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John Colton
Associate Professor
Contact Information
Office N335 ESC
Phone [use cell phone number]
Lab Phone 801-422-5286
Cell Phone 801-358-1970
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Website http://www.physics.byu.edu/faculty/colton/
Schedule
Office Hours Office hours: M 11-12; W 10-11; F 10-11
Research Meetings Colton group meeting: T 12:30-1:30 pm, N335
Condensed Matter group meeting: Th 3-4 pm, N288 (most weeks)
Department Colloquium: Wed 4-5 pm, C215
Assignments Physics Department Graduate Committee (Mon 9-10 am)
Physics Department Scholarship Committee (irregular meetings)
Other meetings: M 4-4:30 pm
Research
Group Condensed Matter
Specialty Optical investigations of electron spin in semiconductors
Research Site http://www.physics.byu.edu/research/coltonlab/
Projects
Optical investigations of electron spin in semiconductors
Background
B.S. in Physics and B.S. in Mathematics, cum laude, BYU, 1994
M.S. in Physics, U.C. Berkeley, 1997
Ph.D. in Condensed Matter Physics, U.C. Berkeley, 2000
Postdoctoral Researcher, Naval Research Lab, 2000-2003
Assistant Professor, U.W. La Crosse, 2003-2007
Associate Professor, BYU, 2007 - present
 
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