Dennis Tokaryk
Department of Physics, UNB
Dr. Tokaryk did an undergraduate degree in Engineering Physics at University of Saskatchewan, where he developed interests in quantum mechanics and optics. He pursued these in M. Sc. and Ph. D. degrees in the Physics Department of the University of Guelph, where he did research in molecular spectroscopy and reaction dynamics. He has been teaching and doing research in Physics at UNB since 2002, and runs the laser spectroscopy lab with his colleague, Dr. Allan Adam of the Chemistry Department. They study molecules that may form in stars or in the interstellar medium by producing them in cold, fast-moving jets of gas then excite the molecules with lasers to obtain their spectra.