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Hi! My name is Dallin Durfee, and I love doing and teaching physics! I have a B.S. in Physics from BYU and a Ph.D. in Physics from MIT. I've worked at Yale University, BYU, the Air Force Research Lab at Kirtland AFB, and I am currently a Professor of Physics at Utah Valley University. If you want, you can take a look at my CV with the link below.

Scroll down for more information about my research and teaching efforts, including links to resources I have developed that you may find useful. These include video lectures and example problem videos, 3D printable opto-mechanical designs and other useful 3D printable designs, educational software, and labs I have developed.

I have done research in laser-cooled atoms, Bose-Einstein condensation, atom interferometry, laser spectroscopy, and atomic clocks. My current research efforts are on a method of lensless imaging using laser interference which we call Interference Pattern Structured Illumination Imaging (IPSII). Many of my publications are available for free online viewing at the page linked to below.

I have many useful resources that I will soon be posting here. This web page is a work in progress...

I have developed and taught a wide range of courses, from freshman level math for physicists to advanced experimental methods. I have developed numerous resources for teaching, including two textbooks, numerous instructional videos, many 3D printable designs, animations, and several labs and software packages.

Videos

I have created numerous video lectures and videos showing example problems. You can browse them on my youtube playlist:

Textbooks

I have written two textbooks. You can view them on my publications page:

Figures and animations

I have created many figures and animations to help physics make more sense. Take a look at them on my media page:

I have many more useful resources that I will soon be posting here. This web page is a work in progress...

I've had my fair share of suffering getting my teaching materials accessible. On this page I share some of the things I've figured out. In particular I've had to do some work to figure out how to make pdf files created by LaTeX accessible. I also have some Python code on this page to help you make nice code listings in LaTeX (since the accessibility stuff in LaTeX breaks the listing package). It also has some information about speeding up making alt tags for images on Canvas, and how to use AI to generate high quality video captions.