Gary G. Ihas

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e-mail: ihas@phys.ufl.edu
FAX: 352-392-7709
Work phone: 352-392-9244

Office: 2352 NPB

Professor of Physics--UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA

Co-founder--MICROKELVIN RESEARCH LABORATORY

Teacher of the Year--COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES--1996

Teacher of the Year--DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS--2003

• Teaching: Spring 2003—PHY 2048—Physics w/calculus for scientists and engineers click here
• Other Teaching:
  - Check out the coolest cryogenics course - taught on demand (PHY 6555C and 4550) on campus!
  - Also, for those cryogenic fanatics out there, see where it all began with Dr. John Gorrie

• Physics interests:
  
  
• - Cryogenic Helium Turbulence
  - Superfluid helium (isotopes 3 and 4)
  - Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
  - Ultrasonic studies
  - Conducting polymers
  - Material properties near absolute zero

• Teaching goals:
  - For everyone to be able to appreciate the complex simplicity of the universe
  - Promote a technically educated electorate
  - International understanding
  - Develop analytic approach to problem solving

• Hobbies:
  - Porsche 914 and VW Beetle . . . and only in these special Gator colors
  - Snow skiing

• Links:
  - Physics Home Page
  - John Gorrie State Museum - Father of the Artificial Ice Machine

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