Physics Dept. Faculty


	Timothy Sullivan Professor of Physics Ph.D. -- University of Washington, 1986 A.B. (Honors) -- University of Chicago, 1976

Directory information

E-mail: sullivan@kenyon.edu
Phone: 740-427-5830
FAX: 740-427-5573
Office: Hayes Hall 206

Office Hours (Fall, '09)

MW 11:10-12N & 2:10-3:00, W 3:10-4:00PM,
Or call or email for an appointment,
Or just stop by my office. If my door is open, I'll be happy to see you.

Currently Teaching (2009-2010):

PHYS 140 -- Classical Physics (Fall)
PHYS 340 -- Classical Mechanics (Fall)
PHYS 280, 281 -- Electronics and Electronics Lab (Spring)
PHYS 350 -- Computational Physics (Spring)

Web pages from courses taught in previous years

PHYS 360 - Quantum Mechanics (Fall, '04)
PHYS 370 - Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (Spring, '04)
PHYS 350 - Electromagnetic Theory (Fall, '03)
PHYS 102 -- Good Nukes, Bad Nukes (Fall, '06)
PHYS 218 -- Dynamical Systems in Scientific Computing (Spring, '07)

Research interests

My most recent research has been in the creation and characterization of colloidal crystal structures. I learned about this fascinating field during a year's sabbatical recently at Bell Labs. I also have done visualization of flow patterns in nonlinear fluid systems ranging from liquid helium mixtures to the convection produced near a dissolving salt crystal. A web site describing an ongoing project simulating Brownian motion is here . It is very much "under construction" as of Fall, 2007. I am also the local person to contact about our Beowulf cluster.

Contact: Connie Miller, Dept. of Physics.

Created by Bethany Anderson, Kenyon College 2005

Updated September 22, 2009