David Allred
Professor
Contact
- Office: N265 ESC
- 801.422.3489 (office)
- 801.422.1666 (lab)
- 801.400.8277 (mobile)
- allred@byu.edu
- physics.byu.edu/faculty/allred
Office Hours
Spr. noons- N265 ESC or call 8014008277 if not in office
Meetings and Assignments
- Research with students, mostly times M-F and evening various
- Thin films for Space Optics Research 1300 Tues N288 ESC
- Environmentally stable FUV mirrors- 9:00 Friday (every other) with GSFC.
- Coherent Diffraction w/Sandberg 14:00 Friday N288 ESC & 6563298755
- UV degradable polymers for space optics. noon Fridays
- Light Scattering from Starshades- Wed. 1600 online
- First contact polymer. TBD or Zoom 614413322 (every other)
- 245 Laboratory Committee--TBA S420
- Nuclear Materials- TBD
- EUV Collimators Wednesday 11:00-noon N265 or Zoom 8014221702 (every other week)
Winter 2026 Teaching Schedule
| Physics 245 | 2:00p - 4:50p | TTh | S420 | ESC | |
| Physics 399R | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | |
| Physics 492R | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | |
| Physics 498R | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | |
| Physics 599R | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA |
Research
Specialty: Ultraviolet Optics for Space Telescopes, Thin films, Nanostructures-MEMS, Mars Simulations, nuclear materials, alternate energy issues (solar. batteries etc.)
Supervised Theses and Dissertations
Professional Bio
Go to Allred resume. physics.byu.edu/faculty/Allred/vitae
Scan down to see recent student presentations, Page 4 for papers and page 10 for thesis. Learn about the group and the Mars (club) research effort. You can write the Rover at: byumarsrover@googlegroups.com