Appendix C: Faculty Vitae

 

Richard E. Bleil, Ph.D.

 

429 S. Egan Ave., Madison, SD  57042  (605) 256-4886

Dakota State University, College of Natural Science, Madison, SD  57042  (605) 256-5822

Fax (513) 256-5643 . E-mail: BleilR@Pluto.dsu.edu

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

 

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE                                                                                                     

 

                        Dakota State University, College of Natural Sciences

                        Madison, SD

                        Associate Professor of Chemistry

                        August 1999-present

 

In charge of entire chemistry program and responsible for teaching all chemistry courses at all levels.  Developed “Physical Science” bachelor’s of science program combining chemistry and physics.  Continued research including undergraduates as an educational experience. 

 

                        Kettering College of Medical Arts, General Education Department

                        Kettering, OH

                        Assistant Professor of Chemistry

                        July 1995 – August 1999

 

In charge of organizing and teaching first year chemistry courses and labs, restructuring and reorganizing chemistry related courses and laboratory upgrades and maintenance. 

 

                        Purdue University, Department of Chemistry

                        West Lafayette, IN

                        Post-Doctoral Research Assistant

                        July 1994 - July 1995

 

Advisor: Prof. Sabre Kais; Research topics: ab initio and dimensional renormalization studies for the calculation of correlation energy, thermodynamics and electronic properties of molecules and clusters; development of methods for the calculation of  Huckel theory for extended surfaces.

 

                        Harvard University, Department of Chemistry

                        Cambridge, MA

                        Visiting Scientist

                        June, 1994

 

Host: Prof. Dudley Herschbach; Research topic: stability of carbon cluster isomers in collaboration with Dr. Sabre Kais and Dr. Fu-Ming Tao.

 

                        Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Department of Physiology and Biophysics

                        New York, NY

                        Post-Doctoral Research Assistant

                        August, 1993 - July, 1994

 

Advisor: Prof. Chung F. Wong in collaboration with Prof. Herschel Rabitz of Princeton University; Research Topic: development of sensitivity analysis method for use with molecular dynamic simulations; stability of peptides C and S of the protein Ribonuclease S; sensitivity analysis of the two-dimensional protein folding model.

 

            COMPUTER EXPERIENCE                                                                                                    

 

Extensive experience with programming in Fortran; a variety of UNIX-based machines, including several IBM Risc 6000's (models 320, 540, and others); owner of Sun Ultra5 running Solaris 8.  Use of Silicon Graphics and Convex computers.  Supercomputing experience on the Cray Y-MP.  Basic word processing skills, spread sheets and data bases, and capabilities on both IBM and Macintosh systems.  Extensive use of Internet, FTP and World-Wide Web.  Developed on-line resources for chemistry students, including a chemistry site for the visually impaired (http://courses.dsu.edu/intchem/)

 

            ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH AWARDS                                                                                   

 

                        Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Research Award

                        Purdue University, 1994

                        100 Service Units for the study of Carbon clusters.

 

                        University Fellowship Award

                        Boston College, 1991

                        Award for excellence in research.

 

                        Teaching Excellence Award

                        Boston College, 1988

                        Award for teaching quality above the level of other Teaching Assistants.

 

            EDUCATION                                                                                                                        

 

                        Boston College, Department of Chemistry

                        Chestnut Hill, MA

                        Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry

                        December, 1992

 

Advisor:  Prof. Udayan Mohanty; Research Topic: Protein folding and stabilization, including the effect of bending energy on the two-dimensional protein folding model and density functional theory of ionic distribution about a globular protein and the resulting stabilization energy of the protein.

 

                        University of Cincinnati

                        Cincinnati, OH

                        B.S. in Chemistry

                        June, 1985

 

Advisor: Prof. Frank Meeks; Research Topic: Statistical mechanical modeling of noble gas clathrates in ice.

 

            PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES                                                                                                  

 

                        American Chemical Society

                        American Association for the Advancement of Science

 

            PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS                                                                                 

 

                        Selected PUBLISHED MANUSCRIPTS

 

1.         Dana Freeman, Richard Bleil, Syed M. Aijaz and Walter Voland, AP Success Chemistry 2001 (Peterson’s Thomson Learning, Washington, D.C., 2001)

 

2.         Aaron F. Stanton, Richard E. Bleil and Sabre Kais, “A New Approach to Global Minimization”, J. Comp. Chem. 18 (1997), 594-599.

 

3.         Y.G. Byun, S.Z. Kan, S.A. Lee, Y.H. Kim, M. Miletic, R.E. Bleil, S. Kais and B.S. Freiser, "Experimental and Theoretical Studies of Nb6C70/+", J. Phys. Chem. 100 (1996).

 

            Selected PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS AND MEETINGS                        

 

“Interactive Interdisciplinary Learning in Science and Mathematics”, joint presentation at the Collaboration for the Advancement of College Teaching & Learning, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2000.

 

Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Workshop, 1995

 
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Barbara Szczerbinska

 

College of Arts & Sciences

Dakota State University

Madison, SD 57042

Telephone: 605-256 5183

barbara.szczerbinska@dsu.edu

 

 

Education

1999 – 2006

University of South Carolina, - PhD Theoretical Nuclear Physics

 

1998 – 1999

The Institute of Nuclear Physics, Krakow, Poland

 

1992 – 1998

University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland – M.S. Theoretical Physics

 

 

Employment

 2006 – present

Dakota State University

 

1998 – 1999

The Institute of Nuclear Physics, Krakow, Poland

 

 

Activities and Affiliations

2005 - present

Member, South Carolina Academy of Science

2002 - present

Member, American Association of Physics Teachers

2001 – 2003

Vice President, Physics Graduate Student Association

1994 – 1997

Organizer, Winter Schools of Theoretical Physics for Students (in affiliation with the Department of Theoretical Physics), University of Wroclaw

1993 – 1997

President, Theoretical Physics Student Association, University of Wroclaw

 

Publications

2007

“Dynamical model of electroweak pion production in the resonance region”, T.Sato, B.Szczerbinska, K.Kubodera and T.-S.H.Lee,

nucl-th/0601069, submitted for the publication at Physics Letters B

2006

“Neutrino-nucleus reaction in delta resonance region”, B.Szczerbinska, K.Kubodera, T.Sato

Nucl. Phys. B, Proc. Suppl. 159 (2006), 141-146

2002

“Hadrons and Quark-Gluon Plasma”, Rafelski, J. and Letessier, J.; corrections and editing under the advisement of J. Rafelski

2000

Chiral Restoration in Effective Quark Models with Non-Local Interactions”, B.Szczerbinska, W.Broniowski,

Acta Phys. Polon. B31 835-845

 

Recent Presentations

March 2006

“Neutrino-nucleus reactions relevant to the atmospheric neutrino and K2K experiments” – South Carolina Academy of Science, Columbia

June 2003

“Neutrino Oscillations” - HUGS Summer School, Jefferson Laboratory

May 2003

“The Bag Model & Axial Coupling Constant” - Nuclear Physics Group Seminar, Columbia

March 2003

Chiral Symmetry” -  Nuclear Physics Group Seminar, Columbia

 

 

Recent Conferences and Workshops

February 2007

 

Homestake Mine – collaboration meeting between physicists from South Dakota and Argonne National Laboratory

 

March 2006

 

South Carolina Academy of Science, 2006 Annual Meeting

 

December 2005

Nuclear Effects in Neutrino Interactions – 20th Max Born Symposium

October 2005

Theoretical Problem in Fundamental Neutron Physics Workshop

April 2004

Carolina Neutrino Workshop

June 2003

HUGS Summer School at Jefferson Laboratory

March 2000

Carolina Symposium on Neutrino Physics

May 1999

Zakopane Conference on Nuclear Physics

1993 – 1998

Series of Winter Schools of Theoretical Physics, Uni. of Wroclaw

 

Work in Progress

“Neutrino-Nucleus Reactions relevant to the atmospheric neutrino and K2K experiments” in close collaboration with Professor Kuniharu Kubodera; University of South Carolina, Columbia SC, Professor Toru Sato; Osaka University, Japan and Professor T.-S. H. Lee; Argonne National Laboratory.

In our research we focus on the quasi-elastic neutrino nucleus reactions, which play important roles in the atmospheric and solar neutrino oscillation experiments. Their description involves various nuclear effects like final state interactions, initial binding effects, etc. To interpret the experimental results we need to find a reliable model describing those effects. As the first step towards this goal we concentrate on the Fermi gas model, which provides a simple description of the neutrino-nucleus reactions. We include the Fermi motion, Pauli blocking and the effects of the initial nucleon binding energy. We compare our results with those obtained with the use of a realistic spectral function. We also compare our calculations with the experimental data for carbon and oxygen.