Dennis Brown

• Associate Professor of Physics, Northern Illinois University

• NRC Postdoc Research Associateship, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD   1993-1995
• Volunteer Physics Instructor at Washington Saturday College,Washington D.C.  1994-1995
• Ph.D.  Physics,  Stanford University, Stanford, CA   1993

• President, Vice-President, Secretary of the NIU Chapter of Sigma Xi (the Scientific Research Society) 2005-2008

Interests

• Condensed matter physics of magnetic system
• Mossbauer spectroscopy & nuclear resonance x-ray scattering
• X-ray crystallography
• Spintronics
• Magnetocalorimetry

• My goal will be to strengthen the lines of communication between the user community and the APS facility.  I would also make efforts to broaden the outreach of the facility in the effort to make the APS as familiar a symbol to high schools and community colleges as it is with the universities throughout the United States.