Steven Spangler, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
Biography
Research Interests:
Radio astronomy; plasma astrophysics; space plasma physics.
Research:
- Solar corona, solar wind, interstellar medium
- Students use the Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope
- Students also encouraged to carry out instrumentation-development projects with the 4.5 meter instructional radio telescope on roof of Van Allen Hall
- Students develop skills in numerical methods, writing code in Python and other languages
Research areas
- Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Plasma Physics
- Space Physics