Prof. Bernice Durand's Educational Activities

Bernice Durand

: Winner of Chancellor's Teaching Award, 1993; Listed in The Best Professors at the UW-Madison as chosen by the students , WSA, spring 1992; Faculty Appreciation Award from UW-Madison Panhellenic Association, spring 1992, 2002; Faculty Appreciation Award from UW-Madison Intrafraternity Council, fall 1992

Co-organizer with R. Staley and B. Clayton of a novel First-year Interest Group (FIG) offering Physics 107,: "Ideas of Modern Physics", in conjunction with HistSci 203, "History of 20th Century Science" and; Theatre 103, "Science and the Stage", fall 2002
Developed one of the first TV courses at UW-Madison, Physics 107, "Ideas of Modern Physics": 43 taped lectures on modern physics for nonscientists; Broadcast locally since 1991, statewide in 1997; Broadcast since 1996 on Aspen Community Television
Developed Physics 107TV as a Web/TV course, 1997: Taught fall, 1997 with Web discussions using FirstClass
Developed Physics 833, Advanced Math in Quantum Field Theory: Outgrowth of "Durands' Seminar" taught nine semesters as 1 cr overload seminar in
mathematical physics
Organized a 7-week problem solving seminar for graduate students winter, 1999-2000;: repeated annually, spring and fall; proposed for 1 cr course
Developed Medical School Immunology lecture on the longterm management of immunosuppressants from the patient's perspective, annual lecture, 1992-present. 2004 Immunology Lecture

Zhang Tu, M.S. June, 1989, on composite models for the Higgs boson;: Ph.D. December 1994, on materials science, thesis supervised by Prof. Ned Tabatabaie, ECE; Thesis title: Spontaneous Emission Alteration and Exciton Dynamics in Microcavity
Semiconductor Lasers

Andrew Bordner, Ph.D. December 1994: Thesis title: Soft Supersymmetry Breaking Parameter Bounds in the Minimal Supersymmetric
Standard Model; Positions:
NSF/Japan postdoctoral in particle theory, University of Kyoto, 1994--1999
Postdoc in computational biology, BioEngineering Department, UC-San Diego, 1999--

Dennis Crossley, Ph.D. August 1994: Thesis title: BRST quantization and self-dual gravity, supervised with Dr. Ted Allen; Positions:
University of Toronto, postdoc in theoretical optics, 1994--1996
UW-Sheboygan, 1997--, assistant professor

Ina Sarcevic, Ph.D. June, 1986, University of Minnesota: Thesis title: Multiplicity Distributions and KNO Scaling in the Parton Branching Model; Positions:
Los Alamos National Laboratory, postdoc 1986-88
University of Arizona, 1988- , professor

Lyn J. Nickisch, M.S. December, 1979 (joint supervision with L. Durand); Ph.D. August, 1984: Thesis title: Potential models of relativistic quark-antiquark bound states; Position: Mission Research, Santa Barbara and Monterey, California, 1984 -

Robert O. Knuteson, M.S. March, 1985; Ph.D. June, 1987: Thesis title: Hadronic jet fragmentation; Position: UW Space Science and Engineering Center, 1987--, assistant scientist

James Whitenton, Ph.D. September, 1982: Thesis title: Duality Applications of the Short--Time Propagator; Position: Southern Polytechnic State University, Marietta, GA, 1982--, professor

Jerome Krebs, M.S. January, 1980; Ph.D. September, 1981: Thesis title: Short Wavelength Scattering of Scalar Waves by Non--Spherical Particles Using
the Modified Watson Transformation; Position: Exxon Research, Houston, 1981--

Eric Braaten, M.S. January, 1980, Ph.D. May, 1981: Thesis title: The Hadronic Decay Rate of the Higgs Boson: an Application of the Running Mass; Positions:
     University of Florida, Gainesville, postdoc, 1981--83
     Argonne National Laboratory, postdoc, 1983--84
     Northwestern University, assistant professor, 1985-90 associate professor, 1991-95
     Ohio State University, professor, 1995-

Angela Richmond Laird, M.S. 2001, research in functional MRI: Ph.D., December, 2002, with Assistant Professor Beth Meyerand, Medical Physics
Mark Stanis, M.S. 1989, research in string theory
Raj Gandhi, M.S. March, 1985, research on A-dependence in high-energy particle reactions: Ph.D. Sept., 1987, with Prof. D. Nanopoulos; Positions:
      NIKHEF, Netherlands, postdoc 1987-89
      University of Arizona, postdoc 1989-92
     Texas A&M, postdoc 1992-94
      Professor at the University of Bubaneshwar, India

: 107: "Physics for Poets" - modern physics for nonscientists
107 TV course: Through Outreach in extended timetable (developed TV course with web
      supplements and online discussion section)
201-202: Introductory physics with calculus for engineers, premeds,
241: Modern physics for physics and AMEP majors
244: Modern physics for electrical and computer engineers
311: Mechanics for physics and AMEP majors
322: Electromagnetic theory for physics and AMEP majors
699: Special topics:
      Optics
      Relativity
721: Electrodynamics for physics and other graduate students
731-732: Quantum mechanics for physics graduate students
801 or 805: (``Durands' Seminar") Advanced topics in theoretical particle and mathematical
      physics: instantons, topology in physics, supersymmetry, strings, group theory, etc.
801: Topology and other mathematics in theoretical physics (3 credits)
833 Advanced Math in Quantum Field Theory (developed course)
903: Theoretical (high energy and mathematical) seminar: arranging for invited speakers
990: Directed research for graduate students (14 students during 23 years)

Workshop on problem solving in the classroom, Engineering Education Schlars Program, 1998
Public lectures in Aspen sponsored by the Aspen Center for Physics:
five in 1997, one in 1998 (5 different subjects)
Wisconsin Association of Physics Teachers and Bascom Hill Society 1995
1 radio 1994 and 3 campus public lectures 1995, 95, 97
Washington University and University of Toronto Colloquia on TV course, 1995
Medical School Immunology lecture, management of immunosuppressants:
annual lecture, 1992-
Numerous panels and interviews on a variety of topics