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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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