Meeting with a faculty mentor

Students should prepare for a meeting with a faculty mentor by knowing their current schedule and their plans for the future. StudentsÌıshould visit faculty mentors during their office hours.

Initial assignments can be found in Buff Portal Advising, but students are welcome to meet with any EPEN faculty mentor. Students are encouraged to work with the same faculty mentor over the course of their academic career, when feasible.

Note: During the summer, faculty mentors do not hold weekly office hours. Please email your faculty mentor for assistance.

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EPEN Faculty Mentor

Colin West Portrait

Colin West

Associate Teaching Professor • Associate Chair - Engineering Physics • EPEN Faculty Mentor
Physics
Office Hours: Wednesday and Friday 12pm - 1pm or by appointment • Visit Buff Portal Advising for Zoom Link • Research Interests Dr. West's background is in computational quantum theory. He is interested in the interface between quantum systems and classical computing, including classical simulation of many-body quantum systems, classical computing in quantum cryptography, and quantum approaches to problems in classical computing and complexity theory. Most recently, he is investigating...
Colin.West@colorado.edu     (303) 492-6956
Charles Rogers portrait

Charles Rogers

Professor • EPEN Faculty Mentor • Director - Faculty Success & Engagement
Physics
Office Hours: Tuesday 10:15 - 11:45 a.m. or by appointment • Visit Buff Portal Advising for Zoom link • Research Interests: Our group works in the general area of experimental condensed matter physics of thin films and very small systems. Presently, the group is working on the nanoelectromechanical behavior of nanowires and fabricated electromechanical structures, buried interfaces in photovoltaic systems, and surface molecular dipole systems. Nanoscale objects are made with...
charles.rogers@colorado.edu     (303) 492-4476
Michael Litos Portrait

Michael Litos

Associate Professor • EPEN Faculty Mentor • Director - Center for Integrated Plasma Studies (CIPS)
Physics
Office Hours: Please email michael.litos@colorado.edu to schedule an appointment • Visit Buff Portal Advising for Zoom link • Research Interests: Plasma, Lasers, and Beams Group: We conduct experimental research at the intersection of plasma, laser, and beam physics, with an emphasis on plasma wakefield acceleration. This research program combines local experiments at CU with collaborative work carried out at national laboratories.
Michael.Litos@colorado.edu     (303) 492-6453
Ethan Neil

Ethan Neil

Associate Professor • EPEN Faculty Mentor
Physics
Office Hours: Friday 9:00 - 10:30 a.m. • Visit Buff Portal Advising for Zoom link • Research Interests Lattice gauge theory, physics beyond the standard model, collider and dark matter phenomenology, strongly-coupled quantum field theory. My research interests are in physics beyond the standard model, particularly its signatures in collider and dark matter experiments, and more generally in the physics of strongly-coupled elementary particles, which I study numerically using large-scale...
ethan.neil@colorado.edu     (303) 492-0513
Thomas Schibli Portrait

Thomas Schibli

Professor • Adjunct Fellow - JILA • EPEN Faculty Mentor
Physics
Office Hours: please email trs@colorado.edu with a couple of times that work for you. • A zoom link will be provided via email. Research Interests: We strive to advance science and technology in the fields of optics and photonics through advanced functional materials, novel laser systems and measurement techniques. Light has played an important role during the development of many topics in modern physics. Atomic, molecular, optical (AMO) physics certainly...
trs@colorado.edu     (303) 492-6125