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Emil Prodan

Emil
Prodan

Professor of Physics

prodan@yu.edu
212-340-7831

Beren campus - Stanton Hall (245 Lexington)
Room#510

PhD, Rice University, 2003
MS, University of Houston, 1999
MS, University of Bucharest, 1996
BS, University of Bucharest, 1995

Dr. Emil Prodan received BS and MS degrees in theoretical and mathematical physics from University of Bucharest. His advisor for the MS degree was Gheorghe Nenciu. He received another MS degree in theoretical physics from University of Houston and then he graduated with a PhD from Rice University in theoretical physics. His advisor at Rice University was Peter Nordlander. Dr. Prodan received further postdoctoral training at University of California Santa Barbara under the direction of Walter Kohn, a Nobel Laureate in theoretical chemistry. He was a fellow of the Princeton Center for Complex Materials at Princeton University, where he was sponsored by Roberto Car and Duncan Haldane. Dr. Prodan joined the Physics Department of ³ÉÈËÊÓƵɫÇéƬ in 2007 and now he is a full professor of physics.

Dr. Prodan teaches introductory as well as advanced physics courses. In the past, he developed one-semester courses in thermodynamics, mathematical physics, and classical waves. His background is in mathematical physics, specifically, in operator theory, spectral analysis and constructive quantum field formalism. His research combines rigorous mathematics and computer simulations to study the physics of the condensed matter.

Dr. Prodan was among the 2016 recipients of the Keck Foundation research awards for the collaborative project "Engineering New Materials Based on Topological Phonon Edge Modes." Dr. Prodan also received in 2011 the NSF CAREER award for his proposal "Strong Disorder and Electron Interaction Effects in Topological Insulators"

Dr. Prodan and his collaborator Hermann Schulz-Baldes published the monograph "Bulk and Boundary Invariants for Complex Topological Insulators: From K-Theory to Physics," which appeared in 2016 in the Springer series on Mathematical Physics Studies.

prodan@yu.edu
212-340-7831

Beren campus - Stanton Hall (245 Lexington)
Room#510

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Fall 2018
General Physics I
PHYS 1051C

 

Intermediate Physics I
PHYS 2051H

 

Spring 2018
General Physics II
PHYS 1052C

 

Intermediate Physics II
PHYS 2052H

 

Fall 2017
General Physics I
PHYS 1051C

 

Intermediate Physics I
PHYS 2051H

 

Spring 2017
Classical Mechanics I
PHY 1221

 

General Physics II
PHYS 1042C

 

Topics in Functional Analysis
MAT 5330

 

Topics in Functional Analysis
MAT 5331