Robert J. Scherrer (Secretary, SCS) is Professor and former Chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy of Vanderbilt University. (Ph.D. Physics 1986, University of Chicago) Prof. Scherrer does research in theoretical cosmology, especially dark energy, dark matter, big bang nucleosynthesis, and large scale structure of the universe.  He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (2001), and among other awards is the recipient of the Klopsteg Memorial Award of the American Association of Physics Teachers (2011) and The Ohio State University Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching (1999). He is the author of Quantum Mechanics, An Accessible Introduction (Addison-Wesley, 2006).

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