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Barry is a Catholic university in the Dominican tradition, founded in 1940 in Miami Shores. Learn about our mission, our history and where we're headed.

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With our Catholic liberal arts heritage and over 100 degree programs, including nursing and marine biology, from bachelors through PhDs, we've got your options covered. Focus on arts and sciences, business, education, social work, communication, nursing, medical sciences, theology, or law. Take things further with personalized research and experiential learning opportunities, on and off-campus. Enhance your prospects with hands-on internships at some of the country's top organizations.

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Continuing Education (CE) offers a variety of courses and non-credit programs designed to respond to the diverse educational interests and lifelong learning needs of individuals of all ages. We offer certificate, credential exam preparation, and licensure programs for professional and personal enrichment.

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The Honors Program at Barry is designed to challenge, enrich, and prepare especially motivated students to pursue their fullest potential. By participating in a rigorous curriculum rounded out by an array of edifying and interactive events, students explore crucial issues that we face in our daily lives. Students are given the space for discussion and debate and the opportunity to learn from experts in their fields. The Office of Financial Aid can assist with determining eligibility for the Honors Program.

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The Monsignor William Barry Memorial Library is located in the center of the beautiful Miami Shores campus of 天美传媒. The Library is named in loving memory of Monsignor William Barry, one of the founders of 天美传媒 and an inspirational figure in the Catholic Church within the Archdiocese of Miami. The extensive Library research collections include more than 950,000 physical items, over 40,000 print and on-line journal subscriptions, and several thousand on-line books and streaming video resources.

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Continuing Education (CE) offers a variety of courses and non-credit programs designed to respond to the diverse educational interests and lifelong learning needs of individuals of all ages. We offer certificate, credential exam preparation, and licensure programs for professional and personal enrichment.

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We are an NCAA Division II school and a member of the Sunshine State Conference with 12 varsity teams, including men's baseball, basketball, golf, soccer and tennis; and women's basketball, golf, rowing, soccer, softball, tennis and volleyball. So far, we've won 24 NCAA championships, had 338 All-Americans, 413 Scholar All-Americans, and nine NCAA "Women of the Year" finalists, the most of any Division II school. Not bad at all, but we're going for more.

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Bartosz Fornal, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Physics

Bartosz Fornal, Ph.D.
Bartosz Fornal, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Physics

Education

  • Ph.D. in Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA, 2014
  • M.S. in Physics, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, 2008

Areas of Interest

Theoretical elementary particle physics

  • Gravitational waves from the early Universe
  • Particle physics models for dark matter
  • Matter-antimatter asymmetry of the Universe
  • Baryon and lepton number violation
  • New physics at the Large Hadron Collider
  • Astroparticle physics and cosmology

Biography

Academic Appointments

  • Assistant Professor, 天美传媒, 2021 鈥� present
  • Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Utah, 2019 鈥� 2021
  • Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, San Diego, 2016 鈥� 2019
  • Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, Irvine, 2014 鈥� 2016

Courses

  • PHY-201, PHY-201L (General College Physics I + Lab) 
  • PHY-202, PHY-202L (General College Physics II + Lab) 
  • PHY-211 (University Physics I) 
  • PHY-212 (University Physics II) 
  • PHY-300 (Modern Physics) 
  • PHY-355 (Introduction to Quantum Mechanics) 
  • PHY-395/495 (Research in Physics)

Selected Publications

  • B. Fornal, , Physical Review D 114, L021303 (2026)
  • B. Fornal, D. Polynice, and L. Thompson, , Physical Review D 110, 095013 (2024)
  • N. Bunji, B. Fornal, and K. Garcia, , Physical Review D 110, 075030 (2024)
  • J. Bosch, Z. Delgado, B. Fornal, and A. Leon, , Physical Review D 108, 095014 (2023) 
  • B. Fornal, K. Garcia, and E. Pierre, , Physical Review D 108, 055022 (2023)   
  • B. Fornal, , Universe 9, 449 (2023)  
  • B. Fornal and E. Pierre, , Physical Review D 106, 115040 (2022) 
  • C. Badger, B. Fornal, K. Martinovic, A. Romero, K. Turbang, H.-K. Guo, A. Mariotti, M. Sakellariadou, A. Sevrin, F.-W. Yang, and Y. Zhao, , Physical Review D 107, 023511 (2023) 
  • G. Alonso-Alvarez, G. Elor, M. Escudero, B. Fornal, B. Grinstein, and J. Martin Camalich, , Physical Review D 105, 115005 (2022)  
  • B. Fornal, B. Shams, J.-H. Yu, and Y. Zhao, , Physical Review D 104, 115005 (2021) 
  • B. Fornal, A. Hewitt, and Y. Zhao, , Physics Letters B 815, 136151 (2021) 
  • B. Fornal, , Physical Review D 103, 015018 (2021) 
  • B. Fornal and B. Shams, , Physical Review D 102, 115037 (2020) 
  • B. Fornal, P. Sandick, J. Shu, M. Su, and Y. Zhao, , Physical Review Letters 125, 161804 (2020), Editors' Suggestion, Featured in  
  • B. Fornal, B. Grinstein, and Y. Zhao, , Physics Letters B 811, 135869 (2020) 
  • B. Fornal, S. A. Gadam, and B. Grinstein, , Physical Review D 99, 055025 (2019) 
  • B. Fornal, A. V. Manohar, and W. J. Waalewijn, , Journal of High Energy Physics 05, 106 (2018) 
  • B. Fornal and B. Grinstein, , Physical Review Letters 120, 191801 (2018), Editors' Suggestion, Featured in  
  • N. Assad, B. Fornal, and B. Grinstein, , Physics Letters B 777, 324 (2018) 
  • B. Fornal and B. Grinstein, , Physical Review Letters 119, 241801 (2017) 
  • B. Fornal, Y. Shirman, T. M. P. Tait, and J. R. West, , Physical Review D 96, 035001 (2017) 
  • J. L. Feng, B. Fornal, I. Galon, S. Gardner, J. Smolinsky, T. M. P. Tait, and P. Tanedo, , Physical Review Letters 117, 071803 (2016) 
  • B. Fornal and T. M. P. Tait, , Physical Review D 93, 075010 (2016) 
  • B. Fornal, A. Rajaraman, and T. M. P. Tait, , Physical Review D 92, 055022 (2015) 
  • J. M. Arnold, B. Fornal, and M. B. Wise, , Physical Review D 88, 035009 (2013) 
  • J. M. Arnold, B. Fornal, and M. B. Wise, , Physical Review D 87, 075004 (2013) 
  • B. Fornal, , Physical Review D 86, 083519 (2012) 
  • B. Fornal and M. B. Wise, , Journal of High Energy Physics 07, 086 (2011) 
  • J. M. Arnold, B. Fornal, and M. B. Wise, , Journal of High Energy Physics 12, 083 (2010) 
  • B. Fornal, B. Grinstein, and M. B. Wise, , Physics Letters B 674, 330 (2009) 

A full list of publications can be found in: , , and . 

Selected Talks 

  • New Gravitational Wave Signatures of Theories with Extended Gauge Symmetries, Miami 2025 Physics Conference, Fort Lauderdale, December 2025
  • Peeking into the Early Universe with Gravitational Waves, High Energy Physics Seminar, University of Florida, Gainesville, April 2025
  • Universe through the Lens of Gravitational Waves, Mathematics Colloquium, Nova Southeastern University, April 2025
  • Testing Models with Extra U(1) Gauge Symmetries with Gravitational Waves, Miami 2024 Physics Conference, Fort Lauderdale, December 2024
  • Looking for New Physics with Primordial Gravitational Waves, Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society Meeting, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, October 2024
  • Gravitational Wave Signatures of Particle Physics Models with Extended Gauge Symmetries, American Physical Society Meeting, Minneapolis, March 2024 
  • Using Early Universe Gravitational Waves to Test Theories of Dark Matter, Baryogenesis, and Seesaw Models, Miami 2023 Physics Conference, Fort Lauderdale, December 2023 
  • Probing Dark Matter, Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry, and Neutrino Masses with Gravitational Waves, International Conference TeV Particle Astrophysics, Naples, Italy, September 2023 
  • Probing Asymmetric Dark Matter with Gravitational Waves, American Physical Society Meeting, Las Vegas, March 2023 
  • Neutron Lifetime Anomaly, International Workshop on Hadronic Contributions to New Physics Searches, Tenerife, Spain, September 2019 
  • Dark Side of the Neutron?, International Workshop on Particle Physics at Neutron Sources, Grenoble, France, May 2018 
  • SU(5) Unification without Proton Decay, International Conference on Particles and Cosmology, Singapore, March 2018 
  • Dark Matter and Baryogenesis from Non-Abelian Gauged Lepton Number, International Conference on Cosmology, Gravitational Waves and Particles, Singapore, February 2017 
  • Baryon Number as the Fourth Color, International Conference on the Standard Theory and Beyond in the LHC Era, Albufeira, Portugal, October 2015 
  • Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model with Gauged Baryon and Lepton Numbers, International Conference on Massive Neutrinos, Singapore, February 2015

Awards

  • National Science Foundation (NSF) Research in Undergraduate Institutions Grant: , Principle Investigator: Bartosz Fornal; award amount: $80,000; awarded for the period: August 2026 鈥� July 2028
  • Sr. Jeanne O'Laughlin, OP, Scholar's Award, 天美传媒, 2026
  • Outstanding Faculty Member Award, 天美传媒, 2025
  • National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant: Launching Early-Career Academic Pathways in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (LEAPS-MPS): , Principle Investigator: Bartosz Fornal; award amount: $173,000; awarded for the period: July 2022 鈥� June 2024 
  • Medallion Award, College of Arts and Sciences, 天美传媒, 2023 
  • Henry and Grazyna A. Bauer Fellowship, California Institute of Technology, 2008 

University Governance

  • Elected Senator, 天美传媒 Faculty Senate, 2022 鈥� 2025  
  • Faculty Senate Co-Secretary, 2022 鈥� 2025
  • Executive Committee Member, 2022 鈥� 2025

Selected Press Releases

  • Barry Magazine, After the Big Bang, G. Margillo, September 2023 
  • Nature News, , A. Witze, April 2019 
  • Quanta Magazine, , N. Wolchover, February 2018 
  • Scientific American, , C. Moskowitz, January 2018 
  • Los Angeles Times, , A. Khan, August 2016 
  • Financial Times, , A. Ahuja, June 2016 

Professional Memberships

  • , 2020 鈥�  present (with 天美传媒 becoming a member institution in 2024)
  • , 2011 鈥� present

Professional and Community Service

  • Manuscript referee for:
    Physical Review Letters, Physical Review D, Physics Letters B, Nuclear Physics B, Journal of High Energy Physics, European Physical Journal C, Annals of Physics, International Journal of Modern Physics A, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
  • Elementary school visits within the program

Student Successes  

Present and past members of the Barry Gravitational Wave Group 鈥� 11 undergraduate 天美传媒 students (Jessica Bosch, Nelleke Bunji, Yosthinn Cuitiva, Zoraida Delgado, Kassandra Garcia, Alejandra Leon, Maria Ortega, Erika Pierre, Dyori Polynice, Luka Thompson, and Kemalie Turnbull) 

  • 5 publications in Physical Review D co-authored by 8 students 
  • 6 student conference talks (International Conference TeV Particle Astrophysics in Naples, Italy, and regional APS meetings) 
  • 13 student poster presentations (national APS meetings in Las Vegas and Minneapolis, regional APS meetings) 
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