EDUCATION

• Topic of dissertation: Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov calculations for nuclei far from stability.
• Performed numerical modeling of nuclear structure near the limits of existence. I made use of the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov theory to properly treat the pairing effects on nuclides, especially away from the line of ß-stability. Deformations are described by performing the calculations in axial symmetry
• A number of numerical recipes are incorporated into the high-performance code. The self-consistent nature of the calculations leads the algorithm to an iterative method. The computational load is managed by using of the "B-splines method", where the wavefunctions and operators are represented with a minimum set of points in the axially-symmetric mesh. The calculations were carried out mostly with the parallel version of the code in a 22-processor Cray at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)
  
• Calculations of ground-state nuclear observables: binding energy, fermi energies,  radii, deformation, energy gap, where performed in a number of  nuclei, ranging from A=16 (oxygen) to A=150 (tin). A sistematic study of sulfur isotopes was performed to determination the drip-line nucleus in this chain
  

• Degree obtained upon passing of written Core Examination in the following areas: Classical Mechanics, Quantum Mechanics, Statistical Mechanics, Electricity and Magnetism.
• Qualifying oral presentation.  Exhaustive  examination in the basics of Nuclear Structure, Computational Physics and proposal of Ph.D. project.

• Major: Industrial Physics Engineering
• Areas of specialization: General Physics, Computer Hardware and Computer Languages
• Mean projects: cable cutting with CO₂ laser for Conductores Monterrey, holography, a number of Pascal programs and implementation of computer hardware for basic disc and video management; photoelectric effect
• 90% scholarship held during all 9 semesters
  
• Graduated with honors with  GPA: 9.4/10.0 

    EXPERIENCE

• Computation of nuclear moments for energy level density calculations
• Development of codes in fortran 90.
• Parallel interface for running jobs in local Beuwolf cluster
• Submission of research papers (see "publised papers" section)

• Developed numerical algorithms for the solution of direct-diagonalization nuclear mean-field calculations.
• Used the basis-splines technique for representation of axially-symmetric spatial grids
• Implemented parallel computing in one and several nodes.
• Submission of papers and talks given (see "publised papers" and "talks" sections)

• Taught undergraduate physics laboratory
• Conducted lecture and experiments of elemental Physics.

• Experimental experience in high-brightness needles for developing a small-scale Free-electron-laser
• Constructed chamber for high-vacuum, high-voltage experiments.
• Designed and constructed a fiber-optic ammeter for nanoamp-current reading.

• Performed fluids dynamics calculations for industrial equipment.
• Designed steam generators and peripheral equipment.

    HONORS

• Excellence and Honors Award for University studies, ITESM.12/93
• Excellence Scholarship, ITESM.08/89-12/93
• Second Place in Mexico National Math Olympics. Sonora, Mexico.02/86
• High School Excellence scholarship. Durango, Mexico.86-89

    ACTIVITIES AND MEMBERSHIPS

• Member of the American Physics Society. Presented several talks in the General meetings and the Nuclear Phusics division meetings (see Conferences). 01/02-Present
• Member of the Graduate Program Committee. Participated in the reviewing application process of potential new graduate students. Participated in the renovation of the graduate program curriculum. Physics Department at Vanderbilt University. 01/00-01/02.
• Member of the Pan-American Association of Physics, 1997-2004
• User of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) facility.  Performed large-scale parallel computations. 08/99-08/03

CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS

• Stewardship Science Academic Alliances. Las Vegas, NV. August 23-24, 2005. Presented poster "Level density in the shell model".
  
• XXVIII Symposium on Nuclear Physics. Cocoyoc, Mexico. January 4-7, 2005. Presented poster: "Configuration level densities calculations with nuclear spectroscopy".
  
• The IV International Conference onExotic Nuclei and Atomic Masses. Mountain Pine, Georgia.  September 12-16, 2004. Presented poster: "A statistical spectroscopy approach for calculating nuclear level densities".
  
• Rare Isotope Accelerator Summer School at Argonne National Laboratory. Argonne, IL. August 8-14, 2004. Gave talk: "Shell model level densities".
  
• American Physical Society, April meeting. Denver, CO. May 1-4, 2004. Gave talk: "Mean Field Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov theory to model the ground state of non-stable heavy and deformed nuclei".
• Stewardship Science Academic Alliances. Albuquerque, NM. March 29-31, 2004. Attended.
  
• American Physical Society, Nuclear Physics Division. Tucson, AZ. October 29-November 1, 2003. Gave talk: "Coordinate space Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov calculations in axial symmetry".
  
• American Physical Society, April meeting. Philadelphia, PA. April 25-29, 2003.
• American Physical Society, April meeting. Albuquerque, NM. April 21-24, 2002. Gave talk: "HFB calculations for nuclei far from stability".
  
• IV Latin-American Symposium on Nuclear Physics. Mexico City. September 24-28, 2001. Presented poster:"Mean field calculations for dripline nuclei".
  
• ISOL '01 Symposium. Oak Ridge, TN. March 11-14, 2001. Attended.
  
• Graduate Student Research day at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN. March 22, 2001. Gave talk:"Mean field theory in Nuclear Physics".
  

    ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

• O/S: Unix/Linux and Windows.
  
• Computational Languages: Fortran 77/90/95, C/C++, Pascal and Assembly.
• Parallel computing: MPI, OpenMP and Pthreads.
• Scripting: Bash shell, Perl, CGI.
  
• Web: Macromedia Fireworks, HTML.
  
• Math tools: Mathematica, MatLab,  Maple.
  
• Office: MS Word, Latex, Powerpoint, Excel.
• Hardware: full PC assembly.
  
• Speaking Languages: Fluent in Spanish and English. Some Italian.

Edgar Teran's Curriculum Vitae