Dick Furnstahl

Who I am . . .

• Name: Richard J. Furnstahl
• Title: Professor, Department of Physics
• Degrees: B.S. MIT, 1981; Ph.D., Stanford University, 1986
• Spouse: Terri Stankiewicz

Where I am . . .

• Office: M2048 Physics Research Bldg.
• Office phone: (614) 292-4830
• Fax: (614) 292-7557
• Department address: 191 W. Woodruff Ave., Columbus, OH 43210
• Email: furnstah@mps.ohio-state.edu or furnstahl.1@osu.edu

What I do . . .

• Group: Nuclear Theory Group
• Research interests:
  • effective field theories and renormalization group for many-body systems
  • quantum chromodynamics and nuclear phenomena
  • relativistic field theory at finite temperature and/or density
  • physics education, particularly for upper-level physics courses
• Current graduate students:
  • Eric Anderson, M2060 Physics Research Bldg., x2-1648, anderson at physics.ohio-state.edu
  • Eric Jurgenson, M2060 Physics Research Bldg., x2-1648, jurgenson.1 at osu.edu
• Former graduate students:
  • Anirban Bhattacharyya, graduated with PhD 2005, anirban@ornl.gov
  • Negussie Tirfessa, graduated with PhD 2001, intirfessa@mcc.commnet.edu
  • Sunethra Ramanan, graduated with PhD 2007, M2060 Physics Research Bldg., x2-1648, suna@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu
  • John Rusnak, graduated with PhD 1997, john.j.rusnak@lmco.com
  • Trey White, graduated with MS 1996, whitejbiii@ornl.gov
• Courses in 2008: Computational Physics (780.20) [Sp08]
• Department Committees: Budget Committee, Undergraduate Studies Committee

More information . . .

• My hotlist
• "Live long and prosper!"

Selected preprints and publications . . .

A (mostly) complete list is available from SPIRES.