Physics Faculty:

David Branning
Assistant Professor of Physics
McCook 113
(860) 297 4048

Christoph E. Geiss
Assistant Professor of Physics
McCook 105
(860) 297-4191
Web site: www.trincoll.edu/~cgeiss/

Harvey S. Picker
Professor of Physics
MCEC 255
(860) 297-2299

Mark P. Silverman
Professor of Physics
MCEC 277
(860) 297-2298
Web site: www.trincoll.edu/~silverma/

Mark Shapiro
Visiting Lecturer in Physics
McCook 108
(860) 297-4197

Wayne Strange
Physics Lab Coordinator
McCook 224
(860) 297-2359

Barbara L. Walden, chair
Associate Professor of Physics
MCEC 269
(860) 297-5324
Web site: www.trincoll.edu/~bwalden/

 

Campus Publications:

Trinity Physics All-Stars
The Trinity Reporter, Fall 2001

On a wintry day this past March, Steve Lundeen ‘69 [below] came back to Trinity. A professor at Colorado State University and a researcher in the field of atomic, molecular, and optical physics,  Lundeen had been invited by Professor of Physics Mark P. Silverman, a grad school chum, to give a lecture to physics students and faculty members at their weekly seminar series. continued...
 

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Profile: Prof. Barbara Walden
The Trinity Reporter, November 2000

The power of scientific observation

Asking the right questions is important to Associate Professor of Physics Barbara Walden. Since coming to Trinity 10 years ago, Walden has challenged her students to question their assumptions about the natural world, while she herself searches for answers to questions posed by an aspect of physics invisible to most of us. continued...

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The Physics Department
Pathways to a comprehensible universe
Mosaic, November 2000

Have you ever wondered why, when you clap your hands in a tunnel, the sound echoes the way it does? Have you noticed how cars in the movies explode in the most improbable, seemingly incombustible situations? Christopher R. Koning ’02 says he can’t help being curious about such things. And ever since he became a Trinity physics major, he has been happily learning the theories, gaining the hands-on laboratory experience, and developing the analytical tools to, as he puts it, "figure out how stuff works." continued...