Alan Middleton

Relevant Information
Office	Physics 211
Office Hours	Thursdays, 2:00-4:00 pm
Office Phone Number	X-2408
E-mail	aam@npac.syr.edu

Biographical Information

Alan Middleton is an assistant professor in the Physics Department at Syracuse University. He grew up in Portland, Oregon. He received a B.S. in Mathematics and Physics from Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California (1984) and attended graduate school at Cambridge University and Princeton University (Ph.D. 1990). He was employed as a researcher at Syracuse University and the NEC Research Institute, in Princeton, New Jersey. He joined the faculty of Syracuse University in January, 1995.

Professor Middleton's teaching interests include teaching non-scientists about scientific issues of general interest and the use of computers for instructional simulations and to distribute course material.

Professor Middleton's research interests include condensed matter theory, which is the study of materials that are in the solid or liquid state, and computational physics. He has worked on superconductors and "quantum dots". A particular focus of his research is how simulations on a computer are conceptually related to physical processes. Professor Middleton has been awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship.

His other activities include bridge, birding, and basketball.