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Peter C. Tandy

Professor
Campus:
Kent
Contact Information
Email:
tandy@kent.edu
Phone:
330-672-4027
Fax:
330-672-2959

Biography

  • Graduate Coordinator (2011-2015)
  • Acting Vice-President for Research (2006 - 2007)
  • Chair, Department of Physics (2001 - 2004)
  • Director of Center for Nuclear Research, KSU (1992 - 2000)  
  • Elected Fellow of the Australian Institute of Physics (1995)
  • Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (1996)
  • Distinguished Scholar Award, Kent State University (2001)

Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities

Special Interests:

Non-perturbative QCD-based field theory modeling of hadrons and hadronic interactions; QCD substructure and effective field theory models for nuclear interactions; Electromagnetic form factors and substructure of nucleons and mesons; Electromagnetic excitation of simple hadronic transitions relevant to the experimental program at Jefferson Lab; Path integral formulation of field theory; Dynamical chiral symmetry breaking, composite particles in field theory.

Publications

Expertise

Subatomic Physics
Quantum Field Theory
Quantum Chromodynamics
Elementary Particles
Quarks And Gluons
Nuclear and Particle Physics
Theoretical Physics
Strong Interaction Physics
Nuclear/Particle Physics

Awards/Achievements

  • Research program supported continuously by NSF single-PI grants: 1979-2018.

Documents

PDF icon full_cv_KSUprofile_Mar2011_03092011_010707.pdf
PDF icon full_cv%20Tandy%20June%2010%202015.pdf
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