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Branislav Djordjevic
- Associate Professor
Contact Info
- Name
- Dr. Branislav Djordjevic
- Job Title
- Associate Professor
- Phone Number
- Office Number
- Planetary Hall, Room 201B, MSN 3F3
Affiliations
Departments
- Physics & Astronomy Department (Instructional Faculty)
- Physics & Astronomy Department (Faculty)
About
Branislav R. Djordjevic is an instructional associate professor in the Physics and Astronomy Department. Since joining Mason, Dr. Djordjevic focused on physics education, especially teaching university physics courses in the innovative ALT format, which emphasizes students’ active learning through collaborative class work. Dr. Djordjevic was one of the pioneers in introducing ALT format university physics classes in our department and had several presentations of the results of physics education research in comparing students’ learning outcomes between ALT and traditional lecture university physics courses. He had been nominated for the 2021 Teaching Excellence Award.
Before joining Mason, Dr. Djordjevic worked in industry, as a software engineer at Verizon and Geico, and as an aviation science analyst at Metron Aviation. During that time, he also taught online physics classes at various colleges. Before that, Dr. Djordjevic was a visiting scholar at Michigan State University, where he earned his Ph.D. degree. Before coming to the United States, Dr. Djordjevic was a researcher in physics at the major Institute for Physics, “Vinca”, in Belgrade, Serbia.
Dr. Djordjevic’s research was focused on condensed matter physics, particularly on the physics of disordered materials. Details of the topics of his research can be seen in the list of his publications and in the list of his talks and presentations.
Selected Publications
M. F. Thorpe, D.J. Jacobs, and B.R. Djordjevic, “The Structure and Rigidity of Network Glasses,” Chapter in a book "Insulating and Semiconducting Glasses", by P. Boolchand, 2000
World Scientific, 896 pages, ISBN: 9810236735
M.F. Thorpe, B.R. Djordjevic and D.J. Jacobs, “The Structure and Mechanical Properties of Networks” In “Amorphous Insulators and Semiconductors”, Ed. by M. F. Thorpe and M. I. Mitkova, [NATO ASI series 3. High Technology, Vol. 23, Kluwer Academic Publishers], 289-328 (1997).
B.R. Djordjevic and M.F. Thorpe “The bulk modulus of covalent random networks” Phys: Condens Matter 9, 1983-1994 (1997).
B.R. Djordjevic, J. Hetherington, and M.F. Thorpe “The spectral function for a conducting sheet containing circular inclusions” Phys. Rev. B, 53, (1996), 14862-14871.
M.F. Thorpe, D. Jacobs, and B.R Djordjevic, “Generic Rigidity Percolation,” Condensed Matter Theories, Vol 11, Edited by E. V. Ludeña, P. Vashishta, and R. F. Bishop, Nova Science Publishers, Inc (1996), 401-424.
B.R. Djordjevic, F. Wooten, and M.F. Thorpe “Computer model of tetrahedral amorphous diamond” Phys. Rev. B, 52, (1995)5685-5689.
M.F. Thorpe, B.R. Djordjevic and J. Hetherington, “Spectral functions for two-dimensional random conductors” Phisica A, 207, (1994)65-78.
B.R. Djordjevic and R. Djordjevic, “Magnetic impurity in an anisotropic ferromagnet” In “Disorder in Condensed Matter: A Volume in Honour of Roger Elliot”, Ed. by J.A. Blackman and J. Taguena, Clarendon Press, Oxford, (1991) 319-322.
B.R. Djordjevic and R. Djordjevic, “Spin wave theory of impurity states in a Heisenberg ferromagnet with planar anisotropy,” J. Phys. C.: Condensed Matter, (1990) 5753-5763.
Contact Info
- Name
- Dr. Branislav Djordjevic
- Job Title
- Associate Professor
- Phone Number
- Office Number
- Planetary Hall, Room 201B, MSN 3F3