Education:

• Ph. D. Physics 1970 Harvard University
• M. A. Physics 1966 Harvard University
• B. A. Physics 1964 Harvard University

Dissertation:

• "Covariant Approach to Massless Field Theory in the Radiation Gauge" (advisor: Sidney Coleman)
  

Post-Doctoral positions:

• 1970-72 University of Utah
  
• 1972-74 University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  

Employment:

• 1974 Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
  
• 1974-77 Mt. Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA
  
• 1977-78 Trinity College, Hartford, CT
  
• 1978-Present Reed College, Portland, OR
  
• 2001-02 On leave at Mt. Holyoke, UMass (fall); Amherst, Smith (spring).
• 2007 (spring) Visiting Professor, Stanford University.

Research interests:

• Classical Electrodynamics
• Quantum Mechanics
• Elementary Particle Theory

Selected recent student thesis titles:

• 2005, Darren Platt, "Self-Adjoint Extensions and Quantum Mechanics"
• 2004, Moira Gresham, "Two-Dimensional Radial Laplacian Growth"
• 2003, Andrew Essin, "Quantum Mechanics of the Inverse-Square Potential"
• 2001, Sean Holman, "The Acoustic Casimir Effect"
• 2000, Jonah Gollub, "Radiation from Superluminal Sources"

Selected recent publications:

• "Waves in Locally Periodic Media" (with Carl A. Steinke), Am. J. Phys. 69, 137 (2001).
• "The Charge Distribution on a Conductor for Non-coulombic Potentials" (with Daniel Z. Uvanovic), Am. J. Phys. 69, 435 (2001).
• "Comment on 'Charge Density on a Thin Straight Wire, Revisited'" (with O. F. de A. Bonfim), Am. J. Phys. 69, 515 (2001).
• "Classical Casimir Effect for Beads on a String" (with Elan Ho), Am. J. Phys. 69, 1173 (2001).
• A Physicist's Desk Reference, 3rd ed., Chapter 11: ``Electricity and Magnetism", Springer (2003).
• "Quantum Mechanics of the 1/x^2 Potential" (with Andrew Essin), Am. J. Phys. 74, 109 (2006).
• "Critical Dipoles in One, Two, and Three Dimensions" (with Kevin Connolly), Am. J. Phys. 75, 524 (2007).

Books:

• "Introduction to Elementary Particles, 2nd ed.", Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany, 2008.

  Errata

  • Corrections to the first printing, September 16, 2008.

 

• "Introduction to Electrodynamics, 3rd ed.", Prentice-Hall, NJ, 1999.

  Errata

  • Corrections to the first printing (fixed in the second printing, summer 1999).
  • Corrections to the second printing, September 14, 1999.
  • Corrections to the third printing, August 7, 2000.
  • Corrections to the fifth printing, June 26, 2001.
  • Corrections to the tenth printing, September 1, 2004.
  • Corrections to the eleventh printing, February 26, 2006.
  • Corrections to the twelfth printing, October 4, 2007.
  • Correction to the EM Solutions Manual, September 1, 2004.
  • Additional corrections to the EM Solutions Manual, March 1, 2006.
  • Further corrections to the EM Solutions Manual, October 1, 2007.

 

• "Introduction to Quantum Mechanics", Prentice-Hall, NJ, 2nd ed, 2004.

  Errata

  • Corrections to first edition, August 10, 2000
  • Corrections to first printing of the second edition, September 1, 2004
  • Corrections to third printing of the second edition, February 26, 2006
  • Corrections to fifth printing of the second edition, October 4, 2007
  • Corrections to the QM Solutions Manual of the first edition, June 14, 2001.
  • Corrections to the QM Solutions Manual of the second edition, October 4, 2007.

Professional activities:

• Committee of Examiners, Graduate Record Examination in Physics (1994-2000).
• Book Review Editor, American Journal of Physics (1996-2003).
• Editorial Board, Physical Review E (1998-2004).
• Editorial Board, Foundations of Physics Letters (2004-).
• Editorial Advisory Board, American Journal of Physics (2005-).

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