Dennis Eggleston
Professor, Physics
Eggleston performs experimental research on plasmas, the charged gases sometimes referred to as the fourth state of matter.
Contact
- Office: Hameetman Science Center 116
- Email: eggleston@oxy.edu
- Phone: (323) 259-2811
- Website: http://faculty.oxy.edu/dleggles
Education: B.S., M.S., Ph.D., UCLA
He and his undergraduate assistants have designed and built three plasma devices and published work on plasma vortices and particle transport in non-neutral plasma traps. Prior to joining Occidental, Eggelston was a research physicist at UC San Diego. During his Ph.D. studies, he worked on problems dealing with the interaction of electromagnetic waves with a spatially inhomogeneous plasma. These studies included lab experiments, numerical solutions of nonlinear differential equations, and field experiments at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.