UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN River Falls

Faculty and Staff

Seunarine, Surujhdeo

Suruj Seunarine

Surujhdeo Seunarine

Professor/Chair

Physics
Office: 119 Centennial Science Hall
Phone: 715-425-4604

Email: surujhdeo.seunarine@uwrf.edu

Education:

Ph.D. University of Kansas
Graduate Diploma (Theoretical High Energy Physics), ICTP, Trieste, Italy
B.S., University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago

Courses Taught:

Astrophysics
Quantum Mechanics
Thermodynamics
Nuclear and Particle Physics
Introductory Physics
Scientific Programming
Intermediate Labs
Modern Physics

Research Interests:

Neutrino Astrophysics
Particle Physics

Dr. Seunarine's research interests are in the fields of neutrino astrophysics and theoretical particle physics. He works on IceCube with a large international collaboration that has built and operates a neutrino telescope at the South Pole, and he conducts research using the neutron monitors at the South Pole. He is the Director of UWRF's Research Experience for Undergraduates Site on Neutrino Astrophysics. He has lived in Trinidad and Tobago and Italy, and has worked as a professional physicist and taught in the USA (UWRF), New Zealand (University of Canterbury), and Barbados (University of the West Indies).