Dr. Alex Kostinski

Professor

Office:: Fisher 104
Phone:: (906) 487-2580
Fax:: (906) 487-2933
Email:: alex_kostinski@phy.mtu.edu

Dr. Kostinski's recent research has been in cloud, aerosol, and precipitation physics, radar meteorology, astrophysics, wave propagation in random media, turbulent fluids, adaptive optics, polarization optics. The research is supported mostly by the National Science Foundation.

Former Ph.D. students: Larry Coke (defended 1994 - Fluid Dynamics); John Kwiatkowski (defended 1995 - Radar Meteorology); Alan Koivunen (defended 1999 - Radar Signal Processing); Weidong Yang (defended 2004 - astronomical optics, holography); M. L. Larsen (defended, 2006, fluctuation phenomena in atmospheric physics).

Teaching: "Quantum Mechanics" (graduate), "Classical Mechanics'' (graduate), "Classical Electrodynamics'' (graduate), "Introduction to Meteorology'' (senior level), "Quantum Physics" (senior level, full year); "Atmospheric Physics" (graduate), "Mathematical Physics" (graduate), "Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics" (undergraduate), "Statistical Mechanics" (graduate), "Qualitative Methods"(undergraduate), "Senior Research" (undergraduate) .

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