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 Stuart Wick                    


Stuart D. Wick

Assistant Professor,
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois.


Office Phone: (847) 735-6207
E-mail address: wick AT lakeforest.edu

Education
  • Ph.D. (Theoretical Physics), Vanderbilt University, 1999.
  • M.S., University of Illinois at Chicago, 1993.
  • B.A., Saint Olaf College, 1988.




Research Interests
Computational Neuroscience
Theoretical Astroparticle Physics
Direct Magnetic Monopole Searches


Selected Publications:
with M. T. Wiechert, R. W. Friedrich and H. Riecke, "Discrimination of Similar Odor Stimuli by Adapted Nonlinear Recurrent Networks," in preparation.
with T. Dougall, "Dirac Magnetic Monopole Production from Photon Fusion in Proton Collisions," arXiv:0706.1042 [hep-ph].
with T. W. Kephart, T. J. Weiler, and P. L. Biermann, "Signatures for a Cosmic Flux of Magnetic Monopoles," Astroparticle Physics 18:663-687(2003), astro-ph/0001233.
with F. S. Ling and P. Sikivie, "Diurnal and Annual Modulation of Cold Dark Matter Signals," Physical Review D 70:123503(2004), astro-ph/0405231.
with P. Sikivie, "Solar Wakes of Dark Matter Flows," Physical Review D 66:023504(2002), astro-ph/0203448.

My Publications listed on SPIRES
My Publications listed on Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)


Current Teaching
  • General Physics, Lake Forest College, PHYS 110, Fall 2008.
  • Light, Sound and Waves, Lake Forest College, PHYS 106, Fall 2008.

Past Teaching
  • Multiple Integration and Vector Calculus, Northwestern Univ, MATH 234, Spring 2007, Fall 2007, Spring 2008.
  • Principles of Astrophysics and Cosmology, SMU PHYS 3368, Spring 2006.
  • Introduction to Electromagnetic Theory, SMU PHYS 4392, Spring 2005.
  • Fundamentals of Physics, SMU PHYS 1313. Fall 2004, Spring 2005, and Fall 2005.
  • General Physics 2: Electricity and Magnetism, SMU PHYS 1308/1408, Summer 2005.
  • Electricity and Magnetism Laboratory, SMU PHYS 1106/1408, Summer 2005.
  • General Physics 1: Mechanics, SMU PHYS 1307, Spring 2006.

Outreach Activities
Dallas Regional Science and Engineering Fair
SMU QuarkNet Workshop