Personal Information and Affiliations

Curriculum Vitae for Peter Sheldon (PDF, updated 2016)

Currently Pursued Research Interests

• Strengthening K-8 Science Teaching Through Active Learning Methods
• Adsorption Isotherm on Nuclepore Filters: Measuring the surface properties of the plastic filter material Nuclepore
• Measuring the Optical Properties of YVO4 using a pulsed-laser spectrometer (with Hank Yochum at SBC)
• Web-Based, Interactive Curriculum
• Additional topics taken on with students

Summer Research Program at Randolph College Listed at this link is information on the program and a list of projects

Students Involved in Research Listed at this link are RC and R-MWC Physics Majors' Research Projects

Other Research Interests

• Spin Diffusion of 3He on a 4He film
• Slinkies!
• Ultrafast Laser Spectroscopy and Luminescence of Optical Crystals
• Ultrafast Laser Spectroscopy: Defect formation in alkali halides studied on very short time scales. You can check out some pretty but unexplained data here.
• Low Temperature Helium Films: Helium mixtures at very low temperatures - superfluidity and nearly ideal Fermi gases in two and three dimensions.

• I enjoy giving public lectures on interesting topics
• I used to be a competitive runner
• This is the family page
• Kim and Peter's Wedding Page
• Hank and Marcia's Wedding Page
• This is an old picture of our house
• This is a fun picture

• Committee for the Status of Women in Physics
• MERLOT
• Amherst College Physics Department
• Laboratory for Low Temperature Physics, University of Massachusetts
• Wake Forest University Physics
• Davidson College Physics
• Brookline High School Alumni Page