Invited Speakers

Invited Speakers for TSAPS Meeting 2020, Nov. 12-14, at UT Arlington

Invited Speakers in Medical Physics

Name	Title	Institution	Area
Dr. Xiankai Sun	Professor and Director, Cyclotron & Radiochemistry Program Dr. Jack Krohmer Professor in Radiation Physics	Department of Radiology and Advanced Imaging Research Center at the UT Southwestern Medical Center	Molecular Imaging Probes Theranostic Agents Multi-parametric Imaging & Data Analysis
Dr. Xun Jia	Professor ABR-certified Medical Physicist Director of the Medical Physics Track for the BME Graduate Program John Laughlin Award	Department of Radiation Oncology at the UT Southwestern Medical Center	Medical Imaging Radiotherapy Deep Learning
Dr. Felicia S. Manciu	Professor Director of the Optical Spectroscopy and Microscopy Laboratory	Department of Physics Border Biomedical Research Center (BBRC) at the University of Texas at El Paso	Optics Nanotechnology Biophysics
Dr. Juyang Huang	Professor	Department of Physics and Astronomy at the Texas Tech University	Biophysics Biomembranes Fluorescence Tech Molecular Dynamics
Dr. Mini Das	Associate Professor	Department of Physics & Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Houston	Medical and Biological Imaging
Dr. Jason Slinker	Associate Professor Head of Physics Undergraduate Program Regents Outstanding Teaching Award Hyer Award for Research	Department of Physics at the University of Texas at Dallas	Optoelectronics Electrochemical Sensor
Dr. Mingwu Jin	Associate Professor	Department of Physics, University of Texas at Arlington	Medical Imaging Tomography MRI
Dr. Neil Kirby	Associate Professor ABR-certified Medical Physicist	Radiation Oncology, UT Health San Antonio	Medical Physics DNA dosimeter
Dr. Anton Naumov	Assistant Professor Member at Large at Electrochemical Society	Department of Physics and Astronomy at the Texas Christian University TCU & UNTHSC Medical School	Carbon Nanotechnology Nanomedicine Biomedical Imaging
Dr. Lloyd Lumata	Associate Professor	Department of Physics, University of Texas at Dallas	Cancer Metabolism MRI NMR spectroscopy
Dr. Yujie Chi	Assistant Professor Rising Stars Award	Department of Physics, University of Texas at Arlington	Computational Physics Radiobiology Medical Imaging

Invited Speakers in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Name	Title	Institution	Area
Dr. Mario C. Diaz	Professor and Director of the Center for Gravitational Wave Astronomy	University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV), Department of Physics and Astronomy	General Relativity, Gravitational Waves Astronomy
Dr. Shaukat Goderya	Director and Professor	Tarleton State University, Department of Chemistry, Geoscience and Physics	Eclipsing Binary Stars, Exoplanets, Astronomical Data Mining, Observational Astronomy
Dr. Michael Kesden	Associate Professor of Physics	University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), Department of Physics	Theoretical Astrophysics and Relativity, Black Holes, Gravitational Waves, Dark Matter
Dr. Boa-An Li	Regents Professor	Texas A&M University – Commerce, Department of Physics	Nuclear Astrophysics and Gravitational Waves
Dr. Jennifer Marshall	Assistant Professor	Texas A&M University, Department of Physics and Astronomy	Astronomical Instrumentation, Near-Field Cosmology, Dark Energy
Dr. Lorin Swint Matthews	Professor, Associate Director of the Center for Astrophysics, Space Physics & Engineering Research	Baylor University, Department of Physics	Theoretical and Experimental Investigation of Complex Plasma, Hypervelocity Impact Studies

Invited Speakers in Data Science

Name and Title	Institution	Topic
Scott Aaronson, Professor / Director: Quantum Information Center	University of Texas Austin	Quantum Supremacy
Krishna Garikipati, Professor / Director: Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering	University of Michigan Ann Arbor	Materials and Data Science
Mohammed AlQuraishi, Assistant Professor	Columbia University	Deep Learning and Proteomics
Xaq Pitkow, Assistant Professor	Baylor College of Medicine	Neurotechnoology
Jing Wu, Assistant Professor	University of Rhode Island	Modern Statistical Method in Radiotherapy
Claus Wilke, Professor, Chair: Department of Integrative Biology	University of Texas Austin	Data Visualization
Amir Shahmoradi, Assistant Professor	University of Texas Arlington	Data Science Competencies in Physics

Invited Speakers in Condensed Matter Physics

Name	Title	Institution	Area
Professor Mark Pederson	Chair and Professor of Physics	Department of Physics The University of Texas at El Paso	Density Functional Methods Molecular Magnetism Scientific Computing Catalysis Quantum Science and Algorithms
Professor Feliciano Giustino	Professor of Physics, and the Moncrief Chair in Quantum Materials Engineering	Department of Physics The University of Texas, Austin	Electronic structure theory High-performance computing The atomic-scale design of advanced materials
Professor Joseph Ngai	Associate Professor	Department of Physics The University of Texas at Arlington	Growth of complex oxide thin films and heterostructures by oxide molecular beam epitaxy
Professor Jakoah Brgoch	Associate Professor	Department of Chemistry University of Houston	Experiment and computation to investigate complex chemical and physical phenomena in materials chemistry
Professor Oliviero Andreussi	Assistant Professor	Department of Physics  University of North Texas	Plasmonic Condensed Matter Machine learning
Dr. Agham Posadas	Principle researcher in Materials Physics Department of Physics	The University of Texas, Austin	Molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) Functional oxide thin films heterostructures ferroelectric materials
Dr. Varghese A. Chirayath	Assistant Professor of Research	Department of Physics The University of Texas at Arlington	Physics of surfaces and surface mediated processes. External and internal surface characterization using positrons.
Dr. Jeotikanta Mohapatra	Research Assistant Professor	Department of Physics The University of Texas at Arlington	Nanostructured materials for permanent magnets energy conversion materials, electrochemical catalysts, wastewater treatment, and biomedical applications

Invited Speakers for Space Physics

Name	Title	Institution	Area
Yue Deng	Professor	Department of Physics The University of Texas at Arlington	Ionosphere & Thermosphere Physics
William “Trey” Cade	Professor Director, Baylor Institute for Air Science	Institute for Air Science Baylor University	Space Weather
Fredrick “Rick” Wilder	Assistant Professor	Department of Physics The University of Texas at Arlington	Plasma physics, magnetospheric physics
Patricia Reiff	Professor	Department of Physics and Astronomy Rice University	Magnetospheric & ionospheric physics; space weather
Jorg-Micha Jahn	Principal Scientist Adjoint Associate Professor	Space Science Department, Southwest Research Associates Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Texas at San Antonio	Space plasma physics, spacecraft instrumentation