Faculty | Physics | SIU

Bob Baer is an academic professional staff member in the Southern Illinois University Carbondale School of Physics and Applied Physics.  He is the Director of the Physics Department’s public astronomy observation program and co-chair of the Southern Illinois Eclipse 2017 - 2024 Steering Committee. He is a board member in the Astronomical Association of Southern Illinois, a member of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, and the NASA SMD Science Activation community and is currently serving as Co-Chair of the Local Planning Working Group on the AAS Solar Eclipse Task Force.  Bob is currently working on the Dynamic Eclipse Broadcast Initiative and other NASA and NSF funded projects involving nation-wide STEM engagement.

Courses taught here are:

• PHYS 103 - Astronomy
• PHYS 203A - University Physics
• PHYS 203B - University Physics
• PHYS 390- Sudy Abroad

Mark Byrd is a professor of  physics specializing in Theoretical Quantum Computation and Quantum Error Correction. He received his PhD from The University of Texas Austin in 1999. He has been at SIU since 2003. Please visit his personal webpage for more information.  Dr. Byrd is a member of the Quantum Computing Group at SIU, and maintains the Qunet Quantum Information and Computation wiki.

Degree: M.S. University of Oklahoma

Teaching

• PHYS 101
• PHYS 203A

Office Hours

M,W,F 11am to 1pm

Richard Holland is a Lecturer of Physics. He received his PhD from Southern Illinois University Carbondale in 1999. He has been at SIU since 1998.

Dr. Jayasekera joined the Department in the Fall of 2011. She graduated with a Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma, with Prof. Kieran Mullen and Prof. Michael A. Morrison. She did her postdoctoral work with Prof. J. W. Mintmire at Oklahoma State University, and with Prof. M. Boungiorno Nardelli and Prof.  K. W. Kim at North Carolina State University.

Dr. Bumsu Lee is an assistant professor in the Department of Physics at SIUC starting in Fall of 2019. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Yonsei University, South Korea, and a Ph.D. degree in Physics from Rutgers University. Prior to the current position, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania and an NRC research associate working at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory.

Teaching

PHYS 565A

Office Hours

Online

Office Hours

MWF 9:30-11:00 AM

MF 3:00-4:00 PM

Teaching Assignments (Fall 2023)

• PHYS 205A-002 - University Physics.
• PHYS 205B-001 - University Physics.
• PHYS 206A - Problem Solving for PHYS 205A.
• PHYS 206B - Problem Solving for PHYS 205B.
• PHYS 500A - Mathematical Methods (graduate level).

Poopalasingam Sivakumar is an Assistant professor in the Department of Physics at Southern Illinois University Carbondale since Fall 2015. He received his Ph.D. in Experimental Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics from the University of Oklahoma in 2009. He then continued his research as a post-doctoral research fellow at the Delaware State University.

Office Hours

By appointment: Over Zoom platform or F2F (depending upon the situation)
Please email:saikat@siu.edu

Office Hours for Graduate Students

W: 11:30am - 12:30pm
Location: Neckers 474 (for F2F) virtual on Zoom

Office Hours

TBA

Courses taught here are:

• PHYS205B
• PHYS301
• PHYS310
• PHYS430

Teaching

• PHYS101 Online
• PHYS103 Online
• PHYS203A Online
• PHYS203B Online