Sharma, Prashant, Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Department of Physics
Suffolk University
41 Temple Street
Boston, MA 02114
Phone: 617-573-8013
Fax: 617-367-5063
psharma@suffolk.edu
Office: Archer 345
Research Interests
Physics of low-dimensional systems. Spintronics and Nanotechnology. Physics of strongly correlated condensed matter systems.Education
Boston University
Ph.D., Physics, 2003Banaras Hindu University, India
M.Sc., Physics, 1994B.Sc. Honors in Physics, 1992
Employment
2006 – Present, Assistant Professor of Physics, Suffolk University2008 – Visiting Professor, Harish Chandra Research Institute, India
2006-2004 – Postdoctoral Associate, Argonne National Laboratory, IL
2004-2002 – Postdoctoral Associate, Cornell University, NY
1995-2002 – PhD Candidate, Boston University, MA
1995-1994 – Research Fellow of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Indian Institute of Technology, India
1994 – K.S. Krishnan Research Fellow in Physics, Bhabha Atomic Research Center, India
Selected Publications
U. Hizi, Prashant Sharma, and C.L. Henley, Semiclassical ordering in the large-n pyrochlore antiferromagnet, Physical Review Letters, 95: 167203 (2005). Article Cited by: 7
Prashant Sharma, How to Create a Spin Current, Science, 307, 531 (2005). Article Cited by: 15
Prashant Sharma and Piet W. Brouwer, Mesoscopic effects in adiabatic spin pumping, Physical Review Letters, 91: 166801 (2003). Article Cited by: 42
Prashant Sharma and Claudio Chamon, Quantum pump for spin and charge transport in a Luttinger liquid, Physical Review Letters, 87: 096401 (2001). Article Cited by: 74
Talks and Conferences
Workshop for New Physics Faculty, Organized by American Association of Physics Teachers and National Science Foundation, Washington D.C., November 2008
Annual Meeting of the American Association for Advancement of Science, Waimea, June 2008
Nanotechnology Conference of the Nano Science and Technology Institute (NSTI), Boston, June 2008
American Physical Society Meeting, Baltimore, March 2006
55th meeting of Nobel laureates at Lindau, Germany, June 2005
Professional Activities
Reviewer/Referee for:
American Physical Society Journals: Physical Review Letters and Physical Review B
National Science Foundation: Research Grants in Condensed Matter Physics
Other Activities
Society of Physics Students (American Institute of Physics student body) Advisor
Of the Suffolk Chapter that won the 2008 Sigma Pi Sigma Undergraduate Research Award
Courses Taught
PHYS 151/L151 – University Physics I and laboratoryPHYS 152/L152 – University Physics II and laboratory
PHYS 215 – Nanomaterials and the Energy Problem
PHYS 310 – Special Topics in Mathematical Physics
PHYS 331 – Mathematical Methods of Physics
PHYS 411 – Senior Project in Physics
PHYS 461 & 462 – Quantum Mechanics I & II