Bradley Shadwick
Education
Ph.D. The University of Texas at Austin 1995
M.S. Physics University of Toronto
1987
Professional Experience
Assistant Professor University of Nebraska-Lincoln
08/2007–present
Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
2000-2006
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California at Berkeley
1996-1999
Research Scientist, Institute for Fusion Studies, UT-Austin
1995-1996
Refereed Publications
P. J. Morrison and B. A. Shadwick, On the Fluctuation Spectrum of Plasma Commun.
Nonlinear Sci. Numer. Simul. 13, 130 (2008).
E. Esarey, C. B. Schroeder, E. Cormier-Michel, B. A. Shadwick, C. G. R. Geddes, and W.
P. Leemans, Thermal Effects in Plasma-Based Accelerators, Phys. Plasmas 14, 056707
(2007).
Estelle Cormier-Michel, B. A. Shadwick, C. G. R. Geddes, E. Esarey, C. B. Schroeder, and
W. P. Leemans, Unphysical kinetic effects in laser wakefield accelerators modeled with
particle-in-cell codes, submitted to Phys. Rev. E (2007).
Refereed conference proceedings
P. J. Morrison and B. A. Shadwick, On the Fluctuation Spectrum of Plasma Commun.
Nonlinear Sci. Numer. Simul. In press.
Professional Journals
B.A. Shadwick, The Role of Computation in Physics, Computers in Engineering and
Science, 9, 101 (2007).
C. B. Schroeder, E. Esarey, and B. A. Shadwick, Comment on “Wave-breaking limits for
relativistic electrostatic waves in a one-dimensional warm plasma” [Phys. Plasmas 13,
123102 (2006)], Phys. Plasmas 14, 084701 (2007)
Invited Presentations
Modeling Intense Laser-Plasma Interactions by Direct Solution of the VlasovMaxwell Equatons Using a Moving Phase-Space Grid, 20th International
Conference on the Numerical Simulation o Plasmas, Austin, TX (Oct 2007)
Current Research Funding
Funded
NSF EPSCoR First Award, Dynamics of LargeAmplitude Plasma Waves: Wavebreaking, Trapping and
Acceleration, PI. 01/01/08-12/31/08
Pending
DoE Junior Faculty Program
Wavebreaking and Particle Trapping in Collisionless
Plasmas
NSF Career
Wavebreaking and Particle Trapping in Large Amplitude
Plasma Waves
Teaching
2008
Spring
PHYS 311
Identified several references,
but used no single textbook.
“I started the course scared…but things progressed”
“many of the topics/methods…seemed beyond the prereqs!”
“probably the most frustrating physics course I’ve taken so far”
“always willing to help”
“very helpful in office hours”
Knowledge/Enthusiasm/Interest in Students
Organization/Sensitivity
2.92 / 2.92
1.67 / 1.33 / 1.25
Overall: 2.42
Undergraduate Students Supervised
Moonyoung (Frank) Lee
Service
Reviewer: Physical Review Letters, Physics Letters A, Physical
Review E, Physics of Plasmas, American Journal of Physics,
Journal of Physics A, DoE BES
Axel Enders
Education
Max-Planck-Institute for Microstructure Physics
and
Physics Department of the Martin Luther
University
PhD 1999
Professional Experience
Assistant Professor University of Nebraska-Lincoln
08/07–present
Staff scientist/group leader Max Planck Institut für
Festkörperforschung Stuttgart, Nanoscale Science Dept. 2001-2007
Feodor Lynen Scholar of the Alexander v. Humboldt foundation at the
Simon Fraser University Burnaby / Canada
1999-2001
Refereed Publications
Ordered Layers of Co Clusters On Boron-Nitride Template Layers J. Zhang, V.
Sessi, C. H. Michaelis, I. Brihuega, J. Honolka, and K. Kern R. Skomski, X.
Chen, G. Rojas, and A. Enders, accepted by Phys. Rev. B, 2008
Boron Nitride Nanomesh: an Ultrathin Insulating Template Brihuega, C. Michaelis,
J. Zhang, S. Bose, V. Sessi, J. Honolka, A. Schneider, A. Enders, K. Kern
Surf. Sci. Letters 602 (14) (2008) L95 - L99
Experimental and Theoretical Investigations of the Thermodynamic Stability of BaC60 and K-C60 Compound Clusters E. Zurek, J. Autschbach, N. Malinowski,
A. Enders, and K. Kern, ACS Nano (2008) 2(5) 1000-1014
Substrate-controlled growth and magnetism of nanosize Fe clusters on Pt R.
Skomski, J. Zhang, V. Sessi, J. Honolka, K. Kern, and A. Enders,
J. Appl. Phys. 103, 07D519 (2008)
Absence of local magnetic moments in Ru and Rh impurities and clusters on
Ag(100) and Pt(997) J. Honolka, K. Kuhnke, L. Vitali, A. Enders, S. Gardonio,
C. Carbone, S. R. Krishnakumar, K. Kern, P. Bencok, S. Stepanow, P.
Gambardella, Phys. Rev. B 76, 144412 (2007)
Magnetism of Fe clusters formed by buffer-layer assisted growth on Pt(997) J.
Zhang, D. Repetto, V. Sessi, J. Honolka, A. Enders, and K. Kern, European
Physical J. D 45, 515-520 (2007).
Magnetic Anisotropy of Deposited Transition Metal Clusters S. Bornemann, J.
Minár, J.B. Staunton, J. Honolka, A. Enders, K. Kern, and H. Ebert, European
Physical J. D 45, 529-534 (2007)
Book Chapters
Designed Magnetic Nanostructures
A. Enders, R. Skomski and D. Sellmyer,
in: "Nanoscale Magnetic Materials and Applications"
Edited by Ping Liu, Springer, 2008, in press.
Magnetism of nanostructures
A. Enders, P. Gambardella, and K. Kern, in:
“The Handbook of Magnetism and Advanced Magnetic Materials”
Vol. 1, Springer, 2006
editors in chief:. Prof. H. Kronmüler and Dr. S. Parkin, 2007.
Current Research Funding
Funded
NSF-CAREER: Self-Assembled Magnetic Nanostructures
$400,000
01/01/08-12/31/12
Pending
ACS Type G Proposal Surface-Supported MoleculeBased Framework Nanostructures for Gas Storage
Declined
NSF MRI Acquisition of an ultrahigh-vacuum variabletemperature scanning tunneling microscope for research on
hybrid nanostructures
Teaching
2007 Fall PHYS 211H
“This was one of my hardest, yet still
one of my favorite, classes!”
“one of the best instructors I have ever had”
“always helpful and available to his students”“lectures were never dull”
Enthusiasm/Interest in Students 1.00 / 1.05
Effectiveness/Organization
1.65 / 1.70
Graduate Students Supervised
Geoffrey Rojas
Overall: 1.35
Xumin Chen
Undergraduate Students Supervised
Justin Nitz
Nathaniel Spaulding
Timothy Struble
Nathaniel Coleman
Service
Program Committee: MMM/Intermag meeting, Jan 2007
Session chair: MMM meeting, Nov. 2007
Reviewer: for 8 scientific journals
Alexei Gruverman
Education
Ural State University, Russia PhD 1990
Assistant Professor University of Nebraska-Lincoln 10/07–present
Scientist Scientist, Sony Corporation, Yokohama, Japan 1997-2000
Joint Research Center for Atomic Technology, Tsukuba 1993-1997
Refereed Publications
A.Gruverman, D.Wu, and J.F.Scott, Piezoresponse Force Microscopy
Studies of Switching Behavior of Ferroelectric Capacitors on a 100-ns
Timescale Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 097601-604 (2008).
Current Research Funding
Awarded
NSF-MRSEC: Quantum and Spin Phenomena in
Nanomagnetic Structures
Submitted
NRI: Biophysics at the End of a Tip
A. Gruverman, S. Ducharme, Y. Lyubchenko
Teaching
2007 Fall PHYS 212
“impossible to hear or understand despite microphone”
“impatient when students do not understand”
“presentations jumbled”
“abrasive manor”
“rude to students”
“unfriendly”
“not willing to give help to students”
Knowledge 2.62
Effectiveness/Sensitivity
4.02 / 4.07
Overall: 3.74
Graduate Students Supervised
Pankaj Sharma
Haidong Wu
Undergraduate Students Supervised
Glen Gates
Shawn Roberts
Service Reviewer: Nature Materials, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review,
Applied Physic Letters, Journal of Applied Physics, Semiconductor Science and
Technology, Nanotechnology, Integrated Ferroelectrics, Journal of Materials
Research, Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology,Thin Solid Films, IEEE Trans.