CURRICULUM VITAE: Tristan Hübsch
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Born: 1958, Dec. 22nd in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia

Address:
Howard University
Department of Physics & Astronomy & Department of Mathematics
2355 Sixth St., NW, Rm. 213
Washington, DC 20059, USA
tel.: (202) 806-6267, -6245 (main office), -5830 (fax)
e-mail: thubsch@mac.com
Education:
B.Sc.: Institute of Physics, 9/81, University of Novi Sad, Yugoslavia (M. Nikolic) 1977-81.
Two first prizes in the Undergraduate Research Contest of the University of Novi Sad.
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Department of Physics, University of Zagreb, Yugoslavia (S. Pallua) 1981-84.
Ph.D.: Department of Physics and Astronomy 9/87, University of Maryland, College Park, USA (J.C. Pati) 1984-87.

Participation in Spring,- Summer-Schools and Workshops [Basic][Teaching][Talks][Positions][Services][Grants][Publications]

Teaching and Lecturing
Teaching and Lecturing Experience
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Courses at the Howard University (undergraduate):
PHYS-002: General Physics II, Summer/93.
PHYS-008: General Physics for Architects, Summer/94,02.
PHYS-013: Physics for Scientists and Engineers I, Fall/01.
PHYS-014: Physics for Scientists and Engineers II, Spring/02.
PHYS-015: Introduction to Modern Physics, Spring/00.
PHYS-023: General Physics Laboratory, Fall/94.
PHYS-092: Dept. Honors (senior), Fall/95.
PHYS-178: Electricity and Magnetism I, Fall/92.
PHYS-179: Electricity and Magnetism II, Spring ’93.
PHYS-192: Introduction to Mathematical Physics I, Fall/92-97, 04-06.
PHYS-193: Introduction to Mathematical Physics II, Spring/93-98, 05-06.
Courses at the Howard University (graduate):
PHYS-204: Electricity and Magnetism I, Fall/92.
PHYS-205: Electricity and Magnetism II, Spring/93.
PHYS-216: Mathematical Methods I, Fall/92-97, 04-06.
PHYS-217: Mathematical Methods II, Spring/93-98, 05-06.
PHYS-220: Quantum Mechanics I, Fall/93-06.
PHYS-221: Quantum Mechanics II, Spring/94-06.
PHYS-238: Theoretical Physics I, Fall/98-00.
PHYS-239: Theoretical Physics II, Spring/99.
MATH-245: Methods of Applied Math. I, Fall/96-97, 05.
MATH-246: Methods of Applied Math. II, Spring/97-98, 06.
PHYS-266: Advanced Mathematical Methods I, Fall/02.
PHYS-267: Advanced Mathematical Methods II, Spring/03.
PHYS-279: Advanced Field Theory I, Spring/05.
PHYS-281: Introduction to High Energy Physics, Spring/93.

Invited Talks [Basic][Workshops][Teaching][Positions][Services][Grants][Publications]

Positions Held [Basic][Workshops][Teaching][Talks][Services][Grants][Publications]

Postdoctoral Associate, 9/87-9/90.
Theory Group, University of Texas Physics Department, Austin, TX 78712, USA
Research Associate, 1/88 - 5/02 (on leave of absence)
the “Rudjer Boskovic” Institute of Physics, Bijenicka 54, 41000 Zagreb, Croatia.
Postdoctoral Fellow, 9/90-9/92.
Harvard University Mathematics Department, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Postdoctoral Affiliate, 6/91-9/92.
Harvard University Physics Department, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Visiting Lecturer, 9-11/91.
The National Tsing-Hua University at Hsinchu, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Assistant Professor, 8/92-5/95
Howard University Physics & Astronomy Department
Washington, DC 20059, USA
Associate Professor, 6/95 - 6/00 (tenured: Summer/97)
Howard University Physics & Astronomy Department
Washington, DC 20059, USA
Professor, 6/00 - present
Howard University Physics & Astronomy Department
Washington, DC 20059, USA
Adjunct Professor, 6/95 - present
Howard University Mathematics Department
Washington, DC 20059, USA
Research Associate, 12/96 - 1/97, 3/97
Harvard University Mathematics Department, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Visiting Scholar, 1/98 - 12/00
Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara, CA 02138, USA
Visiting Scholar, Fall 2000
CIT-USC Center for Theoretical Physics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2535
Visiting Scholar, 1/04 - 12/06
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara, CA 02138, USA
Adjunct Professor, 12/04 - present
Strayer University, Manassas, VA 20169, USA
 

Services, at Howard University: [Basic][Workshops][Teaching][Talks][Positions][Grants][Publications]

Committees (AY 93 = academic year 1993/94):
Department of Physics and Astronomy
AY 93-95: Executive Committee
AY 93-93: Ad Hoc Committee
AY 96-99: Undergraduate Curriculum Committed
AY 02: Undergraduate Recruitment Committed
AY 00-05: Seminar Committee (Chair in AY 00)
AY 94-06: Graduate Curriculum Committee (Chair in AY 98-00)
AY 94-98, 00-06: Qualifying Exam Committed (Chair in AY 98, 00, 02)
AY 00-06: Graduate Student Admissions Committee
AY 00-06: Graduate Student Status Committee
AY 00-06: Graduate Division and Program Chair
AY 02: APT Committee Chair
College of Arts and Sciences
AY 94-95: Readmissions and Academic Status Committee
AY 95-96: Academic Policy and Standards Committee
AY 98-00: Admissions Committee
AY 98-00: Alumni Awards and Honorary Degrees (Chair in AY 00)
Graduate School
AY 00-02: Committee for the Constitution and By-Laws Revision
AY 02-03: Grievance Committee (Chair in AY 02,03)
AY 03: Financial Aid Allocation Committee
Dissertation Committees (* = Chair, @ = Advisor):
Ph.D. (10/5/93): Karuppasamy Sentrayan (advisor: V.S. Kushawaha)
Laser Induced Nonlinear Effects in Molecular Gases
Ph.D. (10/26/93): Arockiasamy Michael (advisor: V.S. Kushawaha)
Collision Induced Dissociative Processes Relevant to Mercury Halide Lasers and Atmospheric Chemistry
Ph.D. (11/22/94): Abdullahi Hashi Nur (advisor: P. Misra)
Laser Optogalvanic Spectroscopy and Laser-Induced Kinetics Studies Pertaining to the Metoxy Radical
M.S. (11/29/94): Mohammed M.Kamal (advisor: P.Misra)
FTIR Spectroscopy and Higher Resolution Laser Spectroscopy Associated with Alkoxy and Alkylthio Radicals
Ph.D. (10/25/95): Abbas Ali (advisor: A. Kumar, at Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, India)
Superconformal Symmetry and String Theory
*M.S. (4/15/96): Abdul Rahman (advisor: W. Lowe and C. Bates)
X-Ray Power Diffraction Analyses of PtxSi Phases in Composite Sputtering Targets ad Films
M.S. (12/2/96): Daniel Felten (advisor: W. Lowe)
X-ray Diffraction Measurements of the Tetragonal Distortion in Coherently Strained GexSi1-x/Si Overlayers
Ph.D. (12/6/96): Michael King (advisor: P. Misra)
Laser Spectroscopy and Chemical Kinetics Investigations of the Methoxy Radical
@Ph.D. (4/1/97): Paula Ann Günter (advisor: T. Hübsch)
Toric Calabi-Yau Varieties and Their Moduli Spaces
@Ph.D. (4/4/00): Raja Q. Almukahhal (advisor: T. Hübsch)
Gauging Yang-Mills Symmetries in 1+1-Dimensional Spacetime
Ph.D. (10/23/00): Avaine Strong (advisor: P.M. Bainum)
On the Deployment and Station Keeping Dynamics of N-Body Orbiting Sattelite Constellations
*Ph.D. (4/19/04): Angelina Amadou (advisor: P. Misra)
Mycrophysical and Optical Properties of Organic and Acid Aerosols and their Relevance to Cloud Condensation Nuclei
*M.S. (5/17/04): Yang Yang (advisor: S. Smith)
Numerical Simulations for Hypersonic Base Flow about at Elliptical Cone
*Ph.D. (4/20/05): Shewaferaw S. Shibeshi (advisor: W. E. Collins)
Simulated Transport of Low Density Lipoproteins in a Permeable T-Junction
@Ph.D. (3/17/06): Abdul Rahman (advisor: T. Hübsch)
On the Construction and Cohomology of a Self-Dual Perverse Sheaf on Simple Stratified Spaces Motivated by String Theory
Ph.D. (03/27/06): Angelina Amadou (advisor: P.M. Misra)
Microphysical and optical Properties of Organic Aerosols and Their Relevance to Cloud Condensation Nuclei
Ph.D. (06/14/06): Johnny Batts (advisor: P.M. Misra)
Spectroscopic Measurements of the Concentration of Atmospheric Formaldehyde (CH2O) in Beltsville, Maryland
Academic Programs:
Howard University Minority Graduate Education Program
Summer 1999: Muhammad G. Dawson (Physics Junior, Morehouse College)
Howard University Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate
Summer 2000: James T. Williams, Jr. (Physics Junior, Morehouse College)
Creative work:
» Webmaster for the Department of Physics & Astronomy.
» Design and artwork for the Department of Physics & Astronomy undergraduate program brochure: inside and outside.
» A Mathematica package for General Relativity, Einstein & All That (GREAT) sort of calculation.

Services, to the general scientific community:

Journal Referee:
Classical and Quantum Gravity (since ’86)
Communications of Mathematical Physics (since ’90)
Journal of Physics A, G (since ’87)
Nuclear Physics B (since ’92)
Physica A (since ’87)
Physics Letters B (since '98)
Physical Review D (since ’88)
Physical Review Letters (since ’89)
Reviewer: Mathematical Reviews (’88-’97)

Services, to the community:

Grant Support [Basic][Workshops][Teaching][Talks][Positions][Services][Publications]

9/85-9/87: Research Assistant on a US National Science Foundation Grant
(P.I.: J.C. Pati and J. Sucher), at University of Maryland, College Park, MD
9/87-9/88: Postdoctoral Research Associate on The US National Science Foundation Grants
PHY8503890 (P.I.: P. Candelas) and PHY8605978 (P.I.: S.Weinberg), at University of Texas, Austin, TX
9/88-9/90: Postdoctoral Research Associate on The US National Science Foundation Grant
PHY8605978 (P.I.: S. Weinberg), at University of Texas, Austin, TX
6/90-9/92: Postdoctoral Research Associate, by The US Department of Energy Grant
DE-FG02-88ER-25065 (P.I.: S.-T. Yau), at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
9/92-5/94: Consulting Research Associate on The US Department of Energy Grant
DE-FG02-88ER-25065 (P.I.: S.-T.Yau), at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
6/93-9/93: Principal Investigator on the internal Faculty Research Support Grant Program
Simple Molecular Spectra and Supersymmetric Ground States, at Howard University, Washington, DC.
10/93-12/93: co-Principal Investigator (P.I.: P. Misra) on a PEW Educational Trust Grant
Computer-Assisted Information Age Education for the Physics Department, through the Graduate School of Howard University, Washington, DC.
10/94 - 9/96: co-PI (P.I.: L. Klein, CO-PI: K. Kumar) on The US Defense Nuclear Agency Contract
High-Z Atomic Physics Model Development, DNA001-94-C-0180 at Howard University, Washington, DC.
9/96 - 8/99: CO-PI (P.I.: D. Venable, CO-PI: A. Batra) on The US Department of Education MSIP Grant
Computer-Aided Improvement of Introductory Physics Courses for Science Students, at Howard University, Washington, DC.
6/94 - present (last renewed: 6/02, thru 5/06): Principal Investigator on The US Department of Energy Grant
Superstrings and Quantum Superfields, DE-FG02-94ER40854 at Howard University, Washington, DC.
7/ 99-6/00: Principal Investigator on the Funds for Academic Excellence Grant Program award
Development of On-Line Learning Yardsticks: Interactive Evaluation and Self-Evaluation Instruments, at Howard University, Washington, DC.
10/99 - 9/02: PI on The US Department of Education Grant
Distributed Education Workshop: Development of Web-Based and Computer-Aided Introductory Physics Course Content, at Howard University, Washington, DC.

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