About the Instructor...


Gabriel Lombardi has been conducting research on atomic physics, lasers, non-linear optics, and remote sensing for over 30 years. Specific areas of interest include coherent laser radar, nonlinear dynamics and chaos, quantum theory of measurement, and turbulence in fluids. See his Google Scholar page for details.

He received a B.A.-Honors in physics from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in physics from Harvard University, where he held a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship. He subsequently was appointed a National Research Council Fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Atomic Physics Division. He has since worked at several aerospace firms in California and tutored & mentored tutors at Tutor.com.



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