Michael Grady
Professor and Chair
Department of Physics
SUNY College at Fredonia
Director of Cooperative Programs
Education:
- Rockefeller University, Ph.D. 1982
- University of Washington, MS, 1978
- University of Michigan, BGS, 1973
Research Interests:
- Lattice Field Theory
- Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena
- Strong Interactions
- Non-Perturbative Methods
- The Early Universe
Teaching Interests and Specialties:
- Lab and Lecture Demonstration Based Instruction
- Thermal Physics
- Acoustics
- Optics
- Computer Spreadsheet Applications in Education
Selected Publications:
(most available electronically from Physics Preprint Archive,
http://arxiv.org)
- "Reconsidering gauge-Higgs continuity",
hep-lat/0507037,
Physics Letters B, 626, 161 (2005).
- "Critical or tricritical point in mixed-action SU(2) lattice gauge theory?",
hep-lat/0404015,
Nuclear physics B, 713, 204 (2005).
- "Evidence for layered symmetry breaking in SU(2) lattice gauge theory",
hep-lat/0409163.
- "Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Gravity, and Approximate
Lorentz Invariance from a Classical Phase-Boundary Universe",
hep-th/0104237 (to appear as Ch. 3 in "Trends in Quantum Gravity Research,"
NOVA Science Publishers, 2006).
- "Gauge Invariant SO(3)-Z2 Monopole as Possible Source of Confinement in SU(2) Lattice Gauge Theory"
hep-lat/9806024.
- "Universe as a Phase Boundary in a Four-Dimensional Euclidean Space",
gr-qc/9805076.
- "Monopole Loop Distribution and Confinement in SU(2) Lattice Gauge Theory",
hep-lat/9802035,
Physics Letters B, 455, 239 (1999).
- "Monopole Loop Suppression and Loss of Confinement in Restricted-Action SU(2) Lattice Gauge Theory", hep-lat/9801016.
- "Deconfinement from Action Restriction", Nuclear Physics B (Proc. Suppl.) 53, 599 (1997) (LATTICE 96).
- "Finite Temperature Phase Transition in SU(2) Lattice Gauge Theory with Extended
Action" (with Rajiv Gavai and Manu Mathur), Nuclear Physics B 423, 123 (1994).
- "Can a Logarithmically Running Coupling Mimic a String Tension?", Physical Review D 50, 6009 (1994).
- "Cabibbo Mixing from Strong-interaction Condensates", Nuovo Cimento 105A, 1065 (1992).
- "Spurious First-Order Phase Transitions from Topological Effects on the Lattice", Nuclear Physics B 365, 699 (1991).
Other Interests:
Contact me at:
NEW phone:(716)-673-4624, fax (716)-673-3347, or e-mail at grady@fredonia.edu
