Physics

Daniel James

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Physics
• Centres
  • Institute for Optical Sciences

Areas of Expertise

• Optics
• Quantum physics

Office: 416-946-3736
Mobile: 416-732-5615
Languages: English
Website
Email: dfvj@physics.utoronto.ca
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David Bailey

Associate Professor Emeritus/Emerita

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Physics

Areas of Expertise

• Physics Education Research

Office: 416-978-7105
Mobile: 416-534-0978
Languages: English
Website
Email: dbailey@physics.utoronto.ca

Henry van Driel

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Physics

Areas of Expertise

• Laser physics
• Photonics

Office: N/A
Languages: English,Dutch; Flemish,German,French
Website
Email: vandriel@physics.utoronto.ca
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Joseph Thywissen

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Physics

Areas of Expertise

• Fermi gases near unitarity
• Non-equilibrium phenomena
• Novel laser cooling techniques
• Quantum information.
• Quantum simulation

Office: 416 978-2941
Languages: English,French
Website
Email: jht@physics.utoronto.ca

Kimberly Strong

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Physics
• Centres
  • Centre for Global Change Science
  • School of the Environment

Areas of Expertise

• Arctic atmospheric science
• Arctic Atmospheric Science: PEARL, CANDAC, and PAHA
• Atmospheric measurements
• Atmospheric physics
• Balloons
• Climate change
• Concept study for OH Measurements from Space (OHMS)
• Ground-based ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy to measure the concentrations of stratospheric gases
• Ground-Based UV-Visible Remote Sounding of the Stratosphere
• How are balloons controlled?
• Identifying objects using debris
• Intracavity laser spectroscopy using a Fourier transform spectrometer in step-scan mode for temporal resolution
• Middle Atmosphere Nitrogen TRend Assessment (MANTRA)
• Modelling the retrieval of vertical profiles of tropospheric gases using a ranging spectrometer
• Near-infrared laboratory spectroscopy of methane in support of the Galileo mission to Jupiter
• Ozone depletion
• Remote sounding of the atmosphere (ground satellites)
• SCISAT-1 and the ACE-FTS and MAESTRO Satellite Instruments
• Stratospheric Science with the Odin Satellite
• Studies of Planetary Atmospheres
• The University of Toronto Atmospheric Observatory (TAO)
• Tropospheric pollution
• Ultraviolet-Visible-Infrared Laboratory Spectroscopy
• Weather balloons

Office: 416-978-5205
Website
Email: strong@atmosp.physics.utoronto.ca
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Pekka Sinervo

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Physics

Areas of Expertise

• Advanced research
• High-energy physics
• Nuclear physics
• Nuclear proliferation
• Nuclear waste and radiation safety
• Particle physics, high-energy physics, nuclear physics
• Research funding

Office: 416-978-5270
Languages: English,Finnish,French
Website
Email: pekka.sinervo@utoronto.ca
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Richard Teuscher

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Physics

Areas of Expertise

• ATLAS experiment
• CERN
• Experimental high energy physics
• Higgs Boson
• Particle physics, high-energy physics, nuclear physics

Office: N/A
Languages: English,French,German
Website
Email: richard.teuscher@utoronto.ca
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Robert Logan

Associate Professor Emeritus/Emerita

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Physics

Areas of Expertise

• Biocomplexity
• Canadian politics
• Industrial design
• Information theory
• Knowledge management and change management in corporations
• Linguistics: the origin and evolution of language
• Marshall McLuhan
• New media and art
• Science Education
• Social impact and history of media
• The Strategic Innovation Lab at OCAD: Design and Emergence
• Use of computers in education

Office: 416-978-8632
Mobile: 416-361-5928
Languages: English,French,Spanish; Castilian,Dutch; Flemish,Italian,German,Latvian
Website
Email: logan@physics.utoronto.ca
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Stephen Morris

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Physics

Areas of Expertise

• Emergence of regular patterns in nature
• Icicles and ice formations
• Nonlinear dynamics and chaos
• Physics of complex self-organizing systems
• Physics of everyday life

Office: 416-978-6810
Languages: English
Website
Email: smorris@physics.utoronto.ca
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W Richard Peltier

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Physics

Areas of Expertise

• Earth Evolution and Climate

Office: 416-978-2938
Languages: English
Website
Email: peltier@atmosp.physics.utoronto.ca
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Young-June Kim

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Physics

Areas of Expertise

• Dirac Magnons In A Honeycomb Lattice Quantum XY Magnet CoTiO3
• Is Alpha-RuCl3 A Kitaev Quantum Spin Liquid?
• Magnetic Hamiltonian Of Alpha-RuCl3
• Strongly Interacting Quasiparticles In A Quantum Magnet
• Weyl Semimetal Candidate: Pyrochlore Iridates

Office: 416-978-7868
Languages: English,Korean
Website
Email: youngjune.kim@utoronto.ca
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