Bruce Duncan

Dog

Here's a 1989-1990 picture of my dog Angel, (born 1985, died September 29, 2001). Here is a little obituary.

Work

Click here for the curriculum vitae.

Physics Department
University of Connecticut
2152 Hillside Rd Unit 3046
Storrs CT 06269

Lab: P-408. Phone: (860) 486-5788
Office: P-217. Phone: (860) 486-4921
[EMAIL] email: bruce@phys.uconn.edu

In 1990 I started graduate studies in the Physics Department of the University of Connecticut. I hold degrees, not all in physics, from UConn, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Yale University and Wesleyan University. Currently I'm in Phil Gould's lab, working on a variation of STIRAP (stimulated Raman adiabatic passage) in rubidium. We intend to use this technique to populate the 5D state of Rb, after which we can examine things like collisional cross section, lifetime, ionization rate, etc. Click here to see more information on professional matters.

Home

...I spend more time in the lab than elsewhere.... Home home is in Rocky Hill, Conn.

Read my father's story about his years as a WWII POW.

Hobbies

Hobbies? Who has time for hobbies? In a good year I'll read ten books (most recent books). I sing in the church choir, putting on hold other musical activities (like playing in the gamelan at Wesleyan). Occasionally I'll sing Sacred Harp at the Connecticut state convention and the New England convention. Listening tastes include gamelan, Western classical music (currently I'm big on Renaissance choral works and twentieth century composers, especially Ives, Poulenc, Messiaen, Pärt and Tavener) and the Grateful Dead. Athletics were ended when I wiped out my knee playing indoor soccer several years ago.

Some Links

Life

I go to school and to church, I've played sports (soccer, basketball and track on an organized level), I've played music, I worked as a programmer for nearly eight years and I spent a year in the Jesuit Volunteer Corps, working at the 18th Street Neighborhood Center (1985-1986) in Wheeling, West Virginia. I had a wonderful dog and have some good friends; someday I hope to get a life.

This page was last updated on October 2, 2001.

Click here to go to the UConn Physics homepage or here to go the homepage for Phil Gould's lab.