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Photo: Ronald D. Ruth, SLAC HEP Faculty

Ronald D. Ruth
Professor

E-mail: rruth@slac.stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 926-3390
Group: Beam Physics

Education

B.A., 1973, Mathematics and Physics, University of Iowa. M.A., 1978, Physics; Ph.D., 1981, Physics, State University of New York.

Professional Academic History

Instructor, Department of Physics, Southern Connecticut State College, 1974-1977; Staff Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, 1981-1984; Scientific Associate, CERN, 1982-1983; Staff Physicist, SLAC, Stanford, 1984-1991; Associate Professor, SLAC, Stanford, 1991-1997; Professor, SLAC, Stanford, 1997-present; Visiting Scientific Associate, CERN, 1997-1998.

Awards and Honors

Fellow, American Physical Society.

Research Areas

Accelerator and particle beam physics; nonlinear effects; collective instabilities in storage rings and linacs; high-gradient linear acceleration; next-generation linear colliders; novel x-ray sources; laser acceleration.

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Last update on 26 Jan 2007 by McDunn