Robert Harr

Robert Harr

Associate Chair and Graduate Director, Physics (interim) 2024-2025
Professor, Wayne State University, 2010-present
Associate Professor, Wayne State University, 2003-2010
Assistant Professor, Wayne State University, 1996-2003
Assistant Professor (Research), Wayne State University, 1995-1996
Research Scientist, Yale University, 1994-1995
Associate Research Scientist, Yale University, 1990-1994

Research interest(s)/area of expertise

 Experimental high-energy particle physics

Research

Study of the Higgs boson and search for new phenomena with the CMS detector at the Large Hadron Collider.

Awards and grants

1994 SSC Postdoctoral Fellow

 2014 Richard Barber Award

Courses taught by Robert Harr

Fall Term 2024 (current)

• PHY2185 - University Physics for Engineers II
• PHY6995 - Professional Development Seminar in Physics
• PHY8995 - Colloquium
• PHY2180 - University Physics for Scientists II

Winter Term 2024

• PHY5340 - Optics
• PHY5341 - Optics Laboratory

Fall Term 2023

• PHY2180 - University Physics for Scientists II
• PHY2185 - University Physics for Engineers II

Winter Term 2023

• PHY5340 - Optics

Fall Term 2022

• PHY2180 - University Physics for Scientists II
• PHY2185 - University Physics for Engineers II

Winter Term 2022

• PHY5340 - Optics
• PHY5341 - Optics Laboratory