Leo Piilonen
Alumni Distinguished Professor
Fellow, American Physical Society
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
2019 Outstanding Faculty Award, State Council of Higher Education for Virginia
2019 Alumni Award for Excellence in Research, Virginia Tech
Experimental Particle Physics
Ph.D.: Princeton, 1985.
B.Sc.: Toronto, 1978.
123 Robeson Hall
540-231-3356
(Fax: 540-231-7511)
piilonen@vt.edu

• Fall 2024:
  • PHYS3324 (Modern Physics)
• Spring 2024:
  • PHYS3406 (Intermediate Electricity and Magnetism)
• Fall 2023:
  • PHYS3324 (Modern Physics)
• Spring 2023:
  • PHYS3406 (Intermediate Electricity and Magnetism)
• Fall 2022:
  • PHYS3324 (Modern Physics)
• Fall 2021:
  • ISC2105 (Integrated Science Curriculum)
• Fall 2020:
  • ISC2105 (Integrated Science Curriculum)
• Fall 2019:
  • ISC2105 (Integrated Science Curriculum)

• Belle and Belle II B-physics experiments at KEK in Japan
• Movie about Belle (produced for KEK by Sanyo Eiga Co, 2008)
• Movie about Belle II (produced by KEK, 2014)
• Movie about Belle II Virtual Reality (produced by ICAT at VT, 2017)
• Co-spokesperson of the Belle collaboration (April 2012 - March 2018)

• See the InSPIRE Database for a complete listing.

• Kormak, Ontario (now a ghost town). I'm standing on the left in this photograph from Kormak.
• My one-room log schoolhouse for grades 1 to 8 - about 20 students total - through my fifth grade (after which we were bused to school in Chapleau, a good hour away).

• Microprogramming for data acquisition on the Data General Eclipse S/230 (1982)
• Vectorization of EGS4 electron+photon shower simulation package for the Convex C200 vector-register computer (1989)
• Flash-based physics animations written for my courses (2007--)
• Unity-based virtual reality model/animation of the Belle II experiment (2017--)