Charles B. Chiu

Dept. of Physics, U Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, 512-471-1707(O), 512-471-9637(f)

http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~chiu/,    Email: chiu@physics.utexas.edu,  (update: 10/12/05)

 

 I. Education:

Seattle Pacific College

Seattle,Wash.

B.Sc, summa cum laude

1961

  Physics & Math

University of   California

Berkeley, Calif.

Ph.D.

1966

  High Energy Physics

II. Carrier Position:

Postdoctoral Fellow

Theory, Lawrence Rad. Lab, Berkely, California

1965-1967

Visiting Scientist

Theory, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

1967-1968

Senior Research Fellow

Cavendish Lab, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England

1968-1969

Research Fellow

California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California

1969-1971

Faculty Member

Center for Particle Theory, U of Texas at Austin

1971-1996

Assistant Professor

Department of Physics, U of Texas at Austin

1971-1974

Associate Professor

Department of Physics, U of Texas at Austin

1974-1981

Visiting Professor

Max Planck Inst. for Phys. & Astrophys, Munich, Gemany

1978-1979

Professor

Department of Physics, U of Texas at Austin

1981-present

UT Distinguished Teaching Professor

University of Texas at Austin

1998-present

Collaborating Scientist

Institute for Fusion Studies

1998-2004

Faculty Member

Center for Particle Theory, U of Texas at Austin

2004-present

III. Teaching Awards:

Teaching Excellence Award

College of Natural Science

1989

President’ s associates Teaching Excellence Award

University of Texas at Austin

1991

Marian-Harris Thornberry Centennial Professorship

College of Natural Science

1994-96

Special Award for Excellence in Teaching

UT College of Engineering

1995

Dad’s Association Centennial Teaching Fellowship

University of Texas at Austin

1997-98

Friar Centennial Teaching Fellow

University of Texas at Austin

1998-99

UT Academy of Distinguished Teaching Professor

University of Texas at Austin

1998

IV. Past and Present Research

 

Research in theoretical particle physics/ High energy heavy-ion physics (from 2004 on)

C. Chiu and R. C. Hwa, Pedestal and Peak Structure in Jet Correlation, Phys. Rev. C. 72, 034903(2005), nucl-th/0505014.

C. B. Chiu and R. C. Hwa, “Auto-correlation of hadrons in jets produced in heavy-ion collisions", (in preparation, 2005)

C. B. Chiu and R. C. Hwa, “Simulation of away-side azimuthal-distribution in heavy-ion collisions", (work in progress, 2005)

C. B. Chiu, “Correlation in high energy heavy-ion physics”, NSF proposal, submitted in Sept 28, 2005. A similar proposal will also be submitted to Doe, deadline Nov 1, 2005.

 

Research in laser-plasma physics (from 1998 to present)  Following are selected publications in  this area.  For more details: Click here.

C. CHIU, S. Cheshkov and T. Tajima, “High energy laser-wakefield collider with synchronous acceleration”,  Phys. Rev. Special Topics-Accelerators and Beams, 3, 101301 (2000).

H. Horton and C. CHIU, "Laser Z-pinch dipole-target experiments to simulate space physics acceleration processes", Phys. Plasmas 11, 1645 (2004).

M. Fomyts'kyi, C. CHIU, M. C. Downer, F. Grigsby, "Controlled plasma wave generation and particle acceleration through seeding of the forward Raman scattering instability," Physics of Plasmas 12, 1 (2005).

M. Fomyts’kyi, B. N. Breizman, A. V. Arefiev, C. CHIU, “Harmonic generation in clusters,” Phys. Plasmas 11, 3349 (2004).

C. CHIU, M. Fomytskyi, F.  Grigsby, R. M. Raischel, M. C. Downer and Tajima T, "Laser electron accelerators for radiation medicine:  a feasibility study," Med. Phys. 31, 2042 (2004).

K. K. Kainz, K. R. Hogstrom, J. A. Antolak, P. R. Almond, C. D. Bloch, C. CHIU, M. Fomyts'kyi, F. Raischel, M C Downer, T. Tajima, "Dose properties of a laser accelerated electron beam and prospects for clinical application,"  Med. Phys. 31, 2053 (2004).  Recipient of AAPM's Farrington Daniels Award.  

W. Horton, C. Chiu, T. Ditmire, P. Valanju, R. Presura, T. Cowan, V. Ivanov, N. Le Galloudec, Laboratory Simulation of Magnetospheric Plasma Shocks and Magnetospheres, Proceedings of COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Paris, France, 6/2004.

 

Elementary Particle Physics:  From mid-60s to mid-90s,  my main research area was in Theoretical Particle Physics. I was a faculty member in center for particle theory. Most of the reesearch work was sponsored by Dept. of Energy Grants.  For the full bibliography up to 1996 see: http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~itiq/chiudoc/bibs.pdf.

 

High Energy Experimental Physics: (1962-1965)

Pion-Proton Charge Exchange Scattering from 500 to 1300 MeV" (with others), Phys. Rev. 156, 1415 (1967).  Thesis work.

Theoretical Particle Physics: (1965-present)

Particle Theory:

F. Arbab and C. Chiu, Association between the Dip in the p-p à p0n High  Energy Angular Distribution and the Zero of the r Trajectory, Phys. Rev. 147, 1045 (1966).

C. Chiu and J. Stack,   Regge Pole Model for High Energy Backward p+p Scattering, Phys. Rev. 153, 1575 (1967).

C. Chiu and J. Finkelstein, A Hybrid Model for Elastic Scattering, Nuovo  Cimento 57A,  649 (1968).

C. Chiu and J. Finkelstein, Restrictions on SU(3) Mixing Implied by Exchange Degeneracy, Physics Letters 27B, 510 (1968).

C. Chiu, Nonforward Scattering of Hadrons and High Energy Phenomenology, Rev. Mod. Phys. 41, 649 (1969)

C. Chiu, Evidence for Regge Poles and Hadron Collision Phenomena at High Energies, Annual Review of Nuclear Science, 22, 1972.

T. E. Kalogeropoulos, C. Chiu and E. C. G. Sudarshan, Experimental Confirmation of the Parity of the Antiproton, Phys. Rev. Letters 37, 1037 (1976)

C. Chiu, S. Nandi and U. Sarkar, Unitarity Constraints on the nondegenerate Majorana

neutrino model, Phys. Rev. Letters 55, 2089 (1985)

Unstable Quantum system:

C. Chiu, B. Misra and E. C. G. Sudarshan,  Time Evolution of Quantum Unstable System and a Resolution to the Zeno's Paradox, Phys. Rev. D16, 520 (1977).

C. Chiu, B. Misra and E.C.G. Sudarshan, The Time Scale for the Quantum Zeno Paradox and Proton Decay,  Phys. Letters 117B, 34 (1982).

C. Chiu and E. C. G. Sudarshan, Decay and Evolution of the Neutral Kaon, Phys. Rev. D42, 3712 (1990).

C. Chiu,  E. C.G. Sudarshan and G. Bhamathi,Hamiltonian Model for the Higgs Resonance Phys. Rev. 45D,  884 (1992).

C. Chiu,  E. C.G. Sudarshan and G. Bhamathi, The Cascade Model: A Solvable Field Theory, Phys. Rev. D46, 3508 (1992).

C. Chiu and E. C.G. Sudarshan, A Theory for the Neutral Kaon System", in “A Gift of Prophecy”, ed. by E. C.G. Sudarshan, World Scientific Publishing Company, Singapore (1994), pp. 81-106.

E. C. G. Sudarshan, C. Chiu and G. Bhamathi,  Unstable Systems in Generalized Quantum Theory,  Advances in Chemical Physics vol XCIX, John Wiley Sons, 1997, p121-244.

Quantum Mechanics

E. C.G. Sudarshan, C. Chiu,  and G. Bhamathi,"Generalized Uncertainty Relations and Characteristic Invariants for Multimode States" (with E. C. G. Sudarshan and G. Bhamathi), Phys. Rev. A52, 43 (1995).

 

Artificial Intelligence (85-88): E.g. B. Kuipers, C. Chiu, D. Dalle Molle & D. Throop, Artif. Intell. 51, 343 (1991).

 

Acoustic Agglomeration:  (94-96) C. Chiu and J. A. Edwards, “Fractal Dynamics in Orthokinetic acoustic agglomeration process”, Phys. Rev. E54, 3036 (1996)

 

VI. Interactive Teaching support project (1995-Spring05):  Partially supported by an AT&T Grant (1996),    an eInstruction grant (2003-04), Physics Dept., College of Natural Science. Collaboration with Center of Instructional Technology and Center for Teaching Effectiveness. See also: http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~ctalk/

 

V. Ph. D. and Master students and Postdocs

·        Ph. D. students: ( Dates given: yr of completion, yr of last update. )

1)      Eduado Ugaz (1974), Assistant professor at U. of Barcelona, Spain, 1975.

2)       Momowaar Hossein (1978), Supervisor, AT & T, 1990.  

3)      Xerxes Tata (1981), Professor, U of Hawaii, 2000.

4)      Steve Eubank (1986)  Research Scientist, Los Alamos National Lab, 2000.

5)      Sanford Wilson (1987), Research Staff, Lincoln Lab, MIT, 2000.  

6)      Silas Beane (1994), Research Associate, U of Washington, 2000.

7)      Mykhailo Fomyskyi (2003), Wachovia Securities, New York, 2004.

·        Master students with date of completion: Fred Rolfes (1994), James Edward (1996)

·        Post docs:  K. H. Wang (1972 -1974),  Don  M. Tow (1976-1978).