About

Professor Leslie F. Brown

Research advisor and project PI
PhD: Brandeis University, Physics, 1991
Associate Professor, Physics & Astronomy, Connecticut College since 1992
Contact: lfbro AT conncoll dot edu

Current Students

  • Nina Lansden ’22
  • Christina Singh ’23       Contact: csingh1 AT conncoll dot edu
  • Lana Tilke ’23               Contact: ltilke AT conncoll dot edu
  • Wyatt Carbonell ’24     Contact: wcarbonel AT conncoll dot edu
  • Azade Modaressi ’24   Contact: amodaress AT conncoll dot edu
  • William Mears ’24         Contact: wmears AT conncoll dot edu

Recent Graduates

  • Nik Korzoun ’20. Currently doing graduate work in astrophysics at the University of Delaware.
  • Manny Rosales ’20. Currently doing graduate work in nuclear physics at the University of Kentucky-Lexington.
  • Dishane Luximon ’19. Currently studying Medical Physics Imaging/Health – Radiation Oncology at the University of California, Los Angeles.
  • Michael (Mike) Joyce ’15. Masters of Science in Aerospace Engineering, Ohio State Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,.
       Thesis Title: “Structural and Vibrational Analysis of Inactive Nuclear Fuel Rods during Earth-to-Orbit Launch”.
  • Christopher (Chris) DiLullo ’15. May 20201 – PhD in astrophysics from the Physics department at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.
       Thesis title: “Searching for the Global 21 cm Cosmic Dawn Absorption Signal with the Long Wavelength Array”. Chris will be starting a NASA Post-doctoral Fellowship in the fall 2021 through 2024.
  • Greg Vance ’15. Currently studying astrophysics at the University of Arizona. He will be defending in the Fall of 2021.
  • Nicholas Gorgone ’11. 2013-2014 – MS from the Physics Department at the University of Alabama at Huntsville. December 2020 – PhD in astrophysics from the Physics Department at George Washington University (2015-2020).

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