Simon Catterall

Relevant Information
Office	Physics 371
Office Hours	Tuesday 3:00-5:00PM
Office Phone Number	x5978
E-mail	smc@npac.syr.edu

Biographical Info

Simon Catterall is an Assistant Professor of Physics at Syracuse University. He was born in England in 1964 and obtained a BA in Physics from Oxford University in 1985. In 1989 he received a D.Phil. in Theoretical Physics from Oxford. Following research appointments at Cambridge University, University of Illinois and the European Centre for Particle Physics in Geneva, he joined the faculty at Syracuse in 1993.

His research field is elementary particle physics with special emphasis on computational physics. He has authored over thirty research publications. During the past year he has been heavily involved with integrating computers into the undergraduate classroom. As part of this he has developed an internet-based multimedia module "Mind and Machine" used in the course Science for the 21st Century.

Outside the classroom Professor Catterall is a keen rockclimber and mountaineer being past President of the Oxford University Mountaineering Club. He has climbed extensively both in Britain, the United States and the European Alps. He is senior member of the SU Outing Club.