243
Research Interests: Computational atomic physics, studies of microseisms at LIGO and observational astronomy (variable stars). Department: Physics
Phone: (318) 257-4240 Fax: (318) 257-3823 Office: Carson-Taylor Hall, Room 242
Website: http://www.phys.latech.edu/~jshaw/ Email: jshaw@latech.edu
Dr. Collin D. Wick
Century Tel Associate Professor and Program Chair of Chemistry
Research Interests: Computational chemistry and materials science, including aqueous systems, interfaces with water, battery electrode materials, and heterogeneous catalysis.
Department: Chemistry
Phone: (318) 257-2345 Fax: (318) 257-3823 Office: Carson-Taylor Hall, Room 233
Website: www2.latech.edu/~cwick/ Email: cwick@latech.edu
Dr. Songming Hou
Associate Professor of Mathematics and Statistics
Research Interests: Interface and inverse problems.
Departments: Mathematics and Statistics
Phone: (318) 257-3270 Fax: (318) 257-2182 Office: George T. Madison Hall, Room 358
Website: www2.latech.edu/~shou/ Email: shou@latech.edu
Dr. Thomas C. Bishop
Associate Professor of Physics and Chemistry
Research Interests: Theoretical and computational molecular biology; atomic and coarse-grained simulations; multiscale models of DNA, nucleosomes and chromatin.
Departments: Chemistry, Physics
Phone: (318) 257-5209 Fax: (318) 257-3823 Office: Biomedical Engineering, Room 231
Website: www2.latech.edu/~bishop/ Email: bishop@latech.edu
Dr. Arun Jaganathan
Associate Professor of Civil Engineering and Construction Engineering Technology
Research Interests: Advanced sensors for condition assessment of buried infrastructure.
Department: Civil Engineering
Phone: (318) 257-2905 Fax: (318) 257-2306 Office: Bogard Hall, Room 247
Research Interests: Multiscale modeling of organic conductors and nanocomposites.
Departments: Physics, Nanosystems Engineering
Phone: (318) 257-5139 Fax: (318) 257-3823 Office: Institute for Micromanufacturing, Room 110
Website: http://www2.latech.edu/~pderosa/ Email: pderosa@latech.edu
Fredda Wagner
Administrative Assistant
Department: Physics
Phone: (318) 257-4072 Fax: (318) 257-2777 Office: Engineering Annex, Room 201
Email: fredda@latech.edu