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GEORGE SIOPSIS Curriculum Vitae Research Interests LHC physics, string theory, quantum gravity, black holes and cosmology Publications Teaching Physics 221 (Elements of Physics I) Spring 2002, Fall 2003. Physics 231 (Electricity and Magnetism) Fall 1997, 98, 99, Spring 2001. Physics 232 (Waves, Optics and Modern Physics) Spring 1998, Fall 2005. Physics 321 (Thermodynamics) Spring 1993 Physics 431 (Electrodynamics I) Fall 1993, 94, 95 Physics 432 (Electrodynamics II) Spring 1994, 95, 96 Physics 493 (The Theory of Relativity) Fall 1993, Spring 1994 Physics 493 (Supercomputers) Fall 1994 Physics 541-542 (Classical Electrodynamics for graduate students) 1996-97. Gravitation and Cosmology, Spring 2000, 04 String Theory I, Spring 2001 String Theory II, Fall 2001 Physics 611 (Quantum Field Theory I) Fall 2002. Physics 612 (Quantum Field Theory II) Spring 2003. Physics 611 (Quantum Fields, Strings and Cosmology) Fall 2004. Physics 612 (Introduction to String Theory) Spring 2005. Graduate Students Linda S. Arvin (MS, 1998) Marina V. Shmakova (PhD, 1999) Suphot Musiri (PhD, 2003) Chad A. Middleton (PhD, 2005) Scott H. Ness (PhD, 2005) James E. Alsup (PhD, 2010) Alaska Subedi (PhD, 2010) Usama Al Binni (PhD, 2011) Jason E. Therrien (PhD, 2012) Suman Ganguli (PhD, expected) Savan Kharel (PhD, expected) Kubra Yeter (PhD, expected) Conference Organizing Trends in Mathematical Physics (October 1998) The Invisible Universe: Dark Matter and Dark Energy (October 2005) Black Holes (September 2007) From Gravity to Thermal Gauge Theories: The AdS/CFT Correspondence (September 2009) Quantum Gravity and Quantum Cosmology (September 2011) Family life

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