| Title: |
Professor Chair |
| Dept: | Physics |
| Office: | SI 116,113 |
| Phone: | 216-687-2436, 216-6872426 |
| Fax: | 216-5237268 |
| Email: | M.KAUFMAN@csuohio.edu |
| Web: |
http://www.csuohio.edu/sciences/dept/physics/physicsw eb/Bios/miron.html |
| Address: | 2121 Euclid Ave. SI 116,113, Cleveland, OH 44115 |
Education: | ||
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B.A., Physics, Tel Aviv University, Israel, 1973
M.S., Physics, Tel Aviv University, Israel, 1977 Ph.D., Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, 1981 | ||
| Brief Bio: | ||
| Miron Kaufman has earned a BA in 1973 and a MS in 1977 (dissertation title: Topics in the Theory of Superconductivity), both degrees in Physics, from Tel Aviv University in Israel. He has earned a PhD in Physics in 1981 (dissertation title: Tricritical Points and Ising Models on a Hierarchical Lattice) from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. He then spent three years, 1983-1985, at MIT as Bantrell Fellow in surface science doing research on phase transitions and critical phenomena associated with random magnetic fields and percolation.
Dr. Kaufman has joined Cleveland State University in 1985. Since 2000 he is the chair of the Physics Department. He has developed, in collaboration with the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, a professional MS program with specializations in Medical Physics and in Optics/Medical Imaging. He has significantly strengthened the undergraduate and graduate physics programs by building a state-of-the-art computer lab, by modernizing the teaching and research laboratories, and by recruiting several faculty and a lab manager. He has updated the curriculum through new courses (e. g. Environmental Physics, Computational Physics, Statistical Physics, Modern Physics Laboratory) and through novel pedagogy that emphasizes the unity of the experimental, computational and theoretical facets of physics (e. g. laboratories and computational projects are incorporated in the lecture courses). Under his leadership the CSU physics programs have achieved national rankings. The MS in Physics program is in the "strongest professional programs" category according to the April 2005 American Institute of Physics (AIP) report. The CSU Physics Department ranks 5'th among "Master's granting departments averaging seven or more physics bachelor's degrees per year, classes of 2002, 2003, 2004" according to an August 2006 AIP report. His research in statistical physics covers topics in: superconductivity, magnetism, multicritical points, liquids, polymers and hierarchical and fractal lattices. For the last ten years he is involved in collaborative research projects at the interface of statistical physics with cognitive science, health science, urban studies and polymer engineering. His publications were referenced 800 times and their Hirsch index is 16. Student involvement is a common thread through all his research activities. Several of the undergraduate students who have worked with Dr. Kaufman on research projects have gone on to graduate programs, most recently to the Ph.D. physics program at the University of California at Berkeley. One of the Ph.D. students that he has co-advised was awarded the Bayer Fellowship Award. Dr. Kaufman is developing enriching materials for all his courses involving simulations using the software MathCAD that can be accessed at his website. He presented his findings on the pedagogical efficacy of using MathCAD at the first Gordon Research Conference on Physics Research and Education. He has also presented the Environmental Physics course that he has developed at CSU at the 11'th Global Warming International Conference. He is involved in several funded collaborations with the college of education on teaching physics to teachers and to high school students. | ||
| Honors and Awards: | ||
| Bantrell Fellowship at MIT, 1983-5.
NASA-ASEE summer faculty fellowship 1994, 1995, 1996. CSU Distinguished Faculty Research Award 2007 | ||
| Creative and Activities: | ||
| The Migdal-Kadanoff Renormalization-Group Study of Equilibrium Polymerization, 17th International Conference on Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, (1989).
Polymerization on the Diamond Hierarchical Lattice, Gordon Research Conference on Fractals, Plymouth NH, (1990). Critical Equilibrium Polymerization at Finite Temperatures, 18th IUPAP International Conference on Statistical Physics, Berlin, Germany, (1992). Entropy Driven Phase Transition in Polymer Gels, 11'th International Symposium on Surfactants in Solution, Jerusalem, Israel, (1996). Statistical Model for Mechanical Failure, invited, Nonlinear Effects in Materials Science Session at the Materials Week '97, Fall Meeting of The Materials Society (TMS), Indianapolis, (1997). Statistical Mechanics Model of Mechanical Failure, 20'th International Conference of Statistical Physics, International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, UNESCO, Sorbonne, Paris, (1998). Statistical Thermodynamics Model of Spatial Memory, 20'th International Conference of Statistical Physics, International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, UNESCO, Sorbonne, Paris, (1998). Environmental Physics: a Pedagogical Contribution towards an Interdisciplinary Approach to Environmental Problems, 11'th Global Warming International Conference, Boston, (2000). Statistical Mechanics with Mathcad, Gordon Research Conference on Physics Education, Plymouth, NH, (2000). Entropic Analysis of Laminar Mixing in Single Screw Extruders, 21'st Annual Meeting of the Polymer Processing Society, Leipzig, Germany, (2005). Analytical Model of Dispersion in Microchannel Creeping Flow, Second International Conference on Transport Phenomena in Micro and NanoDevices, Barga, Italy, (2006). Biomedical Applications of Entropy: From Electromiography Time Series to Micromixing, invited lecture at the Pan-American Advanced Study Institute "From disordered systems to complex systems", Mar del Plata, Argentina, (2006). Applications of statistical physics to mixing in microchannels: entropy and multifractals, invited lecture at the NATO Advanced Study Institute "Functionalized Nanoscale Materials, Devices, and Systems for chem- and bio- Sensors, Photonics, and Energy Generation and Storage", Sinaia, Romania, (2007). Potts-Percolation Model of Solids and Entropy of Electromyography Time Series, invited Math-Sci Seminar, Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey, (2007). Mixing in Microchannels: Entropy and Multifractals, invited colloquium, Istanbul Technical University, School of Mechanical Engineering, Istanbul, Turkey, (2007). Mixing in Industrial Processes and in Microchannels, invited, Tel Aviv University, School of Physics and Astronomy, Condensed Matter Seminar, Ramat Aviv, Israel, (2007). Potts-Percolation Model of a Solid with Defects, Tokyo Institute of Technology, invited Physics Department Seminar, Tokyo, Japan, (2009). | ||
| Research Interests: | ||
| Statistical physics applications to superconductivity, liquid mixtures, solids, fractal and hierarchical lattices;
Interdisciplinary applications of statistical physics to cognitive science, polymer engineering, biological time series, urban studies. | ||
| Teaching Areas: | ||
| University Physics
Thermal Physics Statistical Physics Environmental Physics Monte Carlo Simulations of Complex Systems Quantitative Methods | ||
| Professional Affiliations: | ||
| American Physical Society (APS);
American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE); Polymer Processing Society (PPS). | ||
| Professional Experience: | ||
| Co-organized the American Physical Society Ohio Section Fall 2005 meeting at CSU, celebrating the 2005 World Year of Physics - Einstein Centennial: From Brownian Motion to the Physics of Complexity. | ||
| University Service: | ||
| Chair steering committee Medical Physics specialization, 2000-present;
A&S Academic Standards Committee, 2000-2003 University Computation Services Committee, 2001-2003 Chair University Computation Services Committee, 1999-2001 A&S representative to the Faculty Senate, 2001-2003 Graduate Council 2001-2003; Transition committee for organization of new COS 2003-2004; COS representative to Faculty Senate, 2004-2006; COS Curriculum Committee, 2004-2006. | ||
| Professional Service: | ||
| Referee Physical Review, Physica;
Editorial Board International Journal of Global Environmental Issues. | ||
| Community Service: | ||
| Advisory Board, Horizon Science Academy, Cleveland Charter School. | ||
| Research Grants: | ||
| Thermal Properties of Pressurized Materials, funded by NASA, 1988-89.
Age Differences in Episodic and Semantic Memory (with Phil Allen) funded by NIH 1997-2000. Alzheimer Disease and Entropy Levels of Information Processes (with Phil Allen) funded by NIH through Alzheimer Center 2000-2001. Complexity Mixing Index Based on Entropy for Polymer Processing Control and Optimization, funded by NSF through CWRU, 2002-2005. | ||