David Rittenhouse Laboratory

209 S. 33rd Street

421 S. 47th St.

Philadelphia, PA 19104

Philadelphia, PA 19143

(215)898-4683

(215)476-2436

Birthdate : August 9, 1957

Occupation : Professor in the University of Pennsylvania Physics and As-

tronomy Department.

Education

4/85-7/88 Post-Doctoral Student, University of Pennsylvania

6/82-4/85 Ph.D., Physics, Stanford University

9/79-6/82 M.S., Physics, Stanford University

9/75-6/79 B.A., Physics, Northwestern University

Academic/Teaching Experience

- Teach undergraduate and graduate physics courses.

- Supervise and guide master's and doctoral students' thesis work.

- Supervised and guided 6 post-doctoral students in their research.

- Participated in hiring two computing professionals for departmental

computing support.

- 8 years of experience with science teaching in outreach programs for

Philadelphia and Chesilhurst, NJ public and parochial school students

from 7th through 12th grade.

Chair Chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, 2009 - 2014

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Kahn Chair Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Professor for Faculty Excel-

lence, 2008 - present

Professor Secondary Appointment as Professor of Education in the Grad-

uate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania

Professor University of Pennsylvania, Department of Physics and Astron-

omy, 2005 - present

Associate Professor University of Pennsylvania, Department of Physics

and Astronomy, 1992 - 2005

Assistant Professor University of Pennsylvania, Department of Physics,

Research Experience

9/04-9/09 Co-leader for the Supernovae/Acceleration Probe (SNAP) sim-

ulation team preparing studies for the NASA/DOE Joint Dark Energy

Mission proposal for the SNAP collaboration.

9/03-8/04 Visiting Scholar, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

9/97-12/05 Assoc. Professor, selected to head the Level 3 Trigger effort

for the BaBar experiment at the SLAC PEP-II Collider.

3/97-3/00 Assoc. Professor, selected as the American representative to

the Computing Coordination Group for BaBar. This group has 1 repre-

sentative from each nation on the experiment to represent its viewpoint

in matters of computing policy within the collaboration.

6/92 Assoc. Professor, first observation of an exclusive B meson decay in

the hadron collider environment and contributed to the measurement

of the bottom quark production cross-section at 1.8 TeV center-of-mass

energy.

7/88-6/92 Asst. Professor, developed the third-level tau lepton triggers

for the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF). Involved in the deter-

mination of universality of weak interactions for the relative coupling

and W to e nu

. Co-developed vertexing algorithms. Co-

developed neural network and tau lepton triggers for CDF and future

SSC detectors.

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Funding:

2000-2007 My research funding level from the Department of Energy is ~

$250k/year.

2007-2009 Principal Investigator for the Penn Science Teacher Institute

(PSTI) NSF grant at $1M/year.

2008-2011 Principal Investigator for NSF Supplemental grant to the PSTI

grant of $483,600

2009-2011 Principal Investigator for NSF Supplemental grant to the PSTI

grant of $361,530

Academic Honors and Awards

7/08 Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Chair for Faculty Excellence

4/97 Recipient of the Edward A. Bouchet Award from the American Phys-

ical Society.

2/97 Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecturer Award from Wayne State University.

4/94 Received the Outstanding Community Service Award from the Penn

Black Graduate and Professional Students Association.

4/90-9/91 Awarded a Lilly Teaching Fellowship.

6/89-6/94 Made a Presidential Young Investigator by the National Sci-

ence Foundation.

9/82-9/83 Awarded a Dorothy Danforth Compton Fellowship for disser-

tation level work by the Danforth Foundation.

Research Service Activities

4/09 Member of the Particle Astrophysics Science Advisory Group advising

the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation.

12/08 Chair of the Laser Interferometry Gravitational Wave Observatory

Hanford Educational Facility Review committee for the National Sci-

ence Foundation.

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4/08-12/08 Co-editor for a special issue of The Journal of Mathematics

and Science: Collaborative Explorations documenting research from

the Math/Science Partnership Program of the National Science Foundation

1/07- Director of the Penn Science Teacher Institute.

1/07- Member of the Committee on Informing the Public of the American

Physical Society.

5/06- Member of the Committee on Science and the Arts for the Franklin

Institute.

12/06-12/09 Member of the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel (HEPAP)

for the Department of Energy and National Science Foundation.

11/07- Member of the HEPAP subpanel on Agency Staffing.

11/07 Member of the Review Panel for the National Science Foundation

Laser Interferometry Gravitational Wave Observatory.

9/98-present Member of the Quarknet Advisory Board - Quarknet is a

Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, and Department

of Education funded project that brings high school students and teach-

ers into forefront research activities of fundamental physics projects.

09/06 Member of the Committee of Visitors for the National Science Foun-

dation Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement program.

01/06 Member of the review panel recommending funding support from

the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation for

the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) Operations proposal authorizing

funding for startup of CMS operations at the Large Hadron Collider.

12/04 Member of the National Science Foundation Site Evaluation Commit-

tee for the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Observatory Educational

Outreach project.

11/04 Member of the Committee of Visitors for the National Science Foun-

dation Distinguished Teaching Scholars program.

9/99-8/02 Member of the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel (HEPAP).

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3/01-12/01 Member of the Long-Range Planning Subpanel of HEPAP

charged with charting the next 20 years of U.S. particle physics re-

search.

12/01-present Member of the Advisory and Review Committee for the

Center for the Origin and Structure of Matter project at Hampton

University - one of the first 3 Physics Frontiers Centers of the National

Science Foundation.

9/97-6/02 Member of the U.S. Army Science Advisory Board.

1/98-12/99 Member of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Experi-

mental Physics Advisory Committee.

- Reviewer for Department of Energy National Laboratory review of Ar-

gonne National Laboratory

- Reviewer for Director's Review Board for Particle Physics, Lawrence

Berkeley National Laboratory

- Reviewer for Nuclear Instruments and Methods

- Reviewer for Research Proposals for the National Science Foundation

- Reviewer for Research Proposals for the Department of Energy

- Reviewer for Education Proposals for the National Science Foundation

- Content reviewer for undergraduate textbooks, Pearson-Addison Wes-

ley

University Service Activities

1/09- Member of the School of Arts and Sciences Committee on Under-

graduate Education

9/08-1/09 Chair of the Planning Committee for the Faculty Senate Founder's

Day Symposium.

9/08-5/09 Past-Chair of the Faculty Senate

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9/08-5/09 Member of Capital Council

9/08-5/09 Member of Academic Planning and Budget Committee

9/06-5/09 Member of the Steering Committee of University Council

9/06-5/09 Member of the University Council Committee on Committees

9/06-5/09 Member of University Council

9/06-5/09 Member of the Faculty Senate Executive Committee on the

Economic Status of the Faculty

6/06-5/09 Member of the Consultation Committee of the President and

Provost.

6/06-5/09 Member of the Faculty Senate Executive Committee

5/07-5/08 Chair of the UPenn Faculty Senate

5/07-5/08 Chair of the University Council Steering Committee

7/06-5/07 Chair-Elect of the Faculty Senate

9/06-9/07 Member of the University Research Fund Committee

9/06- Member of the University Target of Opportunity Committee

12/05-5/06 Member of the School of Arts and Sciences Minority Equity

Committee

3/05-5/05 Member of the Penn School of Engineering and Applied Sci-

ences Dean's Review Committee.

1/03-5/03 Chair of the African-American Resource Center Executive Of-

ficer Search Committee.

9/00-7/03 Chair of the Pilot General Requirement Executive Committee

for the School of Arts and Sciences

9/00-7/03 Chair of the Pilot General Requirement Curriculum Commit-

tee for the School of Arts and Sciences

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9/00-7/03 Member of the Committee on Technology and Learning for the

School of Arts and Sciences

9/98- Member of the Provost's Classroom Facilities Review Committee

1/01-5/03 Member of the Minority Recruitment and Retention Commit-

tee for the University of Pennsylvania.

12/01-8/03 Member of the Underrepresented Minority Equity Committee

on behalf of the Penn Faculty Senate and the President's office.

9/00-8/02 Chair of the Faculty Advisory Board for Academic Support

Programs in the Office of the Vice Provost for University Life.

9/00-8/03 Chair of the Advisory Board for the African-American Re-

source Center for Penn.

9/99-5/05 Member of the Penn Masters in Chemical Education Advisory

Board.

1/97-6/00 Member of the Executive Committee for the Middle Atlantic

Consortium for Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications Through-

out the Curriculum.

Past Service:

- Chair of the School of Arts and Sciences Curriculum Committee.

- Chair of the Review Committee for the Biological Basis of Behavior

major.

- Chair of the Provost's Diversity Fund Committee.

- Chair of the Affirmative Action Executive Officer Search Committee.

- Member of the Joint Senate-Administration Committee to Assess Sys-

tems for Evaluating Teaching at Penn.

- Member of the Faculty Senate Committee on the Faculty.

- Member of the Faculty Senate Committee on the Faculty's Subcom-

mittee on Intellectual Property Rights.

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- Member of the University of Pennsylvania Internal Review Committee

for the Department of Mathematics.

- Member of the Faculty Senate Committee on Undergraduate Admis-

sions and Financial Aid.

- Member of the University Council Committee on Pluralism.

- Member of the Faculty Advisory Committee for Penn's Center for Com-

munity Partnerships.

- Member of the Provost's Classroom Facilities Review Committee.

- Member of the Graduate School of Education Science Teacher Ed. Pro-

gram Faculty Search Committee.

- Member of the Search Committee for Academic Services' Director of

Tutorial Resources.

- Chair of the Provost's Classroom Facilities Review Committee's Sub-

committee on New Intellectual Spaces. This subcommittee was charged

with creation of a proposal for a radically new approach to technically

innovative classroom design that resulted in the Towne 337 classroom.

- Freshman Faculty Advisor.

- Pilot Program Faculty Advisor.

Departmental Service Activities

- Chair of the Physics and Astronomy Computing Committee.

- Member of the Physics and Astronomy Planning Committee.

- Member of the Physics and Astronomy Undergraduate Committee.

- Member of the Physics and Astronomy Graduate Committee.

- Member of Experimental High Energy Physics Faculty Search Com-

mittee.

- Member of the Astrophysics Faculty Search Committee.

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- Member and co-chair of the Physics and Astronomy Laboratory Com-

mittee.

- Coordinator for the Physics and Astronomy part of a successful multi-

million dollar grant from Intel.

Selected Invited Talks

Probing Beyond Einstein - The Joint Dark Energy Mission Invited talk at the

March meeting of the American Physical Society, April 2009.

Particle Physics Beyond Einstein Particle Physics session of the 2009 Na-

tional Society of Black Physicists Annual Conference, February 2009.

Dark Energy with SNAP Vanderbilt University Department of Physics and

Astronomy colloquium, October 2006.

Three Cosmic Tenors Popular lecture, Field Museum of Chicago, IL, Septem-

ber 2006.

Seeing Dark Energy Temple University, Physics Department colloquium, April

2006.

The Energy Frontier Invited Lecture, National Society of Black Physicists,

February 2006.

Seeing Dark Energy University of California, Berkeley Physics Department

colloquium, January 2005.

Ohio State University Physics Department colloquium, January 2005.

invited talk presented at Brookhaven National Laboratory, April 22,

2004.

The Next Twenty Years for U.S. High-Energy Physics, presented at the Bouchet

Award Forum at the National Society of Black Physicists Conference,

Feb. 14, 2003.

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The Middle Atlantic Consortium for MATC, presented to the Long Island

Consortium for Mathematical Sciences and their Applications Through-

out the Curriculum, March 13, 1998.

CP-Violation and the Early Universe, presented as part of a Howard Hughes

grant lectureship at Haverford College, September 22, 1997.

The BaBar Detector and PEP-II Collider, presented as the Martin Luther

King Memorial Lecture at Wayne State University, February 19, 1997.

CP-Violation and the PEP-II Collider, presented at the High-Energy Physics

Seminar at Harvard University, February 5, 1997.

Discovery of the Top Quark, Invited talk at the National Society of Black

Physicists meeting, April 13, 1995.

B physics at CDF, presented at the American Physical Society meeting, April

19, 1994.

CP-violation and B-Physics, special seminar presented to the Physics De-

partment of Lincoln University, December, 1993.

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⇒J/⇒K

at CDF, invited talk presented at

the Recent Results in B-Physics Meeting at the University of Cali-

fornia, Santa Barbara, May, 1991.

Tau decays at CDF, presented at the 8th Topical Workshop on ¯pp Collider

Physics, Castiglione della Pescaia, Italy, September 1-5, 1989.

Recent Results from Hadron Collider Experiments, presented at the KEK Top-

ical Conference on e

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Collision Physics, KEK, Tsukuba, Japan, May,

1989.

Courses Taught

- Physics 011 and 012 - General Physics Laboratory I and II

- Physics 015 - Mechanics course taught remotely through video and the

Web in the PennAdvance program

- Math 095 - Interdisciplinary Chemistry, Physics, and Math taught dur-

ing the Penn Pre-Freshman Program

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- Physics 137 - An Academically-Based Community Service Learning

course that provides Penn undergraduates direct teaching experience

in the research-identified best practices for physics education with a

University City High School physics class.

- Physics 150 - Mechanics

- Physics 151 - Electricity, Magnetism, Optics

- Physics 170 - Honors Physics - Mechanics

- Physics 171 - Honors Physics - Electricity and Magnetism

- Physics 299 - Independent study

- Physics 351 - Analytical Mechanics

- Physics 401 - Statistical Mechanics, Thermodynamics, and Kinetic

Theory

- Physics 411/511 - Introduction to Quantum Mechanics I

- Physics 412/512 - Introduction to Quantum Mechanics II

- Minicourses for graduate students on Object-Oriented Design and Java

programming

- Physics 590 - Physics: Foundation of Science for Middle and High

school teachers of science as part of the Masters in Integrated Science

Education Program with concentration on mechanics

- Physics 591 - Physics: Foundation of Science for Middle and High

school teachers of science as part of the Masters in Integrated Sciece

Education Program with concentration on electricity and magnetism

- Physics 999 - Dissertation

Courses Developed

6/05 Professor Co-created a course designed for middle-school science teach-

ers entered into the Penn Masters in Integrated Sciences Education

Program

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9/00 Professor Created a new style of introductory physics which incorpo-

rates distance learning technologies into an on-campus course.

9/96 Professor Co-created an interdisciplinary course which integrated the

curricula of freshman calculus and freshman physics

8/93 Professor Co-created an interdisciplinary course which taught an in-

tegrated curriculum of calculus, physics, and inorganic chemistry for

pre-freshman students.

8/91 Professor Created the "stretch" course for enhancing the number of

freshman engineering and science majors who complete introductory

physics.

8/90 Professor Created the Pre-Freshman Program in Physics course for

entering engineering majors.

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Teaching Schedule, 1995-2009

I was on sabbatical at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory between 9/03

and 9/04.

Physics 170/171 Honors Physics, Fall of 2008, Spring of 2009.

Physics 137 Community Physics Initiative, Fall of 2007 and Fall of

2008.

Physics 140/150 Physics for Scientists and Engineers, Fall of 2006,

Spring of 2007 and Spring of 2008.

Physics 591 Physics: Foundation of Science, Fall of 2007.

Physics 590 Physics: Foundation of Science, Summers of 2005, 2006

and 2007.

Physics 411 Quantum Mechanics, Fall of 2004 and Fall of 2005.

Physics 412 Quantum Mechanics, Spring of 2005 and Spring of 2006.

Physics 351 Analytical Dynamics, Spring of 1999, Spring of 2000, Spring

of 2001, and Spring of 2002.

Theory, Fall of 2001 and Fall of 2002.

Physics 150 Introductory Mechanics, Distributed Learning version, Fall

of 2000.

Physics 150 Introductory Mechanics, Fall of 1999, 1998, 1997, 1995 and

Spring of 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996 and 1995.

Physics 150/Math 140 Co-taught course in introductory calculus and physics,

Fall of 1996 and Fall of 1997.

Physics 151 Introductory Electricity and Magnetism, Fall of 1995,

Fall of 1998, and Spring of 2003.

Physics 150 Introductory Mechanics, lab instructor for Spring of 1995,

Fall of 1995, Spring of 1996, Fall of 1997, Fall and Spring of 1998, and

Spring of 1999.

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Co-teaching (with Dennis Deturck of Math and Tony Pietrovito of Chem-

istry) the Math, Chemistry, Physics course (for credit) during the

Pre-Freshman Program, August of 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999,

2000, 2001, and 2002.

Outreach Activities

9/05-5/08 Member of the Education Committee of the Garden Court

Community Association. This committee devotes the bulk of its service

to Lea Middle School.

1/98-6/99 Organizer and sponsor for Educational Outreach with the Chesil-

hurst, New Jersey Coalition for Youth and Family Development. This

program offers a program of Saturday classes in practical problem solv-

ing for 9th-12th grade students in the Chesilhurst and West Atco, New

Jersey school districts.

1/98-5/98 Technical Coordinator for the Penn Upward Bound Youth pro-

gram. This program made use of computing resources within Penn's

Physics Dept. for Saturday classes with approximately 80 low-income,

first-generation-to-college students in 9th-12th grade from the Philadel-

phia school district.

9/95-8/98 Co-PI on the Penn Undergraduate Minority Participation in

Science grant from the National Science Foundation.

10/92-9/97 Associate Director and lead teacher for the Penn-Lincoln Uni-

versity Pre-College LASER program. As the lead teacher, I had pri-

mary responsibility for curriculum and physics teaching to 7th, 11th,

and 12th grade students from public and private West Philadelphia

schools on Saturday mornings.

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Publication List

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