Taken at Mount Baldy, September 2007. I'm on the right, my friend Kyler Kuehn is on the left.
I am an Assistant Professor of Physics at California State Polytechnic University in Pomona, California. Previously, I was a postdoctoral research fellow in theoretical biophysics at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. (That's just outside DC.) I received my Ph.D. from UC Santa Barbara in 2005, working under Professor David Pine.
My research interests include quantitative models of tumor-induced angiogenesis, the biophysics of blood vessels more generally, optical imaging and nanopatterning below the diffraction limit, biophysics of the extracellular matrix, the physics of soft materials, and the theory of light in disordered systems. I also have an interest in the mathematics of voting systems, particularly topics related to the Gibbard-Satterthwaite Theorem. Although I primarily do theory I have greatly enjoyed collaborating with experimentalists, and I spent much of graduate school trying to do experiments. I didn't get a lot done in those experiments, but I learned a lot of science.
Contact Info:
Prof. Alex Small
Department of Physics
Cal Poly Pomona
3801 West Temple Avenue
Pomona, CA 91768
909-869-5202
arsmall (at) csupomona (dot) edu