Homer L. Dodge Department
of Physics and Astronomy
The University of Oklahoma

I am primarily interested in developing nonperturbative methods for use in quantum field theories and gauge theories. The programs under active development include analytic perturbation theory and PT symmetric theories, the latter being an alternative to conventional Hermitian quantum theories. Applications are being made to quantum electrodynamics and quantum chromodynamics. Vacuum energy phenomena (the Casimir effect) are being studied in contexts ranging from cosmological to condensed matter systems, with particular focus on aspects that may be accessible to experiment, such as thermal corrections, and on understanding the nature of divergences in such calculations. New theoretical work on magnetic monopole production and binding is being carried out in connection with a recently concluded experimental search for monopoles possibly produced at Fermilab.

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