Abhay Deshpande

Associate Professor

Director of Undergraduate Studies


Sr. Fellow & Deputy Group Leader

RIKEN BNL Research Center

Research: Experimental high energy nuclear physics

  1. ✦PHENIX @ RHIC

  2. ✦Electron Ion Collider (EIC)

  3. ✦Center for Accelerator Research and Education

  4. ✦Links to my present & past experimental projects

  5. ✦The Stony Brook Spin Group

  6. ✦Links to recent talks

  7. ✦Group’s recent publications


Departmental responsibilities & teaching

  1. ✦Director of Undergraduate Studies (DUGS)

  2. ✦Physics 133 Lab (Fall’11)

  3. ✦ Physics for Scientists & Engineers I (Phy 131)

  4. ✦Physics for Scientists & Engineers II (Phy 132)

  5. ✦Undergraduate Research (Phy 287)

  6. ✦Undergraduate Research (Phy 487)

Contact Information:

Department of Physics & Astronomy

Stony Brook University

Stony Brook, NY 11794-3800

Email: abhay.deshpande(at)stonybrook.edu

Phone: 631-632-8109

Fax: 631-632-8176


Director of Undergraduate Studies (DUGS) for Physics & Astronomy

Phone: 631-632-8758

Fax: 631-632-8176


RIKEN BNL Research Center

Phone: 631-344-8783


Other affiliations:

American Physical Society (APS)


American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Prof. Abhay Deshpande works in experimental high energy nuclear physics. His current research focuses on understanding the contributions of quarks, antiquarks and gluons to the proton’s spin using the PHENIX detector and high energy polarized proton beams at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)