Biography
Greg Sullivan received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois and did postdoctoral work at the University of Chicago before joining the UMD faculty in 1995. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and has been named a UMD "Rainmaker" for his prodigious research funding. He has served as the Department's Associate Chair for both Graduate Studies and for Facilities and Personnel, and has held several key leadership positions in his field of high energy physics. He has worked on the on the IceCube experiment at the South Pole, including a role as spokesperson from 2011-13. Physics World named the first observations of cosmic neutrinos by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory the 2013 Breakthrough of the Year. Dr. Sullivan is a co-recipient of the 2016 Breakthrough prize in Physics, serves on the advisory committee for the NSF directorate of geosciences, and also served on the committee of visitors for NSF Antarctic sciences.
Research:
Teaching
- Physics 104: How Things Work
- Physics 165: Introduction to Programming for the Physical Sciences
- Physics 174: Physics Laboratory Introduction
- Physics 272: Introductory Physics: Fields
- Physics 401: Quantum Physics I
- Physics 441: Introduction to Sub Atomic Physics
- Physics 474: Special Problems in Physics: Computational Physics
News
- IceCube Observes Seven Astrophysical Tau Neutrino Candidates
- Sullivan Named Distinguished Scholar-Teacher
- EPS to Honor DØ, CDF Collaborations for Top Quark Detection
- UMD physicists share 2016 Breakthrough Prize
- 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded for Work on Neutrinos' Metamorphosis
- Greg Sullivan Selected as Ice Cube Spokesman
- IceCube Neutrinos Point to Long-Sought Cosmic Ray Accelerator
- UMD Physicists Chosen as 2010 APS Fellows