Dr. Matthew Francis
Contact Information
Assistant Professor of Physics
Director, M. D. Anderson Planetarium
Lambuth University
705 Lambuth Boulevard
Jackson, TN 38301
Office Phone: 1-731-425-3319
Planetarium Phone: 1-731-425-3283
Fax: 1-731-786-7565
E-mail: francis@lambuth.edu
Office: Hyde Hall, Room 211A
On-campus Extension: x1002
Director, M. D. Anderson Planetarium
Lambuth University
705 Lambuth Boulevard
Jackson, TN 38301
Office Phone: 1-731-425-3319
Planetarium Phone: 1-731-425-3283
Fax: 1-731-786-7565
E-mail: francis@lambuth.edu
Office: Hyde Hall, Room 211A
On-campus Extension: x1002
My Curriculum Vitae
Teaching Activities (Fall 2008)
Office Hours: Monday, 1:30-3:30 and Friday, 11:00-12:00, or by appointment.
- Physics for Science and Engineering (PHY 2314)
Syllabus (PDF format) - Astronomy and Cosmology (PHY 1214)
Syllabus (PDF format)
Weekly Schedule (Fall 2008)
| Start Time | End Time | Event | Class |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monday | |||
| 09:00 | 09:50 | Lecture | Physics for Science and Engineering |
| 13:30 | 15:30 | Office Hours | All Classes |
| 19:30 | 20:30 | Planetarium Show | (1st and 3rd Mondays) |
| Tuesday | |||
| 10:50 | 12:05 | Lecture | Astronomy and Cosmology |
| 14:00 | 16:00 | Lab | Astronomy and Cosmology |
| Wednesday | |||
| 09:00 | 09:50 | Lecture | Physics for Science and Engineering |
| 14:30 | 16:30 | Lab | Physics for Science and Engineering |
| Thursday | |||
| 10:50 | 12:05 | Lecture | Astronomy and Cosmology |
| Friday | |||
| 09:00 | 09:50 | Lecture | Physics for Science and Engineering |
| 11:00 | 12:00 | Office Hours | All Classes |
Professional Information in Brief
Please see my curriculum vitae for more detailed information, and my publications page for abstracts and links to my technical papers.Education
- Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey: Ph.D. in Physics
and Astronomy, May 2005
Thesis Title: ``From Structure Evolution to Gauge Theories: Topics in Gravitational and Cosmological Physics''
Thesis Advisor: Arthur Kosowsky - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland: 1998--1999
- Central College, Pella, Iowa: B.A. Summa Cum Laude in
Physics, May 1998
Talks
- United Astronomy Clubs of New Jersey Symposium, invited talk
(September 23, 2006)
- Atacama Cosmology Telescope general meeting (May 5--6, 2005), Princeton University
- 3rd Oxford-Princeton Workshop on Astrophysics and Cosmology (February 28--March 2, 2005), Princeton University
- 205th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society (January 9--13, 2005), San Diego
- Fundamental Physics from Clusters of Galaxies (December 9--11, 2004), Fermilab
- American Physical Society April Meeting (April 5--8, 2003),
Philadelphia
Society Memberships
Refereed Papers
- M. R. Francis, R. Bean, and A. Kosowsky, Impact of Systematic Errors on Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect Surveys, JCAP 0512 (2005), 001. astro-ph/0511161
- M. R. Francis and E. Cazales, Signal-based Bayesian methods for chirp detection in gravitationally- radiating white dwarf binaries, submitted to Classical and Quantum Gravity (paper available upon request).
- M. R. Francis and A. Kosowsky, A Novel Approach to Relativistic Lagrangian Theory, in preparation.
- M. R. Francis and A. Kosowsky, Geometric Algebra Techniques for General Relativity, Ann. Phys. 311 (2004), 459--502. gr-qc/0311007
- M. R. Francis and A. Kosowsky, Geodesics in the Generalized Schwarzschild Solution, Am. J. Phys. 72 (2004), 1204--1209. gr-qc/0311038
- M. R. Francis and A. Kosowsky, The Construction of Spinors in Geometric Algebra, Ann. Phys. 317 (2005), 383--409. math-ph/0403040
- J. Javanainen, J. Ruostekoski, B. Vestergaard, and
M. R. Francis, One-Dimensional Modeling of Light Propagation
in Dense and Degenerate Samples, Phys. Rev. A 59
(1999), 649--666.