David G. RobertsonDepartment of Physics and AstronomyOtterbein College Westerville, OH 43081 Phone: 614-823-1516 FAX: 614-823-1968 Email: DRobertson@Otterbein.edu Office: Science Hall 232 |
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David G. RobertsonDepartment of Physics and AstronomyOtterbein College Westerville, OH 43081 Phone: 614-823-1516 FAX: 614-823-1968 Email: DRobertson@Otterbein.edu Office: Science Hall 232 |
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My specialty is theoretical high energy physics. This is the area of physics that deals with the most fundamental constituents of matter. My interests center mainly on the properties of relativistic quantum field theory, the theoretical framework used to describe elementary particles and their interactions.
I also have an interest in high-performance scientific computing, including parallel computing and visualization.
Project NANO is a National Science Foundation sponsored effort to bring nanoscience and nanotechnology into the science curriculum at Otterbein. Project activities include a workshop for high school science teachers, new laboratory activites using scanning tunneling microscopes, and joint Chemistry/Physics advanced laboratory exercises.
TSIL is a software library, written with Steve Martin (not that Steve Martin, the physicist), for the numerical evaluation of dimensionally-regularized two loop self-energy integrals with arbitrary masses and external momentum.
Otterbein College has been awarded a grant of computing hardware and software valued at $96,000 from the Ohio Supercomputer Center. This Cluster Ohio award consists of a 16-processor "Beowulf cluster" with 733 MHz Intel Itanium CPUs and a total of 32Gb of main memory. This state-of-the-art system is capable of performing over 45 billion floating-point calculations per second, and serves as a resource for teaching and research in the Departments of Physics and Astronomy and Chemistry and Biochemistry.
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| Ph.D. in Physics | University of California at Santa Barbara (1990)
Thesis Advisor: Frank Wilczek |
| B.S. in Physics (with honors) | University of California at Los Angeles (1984) |
| Associate Professor | Otterbein College | Jun 2007 - present |
| Chair, Department of Physics and Astronomy | Otterbein College | Jan 2005 - present |
| Assistant Professor | Otterbein College | Jan 2002 - Jun 2007 |
| Science and Technology Support Group | Ohio Supercomputer Center | Sep 1998 - Dec 2001 |
| Postdoctoral Research Associate | North Carolina State University | Sep 1997 - Aug 1998 |
| Postdoctoral Research Associate | The Ohio State University | Sep 1993 - Aug 1997 |
| University Postdoctoral Fellow | Southern Methodist University | Sep 1990 - Aug 1993 |
A (nearly) complete list is available from the SPIRES database at SLAC.