Faculty & Staff - Physics
Dr. Marianne Breinig, Course Director
Professor Marianne Breinig was certified as a teacher of mathematics and physics in 1972 and received a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Oregon in 1979. She joined the physics faculty at the University of Tennessee in 1981. She focuses her research efforts in the areas of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics and Physics Teaching and Instructional Technology. She has developed interactive, web-based teaching tools for physics education and totally web-based and web-enhanced undergraduate and graduate physics courses.
Usama Al-Binni, Teaching Assistant
I'm a graduate student at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, working toward a PhD in theoretical physics with Professor G. Siopsis.
My research is mainly about the possibility of producing and detecting mini black-holes in high energy collisions focusing on producing realistic predictions to help interpret certain aspects of possible observations at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). I come originally from Jordan, where I obtained a BSc and an MSc in theoretical physics. I came to the US with my wife Amal al-Wahish who is also a grad student at the Department, and we have a 9 month old daughter called Leena who is also a grad student at the Department.