Evan Halstead
Senior Teaching Professor
Office: Dana Science Center 230
Telephone: (518) 580-8128
E-mail: ehalstea@skidmore.edu
Education
- B.A. (physics), State University of New York at Buffalo
- B.S. (electrical engineering), State University of New York at Buffalo
- Ph.D. (physics), State University of New York at Buffalo
Research Interests
Professor Halstead is a cosmologist who has studied gravitational collapse, thermodynamic
properties of black holes, and Beyond-the-Standard-Model scalar field inflationary
potentials. He is also interested in Physics Education Research, exploring the use
of media to increase student engagement as well as examining the effect that supplementary
materials have on student solution methods.
Courses
- General Physics I
- Mechanics
Selected Publications
Electroweak vacua, collider phenomenology, and possible connection with dark energy. Eric Greenwood, Evan Halstead, Robert Poltis, and Dejan Stojkovic, Phys. Rev. D 79, 103003 (2009).
Classical and Quantum Equations of Motion for a BTZ Black String in AdS Space. E. Greenwood, E. Halstead and P. Hao, JHEP 1002, 044 (2010).
Time Evolution of Temperature and Entropy of Various Collapsing Domain Walls. E. Halstead, JCAP08 (2013) 043.