Education Ph.D. Columbia University     M.Phil. Columbia University   M.S. University of Alabama   B.Sc. Honors, Dhaka University Bangladesh   H.S.C. (Higher Secondary Certificate) Board of Education, Comilla Fauzdarhat Cadet College   S.S.C. (Secondary School Certificate) Board of Education, Dhaka

Experience    Chairman (1999-2002) and 2009 - Department of Physics at State University of New York, Potsdam   Professor (1997- ) Department of Physics, State University of New York Assistant Professor Department of Physics at San Diego State University California 1983-85  Post Doctoral Research Fellow, Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics and University of Colorado, Boulder 1981-83 Graduate Research Assistant, Columbia Radiation Laboratories, Columbia University 1979-81  Head Teaching Assistant & Faculty Fellow Department of Physics at Columbia University 1977-79  Teaching Assistant, Department of Physics at University of Alabama 1975-77

Research Interests   Studies of Magnetic Optical Rotation (Faraday Effect) & Magnetic Circular Dichroism  Intellectual History of the Islamic Civilization

Physics Courses of my Interest   PHYSICS 490 & 491 Quantum Mechanics I & II  PHYSICS 480 & 481 Electromagnetic Theory I & II  PHYSICS 450 Condensed Matter Physics  PHYSICS 360 & 361 Advanced Physical Laboratories I & II  PHYSICS 335 Astronomy  PHYSICS 306 Modern Physics  PHYSICS 305 Electricity, Magnetism and Optics  PHYSICS 111 Laser & Light

Publications and Scholarly Work   "Beyond Ordinary Light", M Azad Islam, Whittier Publications, Inc. Island Park New York 2003 ISBN 1-57604-164-6 "Test Yourself Physics I,"M Azad Islam, Published by NTC Learning Works, Chicago Illinois 1999 ISBN 0-8442-2377-8 Magnetic Circular Dichroism of Excimer molecules, M.A. Islam, A. Kponou, B. Suleman and W. Happer, Physical Review Letters, vol. 47, 643 (1981)  Operating E/n and metastable production in the positive column of an H2-Ar discharge, M.A. Islam and A.V. Phelps, Bulletin of the American Physical Society, vol. 33, no. 2, 147 (1988)  Time Dependent Effects in Faraday Rotation in Pulsed Magnetic Fields: an Explanation, J.A. Davis, M.A. Islam and R.A. Lilly, Applied Optics, vol. 24, 1780 (1985)  Charge Control Mechanism in MODFET's: A Theoretical Analysis, A.N. Khondker, A.F.M. Anwar, M.A. Islam, L. Limoncelli and D. Wilson, IEEE Transaction Electron Device, vol. ED-33, no. 11, 1825 (1986)  Explanation of Hysteresis Effects in Faraday Rotation, J.A. Davis, R.A. Lilly and M.A. Islam, Journal of the Optical Society of America A, vol. 1, No. 12, 1258 (1984)  Electron impact dissociation coefficient of hydrogen molecules in a Ar-H2 discharge, M.A. Islam and A.V. Phelps, Joint Institute for Laboratory Astroics, Boulder, Colorado unpublished(1983)  A new measuring technique of Faraday Rotation, Steven Blusk and M.A. Islam, Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities Symposium, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1988  Faraday Effect Measurements, S. R. Blusk and M. A. Islam, Eighth Annual Rochester Symposium for Physics Students, Physics Department at University of Rochester, 1988  Visiting Scholar, Laser Workshop for Undergraduate Faculty, Department of Physics at Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin, 1989  Alhazen in Medieval Optics, National Endowment for the Humanities Seminar: Islam and Scientific Traditions, Visiting Scholar, Columbia University, New York, 1993  Visiting Scholar, Advanced Undergraduate Experimental ics Workshop, Physics Department at M.I.T., Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1993  Visiting Scholar, Research Techniques for Undergraduate Faculty at Small Observatories, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University, Cambridge Massachusetts, 1995

 

Activities Faculty Adviser: Sigma Pi Sigma National Physics Honor Society   Coordinator and Adviser: 3-2 Engineering Students   Treasurer: Muslim Students Association and Islamic Society of North America Potsdam Chapter

 

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