Ian Durham
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Current Information
Position: Assistant Professor of Physics
Institution: Saint Anselm College
Homepage: http://www.anselm.edu/academics/depts/physics/faculty/durham/
Blog: http://quantummoxie.wordpress.com/
Email: idurham (at) anselm (dot) edu
Research
Keywords:
Research: These days I've been most interested in entropy in quantum mechanics, in particular thermodynamic issues in quantum information. I've also been working with some of my colleagues at Saint Anselm on experimental realizations of entangled photons (à la the Kwiat group on a smaller scale). I also do quite a bit of work in the history of physics, astronomy, and mathematics, in particular on the work of Sir Arthur Eddington and Edward A. Milne.
Affiliations
Groups:
Editor of APS TGQI's The Quantum Times: http://units.aps.org/units/gqi/newsletters/index.cfm.
Collaborators:
I've been working a lot with Frank Schroeck lately and trying to convince Caslav Brukner to collaborate. Occasionally I solicity ideas from Barry Sanders. Locally, I hang out with fellow Anselmians David Guerra, George Parodi, and Jeff Schnick, all of whom (like me) are refugees from other research areas.
Education
Undergraduate:
Institution: University at Buffalo (SUNY), 1992-1997 (B.S. Mechanical Engineering)
Graduate:
Institution: (1) The Johns Hopkins University, 1998-2000 (M.S. Applied Physics)
Institution: (2) University of St. Andrews, 2000-2005 (Ph.D. Mathematics)
Advisors: Edmund Robertson, John O'Connor (http://www-groups.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/)
Thesis: Sir Arthur Eddington and the Foundations of Modern Physics: http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0603146
Biography
Born: February, early 1970s | East Aurora, New York (technically Sister's Hospital in Buffalo, but that's splitting hairs)
Links:
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Moxie.
