TEACHING
Ras B. Pandey
Over the years, I have taught a range of courses
(most offered). In addition to traditional course (classroom teaching) and
supervision, we involved students in productive research, not only graduate
students (see below) but also undergraduate (E. Willett and R.B. Pandey, Phys.
Rev. Lett. 65, 3414 (1990)) and high school (A. Mielke and R.B. Pandey, Physica A 251, 430 (1998)) students
when opportunity occurs. I have continued to participate in numerous graduate
committees in Chemistry, Physics, Polymer Science, and Scientific Computing.
Spring
Semester 2006 teaching (sample):
o Two undergraduate
introductory physics laboratory sections (PHY111L, PHY112L)
o Two graduate courses
"Data Analysis" (COS702) and "Data Handling" (COS703)
o Research in Physics
(PHY691)
o Research in
Computational Physics (PHY791)
o Dissertation (SC898)
o Supervised one
undergraduate and two graduate students in modeling thin film growth.
I
have taught following undergraduate and graduate courses in addition to supervision
of independent studies, graduate research, theses, and dissertations.
Undergraduate
Courses:
o Introductory Physics
(PHY103, PHY103L)
o General Physics (PHY111,
PHY111L, PHY112, PHY112L – without calculus)
o General Physics (PHY201,
PHY201L - with calculus)
o Thermodynamics and
Statistical Mechanics (PHY332)
o Mechanics (PHY350,
PHY351)
o Elementary Modern
Physics (PHY361)
o Electricity and
Magnetism (PHY421)
o Fundamentals of
o Nuclear Physics (PHY465)
o Undergraduate Research
(PHY499)
Graduate
Courses:
o Fundamentals of
o Nuclear Physics (PHY565)
o Electricity and
Magnetism (PHY602)
o Statistical Physics
(PHY603)
o Research in Physics
(PHY691)
o Independent Study -
Special Topics (PHY697)
o Thesis (PHY698)
o Computational Methods
for Physical Systems (SC710)
o Research in Scientific
Computing (SC791)
o Independent Study -
Special Topics (SC797)
o Dissertation (SC898)
THESES & DISSERTATION:
o Chaired three MS theses
in Physics (Song-Ping Gao, Sai Yu, Yan He).
Songping
Gao, Thesis: Conductivity of a two-dimensional lattice fluid in a charge density
gradient, 1990. Publication: ‘Transport properties of an
interacting-lattice-gas in a charge density gradient by
Sai Yu, Thesis: Transport properties
of a two-dimensional random percolating system in a charge density gradient,
1990. Publication: ‘A computer-simulation study for the
permeability of an interacting lattice gas through a percolating system’,
R.B. Pandey and
Yan He, Thesis: Monte Carlo studies
of driven diffusive interacting lattice gas, 1993. Publication: ‘Driven
diffusion,
o Chaired six Ph.D.
dissertations (Grace M. Foo, Yimin Liu,
J.L. Becklehimer, Luis Cueva-Parra, Frank Bentrem, Shihai Yang) in
"Scientific Computing”.
Grace M.
Foo
Dissertation: Transport and conformation of driven polymer chains in porous media,
1996.
Publications:
o
Computer simulation
study of the permeability of driven polymers through porous media, G.M. Foo and R.B.
Pandey, Phys. Rev. E 51, 5738 (1995).
o
Dynamics of interacting
polymer chains and solvents, R.B. Pandey, A.T. Bernardes, G.M. Foo, and D. Stauffer, J. Chem. Phys. 105, 1682 (1996).
o
Dynamics and
conformation of polymer chains in a porous medium, G.M. Foo, R.B. Pandey,
and D. Stauffer, Phys. Rev. E 53,
5738 (1996).
o
Conformation and
dynamics of interacting polymer chains in a porous medium, G.M. Foo and R.B.
Pandey, Physica A 241, 500 (1997).
o
Conformation of
interacting polymer chains: effects of temperature, bias, polymer concentration,
and porosity,
G.M. Foo and R.B. Pandey, Phys. Rev. E 55,
4433 (1997).
Yimin Liu
Dissertation:
Computer simulation studies of phase behavior in polymeric
gels,
1997.
Publications:
o
Kinetics of gelation
growth in a sol-gel transition by a computer-simulation model, Y. Liu and R.B.
Pandey, J. Phys. II 4, 865 (1994).
o
Sol-gel transitions in
thermoreversible gels: Onset of gelation and melting, Y. Liu and R.B.
Pandey, J. Chem. Phys. 105, 825
(1996).
o
Inhomogeneity in
gelation and nonuniversality of Sol-to-Gel transition by a computer simulation
model,
Y. Liu and R.B. Pandey, Phys. Rev. E 54,
6609 (1996).
Jeffrey L.
Becklehimer
Dissertation: Hybrid lattice gas
simulations of flow through porous media, 1998
Publications:
o
A computer-simulation
study of sticks percolation, J. Becklehimer and R.B. Pandey, Physica A 187, 71 (1992).
o
Percolation of chains
and jamming coverage in two dimensions by computer-simulation, J.L. Becklehimer and
R.B. Pandey,J. Stat. Phys. 75, 765
(1994).
o
Computer simulation
study of the permeability of a porous sediment model, R.B. Pandey and J.L.
Becklehimer, Phys. Rev. E51, 3341
(1995).
o
A hybrid computer
simulation approach to shock propagation in fluid through porous media, R.B. Pandey and J.L.
Becklehimer, Physica A 219, 121
(1995).
Luis A.
Cueva-Parra
Dissertation:
Multi-component fluid flow through porous media
by interacting lattice gas computer simulation, 2003
Publications:
o
Density Profile and Flow
of Miscible Fluid with Dissimilar Constituent Masses, R.B. Pandey, D.
Stauffer, R. Seyfarth, Luis A. Cueva, J.F. Gettrust, and Warren Wood, Physica A 310, 325 (2002)
o
Self-organized phase
segregation in a driven flow of dissimilar particles mixtures, R.B. Pandey, J.F.
Gettrust, R. Seyfarth, and L.A. Cueva-Parra, Int. J. Mod. Phys. C 14, 955 (2003).
Frank W.
Bentrem
Dissertation: Growth of polymer films by driven deposition:
Publications:
o
Roughening,
deroughening, and nonuniversal scaling of the interface width in
electrophoretic deposition of polymer chains,F.W. Bentrem, R.B. Pandey, and F.
Family, Phys. Rev. E 62, 914 (2000).
o
Interface relaxation in
electrophoretic deposition of polymer chains: Effects of segmental dynamics,
molecular weight, and field, Frank W. Bentrem, Jun Xie, and R.B. Pandey, Phys. Rev. E 65, 041606 (2002)
o
Density and conformation
with relaxed substrate, bulk, and interface in electrophoretic deposition of
polymer chains,Frank
W. Bentrem, Jun Xie, and R. B. Pandey, J. Mol. Structure: THEOCHEM 592, 95
(2002)
o
Thermal roughening and
deroughening at polymer interfaces in electrophoretic deposition, Frank W. Bentrem and
R.B. Pandey, Macromolecules 38, 992 (2005)
Shihai
Yang
Dissertation:
Computer
simulation study of waterborne two-component polyurethane film formation, 2007
Publications:
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
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)