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Personal Born 17 May 1969, Buffalo, New York, USA. US citizen.
Education Ph.D. in Physics, Ohio University, August 1997
Thesis Title : A Complete Calculation of the First Order Term in Nucleon-Nucleus Scattering
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Charlotte Elster
B.A. in Physics, The State University of New York at Geneseo, 1991
B.A. in Mathematics, ibid
Research Nuclear Physics, Reaction theory, Nucleon-Nucleus scattering
InterestsPhysics Education
Computer Visualization of Physics
Acoustics
Experience: Spring 2003-Present: Associate Professor of Physics, Eckerd College
Teaching Summer 2005: Professor for Physics I at Florida State University, use of CAPA
Fall 1997-2003: Assistant Professor of Physics, Eckerd College
Fall 1995: Graduate Student Member of Teachers Teaching Committee
Fall 1994-Spring 1997: Substitute Lecturer, Ohio University
Summer 1994-96: Assistant Coordinator in directing undergraduates in nuclear theory research
through the use of computer visualization and animation
Experience: Fall 2004 - Summer 2005: On Sabbatical leave at Florida State University
Research Summer 1999-2003: Research with undergraduate students at Eckerd College
Spring 1999: National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure grant recipient
Summer 1998: National Science Foundation grant recipient
Summer 1996: Participant in Hampton University Graduate Studies
at Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility.
Fall 1993-Summer 1997: Graduate Research Assistant in Theoretical Nuclear Physics
Summer 1990: Experimental Nuclear Research Assistant at The Florida State University
Summer 1989: Experimental Nuclear Research Assistant at SUNY Geneseo
Publications ``Sensitivities of the Proton-Nucleus Elastic Scattering Observables of
He and
He
at Intermediate Energies" with Ofir Garcia and Ch. Elster, Phys. Rev. C61, 044601 (2000).
``Reply to the Comment on "Energy Dependence of the NN t-matrix in the Optical Potential"
with Ch. Elster, Phys. Rev. C59, 1816 (1999).
``Off-Shell Structures of Nucleon-Nucleon t-matrices and Influence on Nucleon-Nucleus Elastic Scattering
Observables" with Ch. Elster and D. Hüber, Phys. Rev. C57, 1378 (1998).
``Energy Dependence of the NN t-matrix in the Optical Potential for Elastic Nucleon-Nucleus Scattering''
with Ch. Elster, Phys. Rev. C57, 189 (1998).
``Full-folding Optical Potentials for Elastic Nucleon-Nucleus Scattering based on Realistic Densities''
with C.R. Chinn, Ch. Elster, Phys. Rev. C56, 2080 (1997).
``Microscopic Optical Potentials for Nucleon-Nucleus Elastic Scattering''with C.R. Chinn, Ch. Elster,
R.M. Thaler, The Proceedings of the XIV International Conference on Particles and Nuclei,
World Scientific(1996).
``Propagator Modifications in Elastic Nucleon-Nucleus Scattering within the Spectator Expansion''
with C.R. Chinn, Ch. Elster, R.M. Thaler, Phys. Rev. C52, 1992 (1995).
``Application of Multiple Scattering Theory to Lower Energy Elastic Nucleon-Nucleus Scattering''
with C.R. Chinn, Ch. Elster, R.M. Thaler, Phys. Rev. C51, 1418 (1995).
``Total Cross-Sections for Neutron Scattering'', with C.R. Chinn, Ch. Elster, R.M. Thaler,
Phys. Rev. C51, 1033 (1995).
Recent Oral ``Sensitivity of the Derived B(E2) Transition Strength to Nuclear Structure Models",
Presentations Meeting of the APS Division of Nuclear Physics, Tampa, FL, April 2005.
``Application of the Pauli Principle in Many-Body Scattering",
Meeting of the APS Division of Nuclear Physics, Denver, CO, April 2004.
``Antisymmeterization of the Optical Potential for Nucleon-Nucleus Scattering",
Invited talk at the University of Central Florida Physics Department, Orlando, FL, April 2002
``Microscopic Calculations of First Order Optical Potentials for Nucleon-Nucleus Scattering",
Invited talk at The Florida State University Physics Department, Tallahassee, FL, September 1999
and Florida International University, Miami, FL, January 2000.
``Intermediate Energy Elastic Scattering of Exotic Helium Nuclei'' with Ofir Garcia and Ch. Elster,
Meeting of the APS Southeastern Section Meeting, Miami, FL, November 1998.
``Sensitivity of Nucleon-Nucleus Scattering Observables to the Energy Dependence of Realistic NN t-matrices''
with Ch. Elster, Meeting of the APS Division of Nuclear Physics, Columbus OH, April 1998.
``Sensitivity of Nucleon-Nucleus Scattering Observables to the Off-Shell Behavior of Realistic NN Potentials''
with C.R. Chinn, Ch. Elster, R.M. Thaler, Meeting of the APS Division of Nuclear Physics,
Washington DC, April 1997.
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Computational Tools: Cray T90, Cray T3E, PBS Linux Clusters, Workstations
Programming Languages: Fortan 90, C++, Java
Graduate Course-work: Year of Vector and Parallel Programming
Supercomputer Center Affiliations: Ohio, Teragrid