Theoretical Optics

David Paganin's research interests are primarily focused upon the physical optics of classical and quantum fields, together with some recent forays into condensed matter, with papers on subjects including x-ray optics, transmission electron microscopy, atom optics, neutron optics, superconductivity, and superfluidity. Particular interests include phase retrieval, phase-contrast imaging, medical imaging, computational aberration correction, holography, microscopy, inference of non-linear differential equations of physics from field intensities, medical imaging, vector tomography of Doppler-transformed fields, x-ray lithography, Fresnel microscopy of magnetic materials, singular optics and diffraction theory. He has co-authored almost 50 C1 papers, which have attracted over 500 citations in the open literature. He has recently completed a book, titled "Coherent X-Ray Optics", to be published by Oxford University Press in March 2006. An enthusiastic teacher, past and present lecturing activities include electrostatics, relativity, particle physics, quantum physics, x-ray optics and quantum optics.

For further information, please contact David Paganin (David.Paganin@sci.monash.edu.au)