Panos Photinos is a professor of physics at Southern Oregon University (SOU), where he teaches Introductory Astronomy, Observational Astronomy and Cosmology. Prior to joining SOU in 1989 he held faculty appointments at the Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent, Ohio; St. Francis Xavier, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada; and the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was visiting faculty at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil; the University of Patras, Greece; Victoria University at Wellington, New Zealand; and the University of Melbourne, Australia. Panos completed his undergraduate degree in phys...