Michael Crescimanno

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Dr. Michael Crescimanno

Professor

Physics, Astronomy, Geology, & Environmental Sciences

Ward Beecher Hall 2031

phone: (330) 941-7109

mjcrescimanno@ysu.edu

mjcrescimanno.people.ysu.edu/

Research Interests

Physics and Math

Teaching Interests

Physics and Math

  • 1991

    Ph D, Physics

    U. C. Berkeley

    Dissertation/Thesis Title — "Topics in Low-Dimensional Quantum Field Theory"

  • 1989

    MS, Physics

    U. C. Berkeley

  • 1985

    BA, Physics

    Princeton University

    Dissertation/Thesis Title — "On the exactness of the supersymmetric WKB quantization"

  • 2023

    Harvard-Smithsonian ITAMP

    Invited Visitor

  • 2023

    YSU

    YSU Distinguished Professor Award (Teaching)

  • 2023

    National Science Foundation (DMR)

    Grant

    NSF Unilateral Lasing in Underwater Animals, with Hawaii Pacific University,
    2023-2026, DMR-2226956 RUI, Senior Personnel YSU Portion $69,000 total $393,770

  • 2022

    YSU

    YSU Williamson Summer Science Professor

    Williamson Summer Science Institute Support, $8500 to fund a student and buy detector, 2022

  • 2017

    YSU

    YSU Advanced Manufacturing Center of Excellence, Faculty Investigator

  • 2017

    National Science Foundation (RUI)

    Grant

    NSF Coherence-Derived Light Fluctuations for Atomic Magnetometry, with Lewis and Clark University,
    2017, NSF PHY-211446 RUI, YSU portion $15,281 , total $195,008

  • 2016

    Radcliffe

    Radcliffe Fellow

  • 2016

    National Science Foundation (DMR)

    Grant

    NSF DMR (OP) “Nonlinear Optical Properties of Organic Cavity Polaritons,” with CWRU
    2016-2019, with C.W.R.U., NSF DMR-1609077, YSU Portion $72,312, total $455501

  • 2016

    YSU

    YSU Distinguished Professor Award (scholarship)

  • 2016

    Harvard-Smithsonian ITAMP

    Invited Visitor

  • 2013

    National Science Foundation (EPMD)

    Grant

    NSF EAGER EPMD “EAGER: Verification of Coherent Perfect Rotation,”
    2013-2014, ECCS-1360725, $130000

  • 2012

    YSU

    YSU LEGUP grant

    LEGUP grant, “Making quantum wierdness useful,” $50000 2012-2013

  • 2012

    YSU

    YSU Research Professorship Award

  • 2008

    National Science Foundation (DUE)

    Grant

    NSF S-STEM ”Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Scholars Program,” co-PI
    2008-2012 DUE-0728616. $600000

  • 2007

    Radcliffe

    Radcliffe Fellow

  • 2007

    YSU

    YSU Research Professorship Award

  • 2006

    YSU

    YSU Distinguished Professor Award (scholarship)

  • 2005

    Harvard-Smithsonian ITAMP

    Invited Visitor

  • 2005

    YSU

    YSU Research Professorship Award

  • 2004

    Harvard-Smithsonian ITAMP

    Invited Visitor

  • 2004

    YSU

    YSU Faculty Improvement Award

  • 2003

    YSU

    YSU Dr. Martin Luther King Mentorship Award

  • 2002

    Center for Ultracold Atoms, MIT

    Invited Visitor

  • 2002

    Harvard-Smithsonian ITAMP

    invited visitor

  • 2002

    NASA (NAG)

    Grant

    NASA NAG9-1166, Consultant to Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 2002 $ 13340

  • 2002

    Center for Ultracold Atoms, MIT

    Invited Visitor

  • 2001

    Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, U. C. Santa Barbara

    Scholars Program Awardee

  • 2001

    YSU

    YSU Research Professorship Award

  • 2001

    Ohio Supercomputer Center

    Grant

    Cluster Ohio Program of the Ohio Supercomputer Center, co-PI, 2001 $70000

  • 2001

    Dep. of Energy (EPSCoR)

    Grant

    DOE EPSCoR Grant, Subcontractor to U. of Ky. Theory Group, 2001-2003 $58088

  • 2000

    Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics

    Scholars Program Awardee

  • 2000

    Harvard-Smithsonian ITAMP

    Invited Visitor

  • 1999

    Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, U. C. Santa Barbara

    Scholars Program Awardee

  • 1999

    National Science Foundation (REG)

    Grant

    NSF EPSCoR Research Enhancement Grant, PI, 1999 $12000

  • 1998

    Appalachian Colleges Association

    Cutting Edge award nominee

  • 1991

    U. S. Department of Education

    Graduate Fellowship

  • 1990

    U. S. Department of Education

    Graduate Fellowship

  • 1988

    National Science Foundation

    Graduate Fellowship

  • 1987

    National Science Foundation

    Graduate Fellowship

  • 1986

    National Science Foundation

    Graduate Fellowship

  • 1985

    Princeton University

    Kusaka Memorial Award

  • 2007 - 2023

    Case Western Reserve University

    Adjunct Faculty

  • 1991 - 1993

    Center for Theoretical Physics, MIT

    Postdoctoral Researcher

  • 2004 - 2004

    Coordinator

  • 2001 - 2001

    Coordinator

  • 2025

    "Chirp asymmetry in Zeeman electromagnetically induced transparency, with Joseph Gorkos*, Karsten Grenzig*, Erfan Nasirzadeh Orang*, Victoria Thomas* and Declan Tighe*, {\it J. Opt. Soc. Am.} B {\bf 42} {\it 2}, 404-411 (2025)."

    M. Crescimanno

    josab, volume as above, issue as above

  • 2024

    "Neon tetra fish (Paracheirodon innesi) as farm-to-optical-table Bragg reflectors, with D. Ryan Sheffield*, Anthony Fiorito*, Hengzhou Liu, and Nathan J. Dawson , {\it JOSA}B, {\bf 41}, \#11, pp. D24-D30 (2024) and https://doi.org/10.1364/JOSAB.532583.Josab"

    M. Crescimanno

    josab, volume See above, issue see aboive

  • 2024

    "Chirp Asymmetry as an analogue of Leptogenesis, with Matthew Commons*, Jonathon T. George*, Aaron Weiser*, Joseph Gorkos*, Karsten Grenzig*, Victoria Thomas* and Declan Tighe*, {\it JOSA}B, {\bf 41}, \#2, pp. 421-431 (2024) and arXiv 2205.05548."

    M. Crescimanno

  • 2023

    "Newton's Off-center Circular Orbits and the Magnetic Monopole, with Dipesh Bhandari*, {\it SIGMA} 19 (2023), 099 and arXiv math-ph/2307.15222."

    M. Crescimanno

    SIGMA, volume as avobr, issue sd aqf c

  • 2022

    "All-optical method of determining laser power from the photomechanical effect, with Frank Sun, Rocco Shasho* and Nathan J. Dawson, {\it Applied Sciences} {\bf 12}, pg. 10708 (2022)."

    M. Crescimanno

  • 2021

    "Rubidium Isotope Shift Measurement using Noisy Lasers, with T.J. Bucci*, J.P. Feigert*, B. Chamberlain* and A. Giovannone*, {\it American Journal of Physics} {\bf 89}, 730 (2021)."

    M. Crescimanno

  • 2021

    "Mechanisms of the Intensity Dependent Refractive Index in Ultrastrongly Coupled Organic Cavity Polaritons, with S. Schwab*, W. Christopherson and K. Singer, {\it Phys. Rev. B} {\bf 104}, 085307 (2021)."

    M. Crescimanno