Borge Nodland

Postdoctoral Fellow,
Rochester Theory Center for Optical Science and Engineering

Welcome! Below is a brief description of my "professional life."

I received my Ph. D. in Physics from the University of Kansas in December 1995, with Professor John P. Ralston as my advisor. My Ph. D. research was in the area of electromagnetic wave propagation. One of the findings of this research was

In August 1995, I joined the team at Wolfram Research Inc. in Champaign, Illinois, where I worked with the Mathematica computer software system.

In May 1996, I joined the Rochester Theory Center for Optical Science and Engineering at the University of Rochester. More specifics about RTC is here. At the center, I have worked with laser beam characterization and smoothing techniques for the OMEGA laser system at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics, studied the transmission and propagation of short laser pulses in a medium with Professor Colin J. McKinstrie, investigated the interference behavior of dispersive wave packets in general media, and am currently working with Professor Emil Wolf on the influence of dynamic scattering on the spectrum of scattered electromagnetic radiation.


Publications

Borge Nodland and Colin J. McKinstrie, Propagation of a short laser pulse in a plasma. Physical Review E 56, 7174 (1997).
Electronic version at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/physics/9710021

Borge Nodland, Approximate analytic solution for the spatiotemporal evolution of wave packets undergoing arbitrary dispersion. Physical Review E 55, 3647 (1997).
Electronic version at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/physics/9704026, http://publish.aps.org/eprint/gateway/eplist/aps1997apr20_003

Borge Nodland, The spacetime attribute of matter. Mod. Phys. Lett. A 13, 651 (1998).
Electronic version at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/hep-th/9712250

Borge Nodland and John P. Ralston, Indication of anisotropy in electromagnetic propagation over cosmological distances. Physical Review Letters 78, 3043 (1997).
Electronic version at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/astro-ph/9704196, http://publish.aps.org/eprint/gateway/eplist/aps1997apr20_001

John P. Ralston and Borge Nodland, An update on cosmological anisotropy in electromagnetic propagation. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on the Intersections of Particle and Nuclear Physics, Big Sky, Montana, 1997. Editor: T. W. Donnelly, American Institute of Physics, Woodbury, NY (1997).
Electronic version at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/astro-ph/9708114

Borge Nodland and John P. Ralston, Cosmologically screwy light. Proceedings of the 14th Particles and Nuclei International Conference, Williamsburg, Virginia, May 22-28, 1996. Eds.: C. Carlson et al., World Scientific, Singapore (1997).
Electronic version at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/astro-ph/9704197

John P. Ralston, Pankaj Jain, and Borge Nodland, The corkscrew effect. Submitted to Physical Review Letters (1997).
Electronic version at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/astro-ph/9707326


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