I am a professor in theoretical particle physics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy.  

See the links for detailed research pages, people associated with my group, talks, and links to courses.

Please inquire if you are interested in pursuing research. 

Funding opportunites: 

- information for prospective physics graduate students

- U.Kentucky graduate school fellowships

- URA Visiting Scholars Program

- DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program

- Neutrino Theory Network (NTN)

- Peter Vander Griend receives URA Visiting Scholars Award (4/4/2024)

- Kaushik Borah receives Fermilab NPC Fellowship (5/24/2023)

- Peter Vander Griend receives URA Visiting Scholars Award (4/3/2023)

- Anthony Kelly awarded Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship (SULI) (2/23/2023)

- Ryan Plestid receives Neutrino Theory Network postdoctoral fellowship (1/4/2022)

- Kaushik Borah receives URA Visiting Scholars Award (10/1/2021)

- Qing Chen awarded a KITP Graduate Fellowship for Winter/Spring 2021 (10/9/2020)

- online PIKIMO meeting, 24 October 2020: Particle physics in Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois, Michicago and Ohio 

- Ryan Plestid awarded Fermilab Intensity Frontier Fellowship (2/18/2020)

- Oleksandr Tomalak receives URA Visiting Scholars Award (4/23/2019)

- University of Kentucky joins Universities Research Association (URA)  (1/30/2018)

- MITP topical workshop 23-27 July 2018: Precision measurements and fundamental physics: the proton radius puzzle and beyond (application deadline 4/15/18)

- INT workshop 25-29 June 2018: From nucleons to nuclei: enabling discovery for neutrinos, dark matter and more

- INT program 12 June - 13 July 2018: Fundamental physics with electroweak probes of light nuclei (application deadline 12/31/17 passed)

Publications on INSPIRE

Methods of Theoretical Physics I (Mathematics 506/Physics 506, Fall 2022)

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Topics in and beyond the Standard Model of particle physics (Physics 630, Spring 2022)

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Quantum Field Theory I (Physics 616, Fall 2021)

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Methods of Theoretical Physics II (Mathematics 507/Physics 507, Spring 2021)

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Methods of Theoretical Physics I (Mathematics 506/Physics 506, Fall 2020)

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Quantum Field Theory II (Physics 716, Spring 2020)

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General Physics II (Physics 213, Spring 2019) 

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Quantum Field Theory II (Physics 716, Spring 2018)

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Effective Field Theory (informal lectures Fall 2017)

The following notes and exercises present an introducion to several key ideas in EFTs

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Current group members: 

Peter Vander Griend, 2022-, postdoctoral researcher

Zehua Cao, 2023-, Ph.D. student

Former group members:

Kaushik Borah, 2019-2025 , Ph.D. student, moved to postdoc, ORNL and U. Kentucky

Anthony Kelly, 2023-2024 , undergraduate student, moved to graduate student, Indiana University 

Ryan Plestid, 2019-2022 , postdoctoral researcher, moved to NTN Postdoctoral Scholar, Caltech (currently faculty, Ohio State U.)

Qing Chen, 2018-2021 , Ph.D. student, moved to postdoc, ICTS, University of Science and Technology of China (currently faculty, Anhui University of Science and Technology)

Oleksandr Tomalak, 2018-2021, postdoctoral researcher, moved to Director's Fellow, LANL (currently faculty, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Martin Bauer, postdoctoral researcher 2012-2014, moved to postdoc, U. Heidelberg (currenlty faculty Durham U. IPPP)

Johannes Heinonen, postdoctoral researcher, 2010-2012, moved to postdoc Siegen University

Gil Paz, postdoctoral researcher, 2009-2011, moved to faculty Wayne State University

Aaron Meyer, Ph.D. student 2013-2017, moved to postdoc BNL

Mikhail Solon, Ph.D. student 2010-2014, moved to postdoc UC Berkeley/LBNL (currently faculty UCLA) 

Gabriel Lee, Ph.D. student 2010-2014, moved to postdoc Technion 

Carlos Blanco, undergraduate student 2014-2015, moved to Ph.D. student U.Chicago

Z. Jiang, undergraduate student 2012-2014, moved to Ph.D. student Stanford U.

UK Nuclear Seminars

Fermilab Theory Group

NuSTEC (Neutrino Scattering Theory Experiment Collaboration)