faculty+staff
Brian Daly
- Assistant Professor of Physics
- office: Sanders Physics 111
- phone: 845.437.7351
- e-mail: Brian Daly
- website: faculty.vassar.edu/brdaly/
education
- Ph.D., Physics, Brown University, 2003
- Masters, Physics, Brown University, 1998
- B.S., Physics, College of the Holy Cross, 1996
teaching interests
Brian Daly teaches a range of physics courses in the department, including Physics 113/114 , a two-course introductory sequence, and Physics 200/201, a course and lab combination covering contemporary physics topics.
research interests
Prior to coming to Vassar in 2005, Brian Daly worked for three years as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for Ultrafast Optical Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is co-author of 10 refereed papers in Physical Review B, Applied Physics Letters, The Journal of Applied Physics, and Physica B. He has presented his research at several international conferences. His research interests are thermal and acoustic phenomena in thin solid films and nanostructures as studied by ultrafast laser experiments.