Faculty Accomplishments Archive

Ovidiu Lipan was promoted to professor of physics. His research is focused on various aspects of the interplay between discrete and continuous models in theoretical physics, with a recent highlight on the connection between discrete and continuum electrodynamics.

Mariama Rebello de Sousa Dias, associate professor of physics, published “Physics-informed generative adversarial networks applied to dichroic filters’ properties regression” in Physica Scripta.

Mariama Rebello de Sousa Dias, associate professor of physics, published "Anisotropic Optical Response of Gold-Silver Alloys" in Physica Status Solidi (RRL) - Rapid Research Letters.

Christine Helms, associate professor of physics, published “Variability in individual native fibrin fibers mechanics” in Physical Biology.

Ovidiu Lipan, associate professor of physics, published "Optimizing bi-layered periodic structures: a closed-form transfer matrix method based on Pendry-MacKinnon’s discrete Maxwell’s equations" in the  Journal of the Optical Society of America B.

Ted Bunn, E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Chair in the Liberal Arts and professor of physics, published “Cosmological inflation in N-dimensional Gaussian random fields with algorithmic data compression” with Conner Painter, ’21, in The Open Journal of Astrophysics.

Ovidiu Lipan, associate professor of physics, published “Tuning the conductance topology in solids” in the Journal of Applied Physics.

Ted Bunn, E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Chair in the Liberal Arts and professor of physics, published “Optimal method for reconstructing polychromatic maps from broadband observations with an asymmetric antenna pattern” with Brianna Cantrall, ’23, and Solomon Quinn, ’18 in Physical Review D.

Jack Singal, associate professor of physics, published "Redshift Prediction with Images for Cosmology using a Bayesian Convolutional Neural Network with Conformal Predictions" in The Astrophysical Journal.

Jack Singal, associate professor of physics, published "Constraints on the Origin of the Radio Synchrotron Background via Angular Correlations" in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS).

Mariama Rebello de Sousa Dias, associate professor of physics, published "Photonics Roadmap for Ultra-High-Temperature Thermophotovoltaics" in Joule.

Ted Bunn, E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Chair in the Liberal Arts and professor of physics, received the 2023 Distinguished Scholarship Award from the University of Richmond at Colloquy.