Benjamin Schumacher

Professor of Physics

B.A. -- Hendrix College, 1982

Ph.D. -- University of Texas, 1990

Directory information

E-mail: schumacherb@kenyon.edu
Phone: 740-427-5832
FAX: 740-427-5573
Office: RBH 202
Lab: RBH 205/207

Currently teaching (2011-12)

PHYS 110 - First-year Seminar: Entropy
PHYS 340 - Classical Mechanics
PHYS 105 - Frontiers of Gravity and Astrophysics
SCMP 401 - Advanced Scientific Computing Seminar
IPHS 225 - Galileo to Einstein

Research interests

Ben Schumacher does research in quantum information theory, foundational problems in quantum mechanics, and the connections between information and thermodynamics.

Kenyon College

Physics Department

Physics Faculty

Page updated: January 23, 2011