David M. Lind Associate Professor of Physics Office Address        Department of Physics and the           Center for Materials Research           and Technology (MARTECH)        Florida State University        405 Keen Building        Tallahassee, FL 32306-4350
Fax        (850) 644-6504    E-mail     lind@magnet.fsu.edu	Phone        (850) 644-1576 office        (850) 644-9716 surface magnetism lab                 644-9851 thin-film growth lab

Current Courses Taught:
        PHY 2054C: College Physics B with Lab
     AST 1002: Planets, Stars and Galaxies
        AST 1002L: Introductory Astronomy Laboratory
     Professor Lind is the senior author of the Lab manual currently used at Florida State University for the AST 1002L lab class.

Education
        1981, B.S. Physics, Brigham Young University, Provo Utah
        1984, M.A. Physics, Rice University, Houston Texas
        1986, Ph.D. Physics, Rice University, Houston, Texas
                 -- Rice, the smallest Division 1A university in the nation,
                    is the defending 2003 college world series (baseball)
                    champion!  Hot dang!

Born
       November 29, 1956
       San Diego, California

Family
       Married, wife Celeste, five children

 

Research Interests: Experimentalist and Surface Scientist: Specialization in Materials Synthesis and Magnetic Characterization: Molecular Beam Epitaxy -- "engineer" artificial phases of materials, especially highly ordered thin films and superlattices of metal oxides. Surface and Thin-Film Magnetism -- uses spin-resolved electron, neutron, and x-ray diffraction- based probes to study structural ordering and magnetic coupling at surfaces, in thin-films, and in layered structures. Current emphasis is on the study of exchange-biasing and half-metallic ferromagnetism in oxidic single- crystalline multilayers such as Fe3O4/NiO and CrO2.

Interesting Web Sites (mostly Astronomy):

Sky&Telescope Online ^,
Astronomy Magazine Online ^,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory , home of NASA'sstudy of the Solar System
U.S Naval Observatory , home of the official U.S. timekeeping

Digitized Sky Survey ,   HST Pictures             Hubble Greatest Hits Gallary            Hubble Heritage            Best of the Hubble Space Telescope Stardate

Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS) 
       The Nine Planets Solar System Tour
           The Web Nebula (Images)
           NGC 2000 Browser
           Messier Deep Sky Catalog Images

Astronomy Cafe
  What is the weather tonight for veiwing the stars? (radar image)