Education

• Ph.D., Physics, Stanford University, advisor W.A. Little, Thesis title: I. Matrix Products with Applications to Classical Statistical Mechanics; II. Reflectivity of One-Dimensional Solids, 1978.
• B.Sc., Physics, North Dakota State University, 1973.

Experience

• Professor and Head, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Mississippi State University, 2001-present.
• Director, Center for Computational Sciences, Mississippi State University, 2002-2005.
• Scholar/Scientist, CSIT (School of Computational Science and Information Technology), Florida State University, 2000-2001.
• Associate Professor and Program Director, SCRI (Supercomputer Computations Research Institute), Florida State University, 1995-2000.
• Scholar/Scientist, SCRI, Florida State University, 1991-2000.
• Associate Scholar/Scientist, SCRI, Florida State University, 1988-1991.
• Senior Scientist, IBM Bergen Scientific Centre, Bergen, Norway, 1986-1988.
• Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Northeastern University, 1981-1986.
• Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Georgia, 1979-1981.
• Lecturer/Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Georgia, 1978-1979.
• Research Assistant, Department of Physics, Stanford University, 1974-1978.

Recent Honors

• 2006 Awarded the "Faculty Research Award" for the College of Arts & Sciences, Mississippi State University.
• 2000 elected to Fellowship of The American Physical Society.
• 2000, listed in the Centennial edition of Marquis "Who's Who in the World 2000" (17th edition).
  
• 2000, Undergraduate student and co-author, Christina White, awarded a two-year Goldwater Fellowship.
• 1998, Undergraduate student and co-author, Dean Townsley, awarded a NSF Graduate Fellowship.
• 1997, Undergraduate student, Dean Townsley, whom I have mentored in research for 3 years, was awarded the distinction of being the "best FSU male undergrad of 1997"
• 1995, "Distinguished Foreign Researcher Study Grant"
  Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan.
  Award covered travel and expenses for an extended visit.
• 1995, Graduate student, Howard Richards, for whom I was the co-major professor (with Prof. Rikvold), was awarded the 1995 Fisher award from Sigma Xi for the best student research paper at FSU.

Professional Service

• 2004-2006, Chair and member of Southeastern Section of the The American Physical Society (SESAPS), committee for the Jessie W. Beams Award for research.
• 2005-2006, ran for Vice-Chair of the Division of Computational Physics (DCOMP) of the The American Physical Society.
• 2004, lead author on report entitled Materials Research Cyberscience enabled by Cyberinfrastructure for the Division of Materials Research of the National Science Foundation. Located on NSF web site at http://www.nsf.gov/mps/dmr/csci.pdf.
• 2002-2005, elected and served as Member-at-Large of the Division of Computational Physics (DCOMP) of the of the The American Physical Society.
• 1999, co-organizer of workshop Monte Carlo and Structure Optimization Methods for Biology, Chemistry, and Physics, March 28-30, 1999, partially supported by the National Science Foundation.
• 1998, member of Scientific Committee of VECPAR 98, 3rd International Meeting on Vector and Parallel Processing, Porto, Portugal.
• 1986, member of the local organizing committee of STATPHYS 16.

High School Students supervised in research

• Melissa Cook (2004)
• Sara Gill (2004)
• Tori Norwood (2004)
• Amanda Novotny (2004)
• Daniel Brown (2005)

Undergraduate Students supervised in research

• Jarvis A. Addison, EE senior (1997)
• Joy Barksdale, physics/microbiology senior (2003-2004)
• Steven Duval, EE senior (1997)
• Ashley Frey, physics freshman (2002-2003)
• D'Angelo Hall, EE senior (1997)
• D.K. Hilton, physics senior (1991-1992)
• Adam Hutton, EE senior (1997)
• Frederick M. Jenkins, EE senior (1996)
• Dan Roberts, physics junior-senior (2000-2001)
• Roderick Smith, computer science-junior-current (2003-current)
• Dean Townsley, physics/math/ME soph-senior (1995-1998)
• Shannon Wheeler, biology/education freshman-junior (2002-2004)
• Christina White, physics freshman-senior (1998-2001)
• Barry Youngblood, physics/ME-junior-current (2003-2004)
• David Pigg, physics senior-current (2005-current)

Graduate Students supervised

• E.Peter Münger, physics, Ph.D. 1991. University of Linköping, Sweden.
• C.C.A. (Chris) Günther, physics, Ph.D. 1993.
• Bryan M. Gorman, physics, Ph.D. 1993.
• Tomas Fiig, physics, Ph.D. 1994, Technical University of Denmark.
• Steven Weaver, physics, M.S. 1995.
• Howard L. Richards, physics, Ph.D. 1996.
• Scott Sides, physics, Ph.D. 1998.
• Xuekun Kou, electrical engineering, M.E. 1998.
• Daniel Valdez-Balderas, physics, M.S. 2001.
• Steven Mitchell, physics, Ph.D. 2001.
• Terrance Dubreus, computational engineering, Ph.D. 2005.
• X. (Jilin) Zhang, applied physics, Ph.D. 2005,
• Poonam Verma, physics, M.S. 2004; applied physics Ph.D., current.
• Jeremy Yancey, applied physics, Ph.D., current.
• Lazarus Solomon, physics, M.S., current.
• Marta Guerra Fernandez, physics, M.S., current.
• Katja Schaefer, physics, M.S., current.

Post-Doctoral Fellows worked & published with

• I. Abou Hamad
• T. Aukrust
• G. Brown
• S. Caliscan
• H.G. Evertz
• R. Gupta
• J.M. Houlrik
• A. Kolakowska
• M. Kolesik
• G. Korniss
• J. Lee
• P.W. Leung
• J. Mikalopas
• K. Park
• R.A. Ramos
• D. Robb
• S. Stinnett
• J. Zhang

Recent Funding

• National Science Foundation,
  "Computational Studies of Dynamical Phenomena in Nanoscale Ferromagnets",
  with co-PI Per Arne Rikvold (Florida State University),
  $360,000 for three years starting April 2005.
  This is a Division of Materials Research (DMR) grant.
  DMR0444051
  
  
• National Science Foundation,
  "ITR-(ASE+NHS)-(sim+dmc): Non-Equilibrium Surface Growth and the Scalability of Parallel Discrete-Event Simulations for Large Asynchronous Systems",
  with G. Korniss (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute),
  $550,000 for three years starting Sept. 2004.
  This is a Division of Materials Research (DMR) grant from the Information Technology Research (ITR) for National Priorities.
  DMR0426488
  
  
• U.S. Department of Energy (through Southeastern Energy Center, SEC),
  ``Renewable Hydrogen Production from Biorefinery Co-products and Effluents (Glycerin, Non-fermentalbe Sugars, Lignin and Triglycerides'',
  co-PI, with PI Sandun Fernando (MSU Ag and Bio Engineering),
  Task 1.2.2: Development of Mathematical Models and Simulation of Nanodroplets,
  $100,113.00, March 2006-March 2007.
  
  
• U.S. Army (through ABSL),
  ``MSU Center for Advanced Portable Electric Power'',
  co-PI, with PI Mark White (MSU Chemical Engineering),
  Task 2, Supercomputer Simulation and Modeling
  $209,990.00, June 2006-May 2007.
  
  
• National Science Foundation,
  "ITR/AP(MPS) Non-Equilibrium Surface Growth and the Scalability of Parallel Discrete-Event Simulations for Large Asynchronous Systems",
  with G. Korniss (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute),
  $450,000 for three years starting Aug 2001.
  This is a Division of Materials Research (DMR) grant from the Information Technology Research (ITR) initiative.
  DMR0113049
  
  
• National Science Foundation,
  "Computuational Studies of Dynamical Phenomena in Nanoscale Ferromagnets",
  with co-PI P.A. Rikvold (Florida State University)
  $360,000 for three years starting Nov 2001.
  This is a Division of Materials Research (DMR) renewal grant.
  DMR0120310
  
  
• Department of Energy, 1988-present
  Supercomputer time of between 100 and 400 hours per year
  from ETA10 to Cray Y-MP to Cray C90 machines.
  For 2001-2002, 80,000 processor hours on the T3E and IBM SP machines and 2000 hours on the SV1 CRAY machines.
  For 2000-2001, 34,000 processor hours on the T3E and IBM SP machines and 2000 hours on the J and SV1 CRAY machines.
  For 1999-2000, 23,500 processor hours on the T3E and 380 hours on the J and SV1 CRAY machines.
  For 1998-1999, 15,000 processor hours of time on the massively parallel CRAY T3E.
  
  
• National Science Foundation,
  "Monte Carlo and Structure Optimization Methods for Biology, Chemistry, and Physics",
  with B. Berg, H. Meirovitch, and P.A. Rikvold, $12,000,
  for partial support of March 1999 workshop held at Florida State U.
  DMR9971001
  
  
• National Science Foundation,
  "Dynamical Phenomena in Nanoscale Ferromagnets",
  with P.A. Rikvold, $450,000 for three years, Aug. 1998-2001.
  This was a Division of Materials Research (DMR) renewal grant
  with NSF monies also from Knowledge and Distributed Intelligence (KDI).
  DMR9871455
  
  
• Department of Energy,
  "Micromagnetics for Computational Materials Science",
  with G. Brown and P.A. Rikvold,
  Computational Materials Science Network, $19647 to fund 1/2 post-doc for one year.
  
  
• National Science Foundation,
  CARM-95 (Computational Approaches to Real Materials),
  "Dynamical Phenomena in Nanoscale Ferromagnets",
  with P.A. Rikvold, $434,000 for the three years 1995-1998.
  This was a multidisciplinary grant with NSF funds coming from
  the Division of Materials Research (DMR),
  the Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS),
  the Division of Advanced Scientific Computing (ASC),
  and the Office of Multidisciplinary Activities (OMA).
  DMR9520325
  
  
• Department of Energy,
  "Theoretical Studies of Magnetic Systems",
  with R.H. Schrieffer and L. Gor'kov.
  $135,000 for the three years, 1994-1997.
  
  
• Air Force Office of Sponsored Research,
  "Computer Calculations of Gas-Phase Reaction Rate Constants" 1994-1995, $35,000.

Courses Taught

• Spring Semester 2007, `Statistical Mechanics', PH8513 , physics, graduate.
• Fall Semester 2006, `General Physics I', PH1113 , physics, undergraduate (high school), co-taught with Ken Wester.
• Fall Semester 2005, `Modern Physics', PH3613 , physics, undergraduate.
• Fall Semester 2004, `Modern Physics', PH3613 , physics, undergraduate.
• Spring Semester 2003, `Physical Science Survey II', PH1023 , physics, undergraduate, co-taught with Mr. Ryan Wade.
• Fall Semester 2002, `Introduction to Physics', PH1001 , physics, undergraduate.
• Spring Semester 2002, `Physical Science Survey II', PH1023 , physics, undergraduate, co-taught with Mr. Ryan Wade.
• Fall Semester 2001, `Modern Physics', PH3613 , physics, undergraduate.
• Fall Semester 1997, `Electromagnetic Fields I', EEL3472, electrical engineering, undergrad.
• Spring Semester 1997, `Magnetic Materials and Magnetic Recording', electrical engineering, joint grad and undergrad.
• Fall Semester 1996, `Electromagnetic Fields I', EEL3472, electrical engineering, undergrad.
• Spring Semester 1996, `Electromagnetic Fields I', EEL3472, electrical engineering, undergrad.
• Fall Semester 1995, `Computer Architecture', EEL5764, electrical engineering, grad.
• Spring Semester 1995, `Introduction to Solid State Physics', PHY4936, physics, undergrad.
• Fall Semester 1994, `Introductory Physics II', PHY3049, physics, undergrad.

Publications

• Over 170 publications dealing with computational science, magnetism, materials science, physics, chemistry, computational engineering, computer science, and mathematics.
  Complete Publication List
  
  Publications: Letters-type
  Publications: invited publications
  Publications: Physical Review (A, B, E, Letters) publications
  
• Patent applied for in 2000 (provisional in 1999), Magnetic Ratchet Devices.
• Patent applied for in 2000, Fully Scalable Computer Architectures for Parallel Discrete Event Simulations.
  Patent awarded 2005, issued Feb. 7, 2006, patent number 6,996,504.

Recent Talks

• Recent talks given by myself, students, post-docs, and other collaborators.
  Conference Presentations and Seminars: 2005 ; 2004 ; 2003 ; 2002 ; 2001 ; 2000 ; 1999 ;

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  Contact Information

  Office Address:

  Department of Physics and Astronomy

  PO Box 5167

  Mississippi State University

  Mississippi State, MS 39762

  Phone: (662) 325-2806

  Fax: (662) 325-8898

  E-mail: novotny @at@ erc.msstate.edu

  man40 @at@ ra.msstate.edu

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