RAS B. PANDEY
Professor
of Physics
Department
of Physics and Astronomy
Telephone:
601 266 4485; Fax: 601 266 5149; Email: ras.pandey@usm.edu
Website:
http://orca.st.usm.edu/~pandey/
CITIZENSHIP:
GOAL: Advance the
frontier of knowledge via teaching, research, and services.
EDUCATION:
M.Sc. 1974, B.Sc. 1972,
Ph.D. 1981, Indian
EXPERIENCE:
o
Professor,
02/94 - Present, University of Southern Mississippi, MS, USA
o
Research
Physicist, 09/98-10/2008, Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis
Space Center, MS, USA
o
Assoc.
Professor, 08/88-01/94, University of Southern Mississippi, MS, USA
o
Alexander
von Humboldt Fellow, 01/88-07/88, Cologne and Juelich,
Germany
o
Acting
Chair, 08/87-05/88, Jackson State University, MS, USA
o
Assistant
Professor, 03/85-05/88, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS, USA
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Postdoc., 09/84-02/85,
University of Georgia, GA, USA
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Postdoc., 11/83-08/84,
Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, England
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Postdoc., 01/83-10/83,
Cologne University, Germany
o
Visiting
Asst. Professor, 07/81-12/82, N. C. State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
AFFILIATIONS (past and
present):
American
Physical Society: life-long; American Association of Advancement of Science; Alexander
von Humboldt Foundation (
HONORS &
AWARDS:
o Naval Research
Laboratory, Contribution Award (2000, 2003, 2005, 2007)
o Research Award,
University of Southern Mississippi: 2003
o Alexander von
Humboldt fellow: 1988
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES:
o Consistent referee
for leading research journals: Physical Review Letters, Physical Review,
Journal of Physics A and C, Journal of Chemical Physics, Journal of Physical
Chemistry, Macromolecules, Macromolecular Theory and Simulations, European
Physical Journal, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, etc. (refereed
over 40 papers for some of these journals in 2011).
o Reviewer for
books, grant proposals, external examiner and dissertation reviewer.
o Member of
various committees: department, college, university, international conferences,
and accreditation board.
o I have involved
high school and undergraduate students in productive research leading to
publications in journals such as Physical Review Letters and Physica A. All my graduate (MS and Ph.D.) students have
published in well-known refereed journals.
RESEARCH
INTEREST: (Present
and past)
o Biomimetic: Conformation and dynamics of protein
and tethered membranes: the structural relaxation and pathways to stabilities
and multi-scale mode dynamics. Residues mobility, energy, and correlations
profiles of peptides.
o Chain polymer: Polymer chains in solvent, porous
media, complex fluid, and on surfaces. Driven flow response. DNA
electrophoresis.
o Branched polymer: Kinetic gelation,
Sol-Gel phase transition, micro-emulsion and lipids, percolation, and
aggregation.
o Multi-component materials: Nano-clay-polymer composites, biofunctionalized
nano-structured materials (involving peptide attached
gold, palladium, and montmorillonite clay platelets).
o Surfaces, interfaces, and roughness: Surface,
roughness and interfacial dynamics in thin film growth with a range of
constituents (particles, polymer chains, solvents)
o Driven transport and flow: Flow through
porous media, Self-organizing structure and flow multi-component complex systems.
o Immune response: Population dynamics of cells.
o Econophysics: Theoretical modeling of stock
fluctuations.
o Critical phenomena: Thermal and geometrical phase transition.
THESES & DISSERTATION:
o Chaired three MS
theses in Physics (Song-Ping Gao, Sai
Yu, Yan He) until several years ago when we adopted different tracks for MS
degrees resulting in nearly no students with thesis options since then. The MS
tracks have been changed again recently.
o Chaired six
Ph.D. dissertations (Grace M. Foo, Yimin Liu, J.L. Becklehimer, Luis
Cueva-Parra, Frank Bentrem,
Shihai Yang) in “Scientific
Computing” now “Computational Science”.
ANALYSIS
METHODS:
Methods
used in teaching and research: Computing and visualization in general. Computer simulations methods:
CONFERENCE &
MEETINGS:
I have consistently presented invited and contributed talks in major
international and national conferences and meetings. We presented about 5-10
talks per year in last 20 years.
PUBLICATIONS: Recent (of over 140) in refereed journals.
2011:
o
Scaffolding
of an antimicrobial peptide (KSL) by a scale-down coarse-grained approach, R.S.
Hissam, B.L. Farmer, and R.B. Pandey, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 13, 21262 (2011).
o
Supramolecular assembly of a biomineralizing antimicrobial peptide in coarse-grained
Monte Carlo simulations, D. Matthew Eby, Glenn R. Johnson, Barry L. Farmer, Ras
B. Pandey, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 13, 1123 (2011).
o
Adsorption
mechanism of single amino acid and surfactant molecules to Au {111} surfaces in
aqueous solution: design rules for metal binding molecules, J. Feng, R.B. Pandey, R.J. Berry, B.L. Farmer, R.R. Naik, and
H. Heinz, Soft Matter 7, 2113 (2011).
2010:
o
A
layer of clay platelets in a peptide (M1: HGINTTKPFKSV) matrox:
binding, encapsulation and morphology, R.B. Pandey, H. Heinz, B.L. Farmer, L.F.
Drummy, S.E. Jones, R.A. Vaia, and R.R. Naik, J. Polym.
Sci. B: Polymer Physics, 48, 2566 (2010).
o
Bio-functionalization and immobilization of a membrane via
peptide binding (CR3-1, S2) by a Monte Carlo simulation, R.B. Pandey, H. Heinz,
J. Feng, and B.L. Farmer, J. Chem. Phys. 133, 095102
(2010).
o
Bioassembled layered
silicate-metal nanoparticle hybrids, L.F. Drummy,
S.E. Jones, R.B. Pandey, B.L. Farmer, R.A. Vaia, and R.R. Naik, ACS Applied
Mat. Interf. 2, 5658 (2010).
o
Global
structure of a human immunodeficiency virus -1 protease (1DIFA dimer) in an effective solvent medium by a Monte Carlo
simulation, R.B. Pandey and B.L. Farmer J. Chem. Phys. 132, 125101 (2010).
2009:
2008:
o Exfoliation of a
stack of platelets and intercalation of polymer chains: effects of molecular
weight, entanglement, and interaction with the polymer matrix, R.B. Pandey and
B.L. Farmer, J. Poly. Sci. Part B, Polymer Physics 46, 2696 (2008).
o Sheets: Entropy
dissipation, multi-scale dynamics, dispersion, and intercalation, R.B. Pandey, K.L. Anderson, and B.L. Farmer, Comp. Sci. Engg. 10, 90 (2008).
o Conformation of a coarse-grained protein chain (an aspartic acid
protease) model in effective solvent by a bond-fluctuating Monte Carlo
simulation, R.B. Pandey and B.L. Farmer, Phys. Rev. E 77, 031902 (2008).
o Effect of temperature and solvent on dispersion of layered
platelets by Monte Carlo simulations, R.B. Pandey and B.L. Farmer, Macromol. Ther. Sim. 17, 208 (2008).
o Can a difference in molecular weights cause an eruption in a
driven flow of self-organizing immiscible system? R.B. Pandey and J.F.
Gettrust, Eur. Phys. J. B 61, 83 (2008).
2007:
o Monte Carlo simulation
of a film growth with reactive hydrophobic, polar, and aqueous components by a
covalent bond-fluctuating model, S. Yang and R.B. Pandey, J. Chem. Phys. 126,
174708 (2007).
o Flow through a
laboratory sediment sample by computer simulation modeling, R.B. Pandey, A.H.
Reed, E. Braithwaite, R. Seyfarth, and J.F. Gettrust, Physica
A 374, 501 (2007).
o Multi-scale mode
dynamics of a tethered membrane, R.B. Pandey, K.L. Anderson, and B.L. Farmer,
Phys. Rev. E 75, 061913 (2007).
2006:
o Eruptive Flow
Response in a Multi-Component Driven System by an Interacting Lattice Gas
Simulation, R.B. Pandey and J.F. Gettrust, Physica A
368, 416 (2006).
o Film Growth and
Surface Roughness with Effective Fluctuating Covalent Bonds in Evaporating
Aqueous Solution of Reactive Hydrophobic and Polar Groups: A Computer
Simulation Model, Shihai Yang, Adam Seyfarth, Sam
Bateman, and R. B. Pandey, Macromol. Theory Simul. 15, 263 (2006).
o Multi-scale
dynamics of an interacting sheet by a Bond-Fluctuating Monte Carlo simulation,
R.B. Pandey, Kelly L. Anderson, B.L. Farmer, J. Poly. Sci. Part B, Polymer
Physics 44, 2512 (2006).
o Exfoliation of
stacked sheets: Effects of temperature, platelet size, and quality of solvent
by a Monte Carlo simulation, R.B. Pandey, Kelly L. Anderson, B.L. Farmer, J.
Poly. Sci. Part B, Polymer Physics 44, 3580 (2006).