Marcus Alfred
MAlfred@huscience.org
http://huscience.org
A. Professional Preparation
Howard University, Computational Physics, Ph.D., May 2000
California State University at Northridge, Physics, M.S., May 1994
California State University at Northridge, Mathematics, B.A., June 1992
California State University at Northridge, Physics, B.S., May 1992
B. Appointments
Associate Professor, Howard University, 2009 - present
Assistant Professor, Howard University, 2003 – 2009
Lecturer, Howard University, 2000 - 2003
C. Publications
Marcus Alfred and James Lindesay, “A Test of the Calculability of a Three-Body Relativistic, Cluster Decomposable, Unitary, Covariant Scattering Theory”, Foundations of Physics, Vol 33, No. 8, pg 1253 – 1264, August 2003.
Marcus Alfred, Petero Kwizera, James V. Lindesay, and H. Pierre Noyes , “A Nonperturbative, Finite Particle Number Approach to Relativistic Scattering Theory”, Foundations of Physics, Vol 34, No. 4, , pg 581 – 616, April 2004.
Tilghman L. Rittenhouse, Paul W. Bohn, Tim K. Hossain, Ilesanmi Adesida, James Lindesay, and Marcus Alfred, “Surface-state origin for the blueshifted emission in anodically etched porous silicon carbide”, Journal of Applied Physics. Vol 95, Issue 2, pg 490 – 496, 2004.
Jiang Li, Legand Burge, Kathleen Kaplan, and Marcus Alfred, “A Probabilistic Routing Algrorithm for DTNs of Randomly Moving Nodes”, Proc. of Wireless Net. Devices. 2005.
Tepper L. Gill, W.W. Zachary, and Marcus Alfred, "Analytic representation of the Dirac equation", Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General, Vol 38, pg 6955, 2005.
Jiang Li, Legand L. Burge, Marcus Alfred, Peter Keiller, Nicole Washington, Chunmei Liu, Rajni Goel, “Performance Analysis of Homing Pigeon Based Delay Tolerant Networks”, Proc. Of MILCOM 2007.
Juil C. Martin, Legand L. Burge III, Alfred Marcus and Alicia N. Washington, “Modeling the Spread of Mobile Malware”, Proc. of the 2008 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Applied Computing.
Unpublished but submitted
“Web based adaptive correction and monitoring for introductory Physics courses”, The American Journal of Physics. 2003.
“Three Dimensional Graphics Visualization Suite for Introductory Physics.”, The Physics Teacher. 2003.
Experiences
Professional Affilitation
National Society of Black Physicists
Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Association for Computing Machinery
National Society of Black Engineers
American Physical Society
American Association of Physics Teachers
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Geophysical Union
D. Students Supported or Advised
Undergraduate Students Supported or Advised
Gabriel Carryon, Nia Dyes, Robert Moses, Jerry Brooks, Makahda Taylor, Christina DeBianchi, Rykiel Robinson, Torian Black, Daniel Robertson, Tracy Adams, Quincy Stewart,
Graduate Students Supported or Advised
Lauren Denkins, Tamara Muhammad, Tamara Battle, Herald Douglas, Uvette Dozier, Vic Boddie, Tehani Finch, April Maclaughlin, Andrea Allen, Joseph Williams, John Johnson, Herman Fennell III, Tariq Ahmido, Kourtney Fulton, Angela Winslow, Khareem Almo, Walter AllenE. Dissertation and Thesis Committees
Neville Anthony Tomlinson, William L. Rose, Tehani Finch, Mohammad Kamrul Ahsan, Francis E. Mensah, Peter Intsiful, Ivailo Petrov, Gregory D. White
F. Teaching Experience
Physics 013, Physics for Scientists and Engineers 1, undergraduate, 3 credits, Fall 2008
Physics 210, Classical Mechanics 1, graduate, 3 credits, Fall 2008
Physics 014, Physics for Scientists and Engineers 2, undergraduate, 3 credits, Spring 2008
Physics 211, Classical Mechanics 2, graduate, 3 credits, Spring 2008
Physics 013, Physics for Scientists and Engineers 1, undergraduate, 3 credits, Fall 2007
Physics 210, Classical Mechanics 1, graduate, 3 credits, Fall 2007
Physics 014, Physics for Scientists and Engineers 2, undergraduate, 3 credits, Spring 2007
Physics 211, Classical Mechanics 2, graduate, 3 credits, Fall 2007
Physics 013, Physics for Scientists and Engineers 1, undergraduate, 3 credits, Fall 2006
Physics 210, Classical Mechanics 1, graduate, 3 credits, Fall 2006
Physics 014, Physics for Scientists and Engineers 2, undergraduate, 3 credits, Spring 2006
Physics 211, Classical Mechanics 2, graduate, 3 credits, Spring 2006
Physics 013, Physics for Scientists and Engineers 1, undergraduate, 3 credits, Fall 2005
Physics 210, Classical Mechanics 1, graduate, 3 credits, Fall 2005
Physics 014, Physics for Scientists and Engineers 2, undergraduate, 3 credits, Spring 2005
Physics 211, Classical Mechanics 2, graduate, 3 credits, Spring 2005
Physics 013, Physics for Scientists and Engineers 1, undergraduate, 3 credits, Fall 2004
Physics 210, Classical Mechanics 1, graduate, 3 credits, Fall 2004
Physics 001, General Physics 1, undergraduate, 5 credits, Summer 2004
Physics 015, Introduction to Modern Physics, undergraduate, 3 credits, Spring 2004
Physics 015, Introduction to Modern Physics, undergraduate, 3 credits, Fall 2003
Physics 015, Introduction to Modern Physics, undergraduate, 3 credits, Spring 2003
Physics 001, General Physics 2, undergraduate, 5 credits, Spring 2003
Physics 015, Introduction to Modern Physics, undergraduate, 3 credits, Fall 2002
Physics 001, General Physics 1, undergraduate, 5 credits, Fall 2002
Physics 175, Thermodynamics, undergraduate, 3 credits, Spring 2002
Physics 001, General Physics 2, undergraduate, 5 credits, Spring 2002
Physics 008, Physics for Architecture Students, undergraduate, 5 credits, Fall 2001
Physics 001, General Physics 1, undergraduate, 5 credits, Fall 2001
Physics 175, Thermodynamics, undergraduate, 3 credits, Spring 2001
Physics 008, Physics for Architecture Students, undergraduate, 5 credits, Fall 2000
Teaching Assistant Modern Physics Laboratory 1998-1999
Instructor Advanced Physics for High School Students Summer 1997
Instructor Physics Teacher Continuing Education, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Summer 1996
Supplemental Instruction Courses
Weekly Homework Sessions (2007 – 2009)
Background Physics Sessions (2007 – 2009)
Problem Solving Sessions (2007 – 2009)
Study Habits Sessions (2007 – 2009)
G. Grants Submitted
Mordecai Wyatt Johnson Program $600,000. 3 Years. 2001 -2003. Howard University
Academic Equipment Grant. $70,000. 1 year. 2001 -2002. Sun Mircrosystems
Scattering of electromagnetic waves from rough surfaces. Army High Performance Computing Center. Subaward. 2003-2004. $50,000.
Complex System Optimization and Control through Discovery of New Dynamics in Systems Nonlinear Differential Equations. Army High Performance Computing Center.
Improving Graduate Education within the Center for Applied High Performance Computing at Howard University. Howard University Fund for Academic Excellence Grant Program, Category B. Fall 2004 – Spring 2005.
Interdisciplinary Science Research for Middle Schools. $1,767,000. 3 years. 2006 – 2009. NSF.
Instrumentation for a surface engineering laboratory at Howard University. NSF. $278,951. 1 year.
Mordecai Wyatt Johnson Program. $100,000. 2 years. 2005 – 2007. Howard University.
Mordecai Wyatt Johnson Program. $100,000. 2 years. 2005 – 2007. Howard University.
Howard University RCMI Multidisciplinary Pilot Project. Subaward. $387,684. NIH. 2006.
Howard University Beltsville Center for Climate System Observation. $5,000,000. 5 years. 2008 – 2013. NASA.
Enhancing the Teaching and Learning of Science and Engineering (TaSLE) in a CyberInfrastructure Environment. $542,282. 3 years. 2008 – 2011. United States Department of Education.
STEM Opportunity Project. $1,800,000. 5 years. NSF. 2009 – 2014.
A STEM Academic Support Program for African American Male Underclassman at Howard University. $1,121,776.18. 2 years. Department of Education. 2009 – 2011.
The Physics Legacy Scholarship Project: Scholarships, Research Experiences, Support Programs, and Culture. $500,000. 4 years. NSF. 2009 – 2013.
The Po Tolo Partnerships: Development of pipelines to careers in astronomy and astrophysics for African American Students. $1,100,000. 4 years. NSF. 2009 – 2013.
A study of the conceptual impact of three dimensional, learning theory based animations. $308,748. 5 years. NSF. 2004.
Design and study of a graphical-computational approach for nonlinear dynamics. $289,768. 5 years. NSF. 2004.
A study of the impact of assigned reading on introductory physics courses. $278,748. 5 years. NSF. 2004.
H. Funded Grants
Mordecai Wyatt Johnson Program. $600,000. 3 Years. 2001 -2003. Howard University. CoPI.
Academic Equipment Grant. $70,000. 1 year. 2001 -2002. Sun Mircrosystems. PI.
Scattering of electromagnetic waves from rough surfaces. Army High Performance Computing Center. Subaward. 2003-2004. $50,000. PI.
Mordecai Wyatt Johnson Program. $100,000. 2 years. 2005 – 2007. Howard University. CoPI.
Mordecai Wyatt Johnson Program. $100,000. 2 years. 2005 – 2007. Howard University. CoPI.
Interdisciplinary Science Research for Middle Schools. $1,767,000. 3 years. 2006 – 2009. NSF. PI.
Howard University Beltsville Center for Climate System Observation. $5,000,000. 5 years. 2008 – 2013. NASA. CoPI.
Enhancing the Teaching and Learning of Science and Engineering (TaSLE) in a CyberInfrastructure Environment. $542,282. 3 years. 2008 – 2011. United States Department of Education. CoPI.
I. Presentations and Professional Development
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1999.
National Institutes of Health – Computational Biology Laboratory, 2000.
National Conference of Black Physicists, 2001.
IARD Conference, 2002.
NCSA MSI Summit. NCSA. 2006.
“Graduate Education in Physics: Which Way Forward? “ APS, AAPT Conference. 2008.
Select Topics in Computational Physics. Howard University. 2007.
National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship Program. Review Panelist. 2008.
NSF MRI Proposal Development Workshop. QEM Network. 2001.
Fundamentals of STEM Education, QEM Network. 2007.
Reading Across The Curriculum Project. District of Columbia Public Schools and the Consortium of Universities. 2005.
APS March Meeting. 2005, 2006, 2007.
APS April Meeting. 2007, 2008.
PREX Workshop. JLAB. 2008.
AAAS Annual Meeting. 2007.
National Society of Black Physicists Annual Conference 2008.
Annual GK12 Conference. 2008.
McNair Scholars Research Conference. 2007.
Team America Rocketry Challenge. 2007.
Big 10 Plus Graduate School Expo. 2007.
J. Committee Service
Technology Committee. College of Arts and Sciences, 2005 – 2007.
Seminar Committee, 2004 -2005.
Information Technology Committee, 2004 -2006.
Recruitment Committee, 2007 – 2009.
Graduate Student Status Committee, 2008 – 2009.
Ad-Hoc Online Education Committee, 2008 – 2009.
Ad-Hoc Web Committee, 2008 – 2009.
Awards and Amenities Committee, 2005 – 2006.
Library Committee, 2005 – 2006.
Recruitment Committee, 2006 – 2007.
Student Advisory Committee, 2006 – 2007.
Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, 2006 – 2007.
Qualifying and Comprehensive Examination Committee, 2006 – 2007.
Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Selection Committee, 2003 – 2006.
Physics Chair Search Committee, 2005 – 2006.
Qualifying Examination Grader 2003