Faculty and Staff Participating in PAN 2001
Walter Benenson (Ph.D., Wisconsin, 1962) is a University Distinguished Professor of Physics at MSU. His research interests include precision mass measurements of nuclei far from stability, subthreshold production of pions, and direct reactions at intermediate energies.
Thomas Glasmacher (Ph.D., Florida State, 1992) is an associate professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and at the NSCL. His research concentrates on the evolution of nuclear structure far from stability.
P. Gregers Hansen (Ph.D., University of Copenhagen, 1954) holds a Hannah Professorship. He is the former Scientific Director of the ISOLDE project at CERN and his research concentrates on the study of halo nuclei.
Paul Mantica (Ph.D., Maryland, 1990) is an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and at the NSCL and studies the structure of nuclei far from stability.
Orilla McHarris (Ph.D., Berkeley, 1967) is a physicist at the NSCL and the NSCL science liaison.
Reginald Ronnigen (Ph.D., Vanderbilt, 1975) is a senior physicist at the NSCL and also serves as the NSCL Radiation Safety Officer.
Hendrik Schatz, (Ph.D., University Heidelberg, 1997) is an assistant professor at the NSCL and the Department of Physics and Astronomy. His research interest concentrates nuclear astrophysics with very unstable nuclei.
Daniel Stump ((Ph.D., MIT, 1976) is an associate professor in Theoretical Physics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. His studies include strong interaction theory and quantum chromo dynamics.
Michael Thoennessen, (Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1988) is a Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the NSCL. His main research area is nuclei very far from stability.
Gary Westfall (Ph.D., Texas, 1975) is a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and at the NSCL. His research includes a nuclear reactions program at the NSCL mapping out the properties of nuclear matter. He also carries out a research program at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory where he studies the quark gluon plasma.