Stephen L. Tufte

I am in my tenth year as Assistant Professor in the Physics Department at Lewis & Clark College. Before I came here, I was working in the Astronomy Department at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.  

Teaching:

Astronomy (Physics 105)

Advanced Physics Lab (Physics 300/400)

Experimental Methods in the Phsyical Sciences

Introduction to Physics II (Physics 142)

Quantum Mechanics (Physics 321)

Physics III: Electromagnetism (Physics 251)

The Big Bang: Origin of the Universe (Exploration & Discovery Semester II course)

The Origin of Life in the Universe

Research

I study the interstellar medium, the stuff between the stars. We developed a new spectroscopic instrument called the Wisconsin H-Alpha Mapper (WHAM for short) that sits atop Kitt Peak in Arizona. This facility was designed to study the ionized component of the interstellar material and has now mapped the entire northern sky. The telescope is completely remote operable and can be run from anywhere using the internet. Read more about it here.

More recently, I have also gotten involved in studying eclipsing binary stars using our rooftop telescope. More on this soon!

Here is a fairly up-to-date cv in pdf format.

Check out my PhD Thesis.

My address:

Department of Physics
Lewis & Clark College
0615 SW Palatine Hill Road, Portland, OR 97219