Thomas Lockhart


Tom in January 2003: a little beach research on a cold day in Florida?	Lockhart in 1984, courtesy of a Mysterious Universe student

Background

I grew up in northeastern Ohio, just outside Akron. I graduated from Heidelberg College in 1975 with a BS in physics and mathematics.
I received an MA in Physics from Kent State University in 1977 followed by a PhD in Physics in 1981. My dissertation was "Measurement of refractive indices and their relation to orientational order at smectic A - smectic C transitions".
I have been at UWEC since January 1981.

Bouncing Newtonian liquid jets (with James Bomber, Blugold Fellow) (Click here for more information and a video!)
Pattern formation in icicles (with Tim Kline, UWEC student)
(The "Physics Thursday" PowerPoint presentation summarizing our research so far!(pdf))
(Click for a rough-draft explanation to accompany the PowerPoint in Word format)
Optics in Art (Another "Physics Thursday" presentation (pdf). No commentary; just the slides)
Acoustics of long corrugated pipes (another "Physics Thursday" pdf with no commentary)
Other applications of image processing to extract quantitative information from images: behavior of specular reflections from waves, defects in single-layer bubble rafts, single bubble dynamics.

Contacting Professor Lockhart