Research Interest:

Experimental Condensed Matter Physics, Strong Correlated Electron Systems, High-T_C Superconductivity, Biophysics, Quantum Computing, Nuclear Physics Applications on Homeland Security, Generic Algorithms, Simulating Annealing, Neural Network, Object-Oriented Programming, Relational and Object-oriented Database Management System, Network and Wireless Communications, Distributed Systems, and Web Services.

Teaching Interest:

• College and Pharmacy Physics, Classical Mechanics, Electrodynamics, Statistical Mechanics, Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Field Theory, Solid-State and Condensed Matter Physics, Numerical Analysis, Digital Signal Processing, Biophysics, Physical Chemistry, Quantum Computing, Computational Physics, Wireless Communications and Computer Networking, Distributing and Operating Systems and Web Services

Selected Publications

• Evidence for Large Static and Dynamic Distortions in High T_c Superconducting YBa₂Cu₃O_7-d Crystals over a Wide Temperature Range, Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4624-4627 (1996), with R. P. Sharma, T. Venkatesan, Z. H. Zhang, J. R. Liu, and W. K. Chu.
• Angular Dependence of the Vortex-glass Phase in YNi₂B₂C crystals, Physica C  341-348, 1111-1112 (2001), with Q. Y. Chen, W. K. Chu, and J. H. Miller.
• Time-correlated Tunneling of Solitons in Charge and Spin Density Waves, Physica C  341-348, 763-764 (2001), with J. H. Miller, Jr., E. Prodan, and C. Ordóñez.
• Zero-bias Resistance Anomalies in Normal Metal/Charge-density Wave Interfaces, Physica C  341-348, 789-790 (2001), with J. P. McCarten, J. H. Miller, Jr., X. W. Xu, I. Pirtle, J. R. Liu, Wei-Kan Chu, and J. R. Claycomb.
• Anomalous Magnetoresistance of YNi₂B₂C Superconducting Single Crystals, J of Phys, Condensed Matter 12, 275-280 (2003), with W. K. Chu, Q. Y. Chen, Z. H. Zhang, and J. H. Miller, Jr.
• Building Student Forums with PHP and MySQL Technologies, Journal of ACET, Vol. 2, No. 1, R. K. Chu and E. F. Walker (2004).
• Metric Variation Resulting From the Casimir Effect, Modern Physics Letters A (in press), R. K. Chu and J. R. Claycomb (2005).
• Angular-dependence I-V Measurments of Borocarbide superconductor YNi₂B₂C, J of Phys, Condensed Matter  (in press), R. K. Chu, Q. Y. Chen, and W. K. Chu (2005).

Ongoing Grants

• Title:    Texas Engineering and Technical Consortium DSP Equipment

Agency: Texas Instruments

Duration: 09/01/03 - 08/31/05

Amount: $50,000 

• Title:    Equipment Grant for Department of Computer Science and Physics Funding

Agency: Department of Education

Duration: Academic Year 2003 - 2004

Amount: $150,000 

• Title:    Radiation Transport Modeling in Biological Tissues

Agency: NASA

Duration: 07/01/04 - 06/31/07

Amount: $250,000 

• Title:    Electric and Thermal Conductivity in One Dimensional Nanotubes

Agency: Texas Southern University

Duration: 06/01/04 - 08/31/04

Amount: $12,000 

• Title:    Research Initiative of Biological Warfare Agents Detection at Texas Southern University

Agency: Army Research Office

Duration: 08/01/06 - 08/08/09

Amount: $499,864 

• Title:    NIH-NCRR - Computational Research Laboratory

Agency: National Institute of Health

Duration: 09/01/04 - 08/31/09

Amount: $9,000,000 

• Title:    Development Web-based and Distant Learning course for Phys 244

Agent: Research Council, Texas Southern University

Duration: Academic Year 2005

Amount: $5,000 

• Title:    Equilibrium and Non-equilibrium Transport Properties on Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes (SWNTs)

Agency: Texas Southern University

Duration: 06/01/05 - 08/31/05

Amount: $13,000 

• Title:    Title III Infrastructure Grant for Physics Department

Funding: Department of Education

Amount: $300,000

Period: Academic Year 2005 - 2006 

• Title:    Digital Signal Processing Applications for Hydrocarbons Logging and Summer Science Preparatory Program

Agency: Halliburton Foundation

Duration: Nov 15, 2005 - Nov. 15, 2006

Amount: $100,000

Society Membership:

• American Physical Society, Materials Research Association, IEEE, and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

Selected Awards and Special Recognitions:

• Outstanding Graduate Researcher of the Year: University of Houston, 1995.
• Best Presentation Award: America Physics Society Annual Meeting, 1997.
• Winner: 10^th Semi-Annual symposium at Texas Center for Superconductivity and Advanced Materials, 1998.
• NASA-JSC- T_CSUH Post-Doctoral Fellow, 1999 - 2000.
• Faculty Award: Federated Computing Research Conference ACM, 2003.
• Methodist Hospital Professional Go-Live Appreciation Award, 2004.
• Visiting Professor, Department of Physics and Center for Nonlinear Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University, Summer 2004.
• Faculty Poster Presentation Award 1^st Place, TSU Research Week, 2005.
• NSF Faculty Fellowship at Activity Based Physics Faculty Institutes (ABPFI), University of Oregon, Summer 2005.

Handy, Carlos - Department Chair and Professor 

Doctoral Thesis

Diagrammatics of Gauge Transformations for General Gauge Theories (Nonabelian Gauges in Field Theory)

Research Interests

• Transform Methods for Quantum Operator Analysis (Mellin, Fourier, Stieltjes, Wavelet, Wigner, etc.)
•  Moment Problem theory applications to Quantum Operators
• Adaptation of  Convex-Optimization computational methods to Quantum Operators
• Singular Perturbation/Strong Coupling Problems in Physics
• The Quantum Mechanics of Massive Particle Systems

Teaching Interest

• Mathematical Physics
• Computational Physics
• Quantum Mechanics
• Lagrangian-Hamiltonian Mechanics

Selected Publications   

• C. R. Handy (2005). Quasi-Convexification of Barta’s (Multi-Extrema) Bounding Theorem. Cornell Archives Math-Phys/0510071.

• C. R. Handy (2004).Positivity Representations for Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians. Proceedings of the First International Workshop for PT-Symmetry, Czechoslovak J. of Physics,  54, p. 57.
• C. R. Handy, D. Khan, S. Okbagabir, and T. Yarahmad (2003). Moment Problem Quantization within a Generalized Scalet-Wigner (Auto-Scaling) Transform Representation. J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 36, p. 1623.
• C. R. Handy, C. J. Tymczak, and A. Z. Msezane (2002) High Precision Regge-Pole and Residues for Singular Scattering Potentials. Phys. Rev. A 66,  p. 050701 (R).
• C. R. Handy, C. Trallero-Giner, and A. H. Rodriguez (2001). Generating Bounds for the Discrete State Energy values of the Infinite Quantum Lens Potential. J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 34, p. 10991.
• C. R. Handy and A. Z. Msezane (2001). Generation of Converging Regge-Pole Bounds: A New Formulation of Complex Rotation Quantization. J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 34, L531.
• C. R. Handy (2001). Generating Converging Bounds to the (Complex) Discrete States of the P²+iX³+ iaX Hamiltonian. J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 34, p. 5065.
• C. R. Handy (2001). Generating Converging Eigenenergy Bounds for the Discrete States of the –ix3 non-Hermitian Potential. J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 34, L271.
• C. R. Handy and R. Murenzi (1999). Moment Quantization and (A-adic) Discrete Continuous Wavelet Transform Theory. J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 32,  p. 8111.
• C. R. Handy and R. Murenzi (1998). On the Equivalence of Moment Quantization and Continuous Wavelet Transform Analysis. J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 31, p. 9897.
• C. J. Tymczak, G. S. Japaridze, C. R. Handy, and Xiao-Qian Wang (1998). New Perspective on Inner Product Quantization. Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, p. 3673.
• C. R. Handy, J. Maweu, and L. Atterberry (1996). Variational Formulation of a Moment Problem Quantization Method. J. Math. Phys. 37, p. 1182.
• C. R. Handy and G. Mantica (1990). Inverse Problems in Fractal Construction: Moment Method Solution. Physica D 43, p. 17.
• C. R. Handy, D. Bessis, G. Sigismondi, and T. D. Morley (1988). Rapidly Converging Bounds for the Ground State Energy of Hydrogenic Atoms in Superstrong Magnetic Fields. Phys. Rev. Lett. 60, p. 253.
• C. R. Handy and D. Bessis (1985). Rapidly Convergent Lower Bounds for the Schrodinger Equation Ground State Energy. Phys. Rev. Lett. 55, p. 931.

 Awards and Special Recognitions

• National Science Foundation          Creativity Extenstion on MRI Award 1986 – 1988
• National Science Foundation          MRI Award 1983 – 1986
• Bell Telephone Cooperative (Graduate) Research Fellow 1972 – 1978 (First Recipient and graduate)

Wilkerson, Daryl F. - Instructor

Research Interest:

Radioactive pollutants in the aqueous environments that surround coal fired electric power plants; Radioactive gas contamination research.

Teaching Interest:

• General Physics for Life Science Students
• Computer Introduction
• Electronics
• General Physics Laboratory I & II
• Principles of Physical Science
• Topics in Physics
• College Physics Laboratory

 Selected Publications

• Wilkerson, Daryl Sharda Arya, and Bobby L. Wilson. “Investigations of Radionuclids in the Aqueous Sediment Environment Surrounding A Coal Burning Power Plant.” Journal of Environmental Science and Engineering, A28(5), 1005-1015 (1993).
• Arya, Sharda, and Daryl Wilkerson. “Radon Testing in Houston Area Homes.” In process of being submitted to the Journal of Environmental Science and Engineering.

 Memberships

• American Association of Physics Teachers
• Astronomical Society of the Pacific
• Alpha Phi Alpha