Thomas Erber Distinguished Professor of Physics Professor Honoris Causa, University of Graz
	B.S.:	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
	Ph.D.:	University of Chicago
	Office:	294 Life Sciences Building
	Phone:	312.567.3382       Fax:  312.567.3494
	e-mail:	erber@iit.edu

Professional Interests

Quantum electrodynamics in intense magnetic fields; classical electrodynamics; the quantum mechanics of single trapped atoms; magnetic and mechanical hysteresis; metal fatigue; structure and evolution of complex physical systems; sonoluminescence.

Representative Publications

• "Reflections on parity," T. Erber, Foundations of Physics 34, 1515 (2004).
  
  
• "Unified Radiation Formulae for Classical and Quantum Electrodynamics," T. Erber, H.G. Latal, European J. Phys. 24, 67-79, (2003).
  
  
• "Hooke's Law and Fatigue Limits in Micromechanics," T. Erber, Eur. J. Phys. 22: 491-499 (2001).
  
  
• "Reversibility, Irreversibility: Restorability, Non-Restorability," T. Erber and B. Bernstein, J. Phys. A: Mathematical and General 32, 7581 (1999).
  
  
• "Chiral Hausdorff Metrics and Structural Spectroscopy in a Complex System," T. Erber, L. Coffey and J. Drapala, J. Phys. A: Mathematical and General 32, 2263 (1999).
  
  

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