Teaching 2002-2007:

• Doc Brown taught Plasma Physics (Physics138) and advanced physics lab in the spring of 2003.
• Doc Brown taught Electrodynamics (Physics112) and advanced physics lab (Physics82) in the fall of 2003.
  
• Doc Brown taught Math Methods (Physics50) and advanced physics lab (Physics82) and senior honors study (Physics199) in the spring of 2004.
  
• Doc Brown taught (Astronomy1) and advanced physics lab (Physics82) in the fall of 2004.
  
• Doc Brown taught Statistical Mechanics (Physics114), Math Methods (Physics50), and advanced physics lab (Physics82) in the spring of 2005.
  
• Doc Brown was on leave Fall 2005/Spring 2006.
  
• Doc Brown taught Physics5 Fall 2006.
  
• Doc Brown taught Astro1 Spring 2007.
  
• Doc Brown taught Physics5 Fall 2007.
  
• Doc Brown is teaching Plasma Physics Physics138 Spring 2008.
  

APS Award for Research at an Undergraduate Institution:

• MB was awarded the 2008 APS Award for Research at an Undergraduate Institution

Research interests:

• plasma physics (SSX lab)
• magnetic confinement fusion (spheromaks, FRCs)
• magnetic reconnection (3D structure, particle acceleration, soft x-rays, flow)
• self organization in space and laboratory plasmas
• solar physics (dynamo, coronal heating)
• here are some useful URLs
• here is the Department of Physics/Astronomy

Senior honors alums (SSX and dynamo):

• Vernon Chaplin '07 (APS Apker finalist, Caltech)
  
• Jason Horwitz '07
  
• Jerome Fung '06 (Harvard, APS-DPP student award 2005)
  
• Aongus O Murchadha '05 (Wisconsin)
  
• Matt Landreman '03 (APS Apker finalist, Rhodes Scholar, NSF Fellow, APS-DPP award 2002, Oxford)
  
• Abram Falk '03 (Harvard)
  
• Andrew Fefferman '03 (Cornell)
  
• Dave Schlossberg '01(Wisconsin)
  
• Tim Gray '01 (Princeton)
  
• Amy Reighard '01 (Michigan)
  
• Dave Auerbach '01 (UCLA)
  
• Slava Lukin '00 (NSF Fellow, DOE Fellow, Princeton)
  
• Walter Luh '99 (Stanford)
  
• Tom Kornack '98 (DOE Fellow, Princeton)
  
• Josh Lifton '98 (MIT)
  
• Cameron Geddes '97 (APS Apker winner, Hertz Fellow, Berkeley)
  

Other student researchers:

• Lake Bookman '08
  
• Anna Phillips '10
  
• Marc Chang '06
  
• Zack Michielli '06
  
• Victoria Swisher '06
  
• Rachel Sapiro '04
  
• Aaron Modic '04
  
• David Murphy '03
  
• Keith Gilmore '01
  
• Peter Sollins '98
  
• Erik Henriksen '97
  
• Eric Engstrom '96
  
• Charles Danforth '95
  

Experience and Education:

• 1994-2008 Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA
  
• 1993-1994 Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA
  
• 1987-1994 Caltech, Senior Research Fellow
  
• 1987 Dartmouth, PhD, Physics
  
• 1981 Pomona, BA, Physics