Paul Nakroshis
HE | HIM | HIS
- Chair of The Department of Physics
- Associate Professor of Physics
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Science Building, Portland Campus, 96 Falmouth Street, Portland, ME 04104-9300
Education
- B.S. Physics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Ph.D. Experimental Gravitational Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
I am an experimental physicist by training, having worked at Fermilab, Brookhaven National Lab, and on a sensitive test of Einstein’s Equivalence Principle in graduate school with Robert Krotkov and Hajime Sakai. Since arriving at USM, I have done work in video microscopy of Brownian motion, granular materials, and created the state of Maine’s first course in Computational Physics. I have been increasing my efforts in Computational Physics, most recently abandoning Python in favor of the far speedier Julia Language, to which I have contributed to the package ecosystem. I am also working on two different experiments: one involving the simulation and measurement of a rotating conducting ring in a static magnetic field, and another on building a sensitive torstion pendulum to measure small magnetic field fluctuations. I am also working to add computational physics problem set questions to all of our upper level physics courses.
To find out more, please go to portlandphysics.me
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Science Building, Portland Campus, 96 Falmouth Street, Portland, ME 04104-9300
Education
- B.S. Physics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Ph.D. Experimental Gravitational Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst