Michael Andrew Pichowsky

Curriculum Vitae

Contents:
  1. Biographical Information
  2. Education
  3. Employment Experience
  4. Conference Talks
  5. Seminar Talks
  6. Publications
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Biographical Information

Address: Department of Physics
Kent State University
Kent, OH 44240 USA
Phone: 330.672.2596 (Office) ---- 330.672.2959 (Fax)
Email: mpichows@kent.edu
Birth date: 8 May 1969
Birth place: Brooklyn, New York
Nationality: USA
Marital Status: Married 29 June 2002, no children.
Memberships:
Sigma Xi Research Honor Society,
American Physical Society,
Glue-Xcitations Collaboration.
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Education

Ph.D. Physics: Department of Physics & Astronomy, Faculty of Arts & Sciences
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.
Doctor of Philosophy in physics, October 1996.
Thesis Title: ``Nonperturbative quark dynamics in diffractive processes''
Thesis Advisors: Prof. Frank Tabakin and Dr. T.-S. Harry Lee.
M.S. Financial Engineering: Kent State University, Kent, OH.
Master of Science in Financial Engineering, anticipated Summer 2004.
M.S. Physics: Department of Physics & Astronomy, Faculty of Arts & Sciences
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.
Master of Science in physics, December 1992.
B.S. Physics &
B.S. Mathematics:		 College of Arts and Sciences
New York University, New York, NY.
Bachelor of Science in physics and mathematics, May 1991.

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Employment Experience

Sept 2001
to
present		 Kent State University, Department of Physics
Post-doctoral Research Associate and Physics Instructor
Physics Lectures: Intro Nuclear Physics and Modern Physics.
Current research: Dynamic and analytic properties of QCD and confined quarks, few-body scattering in relativistic quantum mechanics.
Sept 1998
to
Aug 2001		 Indiana University, Department of Physics
Post-doctoral Research Associate
Research included: Coupled-channel scattering in relativistic quantum mechanics; Three-quark bound states in quantum field theory.
Nov 1996
to
Aug 1998		 Florida State University, Department of Physics and
Supercomputing Computations Research Institute
Post-doctoral Research Associate
Research included: Analytic and phenomenological effects of pion loops on observables; Strong and electromagnetic properties of vector mesons; Three-quark bound states in quantum field theory.
Sept 1993
to
Oct 1996		 Argonne National Laboratory, Physics Division
Graduate Research Assistant
Supported by a fellowship from the U.S. Department of Energy to carry out thesis research.
Research included: Non-perturbative quark dynamics in diffractive processes, effective field theories and two-body bound states in field theory.
May 1993
to
Aug 1993		 University of Pittsburgh, Department of Physics & Astronomy
Head Instructor
Undergraduate Minority Research Summer Program.
Sept 1991
to
May 1993		 University of Pittsburgh, Department of Physics & Astronomy
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Recitation and laboratory instructor for undergraduate physics courses.
Sept 1990
to
May 1991		 New York University, Department of Physics
Undergraduate Research: Thermodynamics of competitive swimming in humans.

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Conference Talks

  1. ``Recent advances in Dyson-Schwinger studies''
    October 2002, NSTAR-2002 Conference,
    Pittsburgh PA, USA.
    Conference homepage.
  2. ``Relativistic scattering and final state interactions''
    June 2002, Workshop on Partial Wave Analysis,
    Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA, USA.
    26 transparancies [html format].
  3. ``Dyson-Schwinger studies of baryons''
    July 2001, 9th Intl Symposium on Meson-Nucleon Physics and the Structure of the Nucleon (MENU 2001),
    George Washington University, Washington DC, USA.
  4. ``Diffractive physics at collider energies''
    September 2000, Second Workshop on Physics with an Electron Polarized Ion Collider,
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA.
  5. ``Relativistic, final-state interactions and unitarity''
    August 2000, Perspectives in Contiuum Strong QCD,
    Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, IL, USA.
  6. ``Importance of N pi pi unitary cuts on resonance parameters''
    February 2000, BRAG Session of NSTAR-2000 Conference,
    Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, VA, USA.
  7. ``Theorectical Aspects of TJNAF''
    October 1999, Flavor Production Workshop, Probing Hadrons and Nuclei at Higher Energies
    Thira (Santorini), Greece.
  8. ``Phi photoproduction in QCD''
    February 1999, Probing Hadron Structure with Polarized Photons,
    University of Hawaii, HI, USA.
  9. ``Polarization observables in phi photoproduction''
    March 1999, Workshop on a New Facility for High Energy Photoproduction,
    Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY, USA.
  10. ``Dyson-Schwinger studies of exotic mesons''
    October 1998, Physics with 8+ GeV Photons Workshop,
    Florida State University, FL, USA. ( Hall-D/8+ Collaboration homepage.)
  11. ``Quark exchange and quark dynamics in diffractive electroproduction''
    June 1998, Jefferson Lab Physics and Instrumentation with 6-12 GeV Beams,
    Jefferson Laboratory, VA, USA.
  12. ``Diffractive electroproduction of vector mesons''
    August 1997, 8th Intl Workshop on Lightcone QCD and Nonperturbative Hadron Physics,
    Lutsen, MN, USA. (The workshop has a homepage and transparencies are available.)
  13. ``Nucleon form factors in a covariant model''
    September 1997, Special Theoretical Symposium to honor 60th birthday of
    Prof. Don Robson. Physics Department, University of Georgia, GA, USA.
  14. ``Quark substructure of hadrons in diffractive processes''
    September 1996, 3rd Workshop on Small-x and Diffractive Physics,
    FermiLab and Argonne National Laboratory, IL, USA.
  15. ``Exclusive diffractive processes in QCD''
    July 1996, QCD-based Studies of Hadron Spectroscopy and Interactions.
    Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, IL, USA.
  16. ``Pomeron exchange and exclusive vector meson electroproduction in QCD''
    May 1996, Joint Meeting of American Physical Society, Indianapolis, IN, USA.

Seminars

  1. ``Confinement, analytic continuation and all that!''
    May 2003, Nuclear Theory Center Seminar, Indiana University, IN, USA.
  2. ``Dyson-Schwinger studies: from formalism to phenomena''
    November 2002, Department of Physics, Ohio University, OH, USA.
  3. ``Recent advances in Dyson-Schwinger studies"
    October 2002, Department of Physics, Kent State University, OH, USA.
  4. ``Hadron final-state interactions and Bakamjian-Thomas relativistic quantum mechanics"
    October 2001, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
  5. ``Hadrons in the real world: Final-state interactions meet reality TV''
    May 2001, Nuclear Theory Center, Indiana University, IN, USA.
  6. ``Hadrons in the real world: Final-state interactions meet reality TV''
    March 2001, Center for Nuclear Research, Kent State University, OH, USA.
  7. ``The five W's of final state interactions''
    October 2000, Nuclear Theory Seminar, Florida State University, FL, USA.
  8. ``Final state interactions in relativistic quantum mechanics''
    April 2000, Nuclear Theory Center Seminar, Indiana University, IN, USA.
  9. ``Unitary relativistic description of final state interactions''
    with Adam Szscepaniak,
    December 1999, Physics Division Theory Seminar, Argonne National Laboratory, IL, USA.
  10. ``Quark dynamics in diffractive processes''
    November 1999, Department of Physics, Ohio University, OH, USA.
  11. ``Quark dynamics in diffractive processes''
    October 1999, Institut fuer Theoretische Physik, Universitaet Tuebingen, Germany.
  12. ``Conserving nucleon EM current in quantum field theory''
    May 1999, Nuclear Theory Center Seminar, Indiana University, IN, USA.
  13. ``The nucleon in a covariant quark-diquark model''
    February 1999, Physics Division Theory Seminar, Argonne National Laboratory, IL, USA.
  14. ``Confined-quark dynamics in diffractive processes''
    April 1998, Triangle Nuclear Theory Colloquium, North Carolina State University, NC, USA.
  15. ``Diffractive Processes: Nonperturbative quark dynamics and Pomeron exchange''
    February 1998, Indiana University Cyclotron Facility, Indiana Univerisity, IN, USA.
  16. ``The role of hadron substructure in diffractive processes''
    October 1996, Physics Dept., University of Illinois at Champagne-Urbana, IL, USA.
  17. ``Diffractive processes as a probe of hadron structure''
    August 1996, Nuclear Theory Seminar, Florida State University, FL, USA.
  18. ``Electroproduction of vector mesons''
    March 1996, Center for Nuclear Research, Kent State University, OH, USA.
  19. ``Electroproduction of vector mesons''
    March 1996, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
  20. ``Electroproduction of vector mesons in a QCD-Pomeron model''
    December 1995, Physics Division Theory Seminar, Argonne National Laboratory, IL, USA.


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Publications

  1. M.S. Bhagwat, M.A. Pichowsky, P.C. Tandy
    Normalizable JPC-exotic meson states from the Bethe-Salpeter equation
    in preparation (Summer 2004).

  2. M.S. Bhagwat, M.A. Pichowsky, P.C. Tandy
    Preserving Goldstone bosons beyond rainbow-ladder approximation
    in preparation (Summer 2004).

  3. M.S. Bhagwat, M.A. Pichowsky, C.D. Roberts and P.C. Tandy
    Analysis of a quenched lattice-QCD dressed-quark propagator
    Physical Review C 68 015203 (2003) (9 pages).
    http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/nucl-th/0304003

  4. M.A. Pichowsky
    Recent advances in Dyson-Schwinger studies
    "Physics of Excited Nucleons: NSTAR 2002", pp 83-92,
    Edited by S.A. Dytman and E.S. Swanson, World Scientific (2003) (10 pages).