I am a physics professor and optical physicist. I have developed and taught courses at all levels of university instruction--from upper-level graduate courses, such as Quantum Optics, to introductory courses for nonscience students, such as The Physics Behind the Internet. In working with my PhD students on research to teaching introductory courses in the Physics Department and in the University of Oregon’s Honors College, I really enjoy interacting with students who want to learn about science and physics. I am not especially computer savvy; I admit this so that potential adopters of this text book will not fear being intimidated by any need to have specialized computer knowledge to teach from this book. I have tried to filter all the needed computer-related knowledge through my lay-person’s eyes to make it accessible to any student and any instructor of physics.

My own research is in quantum and classical optics, lasers, atomic and molecular physics, and quantum information science. One of our lab’s important discoveries was how to determine the quantum state of a system, such as an atom, molecule, or a light mode. See Measuring the quantum mechanical wave function. I published a review of this topic written for undergraduate students in Contemporary Physics (click on journal image below), which was subsequently republished in a collection of articles commemorating 50 years of the journal’s publishing.

A professional biography is here.

A full CV is here.

    The author lecturing at the Quantum Challenges Meeting,

    Zakopane, Poland, June 2009