Bernice Durand
EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES
TEACHING HONORS
- Winner of Chancellor's Teaching Award, 1993
 
- Listed in The Best Professors at the UW-Madison as
chosen by the students , WSA, spring 1992
 
- Faculty Appreciation Award from UW-Madison Panhellenic Association,
spring 1992, 2002
 
- Faculty Appreciation Award from UW-Madison
Intrafraternity Council, fall 1992
 
EDUCATIONAL INNOVATION:
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- Co-organizer with R. Staley and B. Clayton of a novel First-year Interest Group (FIG) offering Physics 107,
- "Ideas of Modern
Physics", in conjunction with HistSci 203, "History of 20th Century Science" and
- Theatre 103, "Science and the Stage", fall 2002
 
- Developed one of the first TV courses at UW-Madison, Physics 107,
"Ideas of Modern Physics"
- 43 taped lectures on modern physics for nonscientists
- Broadcast locally since 1991, statewide in 1997
- Broadcast since 1996 on Aspen Community Television
 
- Developed Physics 107TV as a Web/TV course, 1997
- Taught fall, 1997 with Web discussions using FirstClass
 
- Developed Physics 833, Advanced Math in Quantum Field Theory
- Outgrowth of "Durands' Seminar" taught nine
semesters as 1 cr overload seminar in
      mathematical physics
 
- Organized a 7-week problem solving seminar for graduate students winter, 1999-2000;
- repeated annually, spring and fall; proposed for 1 cr course
 
- Developed Medical School Immunology lecture on the
longterm management of immunosuppressants
from the patient's perspective, annual lecture, 1992-present.
      2004 Immunology Lecture
 
Ph.D. STUDENTS
- Zhang Tu, M.S. June, 1989, on composite models for the Higgs boson;
- Ph.D. December 1994, on materials science, thesis supervised by
Prof. Ned Tabatabaie, ECE
- Thesis title: Spontaneous Emission Alteration and Exciton Dynamics
in Microcavity
      Semiconductor Lasers
 
- Andrew Bordner, Ph.D. December 1994
- Thesis title: Soft Supersymmetry Breaking Parameter Bounds in the
Minimal Supersymmetric
      Standard Model
- Positions:
      NSF/Japan postdoctoral in particle theory,
University of Kyoto, 1994--1999
      Postdoc in computational biology, BioEngineering
Department, UC-San Diego, 1999--
 
- Dennis Crossley, Ph.D. August 1994
- Thesis title: BRST quantization and self-dual gravity, supervised with Dr. Ted Allen
- Positions:
      University of Toronto, postdoc in theoretical optics, 1994--1996
      UW-Sheboygan, 1997--, assistant professor
 
- Ina Sarcevic, Ph.D. June, 1986, University of Minnesota
- Thesis title: Multiplicity Distributions and KNO Scaling in the
Parton Branching Model
- Positions:
      Los Alamos National Laboratory, postdoc 1986-88
      University of Arizona, 1988- , professor
 
- Lyn J. Nickisch, M.S. December, 1979 (joint supervision with L. Durand);
Ph.D. August, 1984
- Thesis title: Potential models of relativistic quark-antiquark
bound states
- Position: Mission Research, Santa Barbara and Monterey,
California, 1984 -
 
- Robert O. Knuteson, M.S. March, 1985; Ph.D. June, 1987
- Thesis title: Hadronic jet fragmentation
- Position: UW Space Science and Engineering Center, 1987--, assistant scientist
 
- James Whitenton, Ph.D. September, 1982
- Thesis title: Duality Applications of the
Short--Time Propagator
- Position: Southern Polytechnic State University,
Marietta, GA, 1982--, professor
 
- Jerome Krebs, M.S. January, 1980; Ph.D. September, 1981
- Thesis title: Short Wavelength Scattering of Scalar
Waves by Non--Spherical Particles Using
     
the Modified Watson Transformation
- Position: Exxon Research, Houston, 1981--
 
- Eric Braaten, M.S. January, 1980,
Ph.D. May, 1981
- Thesis title: The Hadronic Decay Rate of the Higgs Boson:
an Application of the Running Mass
- Positions:
     University of Florida, Gainesville, postdoc, 1981--83
     Argonne National Laboratory, postdoc, 1983--84
     Northwestern University, assistant professor, 1985-90
associate professor, 1991-95
     Ohio State University, professor, 1995-
M.S. STUDENTS:
- Angela Richmond Laird, M.S. 2001, research in functional MRI
- Ph.D., December, 2002, with Assistant Professor Beth Meyerand, Medical Physics
 
- Mark Stanis, M.S. 1989, research in string theory
 
- Raj Gandhi, M.S. March, 1985, research on A-dependence in high-energy particle reactions
- Ph.D. Sept., 1987, with Prof. D. Nanopoulos
- Positions:
      NIKHEF, Netherlands, postdoc 1987-89
      University of Arizona, postdoc 1989-92
     Texas A&M, postdoc 1992-94
      Professor at the University of Bubaneshwar, India
COURSES TAUGHT, University of Wisconsin - Madison:
- 107: "Physics for Poets" - modern physics for nonscientists
107 TV course: Through Outreach in extended timetable
(developed TV course with web
      supplements and online discussion section)
201-202: Introductory physics with calculus for engineers, premeds,
241: Modern physics for physics and AMEP majors
244: Modern physics for electrical and computer engineers
311: Mechanics for physics and AMEP majors
322: Electromagnetic theory for physics and AMEP majors
699: Special topics:
      Optics
      Relativity
721: Electrodynamics for physics and other graduate students
731-732: Quantum mechanics for physics graduate students
801 or 805: (``Durands' Seminar") Advanced topics in theoretical particle and
mathematical
      physics:
instantons, topology in physics, supersymmetry,
strings, group theory, etc.
801: Topology and other mathematics in theoretical
physics (3 credits)
833 Advanced Math in Quantum Field Theory (developed course)
903: Theoretical (high energy and mathematical) seminar: arranging
for invited speakers
990: Directed research for graduate students (14 students during
23 years)
RECENT INVITED TALKS ON EDUCATIONAL SUBJECTS:
- Workshop on problem solving in the classroom, Engineering Education Schlars Program, 1998
- Public lectures in Aspen sponsored by the Aspen Center for Physics:
      five in 1997, one in 1998 (5 different subjects)
- Wisconsin Association of Physics Teachers and Bascom Hill Society 1995
- 1 radio 1994 and 3 campus public lectures 1995, 95, 97
- Washington University and University of Toronto Colloquia on TV course, 1995
- Medical School Immunology lecture, management of immunosuppressants:
      annual lecture, 1992-
- Numerous panels and interviews on a variety of topics
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