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DANIEL BERNARD LITVIN
Address:
Penn State Berks
Campus
Date of Birth: September 7, 1940
The Pennsylvania State
University
Place of Birth: Detroit, MI U.S.A.
P.O. Box
7009
Marital Status: Widower, two children.
Reading, PA 19610-6009 U.S.A
Telephone:
(610) 396-6144
FAX:
(610) 396-6024
E-Mail: [email protected]
Present Position
Distinguished Professor, Department of Physics, The Eberly College of Science, The Pennsylvania State University, Reading, PA
Previous Positions
Professor, Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University, Reading, PA, July 1986 to date.
Visiting Research Associate Professor, Department of Physics, City College of CUNY, New York City, Feb-Aug 1986.
Associate Professor, Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University, Reading, PA, July 1983 - June 1986.
Guest Scientist, Department of Theoretical Physics, Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, May 1985.
National Academy of Science Exchange Scientist, Department of Theoretical Physics, Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, May 1984.
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University, Reading, PA, Aug 1978 - June 1983.
Consultant, Department of Physics, City College of CUNY, New York City, July - Aug 1980.
Visiting Scientist, Department of Physics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, June 1980.
Visiting Scientist, Department of Physics, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, July 1979.
Senior Research Associate, Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, Sept 1977 - Aug 1978.
Consulting Physicist, Department of Physics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, May - Aug 1977.
Postdoctoral Research and Teaching Fellow, Department of Physics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, Sept 1971 - April 1977.
Senior Research Assistant, Technion Research and Development Corporation, Haifa, Israel, Feb 1970 - July 1971.
Physics Assistant,
Department
of Physics, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, Oct
1964 - Jan 1970.
Education
B.Sc. Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel 1965
M.Sc. Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel 1967
D.Sc. Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel 1971
Teaching Certificate
University
of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada 1977
Research
Publications: 98 research papers, 3 books, 1 chapter in book.
Areas of Interest: Solid
State
Physics: mathematical crystallography; symmetry in physics: phase
transitions,
incommensurate and quasi-periodic crystals, ferroic crystals, and
analysis
of x-ray and neutron diffraction of magnetic and non-magnetic crystals.
Molecular Biology: Symmetry of biological macromolecules as determined
by x-ray analysis.
Scholarly Activities
Invited Speaker: 5th International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics, XVth Congress of the International Union of Crystallography, American Association of Physics Teachers Northeast Regional Meeting, 1994, XVIIth Congress of the International Union of Crystallography, XVIIIth Congress of the International Union of Crystallography., ECM 23 Satellite Conference on Mathematial and Theoretical Crystallography.
Presentations at conferences: Baltimore, New York, Washington, D.C., Kiriat Anavim (Israel), Montreal (Canada), Cocoyoc (Mexico), Philadelphia, St. Adele (Canada), Los Angeles, Bordeaux (France), Ascona (Switzerland), Zakopane (Poland), San Jose, Vienna (Austria), Seattle, and Novgorod (Russia), Lisbon (Portugal), University Park, Prague (Czech Republic), Glasgow (Scotland), Nanjing (China), Nancy (France), Madrid (Spain), Geneva (Switzerland), Genes (France), Cambridge (England), Florence (Italy), Dresden (Germany).
Presentations at universities: New York University, The City College - The City University of New York, Purdue University, The University of Washington, Naval Research Laboratory, The University of British Columbia, Emporia State University (Kansas), Virginia Commonwealth University, Temple University, The Pennsylvania State University, Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (Prague), Brigham Young University, and The Materials Research Laboratory (The Pennsylvania State University).
Refereed articles for the Journal of Mathematical Physics, The Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, Physical Review, Physical Review Letters, The Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, The American Mineralogist, Acta Crystallographica, Zeitschrift fur Kristallographic, American Journal of Physics, and Phase Transitions.
Reviewed book length manuscripts for Academic Press, Springer-Verlag, Plenum Publishing Company, Kluwer Academic Publishers, and Prentice Hall Publishing Company.
Reviewed grant proposals to the National Science Foundation.
Reviewed grant proposal to the International Science Foundation.
Reviewed grant proposals to the Czech Grant Agency.
Reviewer for Mathematical Reviews.
Nominator: Nobel Prize for Physics, 1991.
Member of the American
Physical
Society and the American Crystallographic Association.
Grants: Internal
The Berks Campus Faculty Development Fund, annually 1979 - 1990, 1992-1997.
The Pennsylvania State University Research Development Grant, annually 1979 - 2006.
The Pennsylvania State
University,
Office of International Cooperative Programs, Global Fund
1994,1996,1998,
1999, 2000.
Grants: External
National Science Foundation International Travel Grant, 1979.
National Academy of Science, Selected to the 1982 NAS-Bulgarian Academy of Science Exchange Program, 1981.
National Academy of Science, Selected to the 1984 NAS-Czechoslovak Academy of Science Exchange Program, 1983.
National Science Foundation, DMR-8406196, "Group Theoretical and Crystallographic Properties of Layer Atom Arrangements," 1984-1986.
National Science Foundation, INT-8922251, U.S.-Eastern European Cooperative Science Program, "US - Czechoslovak Research on Unified Theory and Structure of Subperiodic Subgroups of Crystallographic Space Groups," 1990-1994.
National Science Foundation, DMR-9100418, "The Subperiodic Subgroups of Crystallographic Space Groups," 1991-1993.
National Science Foundation, DMR-9305825, "Crystallography of Magnetic and Non-Magnetic Subperiodic Groups," 1993-1995.
National Science Foundation, DMR-9510335, "Symmetry Analysis of Domains, Domain Pair, Domain Twins, and Domain Walls," 1995-1997.
National Science Foundation, DMR-9722799, ASymmetry Analysis of Domains: Magnetic and Non-Magnetic Subperiodic Groups,1997-2000,. Amendment DMR-9841457
National Science
Foundation,
DMR-0074550, "Magnetic Symmetry and Symmetry Analysis of Domains,"
2000-2004.
Awards
Amoco Foundation Outstanding Teaching Award, 1985.
The Pennsylvania State University - Berks Campus Outstanding Teaching Award, 1991.
The Pennsylvania State
University
- Distinguished Professor of Physics, 2002.
PUBLICATIONS
Downloadable publications are highlighted in blue.
1. "Clebsch-Gordan Coefficients for Space Groups," (with J. Zak) J. Math Phys, 9 212 - 221 (1968).
2. "Quadrupole Arrangements in Solid Hydrogen and Nitrogen," (with J. Zak and J. Felsteiner), Phys. Rev. B3 2706 - 2716 (1971).
3. "Quadrupole Arrangements in Solid CO," (with J. Felsteiner) Phys. Rev. B4 671 - 672 (1971).
4. "On the Decomposition of Direct Products of Irreducible Representations," J. Math. Phys. 13 1386 - 1389. (1972).
5. "Dipole-Dipole Energy in Ferromagnetic Crystals," Phys. Lett. 44A 487 - 488 (1972).
6. "Clebsch-Gordan Coefficients for Nonunitary Groups," (with A. Aviran) J. Math. Phys. 14 1491 - 1494 (1973).
7. "Spin Translation Groups and Neutron Diffraction Analysis," Acta Cryst. A29 651 - 660 (1973).
8. "Spin Groups," (with W. Opechowski) Physica 76 538 - 554 (1974).
9. "Symmetry of the Spin Density Patterson Function," Acta Cryst. A30 785 - 791 (1974).
10. "The Luttinger-Tisza Method," Physica 77 205 - 219 (1974).
12. "The Dipole Moment Expansion for a Tetrahedral Molecule in the Ground Vibronic State," (with I. Ozier and A. Rosenberg) J. Mol. Spec. 58 39 - 53 (1975).
13. "Van Hove Singularities," J. Phys. C8 L411 - L412 (1975).
14. "k-q Functions and the Landau Theory of Second Order Phase Transitions," Phys. Stat. Sol. 76 343 - 349 (1976).
16. "Spin Point Groups," Acta Cryst. A33 279 - 287 (1977).
17. "Error Corrections Corrected, Remarks on Bertaut's Article "Simple Derivation of Magnetic Space Groups," (with W. Opechowski) Ann. Phys. 2 121 - 125 (1977).
18. "Use of an Elementary Group Theoretical Method in Determining the Structure of a Biological Crystal From Its Patterson Function," in GroupTheoretical Methods in Physics, Editors: R. T. Sharp and B. Kolman (Academic Press, New York) 1977, p. 59 - 74.
19. "Theory of the X-Ray and Optical Properties of Polysulfur Nitride," (with W. I. Friesen and B. Bergersen) Phys. Stat. Sol. 85 715 - 722 (1978).
21. "Wreath Products and the Symmetry of Incommensurate Crystals," in Annals of the Israel Physical Society, Vol. 3: Group Theoretical Methods in Physics, Editors: L. P. Horowitz and Y. Neeman (American Institute of Physics, New York) 1980, p. 371 - 374.
22. "Wreath Groups - Symmetry of Crystals with Structural Distortions," Phys. Rev. B21 3184 - 3192 (1980).
23. "Wreath Groups," Physica 101A 339 - 350 (1980).
24. "Bloch Theorem for Crystals with Structural Distortions," Group Theoretical Methods in Physics, K. B. Wolf, Editor, Lecture Notes in Physics, Vol. 135 (Springer-Verlag, Berlin) 1980, p. 33 - 37.
25. "Color Groups, Landau Phase Transitions and Possible Species of Ferroic Crystals," (with J. L. Birman, R. Berenson, and J. N. Kotzev), Ferroelectrics 35 195 - 198 (1981).
26. "Tensor Fields in Crystals," J. Math. Phys. 23 337 - 344 (1982).
27. "Fast Food Physics," The Science Teacher 49 66 (1982); reprinted in The Crucible 13 13 (1982).
28. "Analysis of Nearly Degenerate Bands of Spherical Top Molecules: Matrix Elements of the Vibrational- Rotational Hamiltonian," (with K. Fox) J. Chem. Phys. 76 3908 - 3912 (1982).
29. "Physical Applications of Crystallographic Color Groups: Tensor Fields in Crystals," (with R. Berenson and J. N. Kotzev) Phys. Rev. B25 7523 - 7543 (1982).
30. "Color Groups and Phase Transitions," (with J. N. Kotzev and J. L. Birman), Physica 114A 576 - 580 (1982).
31. "Tensor Fields in Crystals and Color Groups," (with R. Berenson and J. N. Kotzev) Physica 114A588 - 591 (1982).
32. "Continuous Phase Transitions: Subgroups of Index N," (with J. L. Birman), Phys. Rev. B26 5248 - 5249 (1982).
33. "On Equitranslational Phase Transitions," J. Physics C15 L1119 - L1123 (1982).
34. "Physical Applications of Crystallographic Color Groups: Landau Theory of Phase Transitions," (with J. N. Kotzev and J. L. Birman) Phys. Rev. B26 6947 - 6970 (1982).
35. "Group Theoretical Classification of Two-dimensional Lattice Vibrations," Thin Solid Films 106 203-217 (1983).
36. "Compatibility Relationships for Two-Dimensional Space Groups," J. Phys. C17 L37-L39 (1984).
37. "Tensorial Classification of Non-Magnetic Ferroic Crystals," Acta Cryst. A40 255-261 (1984).
38. "Computer Generation of Subduction Frequencies For 2nd Order Phase Transitions," (with S. Deonarine and J. L. Birman), in Group Theoretical Methods in Physics, Editor: W. E. Zachary (World Scientific Press) 1985, p. 454 - 457.
39. "Tensorial Classification of Non-Magnetic Ferrioc Crystals: Tensors of Rank n # 4," Acta Cryst. A41 89 - 90 (1985).
40. "Ferroelectric Space Groups", Acta Cryst. A42 44 - 47 (1986).
41. "On Exomorphic Types of Phase Transitions," (with J. Fuksa and V. Kopsky) J. Math Phys, 27 661 - 667 (1986).
43. "On The Structure of a Biological Crystal Determined by its Patterson Function," in Patterson and Pattersons, edited by J. P. Glusker, B. K. Patterson, and M. Rossi (IUC/Oxford, Oxford) 515 - 523 (1987).
44. "Q-Reducible Two-dimensional Space Groups and Layer Groups," (with V. Kopsky) J. Phys, A20 1655 - 1659 (1987).
45. "Symmetry and Transitions in Decagonal Quasi-Crystals," (with V. Kopsky and J. L. Birman) in Group Theoretical Methods in Physics, edited by R. Gilmore (World Scientific, Singapore) 282 - 287 (1987).
46. "On Space Groups with Q-Reducible Point Groups" (with V. Kopsky) in Group Theoretical Methods in Physics, edited by R. Gilmore (World Scientific, Singapore) 716 - 721 (1987).
47. "Symmetry and Phase Transitions in Decagonal Quasi-Crystals" (with V. Kopsky and J. L. Birman) J. Phys. A20 6169 - 6184 (1987).
48. "Generation and Experimental Measurement of a One-Dimensional Quasi-Crystal Diffraction Pattern," (with S. Y. Litvin and A. B. Romberger), Am. J. Phys. 56 72 - 76 (1988).
49. "Subperiodic Subgroups of Space Groups," (with V. Janovec and V. Kopsky), Z. fur Kristallogr. 185 282 (1988).
50. "Scanning of Space Groups" (with V. Kopsky) in Group Theoretical Methods in Physics, edited by Y. Saint- Aubin and L. Vinet (World Scientific, Singapore) 263 - 266 (1989).
51. "International-Like Tables for Layer Groups," in Group Theoretical Methods in Physics, edited by Y. Saint- Aubin and L. Vinet (World Scientific, Singapore) 274 - 277 (1989).
52. "Algebraic Construction of One-Dimensional Quasiperiodic Tilings," J. Math. Phys. 30 740 - 743 (1989).
53. "Tensorial Classification of Domain Pairs", (with T. R. Wike), Ferroelectrics, 98 157 - 166 (1989).
54. "The Coset and Double Coset Decomposition of the Thirty-Two Crystallographic Point Groups", (with V. Janovec, E. Dvorakova, and T. R. Wike), Acta Cryst. A45 801 - 802 (1989).
55. "Physical Property Tensors and Tensor Pairs in Crystals," (with S. Y. Litvin), Acta Cryst., A46 711 - 713 (1990).
56. "The Icosahedral Point Groups," Acta Cryst., A47 70 - 73 (1991).
57. "Rank 0, 1, 2, and 3 Magnetic and Non-Magnetic Physical Property Tensors," (with S. Y. Litvin), Acta Cryst., A47 290 - 292 (1991).
58. "Optical and X-Ray Distinction of Ferroelectric Non-Ferroelastic Domains," (with V. Janovec and L. Richterova), Ferroelectrics, 126 287 - 292 (1992).
59. "Non-Ferroelastic Twin Laws and Distinction of Domains in Non-Ferroelastic Phases," (with V. Janovec and L. Ricterova), Ferroelectrics, 140 95 - 100 (1993).
60. "Spatial Distribution of Layer and Rod Symmetries in a Crystal," (with J. Fuksa, and V. Kopsky), in Group Theoretical Methods in Physics, Anales de Fisica, Monografias, Vol. 2, Editor M. A. del Olmo (CIEMAT/RSEF, Madrid) 346 - 352 (1993).
61. "LAYERGPD - A Program to Visualize the Three-Dimensional Layer Group General Position Diagrams," (with S.Y. Litvin), J. Applied Cryst. 26 398 (1993).
62. "Nomenclature, Symbols, and Classification of the Subperiodic Groups," (with V. Kopsky), Acta Cryst., A49 594 (1993).
63. "Tensor Distinction of Ferroelastic Domain States in Completely Transposable Domain Pairs," (with V. Janovec and L. Ricterova), Ferroelectrics, 157 75 - 80 (1994).
64. "Non-Ferroelastic Magnetoelectric Twin Laws," (with V. Janovec and S.Y. Litvin), Ferroelectrics, 162 275 - 280 (1994).
65. "Magnetic Physical Property Tensors," Acta Cryst., A50 406 - 408 (1994).
66. "Magnetic Completely Transposable Twin Laws and Tensor Distinction," (with V. Janovec and S.Y. Litvin), Acta Cryst., A51 524-529 (1995).
67. "Transposable Domain Pairs and Domain Distinction," (with V. Janovec and J. Fuksa), Ferroelectrics, 172 351-359 (1995).
68. "Non-Magnetic Twin Laws," (with J. Schlessman), Acta Cryst., A51 947-949 (1995).
69. "Maximal Subgroups of Magnetic Space Groups and Subperiodic Groups," Acta Cryst., A51 681-685 (1996).
70. "Tensor Distinction of Domains Resulting from Non-Ferroelastic Transitions to Subgroups of Index n > 2," (with V. Janovec), Ferroelectrics, 191 217-224 (1997).
71. "On Magnetic Domain Twin Symmetry," (with V. Kopsky), Ferroelectrics, Ferroelectrics, 204 217-223 (1997).
72. "Changes in the Opechowski-Guccione Symbols for Magnetic Space Groups Due to Changes in the International Tables of Crystallography," Ferroelectrics, 204 211-215 (1997).
73. "On Opechowski-Guccione Symbols Magnetic Space Groups Symbols," Acta Cryst. A54 257-261 (1998).
74. "VRML General Position/Symmetry Diagrams of the 80 Layer Groups," (with D. K. Tshudy). Journal of Applied Crystallography, 31 973 (1998).
75. "Classification of Domain Pairs and Tensor Distinction," (with V. Janovec), Ferroelectrics, Ferroelectrics, 222 345-351 (87-93) (1999).
76. "Possible Piezoelectric Composites Based on the Flexoelectric Effect," (with J. Fousek and L.E. Cross). Materials Letters, 29 287-291 (1999).
77. "Tensor Distinction of Domains in Ferroic Crystals," Acta Crystallographica, A55 884-890 (1999).
78. "Magnetic Subperiodic Groups," Acta Crystallographica A55 963-964 (1999).
79. "Subperiodic Groups Isomorphic to Factor Groups of Reducible Space Groups," (with V. Kopsky), Acta Crystallographica A56 370-374 (2000).
80. "Tensorial Covariants and Domain State Tensors," (with V. Kopsky), Ferroelectrics, 252 59-67 (2001).
81. "Domain Pair Symmetry Reduction Due to Disorientations," (with V. Janovec and J. Privratska), Ferroelectrics, 252 79-87 (2001).
82. "Coset and Double Coset Decomposition of Magnetic Point Groups," (with J. Schlessman), Acta Crystallographica, A57 114-115 (2001).
83. "Domain Geometry Engineering and Domain Average Engineering in Ferroics," (with J. Fousek and L.E. Cross) J. Phys. Condensed Matter 13 L33-L38 (2001).
84. "Latent Symmetry and its Group Theoretical Determination," (with V.K. Wadhawan), Acta Crystallographica, A57 435-441 (2001).
85. "Point Group Symmetries," SPIE Proceedings 4467 322-338 (2001).
86. "Magnetic Space Group Types," Acta Crystallographica, A57 729-730 (2001).
87. "Symmetry Relations of Magnetic Domain Pairs," (with J. Schlessman), Acta Crystallographica, A57 731-732 (2001).
88. "Latent Symmetry," (with V.K. Wadhawan), Acta Crystallographica, A58 75-76 (2002).
89. "Domain Average Engineering in Ferroics," (with B. Shaparenko and J. Schlessman), Ferroelectrics, 269 9 - 14, (2002).
90. "Magnetic
Point Group Symmetries of Spontaneously Polarized and/or Magnetized
Domain
Walls," (with J. Privratska, B. Shaparenko, and V. Janovec),
Ferroelectrics,
269, 39 - 44 (2002).
91. "Domain Configurations and Their Symmetry in Domain Average Engineered Structures," J. Phys. Condens. Matter 15 L553-L558 (2003).
92. "Latent Symmetry and
Domain Average Engineered
Ferroics,"
( with D.M. Hatch and V.K. Wadhawan), Ferroelectrics, 269 65-70 (2003).
93. "VRML General Position Diagrams
of the Magnetic
Subperiodic Groups," ( with N.R. Cordisco), Journal of Applied
Crystallography, 37
346 (2004).
94. "On Tensor Distinction of
Non-Ferroelastic Domains,"
(with V. Janovec), Ferroelectrics, 303 43-46 (2004).
95. "Space Group Scanning Tables,"
( with V. Kopsky), Acta
Crystallographica A60
637 (2004).
96. "Tables of Properties of
Magnetic Subperiodic Groups."
Acta Crystallographica, A61
382-385 (2005).
97. "Distinction of Magnetic
Non-Ferroelastic Domains." (with V. Janovec), Acta
Crystallographica, A62
98-102 (2006).
98. "VRML General Position Diagrams
of
Magnetic Space
Groups," ( with J.S. Burke and N.R. Cordisco), Journal of
Applied
Crystallography, 39
620 (2006).
1. "Character Tables and Compatibility Relations of the Eighty Layer Groups and the Seventeen Plane Groups," (with T. R. Wike), Plenum Publishing Corporation, New York, 1991.
2. "International Tables
For
Crystallography: Volume E: Subperiodic Group Symmetry," (with V.
Kopsky),
International Union of Crystallography, Kluwer Publishing, The
Netherlands,
2002.
Chapters in Books
1. "Point Group Symmetries", in Introduction
to Complex Mediums for Optics and Electromagnetics edited
by
W.S. Weiglhofer and A. Lakhtakia, SPIE Press, Bellingham, U.S.A., pp 79
- 104, 2003.
Internal Reports
1. "Nomenclature, Symbols
and
Classification of the Subperiodic Groups," (with V. Kopsky), Proposal
for
standards submitted to and accepted by the Commission on
Crystallographic
Nomenclature of the International Union of Crystallography, 1992.
Essays on Public Education
1. "Science and Engineering Suffer Neglect," Reading Eagle, Reading, PA, June 13, 1988, page 6.
2. "Students Lack Ability
to
Dig Out Facts", Reading Times, Reading, PA July 13, 1988, page 5.
Membership in Graduate Candidates' Committees
Member:
Doctoral
Supervisory Committee for Mr. S. Deonarine, Department of Physics, City
College
of the City University of New York, 1982-1984.
External Examiner:
Doctoral Thesis of Mr. M. I. Aroyo, Department of Physics, University of Sofia, Bulgaria, 1983.
Doctoral Thesis of Ms. M. Angelova-Tjurkedjieva, Department of Physics, University of Sofia, Bulgaria, 1987.
Doctoral Thesis of Mr. M. K. Peev, Department of Physics, University of Sofia, Bulgaria, 1992.
Doctoral Thesis of Ms. Daniela Ankova Alexandrova, Department of Physics, University of Sophia, Bulgaria, 1993.
Doctoral Thesis of Ms.
Jana
Privratska, Department of Physics, Technical University of Liberec,
Czech
Republic, 1998.
Service to the University: Berks Campus and the Berks-Lehigh Valley College
Member: Berks Campus Academic Affairs Committee, 1979 -1980, 1993 -1994.
Member: Berks Campus Faculty Affairs Committee, 1980-1988, 1989 -1992, 1994 -1996.
Member: Berks Campus ADAA Search Committee, 1980.
Chairman: Berks Campus Faculty Affairs Committee, 1981-1984, 1986-1987.
Berks Campus Research Liaison Person, 1982 - 1990.
Member: Berks Campus CEO Search Committee, 1984.
Member: Berks Campus Promotion and Tenure Committee, 1985 -1987, 1988 -1990, 1991-1993.
Chairman: Berks Campus Promotion and Tenure Committee, 1986 -1987, 1989 -1990, 1996 -1997.
Chairman: Berks Campus DAA Search Committee, 1993.
Member: Berks Campus Financial Officer Search Committee, 1995.
Chairman: Berks Campus Mathematics Faculty Search Committee, 1995,1996.
Member: Berks Campus Police Officer Search Committee, 1996.
Member: Berks Campus Special Events Committee, 1996 -1997.
Member: Berks Campus Scholarship Committee, 1996 -1997.
Advisor: Berks Campus Keystone Society, 1994 -1997.
Advisor: Berks-Lehigh Valley College, Berks Campus Keystone Society, 1997-1999.
Chairman: Berks-Lehigh Valley College Faculty Affairs Committee, 1997-1999.
Chairman: Berks-Lehigh Valley College Division of Science, Promotion and Tenure Committee, 1997-1999.
Member: Berks-Lehigh Valley College Dean's Advisory Committee, 1998-2000.
Member: Berks-Lehigh Valley College Associate Dean Search Committee, 1998-1999.
Member: Berks-Lehigh Valley College Dean Search Committee, 1999-2000.
Member: Berks-Lehigh Valley College Division of Science Undergraduate Internship/Research Committee, 1999-2000.
Member: Berks-Lehigh Valley College Science Degree Program Advisory Board, 1999-2001.
Member: Berks-Lehigh Valley College Mathematics Search Committee, 2000-2001.
Chairman: Berks-Lehigh Valley College Division of Science Head Search Committee, 2001.
Chairman: Berks-Lehigh Valley College Sabbatical Leave Committee, 1997-1998, 2000-2002.
Member: Berks-Lehigh Valley College Faculty Peer Reviewer, 1997-2005.
Member: Berks-Lehigh Valley College, Division of Science, Research and Internship Committee, 2000 -2002.
Member: Berks-Lehigh Valley College Promotion to Professor Committee, 2001-2002, 2004-2005.
Member: Berks-Lehigh Valley College Faculty Affairs Committee, 1999-2005.
Member: Berks-Lehigh Valley College Fixed Term Physics Search Committee, 2002.
Chairman: Berks-Lehigh Valley College Physics Search Committee, 1998-1999, 2001-2002.
Member: Berks-Lehigh Valley College, Division of Science, Safety Committee, 2001-2003.
Member: Berks-Lehigh Valley College Physics Search Committee, 2002-2003, 2003-2004.
Chairman: Berks-Lehigh Valley College Mathematics Search Committee, 2002-2003; 2003-2004..
Member: Berks-Lehigh Valley College Senate Council as Science Division Representative, 2002-2004.
Member:
Berks-Lehigh
Valley College Physics Technician Search Committee, 2002-2003
Member: Berks-Lehigh Valley
College, Division of Science, Budget and Facilities Committee,
2003 - 2005.
Member: Berks-Lehigh Valley College Division of Science Head Search Committee, 2004 - 2005.
Member:
Berks College Division of Science Head Search Committee,
2005 - 2006.
Member:
Berks College Senate Council as Science Division
Representative 2002-2006.
Member:
Berks College Senate Council Faculty Affairs Committee.
Chairman:
Berks College, Division of Science, Special Promotion to Professor
Committee, 2005-2006.
Chairman:
Berks College Sprecial Promotion to Professor Committee, 2005-2006.
Chairman:
Berks College Sprecial Promotion to Librarian, Reference Librarian
Committee, 2005-2006.
Member:
Berks College, Division of Science, Budget and Facilities
Committee, 2005-2007.
Member: Berks College, Division of Science, Faculty Affairs Committee, 2005-2007.
Service to the University: Eberly College of Science and University Wide
Member: Provost's Sabbatical Leave Committee, 1986-1988.
Member: Department of Physics Commonwealth Education System Promotion and Tenure Committee, 1986-1987, 1990-1992, 1996-1997.
Chairman: Department of Physics Commonwealth Education System Promotion and Tenure Committee, 1993-1994.
Member: College of Science Commonwealth Education System Promotion and Tenure Committee, 1986-1987, 1991-1992, 1995-1996.
Chairman: College of Science Commonwealth Education System Promotion and Tenure Committee, 1987-1988, 1990-1991, 1994-1995.
Member: Eberly College of Science, Department of Physics, Non-UP Faculty Promotion and Tenure Committee, 1997-1998.
Member: Eberly College of Science Non-University Park Locations Faculty Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2000-2001.
Chairman:
Eberly College of Science Non-University Park Locations Faculty
Promotion
and Tenure Committee, 2001-2002.
Member: Department of
Physics, Eberly College of Science, Non-University Park Locations
Faculty Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2004-2005.
Member: Eberly
College of Science Non-University Park Locations Faculty Promotion and
Tenure Committee, 2005-2008.
Service to the International Scientific Community
Member: Commission of Crystallographic Nomenclature of the International Union of Crystallography.
Member:
Commission
of International Tables of the International Union of Crystallography.
Member:
Commission on Mathematical and Theoretical Crystallography of the
International Union of Crystallography.
Co-editor and co-author:
Volume
E of the International Tables for Crystallography.