Paul Nakroshis

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