Assistant Professor of Physics
Ripon College
300 Seward Street
Ripon, WI 54971
(920) 748-8762

E-mail: WarthesenS@ripon.edu

Education

• B.S.  Mechanical Engineering, Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Platteville (2001)
• Ph.D.  Mechanical Engineering with a Minor in Nanoparticle Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota (2006)

Awards and Honors

• Teaching Fellow, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota (2005-2006)

Areas of Interest

• Simulations of nanodusty plasmas, plasma physics, nanoparticle science and engineering, thermodynamics, heat transfer and fluid flow.

Recent Publications and Presentations

• S.J. Warthesen, U. Kortshagen, and S.L. Girshick, "Numerical Simulation of Nanoparticle Transport During Plasma-Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition," IEEE Trans. on Plasma Sci. 33(2), 398 (2005).
• S.L. Girshick and S.J. Warthesen, "Nanoparticles and Plasmas," Pure and Applied Chemistry, 78(6), 1109-1116 (2006).
• S.J. Warthesen and S.L. Girshick, "Modeling nanoparticle effects on a low-pressure plasma," Proceedings, 17th International Symposium on Plasma Chemistry, Toronto, Canada, Aug. 7-12, 2005, unpaginated compact disk.
• S.J. Warthesen and S.L. Girshick, "Simulation of particle growth and transport in a dusty plasma," AIP Conference Proceedings: 4th International Conference on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas.
• S. Warthesen, S.L. Girshick, and U. Kortshagen, "Monte Carlo simulation of nanoparticle transport in a plasma," 56th Annual Gaseous Electronics Conference, San Francisco, Oct. 21-24, 2003; Bull. Amer. Phys. Soc., 48(6), 39 (2003).
• U. Bhandarkar, S. Warthesen, S. Girshick, and U. Kortshagen, "Temperature Effects in Nucleation and Transport of Particles in Silane Plasmas," Proceedings, 16th International Symposium on Plasma Chemistry, Taormina, Italy, June 22-27, 2003, unpaginated compact disk.
• S. Warthesen, U. Kortshagen, and S. Girshick, "Numerical simulation of particle transport in a plasma sheath," 55th Annual Gaseous Electronics Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Oct. 15-18, 2002; Bull. Amer. Phys. Soc., 47(7), 25 (2002).
• U. Bhandarkar, S. Warthesen, U.R. Kortshagen, and S.L. Girshick, "Particle Nucleation in Low-Pressure Silane Plasmas," Abstracts, 21st Annual AAAR Conference, Charlotte, North Carolina, Oct. 7-11, 2002, p.120.
• S. Warthesen, U. Bhandarkar, U. Kortshagen and S. Girshick, "Computational Modeling of Homogeneous Nucleation and Particle Growth During Chemical Vapor Deposition of Silicon Films from Silane Plasmas," MRS Symp. Proc. 715, 31-36 (2002).
• L. Ma, S. Warthesen, and D.A. Shores, "Evaluation of materials for bipolar plates in PEMFCs," Journal of New Materials for Electrochemical Systems, 3(3), 221-228 (2000).

Current Courses Taught

• Physics 101 - Everyday Physics
• Physics 151 - Introductory Physics I
• Physics 152 - Introductory Physics II
• Physics 330 - Advanced Mechanics
• Physics 333 - Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics
• Physics 440 - Advanced Laboratory and Computational Physics Problems
• Physics 500 - Senior Seminar