Teaching 2003-2024:

• 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 taught Plasma Physics Physics138 Spring 2008.
  
• Doc Brown taught Physics5 Fall 2008.
  
• Doc Brown taught Stat Mech Physics114 Spring 2009.
  
• Doc Brown was on leave Fall 2009/Spring 2010.
  
• Doc Brown taught Energy Seminar and Electrodynamics (Physics112) Fall 2010.
  
• Doc Brown taught Statistical Mechanics (Physics114), and electronics (Physics81/82) Spring 2011.
  
• Doc Brown taught Energy Seminar, Electronics, and Plasma Reading Fall 2011.
  
• Doc Brown taught Statistical Mechanics (Physics114), and electronics (Physics81/82) Spring 2012.
  
• Doc Brown taught Electrodynamics (Physics8) Fall 2012.
  
• Doc Brown taught Statistical Mechanics (Physics114), and electronics (Physics81/82) Spring 2013.
  
• Doc Brown was on leave Fall 2013/Spring 2014.
  
• Doc Brown taught Electrodynamics (Physics112) Fall 2014.
  
• Doc Brown taught Math Methods/Quantum (Physics17/18) Spring 2015.
  
• Doc Brown taught Electrodynamics (Physics112) Fall 2015.
  
• Doc Brown taught Math Methods/Quantum (Physics17/18) Spring 2016.
  
• Doc Brown taught Electrodynamics (Physics112) Fall 2016.
  
• Doc Brown taught Math Methods/Quantum (Physics17/18) Spring 2017.
  
• Doc Brown is on leave Fall 2017/Spring 2018.
  
• Doc Brown taught Electrodynamics (Physics112) Fall 2018.
  
• Doc Brown taught Stat Mech (Physics114), E&M (P8), and Energy (P2E) Spring 2019.
  
• Doc Brown taught Journal Club and Advanced Lab Fall 2019.
  
• Doc Brown taught Stat Mech (Physics114), E&M (P8), and Math Methods (P17) Spring 2020.
  
• Doc Brown taught Electrodynamics (Physics112) Fall 2020.
  
• Doc Brown taught Math Methods (P17) and Quantum Mechanics (P18) Spring 2021.
  
• Doc Brown was on leave Fall 2021/Spring 2022.
  
• Doc Brown taught Analytical Dynamics (P111) Fall 2022.
  
• Doc Brown taught Statistical Mechanics (P114) Spring 2023.
  
• Doc Brown is teaching Electrodynamics (P112) Fall 2023.
  
• Doc Brown is teaching Electrodynamics (P8) Spring 2024.
  

First Year Seminar on Energy:

• MB offered a first year seminar on Energy Spring 2019.

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, magneto-inertial fusion, mirrors)
• magnetic reconnection (3D structure, particle acceleration, turbulence)
• 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/published alums, SSX and dynamo (29 total, 21 honors theses):

• Matiwos Mebratu '21 (Stanford)
  
• Katie Gelber '20
  
• Emma Lewis '18 (Wisconsin, Santa Clara)
  
• Luke Barbano '18 (Johns Hopkins APL)
  
• Jaron Shrock '18 (Maryland)
  
• Holden Park '16 (LBL, Carnegie Mellon)
  
• Ariel Rock '16 (Wisconsin)
  
• Peter Weck '15 (Johns Hopkins)
  
• Adrian Wan '15 (APS-DPP student award 2014, Nest)
  
• Ken Flanagan '12 (Wisconsin)
  
• Xingyu Zhang '12 (Harvard, MIT Lincoln Lab)
  
• Darren Weinhold '12 (Telvac)
  
• Dan Dandurand '11 (Berkeley, DOE Fellow)
  
• Vernon Chaplin '07 (APS Apker finalist, Caltech, DOE Fellow, Aerospace, JPL)
  
• Jason Horwitz '07 (UChicago, Anderson)
  
• Jerome Fung '06 (Harvard, APS-DPP student award 2005, Wellesley, Ithaca)
  
• Aongus O Murchadha '05 (Wisconsin, TriNetX)
  
• Matt Landreman '03 (APS Apker finalist, Rhodes Scholar, NSF Fellow, APS-DPP award 2002, Oxford, MIT, Maryland)
  
• Abram Falk '03 (Harvard, UCSB/Chicago, IBM Watson)
  
• Andrew Fefferman '03 (Cornell, Institut Neel)
  
• Dave Schlossberg '01(Wisconsin, LLNL)
  
• Tim Gray '01 (Princeton, Swarthmore, NASA Glenn Research Center)
  
• Amy Reighard '01 (Michigan, LLNL)
  
• Dave Auerbach '01 (UCLA)
  
• Slava Lukin '00 (NSF Fellow, DOE Fellow, Princeton, NRL, NSF)
  
• Walter Luh '99 (Stanford, CoronaLabs)
  
• Tom Kornack '98 (Princeton, DOE Fellow, Twinleaf)
  
• Josh Lifton '98 (MIT Media Lab, CrowdSupply)
  
• Cameron Geddes '97 (APS Apker winner, Hertz Fellow, Berkeley, LBL)
  

Other student researchers (40):

• Solomon Murdock '24
  
• Kya Butterfield '25
  
• Ayla Cimen '25
  
• Alex Skeldon '24
  
• Alberto Felix Bojorquez '22
  
• Ercong (Tony) Luo '21 (Lev)
  
• Miriam Moore '22 (Stanford)
  
• Shouzhuo (Gary) Yang '23
  
• Lucas Dyke '20 (Dartmouth)
  
• Rhys Manley '20
  
• Nick Anderson '20
  
• Hariharan Srinivasulu '21
  
• Kat Lima '20
  
• Sahir Nambiar '18
  
• Jeremy Han '17
  
• Max Krackow '15 (Dartmouth, CRRLL)
  
• Samer Nashed '15 (UMass CS)
  
• Emily Hudson '17 (Dartmouth)
  
• Jeffrey Owusu-Boateng '16
  
• Ezra Day-Roberts '13 (Minn)
  
• Alexandra Werth '14 (Princeton Eng)
  
• Mike Fisher '14 (Michigan Eng)
  
• Max Korein '11 (CMU CS)
  
• Bevan Gerber-Siff '10 (Ventions, SF)
  
• Ed Dewey '10 (Wisc Math)
  
• Kevin Labe '11 (Chicago, Cornell)
  
• Jeff Santner '09 (Princeton Eng, Cal State LA)
  
• Lake Bookman '08 (NCSU Math, BAE)
  
• Anna Phillips '10 (Tufts)
  
• Marc Chang '06
  
• Zack Michielli '06
  
• Victoria Swisher '06
  
• Rachel Sapiro '04 (Michigan)
  
• Aaron Modic '04 (Auburn, Texas AMIU)
  
• David Murphy '03 (Columbia Eng, Duke Med)
  
• Keith Gilmore '01(Montana State, LBL)
  
• Peter Sollins '98 (Harvard, Boston Law)
  
• Erik Henriksen '97 (Columbia, Washington University faculty)
  
• Eric Engstrom '96 (Columbia Econ, FED)
  
• Charles Danforth '95 (Hopkins Astro, Colorado)
  

SSX postdoctoral research fellows:

• Chris Cothran (Virginia, Georgetown)
  
• Tim Gray (Princeton, NASA Glenn Research Center)
  
• David Schaffner (UCLA, Bryn Mawr)
  
• Manjit Kaur (Institute for Plasma Research, TAE Technologies, PPPL)
  

Other SSX collaborators:

• Adam Light (Colorado College)
  
• Carlos Cartegena (Bryn Mawr)
  
• Jason TenBarge (Princeton)
  
• Bill Matthaeus (U Delaware)
  
• Mike Schaffer (GA)
  
• Elena Belova (Princeton)
  
• David Cohen (Swarthmore)
  
• Clayton Myers (Princeton grad student, PPPL)
  
• Gang Qin (Delaware grad student, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
  
• Yu Lin (Auburn)
  

Experience and Education:

• 1994-2024 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