Nicholas J. Giordano - Faculty - Physics - Departments - Auburn University College of Sciences and Mathematics

Nicholas J. Giordano
Dean and Professor

Office: SCC 246

Address:
246 Sciences Center Classroom Bldg
Auburn, AL 36849-5319

Phone: (334) 844-5737
Fax: (334)844-5824
Email: njg0003@auburn.edu

Education
Ph.D., Yale University	May 1977
B.S., Purdue University	May 1973

Professional Employment
Dean, College of Sciences and Mathematics, Auburn University	2013 - present
Professor of Physics, Auburn University	2013 - present
Head, Department of Physics, Purdue University	2007 - 2013
Hubert James Distinguished Professor of Physics, Purdue University	2004 - 2013
Assistant Dean of Science, Purdue University	2002 - 2002
Professor, Purdue University	1984 - 2013
Associate Professor, Purdue University	1982 - 1985
Assistant Professor, Purdue University	1979 - 1982
Assistant Professor of Engineering and Applied Science, Yale University	1977 - 1979

Honors and Awards
Speaker of the Year of the Indiana Academy of Science	2006 - 2007
Indiana Professor of the Year (award from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching)	2004
DOE Computational Science Education Award	1997
Hubert Newby McCoy Award for Excellence in Research (Purdue University)	1992
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellow	1979 - 1983
Phi Beta Kappa; Phi Kappa Phi; Sigma Pi Sigma; Fellow American Physical Society

Professional Activities

Member, Biophysical Society Member

Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

Member, Technical Committee on Musical Acoustics of the ASA

Referee: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, The American Journal of Physics, Physical Review, Physical Review Letters, The Journal of Sound and Vibration

Research and Teaching Interests

Transport properties of disordered systems, fabrication of microstructures, behavior of one and two dimensional metals, low frequency noise, superconductivity in one dimension, mesoscopic systems, nonfluidics, musical acoustics, physics of the piano, computational biophysics, science education, scientific computation, aerocoustics.

Selected Publications

Simulation studies of a recorder in three dimensions, N. Giordano, J. Acoust. Soc Am 135, 906-916 (2014)
Some remarks on the acoustics of the piano, a chapter by N. Giordano in the Science of String Instruments T.D. Rossing, ed., Springer, 2011, p. 353-370
Interplay of the magnitude and time-course of postsynaptic Ca²⁺ conncentration in procducing spike timing-dependant plasticity, K.D. Carlson and N. Giordano, J. Comoput. Neurosci (2010), doi:101007/s10827-010-0290-z.
Physics of the Piano, N. Giordano, Oxford University Press (2010).
Computational Physics, N. Giordano, Prentice-Hall (1997); 2nd Edition, with H. Nakanashi, Prentice-Hall (2006)

Last updated: 05/07/2015