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- Undergraduate Student since 2016
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- Graduate Coordinator
- Graduate Coordinator / Oklahoma State University / Department of Physics
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- Professor Emeritus
- Professor Emeritus and APS Fellow
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- Professor and Head / Oklahoma State University / Department of Physics
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Dorival Gonçalves is a theoretical particle physicist and assistant professor in the Department of Physics at OSU. He obtained his PhD in physics from Heidelberg University (Germany) in 2013. Thereafter, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Max Planck Institute Munich (Germany) in 2013, Durham University (UK) from 2013 to 2016, and the University of Pittsburgh (USA) from 2016 to 2019. He joined OSU as an assistant professor in 2019. Dorival Gonçalves works on several aspects of Particle Physics within the Standard Model and beyond. His works span through various topics on Higgs physics, applications of quantum information and machine learning techniques to high energy physics, dark matter searches, electroweak phase transition, and baryogenesis.
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- Department Head
- Professor and Department Head
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- Professor Emeritus
- Regents Professor Emeritus
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- Noble Research Fellow
- Professor Emeritus
Dr. Jamie Hass, DVM, PhD, was a graduate student in the group and soon to finish her PhD in Physics. Her research project was to develop an interface between bone and prosthetics utilizing nanosprings coated with metal and metal oxides that promote cell proliferation and calcination of bone. She determined that the idea nanospring coating combination is TiO2 followed by a coating of Au nanoparticles. However, ZnO also has some benefits.
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- Regents Professor Emeritus
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- Associate Professor
- SPS Faculty Advisor
Dr. Haley completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Washington in Seattle where he received a B.S. in Physics and a B.S. in Astronomy in 2003. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2009 in the area of experimental high energy physics for his research at the DZero experiment at Fermilab. From 2009 to 2013 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow with Northeastern University in Boston, working on the DZero experiment and then the CMS experiment at CERN. Dr. Haley joined Oklahoma State University as an Assistant Professor in 2013. His research is now based on the ATLAS experiment at CERN.
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- Regents Professor
- Regents Professor of the Department of Physics at Oklahoma State University
K. S. Babu is a theoretical physicist and regents professor of the Department of Physics at Oklahoma State University. Earlier, he was interim head of the Department of Physics at Oklahoma State University. He received his PhD in 1986 from the University of Hawaii, under the supervision of Ernest Ma. He is one of three theoretical physicists named as a 2017 Distinguished Scholar by the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, or Fermilab, the largest particle accelerator facility in the United States. He has been appointed by the American Physical Society to lead the selection committee for the J.J. Sakurai Prize in Theoretical Particle Physics. He will serve as the Vice Chair of the Committee this year, which will consist of prominent physicists Zoltan Ligeti (Chair, Berkeley), Lisa Randall (Harvard), Nima Arkani-Hamed (Princeton IAS) and Carlos Wagner (Chicago). After serving a year as the Vice Chair, Babu will become the Chair of the Committee next year. The J.J. Sakurai Prize is the highest recognition awarded by the American Physical Society in the field of theoretical particle physics. Eight previous recipients of this award have gone on to win the Nobel Prize in physics.
Babu's research interests are primarily in the model-building and phenomenological aspects of physics beyond the Standard Model. He has been involved in studies of grand unified theories and nucleon decay. Babu is a key member of the neutrino theory community, having proposed several testable models of neutrino masses. His 1988 paper on two-loop generation of neutrino masses (the so-called Zee-Babu model) provides an alternative to high scale seesaw mechanism, and is well cited in the literature. He and Ed Kearns convened the Baryon Number Violation subgroup of the "Snowmass" 2013 Community Planning Study. He has helped organize the Center for Theoretical Underground Physics (CETUP) series of international conferences on neutrino physics in Lead, South Dakota.
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- Observatory Manager
- Teaching Assistant Professor
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- Associate Professor
- Undergraduate Research Coordinator
Dr. Borunda double-majored in Physics and Mathematics earning his B.S. from the University of Texas at El Paso in 2003. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from Texas A&M University in 2008. He spent three years as a postdoc and nine months as a research associate at Harvard University. In September 2012 he became a faculty member of the physics department at Oklahoma State University. Dr. Borunda has also been a visiting researcher at Harvard University.
Dr. Borunda has performed research in several areas. His work at UTEP, performed with Jorge Lopez, involved using α-particle spectroscopy as a teaching tool. As a graduate student (advised by Jairo Sinova) and post-doc (under Eric Heller) he performed calculations on electronic conductivity in two-dimensional systems, proposed and described an atom-laser coupling scheme that induces spin-orbit interaction in ultra-cold atoms, and simulated electron transport in graphene. At Oklahoma State his research has focused in quantum information, the quantum-to-classical boundary in chaotic systems, and using theoretical methods to predict novel materials for energy production and electronic applications. More details about the work performed at OSU is described in the research sections of these website.
Dr. Borunda is enthusiastic about working with undergraduate students and has worked towards producing a positive impact as undergraduate research coordinator for the OSU physics program, with minority students through the OK-LSAMP program, as faculty advisor of OSU's SACNAS chapter, and as technical officer with the National Society of Hispanic Physicists.
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- Associate Professor Emeritus
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- Associate Professor Emeritus
- Professor Emeritus
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- Professor Emeritus
- Regents Professor Emeritus and Director of the Oklahoma Center for High Energy ( OCHEP )
Regents Professor Emeritus and Director of the Oklahoma Center for High Energy (OCHEP)
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- Professor Emeritus
- Regents Professor Emeritus
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- Professor
- Professor and Noble Foundation Chair
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- Electronics Technology Coordinator
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- Master Student in Durham Days ), Postdoc Princeton University
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- Undergraduate Lab Coordinator
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- Graduate Student since 2018 from the University of Idaho
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- Graduate Student since 2016
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- Senior Academic Advisor
- Undergraduate Academic Counselor