PETER WESLEY STEPHENS
Date of Birth: 1/30/51 Place of Birth: Evanston, Illinois USA
EDUCATION:
1973-1978: Graduate student, Department of Physics, MIT. Ph.D. Thesis Title: "Investigation of Condensation in a Supersonic He Beam: The He Dimer and Magic Number Effects in Larger Clusters."
1969-1973: Undergraduate in Department of Mathematics, University of California at Berkeley. AB degree summa cum laude, honors program in Mathematics.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
1997-Present: Member, International Center for Diffraction Data
1997-Present: Director of the Graduate Program, Department of Physics & Astronomy, State University of New York at Stony Brook
1996-7: Chairman, Executive Committee of National Synchrotron Light Source Users' Organization
1992-present: Professor, Department of Physics, SUNY, Stony Brook.
1986-92: Associate Professor, Department of Physics, SUNY, Stony Brook.
1988-1989: Foreign Associate Professor of Physics, Faculty of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
1980-1986: Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, SUNY, Stony Brook.
1978-1980: Research Associate, MIT.
HONORS & AWARDS:
1999: Fellow of the American Physical Society.
1986: Elected Most Outstanding Teacher by Physics Department graduating class.
1978-1980: Chaim Weizmann Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT.
1973-1976: Karl Taylor Compton Fellow, Department of Physics, MIT.
1973: Elected to membership, Phi Beta Kappa
RESEARCH INTERESTS: X-ray and neutron scattering spectroscopy of condensed matter. Synchrotron radiation. Fullerene materials. Structural and magnetic phase transitions. Kinetics of ordering and phase transitions. Surfaces. Quasicrystals. Powder x-ray diffraction analysis, especially ab initio structure solutions.
CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEES:
May 1993: Session on Fullerenes at the Materials Research Society general meeting, San Francisco, CA.
May 1995: Workshop on Powder Diffraction at the National Synchrotron Light Source Annual Users' Meeting, Brookhaven Nat'l Lab.
June 1995: Fourth International Conference on Surface X-ray and Neutron Scattering, Lake Geneva
Oct. 1995: Workshop on Structural Science at Third Generation Synchrotron Radiation Sources, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne Nat'l Lab.
March 1996: Focused session on Fullerenes in the Division of Materials Physics, American Physical Society meeting in San Jose, California
May 1996: National Synchrotron Light Source Annual Users' Meeting, Brookhaven Nat'l Lab.
Aug. 1996: Workshop on Applications of Synchrotron Radiation, 45th Annual Denver X-ray Conference and Powder Diffraction Satellite Meeting of the XVII Congress of the International Union of Crystallography, Denver.
Aug. 1996: Microsymposium on Fullerenes at the XVII Congress and General Assembly of the International Union of Crystallography, Seattle.
March 1999: Organized Focused sessions on Fullerenes and Nanotubes for the Centennial Meeting of the American Physical Society.
July 2000: Materials Special Interest Group chairman, American Crystallographic Association, organizing sessions at annual meeting, St. Paul, MN.
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