Faculty Departures

David Miller, professor of physics and astronomy, joined the faculty in 1963 and retired in 2018 after 55 years of teaching. His research focused on high-energy physics and the exploration of a new energy frontier using the CMS detector and Large Hadron Collider. He holds a bachelor’s, associateship and doctorate degree from Imperial College, London University.

Laszlo Gutay, professor of physics and astronomy, retired in 2018. Gutay began his Purdue career in 1965, conducting research on high-energy experimental physics, Hardon thermodynamics and accelerator physics. He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Oxford University and a PhD from Florida State University. 

Virgil Barnes, professor of physics and astronomy, joined Purdue faculty in 1969 and retired in 2018. His research focused on high-energy particle physics with recent interest in supersymmetric particles. Barnes has a total of 390 publications and mentored eight graduate students. He earned his bachelor’s degree in physics from Harvard University and a PhD from the University of Cambridge, England.

Andrew S. Hirsch, professor of physics and astronomy, retired in 2018. Hirsch, who joined the physics faculty in 1980, served as department head from 1997- 2007 and interim head from 2013-15. His research focused on high-energy nuclear physics and nonlinear dynamics and chaotic phenomena. He received his bachelor’s and doctoral degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Mark Haugan, professor of physics and astronomy, joined the faculty in 1983 and retired in 2018 after 35 years of service. He conducted research in the conceptual and empirical foundation of relativity and gravitation, along with physics education and development. He earned a bachelor’s degree from McMaster University and a PhD at Stanford University.

Sherwin Love, professor of physics and astronomy, retired in 2018. Love came to Purdue in 1984 and conducted research on quantum field theory and its application to elementary particle physics with a focus on dynamical symmetry breaking, supersymmetric field theories and the renormalization group. He received bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Drexel University and a PhD at Stanford University.

Wei Cui, professor of physics and astronomy since 2000, left Purdue in 2018 and accepted a professorship at Tsinghua Center for Astrophysics at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.