Protik K. Majumder

Professor of Physics

Education/Experience:

• Yale College: B.S., 1982
• Harvard University: Ph.D., 1989
• University of Washington: Postdoctoral Fellow; Research Asst. Professor, 1989-1994
• Williams College
  • Director of the Science Center and Chair of the Science Exec. Committee 2010 -
  • Prof. of Physics 2006 -
  • Dept. Chair 2003-2005
  • Assoc. Prof. of Physics 2001-2006
  • Asst. Prof. of Physics 1994-2001

Contact Information:

• OFFICE: BSC 123; phone: (413) 597-3211
• LAB: BSC B24; phone: (413) 597-4213
• FAX: (413) 597-4116
• E-mail: pmajumde@williams.edu

Courses Taught recently:

• PHYSICS 301(F): Introductory Quantum Mechanics (+advanced lab)
• PHYSICS 109(F): Sound, Light, and Perception
  
• PHYSICS 201(S): Electricity and Magnetism (+ labs)
  

Recent Senior Honors/research students (current activities):

Antonio Lorenzo '11

Anne O'Leary '10 (Geoscience Ph.D. program - PRINCETON)

Huajie (Charles) Cao '09 (Physics Ph.D. program - PRINCETON)

Paul Hess '08 (Physics Ph.D. program - HARVARD)

Toby Schneider '07 (Mech./Ocean Eng. Ph.D. program - MIT / WOODS HOLE)
Owen Simpson '07 (Physics Ph.D. program - PRINCETON)
Jared Strait '07 (E.E. Ph.D. program - CORNELL)

David Butts '06 (Aero/Astro Eng. Ph.D. program - MIT)

Joseph Kerckhoff '05 (Physics Ph.D. program - STANFORD)
Colin Bruzewicz '05 (Physics Ph.D. program - YALE)

Mark Burkhardt '04 (Physics Ph.D. program - STANFORD)

Christopher Holmes '03 (Atmos. Sci. Ph.D. program - HARVARD)

Charlie Doret '02 (Physics Ph.D. program - HARVARD)

Paul Friedberg '01 (E.E. Ph.D. program - UC BERKELEY)

Andrew Speck '00 (Physics Ph.D. (2005) - HARVARD; Junior Fellow, Rowland Inst. @ Harvard)

Postdoctoral Research Associate (Dec '06 - June '09): Dr. Mevan Gunawardena (Ph.D. 2007, Purdue U.),
now Assistant Prof. of Physics and Engineering, Stonehill College, Easton, MA.

• RESEARCH PAGE:
  "Precision Spectroscopy and Tests of Fundamental Physics using Group IIIA Atoms"

• Family page (only of historical interest!)