Michael A. Doncheski Curriculum Vita

Address: Penn State University 1 Campus Drive Mont Alto, PA 17237 Email: mad10@psu.edu Phone: (717) 749-6246 (office) (717) 762-2290 (home) Positions: Fall 2008 Interim Director of Academic Affairs Penn State University, Mont Alto Campus 2006-present Professor of Physics Penn State University, Mont Alto Campus Tenure home: Eberly College of Science 2002-2006 Associate Professor of Physics Penn State University, Mont Alto Campus 1996-2002 Assistant Professor of Physics Penn State University, Mont Alto Campus 1995-1996 Research Associate/Sessional Lecturer Carleton University (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) 1991-1993 Visiting Assistant Professor University of Wisconsin – Madison 1990-1991 Research Associate University of Wisconsin – Madison 1985-1990 Graduate Teaching Assistant Penn State University Education: 1990 Ph.D. In Theoretical Physics Thesis: Bound State Radiative Effects in Particle Physics The Pennsylvania State University 1985 B. S., with Honors and with Highest Distinction in Physics The Pennsylvania State University Fellowships and Awards: 2008 Martha A. Fisher Award for Excellence in Teaching 2005 Commonwealth College Outstanding Research or Creative

Accomplishment Award 2000 Penn State Mont Alto Faculty Scholar Award 1988 The Pennsylvania State University College of Science Graduate Teaching Assistant Award 1986 David H. Rank Memorial Physics Award 1985-1988 Braddock Fellowship 1985 Elected to ΦΒΚ 1985 Selected College of Science Student Marshall (Highest G.P.A. in the College of Science)

M. A. Doncheski Refereed Journal Articles

1. Piecewise zero-curvature energy eigenstates in one dimension

(with L. P. Gilbert, M. Belloni and R. W. Robinett) Eur. J. Phys. 27, 1331-1339 (2006).

2. Playing Quantum Physics Jeopardy with zero-energy states (with L. P. Gilbert, M. Belloni and R. W. Robinett) Am. J. Phys. 74, 1035-1036 (2006).

3. More on the asymmetric infinite square well: energy eigenstates with zero curvature (with L. P. Gilbert, M. Belloni and R. W. Robinett) Eur. J. Phys. 26, 815-825 (2005).

4. Simple examples of position-momentum correlated Gaussian free-particle wavepackets in one-dimension with the general form of the time-dependent spread in position (with R. W. Robinett and L. C. Bassett) Found. Phys. Lett. 18, 455-475 (2005).

5. Zero-curvature solutions of the one-dimensional Schrodinger equation (with M. Belloni and R. W. Robinett) Physica Scripta 72, 122-126 (2005).

6. Exact results for 'bouncing' Gaussian wave packets (with M. Belloni and R. W. Robinett) Physica Scripta 71, 136-140 (2005).

7. Wigner quasi-probability distribution for the infinite square well: energy eigenstates and time-dependent wave packets (with M. Belloni and R. W. Robinett) Am. J. Phys. 72, 1183-1192 (2004).

8. Measurement of tan in associated t H production in collisions (with S. Godfrey and S. Zhu) Phys. Rev. D 68, 053001 (2003).

9. Wave packet revivals and the energy eigenvalue spectrum of the quantum pendulum (with R. W. Robinett) Ann. of Phys. 308, 578-598 (2003).

10. Resolved photon contributions to Higgs boson production in collisions (with S. Godfrey), Phys. Rev. D67, 073021 (2003).

11. Wave packet construction in two-dimensional quantum billiards: Blueprints for the square, equilateral triangle, and circular cases (with S. Heppelmann, R. W. Robinett, and D. C. Tussey), Am. J. Phys. 71, 541-557 (2003).

12. Quantum mechanical analysis of the equilateral triangle billiard: periodic orbit theory and wave packet revivals (with R. W. Robinett), Annals of Physics 299, 208-227 (2002).

13. Signals for noncommutative QED in e and collisions (with S. Godfrey), Phys. Rev. D65, 015005 (2002).

14. Expectation value analysis of wave packet solutions to the quantum bouncer: short-term classical and long-term revival behavior (with R. W. Robinett), Am. J. Phys. 69, 1084-1090 (2001).

15. Discovery and identification of W' bosons in e -> q + X (with S. Godfrey, P. Kalyniak, B. Kamal and A. Leike), Phys. Rev. D63, 05300 (2001).

16. Comparing classical and quantum probability distributions for an asymmetric infinite well (with R. W. Robinett), Eur. J. Phys. 21, 217 (2000).

17. Extra-dimensional gravity and dijet production at colliders (with R. W. Robinett), Phys. Rev. D61, 117701 (2000).

18. Measurement of the WW coupling in the process e -> q q off the W boson resonance (with K. A. Peterson and S. Godfrey), Phys. Rev. D59, 117301 (1999).

19. Anatomy of a quantum “bounce” (with R. W. Robinett), Eur. J. Phys. 20, 29-37 (1999).

20. Radiation zeros and scalar particles beyond the Standard Model (with R. W. Robinett), Phys. Lett. B435, 364-372 (1998).

21. Eliminating the low-mass axigluon window (with R. W. Robinett), Phys. Rev. D58, 097702 (1998).

22. Closing the window on the axigluon mass using top quark production data (with R. W. Robinett), Phys. Lett. B412, 91-94 (1997).

23. Leptoquark production in ultrahigh-energy neutrino interactions revisited (with R. W. Robinett), Phys. Rev. D56, 7412-7415 (1997).

24. Third generation leptoquark decays and collider searches (with R. W. Robinett), Phys. Lett. B411, 107-111 (1997).

25. What can we learn about leptoquarks at LEP-2? (with S. Godfrey), Mod. Phys. Lett. A12, 1719-1725 (1997).

26. Constraints on light gluinos from Tevatron dijet data (with J. L. Hewett and T. G. Rizzo), Phys. Rev. D56, 5703-5708 (1997).

27. Leptoquark mass limits from single leptoquark production at LEP and LEP-200 (with S. Godfrey) Phys. Lett. B393, 355-359 (1997).

28. Probing the heavy quark content of the photon using b tagging at high energy e and e+

e-

colliders (with S. Godfrey and K. A. Peterson) Phys. Rev. D55, 183-189 (1997).

29. Charged heavy lepton production in E6 superstring inspired models (with M. Boyce and H. Konig) Phys. Rev. D55, 68-97 (1997).

30. Fragmentation production of doubly heavy baryons (with J. Steegborn and M. L. Stong) Phys. Rev. D53, 1247-1252 (1996).

31. Determination of leptoquark properties in polarized e collisions (with S. Godfrey) Phys. Rev. D51, 1040-1045 (1995).

32. Fragmentation production of J/ and ' at the Tevatron (with E. Braaten, S. Fleming and M. L. Mangano) Phys. Lett. B333, 548-554 (1994).

33. Aspects of and production in polarized proton-proton collisions (with R. W. Robinett) Z. Phys. C63, 611-618 (1994).

34. Resolved photon contributions to leptoquark production in e+ e

- and e collisions

(with S. Godfrey) Phys. Rev. D49, 6220-6223 (1994).

35. Associated J/ + production as a probe of the polarized gluon distribution (with C. S. Kim) Phys. Rev. D49, 4463-4468 (1994).

36. Hadronic W production and the Gottfried sum rule (with F. Halzen, C. S. Kim and M. L. Stong) Phys. Rev. D49, 3261-3269 (1994).

37. J/ suppression in electroproduction and hadroproduction: A conventional physics explanation (with M. B. Gay Ducati and F. Halzen) Phys. Rev. D49, 1231-1236 (1994).

38. Spin-spin asymmetries in large transverse momentum Higgs boson production (with R. W. Robinett and L. Weinkauf) Phys. Rev. D47, 1243-1246 (1993).

39. Signals for virtual leptoquark exchange at HERA (with J. L. Hewett) Z. Phys. C56, 209-214 (1992).

40. Probing the WW vertex in e p -> X (with U. Baur) Phys. Rev. D46, 1959-1964 (1992).

41. Double photon production in polarized proton-proton collisions (with R. W. Robinett) Phys. Rev. D46, 2011-2017 (1992).

42. Oscillating atmospheric neutrinos: surface neutrino telescopes vs. long baseline (with F. Halzen and T. Stelzer) Phys. Rev. D46, 505-509 (1992).

43. Observable radiation zeroes in HERA interactions (with F. Halzen) Z. Phys. C52, 673-676 (1991).

44. Spin dependence of three-jet and two-jet plus direct photon production in polarized proton-proton collisions (with R. W. Robinett and L. Weinkauf) Phys. Rev. D44, 2717-2726 (1991).

45. Charged current compositeness effects at HERA Z. Phys. C52, 527-532 (1991).

46. Inconsistency of the BM 5-scheme in flavor changing neutral currents (with A. Barroso, H. Grotch, J. G. Korner and K. Schilcher) Phys. Lett. B261,123-126 (1991).

47. Pure recoil corrections to the Lamb Shift in hydrogenic atoms (with H. Grotch and G. W. Erickson) Phys. Rev. A43, 2152-2170 (1991).

48. Low transverse momentum and production in polarized proton-proton collisions (with R. W. Robinett) Phys. Lett. B348, 188-192 (1990).

49. Angular distributions of photons in the electric dipole radiative decays of quarkonia (with H. Grotch and K. J. Sebastian) Phys. Rev. D42, 2293-2299 (1990).

50. Lamb Shift: additional recoil corrections and estimates of radiative proton effects (with H. Grotch and D. A. Owen) Phys. Rev. A41, 2851-2853 (1990).

51. Flavor-changing decays of the Z0 and leptoquarks

(with H. Grotch, R. W. Robinett, K. Schilcher, G. Belanger and P. Moxhay) Phys. Rev. D40, 2301-2304 (1989).

Higgs-boson radiative corrections to the decay 3S1(QQ) -> H

(with H. Grotch, R. W. Robinett and K. Schilcher) Phys. Rev. D38, 3511-3515 (1988).

53. Axigluons in the system

(with H. Grotch and R. W. Robinett) Phys. Rev. D38, (Rapid Communication) 412-413 (1988).

54. Axigluons and heavy quarkonia (with H. Grotch and R. Robinett) Phys. Lett. 206B, 137-140 (1988).

55. Hyperfine structure of toponium due to Z0

(with H. Grotch and D. A. Owen) J. Phys. G.: Nucl. Phys. 13, 1195-1199 (1987).

M. A. Doncheski Non-Refereed Articles

1. Wigner quasi-probability distribution for the infinite square well: Energy eigenstates and

time-dependent wave packets (with M. Belloni and R. W. Robinett), Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology (http://www.vjnano.org), 30 August 2004.

2. Linear collider physics resource book for Snowmass 2001 (as part of the American Linear Collider Working Group (T. Abe, et al.)) SLAC-R-570 and hep-ex/0106057.

3. TESLA: The superconducting electron positron linear collider with an integrated X-ray laser laboratory. Technical Design Report. Part 3. Physics at an e

+ e

- linear collider

(as part of the ECFA/DESY LC Physics Working Group (J.A. Aguilar-Saavedra, et al.)), DESY-01-011 and hep-ph/0106315.

4. + , J/ + and J/ + J/ production in polarized proton-proton collisions (RHIC Spin Collaboration Internal Report), OCIP/C 93-13-IR.

5. Bound state radiative effects in particle physics Ph.D. thesis, Penn State University, 1990.

M. A. Doncheski Conference and Workshop Proceedings

1. Higgs boson production in collisions via resolved photon contributions (with S. Godfrey and S. Zhu) contributed to DPF 2004: Annual Meeting of the Division of Particles and Fields (DPF) of the American Physical Society, Riverside, CA, 27-31 August 2004; submitted to Int. J. Mod. Phys. A (hep-ph/0409307).

2. The Time Evolution and Partial Revivals of a Particle in an Asymmetric Well

(with M. Belloni and R. W. Robinett) contributed talk, Joint Meeting of the Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society and the North Carolina Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers, Wilmington, North Carolina, November, 2003; Bull. Amer. Phys. Soc. 48 #9, November 2003.

3. Signals for noncommutative QED in e and collisions (with S. Godfrey) contributed to APS/DPF/DPB Summer Study on the Future of Particle Physics (Snowmass 2001), Snowmass, Colorado, 30 Jun - 21 Jul 2001, published as eConf C010630:P313,2001.

4. ADD (Arkani-Hamed, Dimopoulos and Dvali) extra dimensional gravity and dijet

production at hadron colliders contributed to APS/DPF/DPB Summer Study on the Future of Particle Physics (Snowmass 2001), Snowmass, Colorado, 30 Jun - 21 Jul 2001, published as eConf C010630:P314,2001.

5. Photon photon and electron photon colliders with energies below a TeV

(as part of Working Group E3 (M. M. Velasco, et al.)) working group summary contributed to APS/DPF/DPB Summer Study on the Future of Particle Physics (Snowmass 2001), Snowmass, Colorado, 30 Jun - 21 Jul 2001, published as eConf C010630:E3005,2001 (the Proceedings appeared as a CD-Rom and on the eConf website at http://www.slac.stanford.edu/econf/C010630/).

6. Discovery and identification of W' bosons at e

+ e

- colliders

(with S. Godfrey, P. Kalyniak, B. Kamal and A. Leike) in the Proceedings of DPF 2000: The Meeting of the Division of Particles and Fields of the American Physical Society, Int. J. Mod. Phys. A16S1B:879-881,2001

7. Leptoquark production and identification in high-energy + -

, e+ e

- and e collisions

(with S. Godfrey) in DPF/DPB Summer Study on New Directions for High-Energy Physics (Snowmass 96), Snowmass, CO, 1996, edited by D. G. Cassel, L. Trindle Gennari and R. H. Siemann (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, 1997), p. 933.

8. Heavy charged lepton production in superstring inspired E6 models

(with M. M. Boyce and H. Konig) in Current Ideas in Theoretical Physics (Proceedings of MRST 96 conference), Toronto, 1996, edited by Patrick J. O'Donnell and Brian Hendee Smith (World Scientific, Singapore, 1996), p. 133.

9. Fragmentation production of heavy quark states in the Proceedings of the Montreal -- Rochester -- Syracuse -- Toronto Meeting, Rochester, 1995, p. 15.

10. Probing the heavy quark content of the photon using b tagging at e colliders (with K. A. Peterson and S. Godfrey) in MRST `94: What's Next? Exploring the Future of High-energy Physics, Montreal, 1994, edited by J. R. Cudell, K. K. Dienes and B. Margolis (World Scientific, Singapore, 1994), p. 267.

11. Fragmentation production of J/ and ' at the tevatron (with E. Braaten, S. Fleming and M. L. Mangano) in the Proceedings of The Albuquerque Meeting - DPF '94, The University of New Mexico, 1994, edited by Sally Seidel (World Scientific, Singapore, 1995), p. 556.

12. Charmonium production via fragmentation at pp colliders

(with S. Fleming and M. L. Mangano) in Proceedings of the Workshop on Physics at Current Accelerators and Supercolliders, Argonne National Laboratory, 1993, edited by J. L. Hewett, A. R. White and D. Zeppenfeld (Argonne National Laboratory, 1993), p. 481.

13. Small-x behavior in DIS, lepton pair and heavy flavors production in nuclear targets

(with M. B. Gay Ducati and F. Halzen) in the Proceedings of The Fermilab Meeting - DPF '92, Fermilab, 1992, edited by C. H. Albright, P. H. Kasper, R. Raja and J. Yoh (World Scientific, Singapore, 1993), p. 1135.

14. Signals for virtual leptoquark exchange at colliders

(with J. L. Hewett) in the Proceedings of The Fermilab Meeting - DPF '92, Fermilab, 1992, edited by C. H. Albright, P. H. Kasper, R. Raja and J. Yoh (World Scientific, Singapore, 1993), p. 1185.

15. Double photon production in polarized proton-proton collisions

(with R. W. Robinett) in the Proceedings of The Fermilab Meeting - DPF '92, Fermilab, 1992, edited by C. H. Albright, P. H. Kasper, R. Raja and J. Yoh (World Scientific, Singapore, 1993), p. 1039.

16. Probing the W W vertex in e p -> X (with U. Baur) in the Proceedings of The Fermilab Meeting - DPF '92, Fermilab, 1992, edited by C. H. Albright, P. H. Kasper, R. Raja and J. Yoh (World Scientific, Singapore, 1993), p. 366.

17. Heavy leptoquark signatures at HERA

(with J. L. Hewett) in the Proceedings of the Beyond the Standard Model III, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, 1992, edited by S. Godfrey and P. Kalyniak (World Scientific, Singapore, 1993), p. 506.

18. Neutrino oscillations using surface neutrino detectors

(with T. Stelzer) in the Proceedings of the Workshop on Long-Baseline Neutrino Oscillations, Fermilab, 1991, edited by M. Goodman.

19. Polarized pp production of at low pT and the polarized gluon distribution function in the Proceedings of the Polarized Collider Workshop, Penn State University, 1990, edited by J. Collins, S. Heppelmann and R. W. Robinett (AIP Conf. Proc. No. 223, American Institute of Physics, New York, 1991), p. 210.

20. ep collider experiments and physics

(with D. Atwood, et al.) Research Directions for the Decade - Proceedings of the 1990 Summer Study on High Energy Physics, Snowmass, CO, 1990, edited by E. L. Berger (World Scientific, Singapore, 1992), p. 531.

21. Selectron pair production via fusion in ep collisions (with R. Lewis and L. Marleau) in Research Directions for the Decade - Proceedings of the 1990 Summer Study on High Energy Physics, Snowmass, CO, 1990, edited by E. L. Berger (World Scientific, Singapore, 1992), p. 564.

22. Indirect leptoquark search limits at HERA

(with J. L. Hewett) in Research Directions for the Decade - Proceedings of the 1990 Summer Study on High Energy Physics, Snowmass, CO, 1990, edited by E. L. Berger (World Scientific, Singapore, 1992), p. 562.

M. A. Doncheski

Conference Talks and Seminars 2008 All-Campus Physics Meeting (Penn State – University Park)

● The TabletPC: Technology in the classroom for the chalkboard generation 2007 Meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers – Central Pennsylvania Section (Lock Haven University, Lock Haven, PA)

● The TabletPC: Technology in the classroom for the chalkboard generation 2007 Meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers – Central Pennsylvania Section (Penn State York)

● A (mostly) algebraic solution to a leaky capacitor 2006 Meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers – Central Pennsylvania Section (Penn College of Technology, Williamsport, PA)

● Fun with a square well 2005 All-Campus Physics Meeting (Penn State – University Park)

● Fun with square wells Pheno 04 (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

● Resolved photon contributions to Higgs boson production in collisions APS/DPF/DPB Summer Study on the Future of Particle Physics (Snowmass, CO)

● ADD (Arkani-Hamed, Dimopoulos and Dvali) extra dimensional gravity and dijet production at hadron colliders

The McGill-Rochester-Syracuse-Toronto 1999 Meeting (Carleton University)

● Closing the Low-Mass Axigluon Window Pheno 99 (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

● Closing the Low-Mass Axigluon Window Pheno 98 (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

● Single Leptoquark Production in e+e

- and e Collisions

Pheno 97 (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

● Heavy Charged Lepton Production in Superstring Inspired E6 Models The McGill-Rochester-Syracuse-Toronto 1995 Meeting (University of Rochester)

● Fragmentation Production of Heavy Quark States The Division of Particle and Fields 1994 Meeting (University of New Mexico)

● Fragmentation Production of J/ and ' at the Tevatron

Ottawa-Carleton Institute for Physics Christmas Meeting, 16 Dec. 1993

● The Dizzying Problem of the Proton's Spin Seminar, Brookhaven National Laboratory, 5 Aug. 1993

● Hadronic W Production Workshop on Physics at Current Colliders and the SuperCollider

● The Color Octet Mechanism and Potential Models Seminar, Universite de Montreal, 18 Mar. 1993

● Polarized Collider Physics Seminar, Carleton University, 15 Mar. 1993

● Polarized Collider Physics The Division of Particle and Fields 1992 Meeting (FERMILAB)

● Probing the WW Vertex in e p -> X

● Polarized Two Photon Production Leader, Collider Physics Discussion Group, Argonne National Laboratory, 11 Feb. 1992

● Polarized Collider Physics Seminar, Argonne National Laboratory, 10 Feb. 1992

● Oscillating Atmospheric Neutrinos Many Aspects of Neutrino Physics (FERMILAB)

● Oscillating Atmospheric Neutrinos Polarized Collider Workshop (University Park, PA)

● Polarized pp Production of at Low pT and the Polarized Gluon 1990 Summer Study on High Energy Physics: Research Directions for the Decade (Snowmass, CO)

● Indirect Leptoquark Search Limits at HERA

M. A. Doncheski Administrative Experience

Interim Director of Academic Affairs, Penn State Mont Alto, Fall 2008; core duties included:

Oversight of all faculty

Direct oversight of office staff (one), Assistant Director of Academic Affairs, Advising Center, Academic Support Center, and Records Office

Oversight of Academic Affairs Budget Specific activities:

Served on Policy and Planning Committee, Administrative Council, Classroom Improvement Committee, Student Success Committee, TRIO Grant Proposal Committee, MAFS Executive Board and MAFS

Attended two University College DAA meetings and one ACUE meeting

Attended Leadership Academy, sponsored by OHRC

Conducted three faculty searches (Management, Economics and Director of the Student Support Center)

Prepared two Promotion and Tenure dossiers

Assisted with preparation of Rhetoric Minor prospectus

Assisted with preparation of case for FT1 Faculty member in IST (presented to Policy and Planning committee); position was approved

Prepared Penn State Mont Alto’s FYE Plan in conjunction with the Student Success Committee

Prepared and delivered orientation for new (full-time and adjunct) faculty

Dealt with a number of student academic concerns

M. A. Doncheski Other Involvement

Host 2009 Meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers – Central Pennsylvania Section at Penn State Mont Alto (March 2009)

Elected President of the American Association of Physics Teachers – Central Pennsylvania Section (March 2009)

Elected Vice President of the American Association of Physics Teachers – Central Pennsylvania Section (April 2008)

Elected Secretary of the American Association of Physics Teachers – Central Pennsylvania Section (April 2007)

Physics Road Show: a hands on, interactive science program suitable for children in elementary school through high school; presented at various schools and youth group.

Physics of Amusement Park Rides: a program, funded partly by the Director of Academic Affairs and partly by the Student Activity Fee, to expose physics and non-physics students to some real-world physics.

Organizer for Theory Seminars at Carleton University, Fall 1993 - Fall 1995

Organizer for Theory/Phenomenology Seminars at the University of Wisconsin -- Madison, Fall 1991 - Fall 1992

Referee for the Physical Review D, the Physical Review Letters and the American Journal of Physics

External Examiner, Ph.D. Committee for Mikulas Gintner, Carleton University, 5 August 1997

M. A. Doncheski

Teaching Experience Summer 2009 Lecture, MATH 141 --- calculus II; 10 contact hours per week (6 week course) Spring 2009 Lecture, MATH 231 --- calculus III; 4 contact hours per week (7 week course) Lecture, MATH 232 --- calculus III; 4 contact hours per week (7 week course) Lecture, PHYS 001 --- conceptual physics course; 3 contact hours per week Lab, PHYS 211 --- introductory physics course; 2 contact hours per week Lecture + lab, PHYS 213 --- introductory physics course; 6 contact hours per week (7 week course) Lecture + lab, PHYS 214 --- introductory physics course; 6 contact hours per week (7 week course) Fall 2008 No teaching duties assigned Summer 2008 Lecture, MATH 141 Spring 2008 Lecture, MATH 231 Lecture, MATH 232 Lecture + lab, PHYS 211 --- introductory physics course; 13 contact hours per week Lecture + lab, PHYS 251 --- introductory physics course; 6 contact hours per week

--- replaced PHYS 265 Fall 2007 Lecture, MATH 140 --- calculus I; 4 contact hours per week Lecture, PHYS 001 Lecture + lab, PHYS 250 --- introductory physics course; 6 contact hours per week

--- replaced PHYS 215 Spring 2007 Lecture, PHYS 001 Lab, PHYS 211 Lecture + lab, PHYS 213 Lecture + lab, PHYS 214 Fall 2006 Lecture, ASTRO 001 --- introductory astronomy course; 3 contact hours per week Lecture, MATH 140 Lecture + lab, PHYS 212 --- introductory physics course; 8 contact hours per week

Spring 2006 Lecture + lab, PHYS 211 Lecture + lab, PHYS 251 Fall 2005 Lecture, ASTRO 001 Lecture + lab, PHYS 250 Spring 2005 Lecture, PHYS 001 Lab, PHYS 211 Lecture + lab, PHYS 251 Fall 2004 Lecture, PHYS 001 Lecture + lab, PHYS 250 Spring 2004 Lecture, PHYS 001 Lab, PHYS 211 Lecture + lab, PHYS 213 Lecture + lab, PHYS 214 Fall 2003 Lecture + lab, PHYS 212 Spring 2003 Lecture + lab, PHYS 211 Lecture + lab, PHYS 213 Lecture + lab, PHYS 214 Fall 2002 Lecture + lab, PHYS 212 Summer 2002 Lecture, PHYS 213 at Penn State University Park --- introductory physics course; 4.5 contact hours per week (4 week summer session) Lecture, PHYS 214 at Penn State University Park --- introductory physics course; 4.5 contact hours per week (4 week summer session) Spring 2002 Lecture + lab, PHYS 211 Lecture + lab, PHYS 213 Lecture + lab, PHYS 214 Fall 2001 Lecture + lab, PHYS 212 Spring 2001 Lecture + lab, PHYS 211 Lecture + lab, PHYS 213 Lecture + lab, PHYS 214 Fall 2000 Lecture + lab, PHYS 212 Summer 2000 Lecture, PHYS 211 at Penn State University Park --- introductory physics course; 4.5 contact hours per week (8 week summer session)

Spring 2000 Lecture + lab, PHYS 211 Lecture + lab, PHYS 265 --- introductory physics course; 6 contact hours per week Fall 1999 Lecture, PHYS 001 Lecture + lab, PHYS 215 --- introductory physics course; 6 contact hours per week Summer 1999 Lecture, PHYS 202 at Penn State University Park --- introductory physics course; 4.5 contact hours per week (8 week summer session) Spring 1999 Lecture, PHYS 001 Lecture + lab, Physics 203/4 --- introductory physics course; 6 contact hours per week Fall 1998 Lecture, PHYS 201

--- introductory physics course; 5 contact hours per week Lecture + lab, Physics 202 --- introductory physics course; 9 contact hours per week Summer 1998 Lecture, PHYS 201 at Penn State University Park --- introductory physics course; 4.5 contact hours per week (8 week summer session) Spring 1998 Lecture, PHYS 001 Lecture + lab, PHYS 203/4 Fall 1997 Lecture, PHYS 001 Lecture + lab, PHYS 215 Spring 1997 Lecture, PHYS 201 Lecture + lab, PHYS 265 Fall 1996 Lecture, PHYS 001 Lecture + lab, PHYS 215 Fall 1995 - Lecture, Physics 105 at Carleton University Spring 1996 --- introductory physics course; 3 contact hours per week (full year course) Fall 1992 Lecture, Physics 109 at the University of Wisconsin -- Madison --- elective course in acoustics and optics geared towards non-science (and especially art) majors; supervised 3 TAs; 3 contact hours per week Fall 1991 Lecturer, Physics 244 at the University of Wisconsin -- Madison --- second year undergraduate course in Modern Physics geared towards electrical and computer engineers; supervised 1 TA and 1 grader; 3 contact hours per week

Fall 1985- Graduate teaching assistant at the Pennsylvania State University Spring 1990 --- various courses; 3-9 contact hours per week

M. A. Doncheski References

Stephen Godfrey (godfrey@physics.carleton.ca) Physics Department Carleton University 1125 Colonel By Drive Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5B6 CANADA (613) 520-2600 ext 4386 Howard Grotch 7794 Lismore Harbor Cv

Lake Worth, FL 33467-7064 (561) 964-7977 Francis Halzen (halzen@icecube.wisc.edu) Department of Physics The University of Wisconsin -- Madison 1150 University Avenue Madison, Wisconsin 53706 Office: (608) 262-2667 Cell: (608) 513-9815 Richard W. Robinett (rick@phys.psu.edu) Department of Physics The Pennsylvania State University 104 Davey Lab University Park, PA 16802 (814) 863-0965

M. A. Doncheski Teaching Statement

I am committed to teaching physics. Long before “active and collaborative learning” came to be thought of as a component of successful college and university instruction, physics (in the form of laboratory exercises) has employed teaching and learning techniques that are both active and collaborative. I have been exposed to, and seen the benefits of, student centered learning my entire professional life. My teaching philosophy is that a mixture of traditional lecture combined with active and collaborative learning activities in the laboratory and recitation meetings works extremely well. Laboratory and recitation meetings allow the students to work together and explore concepts in physics. Lecture provides a significant amount of guidance, to prevent the students from exploring aimlessly. In addition, physics and the closely related fields of mathematics and engineering are rigorous, and that rigor is best displayed in a lecture setting. Not all physics courses have had associated laboratories (PHYS 001 at Penn State is a good example); active and collaborative learning must be encouraged in some other way. I find that students enjoy having everyday examples that demonstrate a particular physics concept. For example, when covering collision processes, I discuss collisions between billiard balls; I even encourage the students to play pool and observe the collisions. Later, after the main concept is clear, I can point out that the same discussion will explain the scattering of a photon off an electron (Compton scattering) just as well as the scattering of the cue ball off the 8-ball. In addition, I employ a large number of lecture demonstrations in all classes I teach, and wherever possible I use apparatus to which the students themselves have access. I also invite the students to explore with the lecture demo apparatus. I am very enthusiastic about physics; at all times while teaching, I endeavor to show that enthusiasm! I am upbeat and energetic, as I believe that students know when an instructor is “into” the material vs. covering a topic. I encourage my students to ask questions, even if they aren't directly related to the topic at hand (obviously, off-topic questions are more suited to times other than in-class); I don't have all the answers, and I am honest with my students about that. My teaching philosophy and experience with lecture demonstrations led directly to my Physics Road Show and Physics of Amusement Park Rides. My Physics Road Show has enabled me to visit various schools (elementary through high) and local youth groups; I bring various lecture demonstration apparatus and involve the children in exploration via hands on activities. It is very hard, if not impossible, to teach even one concept in about an hour, but in that same hour I can expose a small group of younger students to concepts in such areas as rotational motion, air pressure, and electricity and magnetism. My Physics of Amusement Park Rides enabled me to take students from my campus to an amusement park, and make acceleration measurements on various rides. Neither the Physics Road Show nor the Physics of Amusement Park Rides will create a roomful of professional scientists, but it will encourage some of the students to look at science in a new light: a combination of fun and fascination!

M. A. Doncheski Research Statement

The Standard Model (SM) of elementary particle physics has been incredibly successful in explaining the current observations at particle accelerators. The SM consists of a collection of matter fields (quarks and leptons), interactions (except for gravity, which is generally a very weak interaction) and the Higgs mechanism of symmetry breaking, to provide mass to the matter and gauge fields of the model. The interactions produce the world we live in: the strong interaction binds quarks into protons and neutrons, and the protons and neutrons into nuclei; the weak interaction mediates -decay, a class of nuclear processes; the electromagnetic interaction binds nuclei and leptons (primarily the electron) into atoms, atoms into molecules, etc. Though successful, most practitioners of particle physics realize that the SM is simply a model, and our eventual understanding of particle physics will be in the form of a more fundamental theory. Some examples where the SM is lacking include:

● parameters: masses of all the fields are input into the model, rather than predicted by the model. The masses should be outputs of a truly fundamental theory, rather than inputs.

● gauge hierarchy: radiative corrections to the Higgs mass diverge, and will be cut off by some very high energy scale, generally assumed to be the Planck mass. The Plank mass is the energy scale at which gravity can no longer be ignored, as it becomes comparable in strength to the other interactions in the universe. However, in order for the SM to be a valid, sensible theory, the Higgs boson mass must remain rather small, which requires unnatural “fine-tuning” of SM parameters.

For these reasons, and others, the SM is thought to be a model, albeit very successful in explaining current observations, and it will be replaced at some point in the future. There are various categories of attempts at models or theories beyond the SM:

● SUSY: a large class of models suggests that there is a doubling of the currently known fields, in such a way that the divergences in the radiative corrections to the Higgs mass cancel exactly, and the Higgs boson naturally has a mass in the correct range.

● compositeness: what we now call “elementary” particles are themselves in fact composite, composed of yet undiscovered, truly elementary fields. In these models, the Higgs boson, needed to provide mass to fields, is no longer elementary, and the calculation of radiative corrections to its mass are, in fact, invalid; the corrections do not diverge and the Higgs remains light.

● extra dimensional gravity: the current understanding of the gravitational interaction is incorrect. There are small, as yet unobserved, extra spatial dimensions in the universe; one consequence of these extra dimensions is that gravity can become strong at a much lower energy scale than originally thought. In essence, the Planck mass is very much smaller than thought, and the divergent corrections to the Higgs mass, which are cut off by the Planck mass, leave the Higgs mass in the range needed for the SM to be a sensible theory.

These different classes of models each have many proponents, and theoretical work and experimental searches are constantly progressing. To this point, however, there is no

convincing experimental evidence favoring any one of these classes of models; additionally, we physicists may simply not be clever enough to see the correct class of models to replace the SM. This leads to my current research program. Without solid experimental evidence, these theoretical models will remain speculative, at best. I have chosen to specialize in Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) physics; in my research program, I learn about new extensions (or replacements) of the SM, and explore the possibilities of experiments to distinguish these new models from the SM. My research remains theoretical in nature, but rather than building models, I concentrate on testing them against current experimental observations and optimizing searches at future experiments. I have written a series of papers on aspects of leptoquark production (in collaboration with J. L. Hewett, S. Godfrey and R. W. Robinett); leptoquarks are commonly predicted in models Beyond the Standard Model. I have also written papers on axigluons, gluinos, extra dimensional gravity, modifications to the standard vector boson couplings, etc., all examples of BSM physics. I am currently continuing research in this general area. I have several research projects in progress with S. Godfrey from Carleton University on, for example, non-standard Higgs production (this includes non-standard production mechanisms of the SM Higgs boson as well as the production of non-standard Higgs bosons that are predicted by, e.g., SUSY models), and on modifications to some experimental signatures due to non-commutative field theories. In addition to BSM particle physics, I have been involved in research of a more pedagogical nature. In collaboration with R. W. Robinett, I have worked on a few projects on visualization techniques in quantum mechanical systems, appropriate for students in a junior or senior level undergraduate quantum mechanics course. I am currently working on a tabletop Doppler shift experiment, suitable for an introductory level undergraduate physics lab. The experiment has been used both at Mont Alto and University Park, and I am currently working on some minor revisions with John Hopkins at University Park.