Physics Dept. Faculty


	Timothy Sullivan Associate 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 (Spring, '08)

MTh 1:10 - 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 (2006-07):

SCMP 401 -- Scientific Computing Seminar (Fall)
PHYS 141 -- Introduction to Experimental Physics (Fall)
PHYS 145 -- Modern Physics (Spring)
PHYS 370 -- Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (Spring)

Web pages from courses taught in previous years

PHYS 140 - Classical Physics (Fall,04)
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 January 15, 2007