Dick Furnstahl

Who I am . . .

• Name: Richard J. Furnstahl
• Title: Professor, Department of Physics
• Degrees: B.S. MIT, 1981; Ph.D. Stanford University, 1986
• Spouse: Terri Stankiewicz

Where I am . . .

• Office: M2048 Physics Research Building (mezzanine, not 2nd floor)
• Office phone: (614) 292-4830
• Fax: (614) 292-7557
• Department address: 191 W. Woodruff Ave., Columbus, OH 43210
• Email: furnstahl.1 at osu.edu

What I do . . .

• Group: Nuclear Theory Group
• Research interests:
  • effective field theories and the renormalization group for few- and many-body nuclear systems
  • nuclear many-body theory
  • quantum chromodynamics and nuclear phenomena
  • Bayesian statistical methods, computational methods and high-performance computing
  • physics education, particularly for advanced physics courses
• Collaborations:
  • SciDAC NUCLEI project (funded by DOE)
  • BUQEYE Collaboration
  • BAND Framework Project (funded by NSF)
  • STREAMLINE Collaboration: Machine Learning for Nuclear Many-Body Systems (funded by DOE)
• Current graduate students:
  • Mostofa Hisham, hisham.3 at osu.edu
  • Hosea Merrit, merritt.253 at osu.edu
  • Patrick Millican, millican.7 at osu.edu
  • Pranav Sharma, sharma.1098 at osu.edu
  • Simon Sundberg, sundberg.24 at osu.edu
• Former graduate students:
  • Eric Anderson, graduated with PhD 2012, Eric.R.Anderson at dynamics.cc
  • Anirban Bhattacharyya, graduated with PhD 2005, anirban6 at gmail.com
  • Ryan Caulfield, graduated with MS 2018, caulfield.16 at osu.edu
  • Alex Dyhdalo, graduated with PhD 2018, dyhdalo at gmail.com
  • Alberto Garcia, graduated with PhD 2023, albertojg12@gmail.com
  • Eric Jurgenson, graduated with PhD 2009, jurgenson2 at llnl.gov
  • Jordan Melendez, graduated with PhD 2020, jmelendez1992 at gmail.com
  • Sushant More, graduate with PhD 2016, sushant.2811 at gmail.com
  • Alex Perhac, graduated with MS 2016, perhac.1 at osu.edu
  • Sunethra Ramanan, graduated with PhD 2007, suna at cts.iisc.ernet.in
  • John Rusnak, graduated with PhD 1997, john.j.rusnak at att.net
  • Negussie Tirfessa, graduated with PhD 2001, intirfessa at mcc.commnet.edu
  • Anthony Tropiano, graduated with PhD 2022em, atropiano at anl.gov
  • Kyle Wendt, graduated with PhD 2013, kylewendt at gmail.com
  • Sarah Wesolowski, graduated with PhD 2017, sarahcwesolowski at gmail.com
  • Trey White, graduated with MS 1996, whitejbiii at ornl.gov
• Courses in 2011-2024: Analytic and Numeric Methods of Physics (1st semester graduate electrodynamics) [Au11,Au12,Au13,Au23]; Computational Physics (6810/780.20) [Wi11,Wi12,Sp13,Sp14,Sp16,Sp17]; Physics H133 [Sp11,Sp12]; Nuclear Few- and Many-Body Physics[Au14]; Topics in Nuclear Physics[Au15,Au17,Au20], Theoretical and Computational Mechanics (5300) [Sp18,Sp19,Sp20,Sp21,Sp22,Sp23]; Quantum Mechanics I (7501) [Au22]; Learning from Data: Bayesian methods and (some) Machine Learning (8805/8820) [Au19, Au21, Sp24]
• Department Committees: Graduate Studies Committee; Personnel Resources Committee;

More information . . .

• Brief CV (January, 2023)
• Selected talks
• My hotlist
• "Live long and prosper!"

Selected preprints and publications . . .

A (mostly) complete list is available from INSPIRE.