Curriculum Vitae of Dipangkar Dutta

Dipangkar Dutta

Contact information

010C Hilbun Hall
PO BOX 5167
Mississippi State, MS 39762 +1 662 325 3105
d.dutta@msstate.edu

Education

Ph. D. Northwestern University 1999

B. Tech. Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay 1992

Areas of Research

Experimental Nuclear Physics

Professional Experience / Employment History

Mississippi State University

Professor, Dept of Physics & Astronomy, 2016-present

Associate Professor, Dept of Physics & Astronomy, 2012-2016

Assistant Professor, Dept of Physics & Astronomy, 2006-2012

Duke University

Assistant Research Professor, Dept of Physics, 2003-2006

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Senior Postdoctoral Associate, Physics/Lab. of Nuclear Science, 2001-02

Postdoctoral Associate, Physics/Lab. of Nuclear Science, 1999-2001

Awards and Honors

SEC Faculty Achievement Award, 2021
Faculty Research Award for the College of Arts and Science, 2020
JSA Sabbatical Support Award, 2015
Henry Family Dean's Eminent Scholar, 2010
JSA Sabbatical Support Award, 2010
Argonne National Lab, Graduate Fellowship, 1994-1998

Student Awards

Deepak Bhetuwal - Cook Physics Graduate Student achievement award (2020)
Abishek Karki - JSA Graduate Student fellowship (2021)
Hem Bhatt - JSA Graduate Student fellowship (2022)
Reese Dunne - Goldwater Scholarship (2021)
Reese Dunne - Fullbright Fellowshio (2020)
Nic Ezzell - Goldwater Scholarship (2018)
John Madsen - Goldwater Scholarship, honorable mention (2015)
John Madsen - NEMDJ Undergraduate Research Award (2014)
John Madsen - Honors College Research Fellowship (2013, 2014)
Prajwal Mohammurthy - JSA Undergraduate Research Fellowship (2012)
Prajwal Mohammurthy - Clinton E. Wallace Student Excellence Undergraduate Research Award (2011)
Prajwal Mohanmurthy - Honors College Research Fellowship (2010, 2011)
Edward Leggett - Honors College Research Fellowship (2008)

Professional Service

Robert Holland Faculty Senate, MSU 2016 - present
JLab HallC Steering Committee, 2009 - 2010, 2018 - present
Jefferson Lab, JSA Travel Grant Committee, 2009 - present
Jefferson Lab, Hall-A Collaboration Committee, 2010 - 2012
Jefferson Lab, User Group Board of Directors, 2013 - 2015
Reviewer for Physical Review Letters, Physics Letters B, PLOS-one, National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy.
Reviewer for Canadian Foundation for Innovation.
Reviewer for Research Foundation Flanders (Belgium) (Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Vlaanderen).
Reviewer for the German National Science Foundation.

Grants

Electron detector for the Jefferson Lab Hall-C Compton Polarimeter, (DOE, Office of Science, $341,000, 2007-2010).
Precision measurements at medium energy, (DOE, Office of Science, $833,000 (2010-2013), $836,000 (2013-2016), $1,343,000 (2016 - 2019), $1,787,000 (2019 - 2022). )
New Source and Test Masses and their Metrology for G Experiments, (National Science Foundation, $148,861).
NSF-MRI Consortium: Developement of a Kaon Detection System for Hall-C at 12 GeV JLab, (National Science Foundation, co-PI, $469,533, 2010-2012).
NSF-MRI , Development of a windowless gas flow target for the proton charge radius experiment (National Science Foundation, co-PI, $410,300, 2012-2014).
JSA, JLab Bridge Faculty Position for Dr. Lamiaa El-Fassi (Jefferson Lab, $240,000, 2014-2019).
A new search for the neutron electric dipole moment, (Oak Ridge Associated Universities, $75,000 2012-2015).
Development of a spin light polarimeter for the Electron Ion Collider, (Brookhaven National Lab, $35,000 2012-2015).

Selected Recent Invited Talks

PRad and Drad with positrons'', Hadron 2030, Institute Pascal of the University Paris-Saclay, France, October 28-31, 2024.
Tagged Deep Inelastic Scattering: exploring meson structure functions and beyond at JLab'', Diffraction and Low-x 2024, Palermo, Sicily, September 8-14, 2024.
PRad-II: The new planned proton charge radius experiment at JLab'', Quarks in Nuclear Physics 2024, Barcelona, Spain, July 8-14, 2024.
A high precision proton charge radius measurement at JLab'', Workshop on Nuclear Radius Extraction, Stony Brook University, NY, May 7, 2024.
The Sullivan Process and TDIS: exploring beyond meson structure functions at JLab'', Towards Improved Hadron Femtography Using Hard Exclusive Processes, Newport News, Aug 7-11, 2023.
Axial structure of the nucleon with positron capture at medium energies'', Positron working group workshop, UVa, Charlottesville, VA, March 7-8, 2023.
The search for ``heavy light'': what can electron scattering tell us about the ATOMKI X(17) anomaly'', INT Workshop, Seattle, WA, April 17-21, 2023.
The incredible Shrinking Proton and the proton radius puzzle'', Baryons 2022, Seville, Spain, Nov 7-14, 2022
From Quarks to Nuclei: Insights from the Search for Squeezed Hadrons at Jefferson Lab'', CIPANP 2022, Orlando, FL, September 2, 2022.
Possible color-transparency measurement at J-PARC'', KEK Workshop on GPDs and related topics at J-PARC, Japan, Dec 22, 2021.
The Proton Radius Puzzle: Experimental Status and Outlook'', 88th Annual Meeting of SESAPS, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, Nov 18-20, 2021.
Exploring Final State Interactions in QCD at Large Momentum Transfers'',Exploring QCD with Tagged Processes, Institut Pascal of the University Paris-Saclay, France, October 18-22, 2021.
From Quarks to Nuclei: New Results from the Upgraded Jefferson Lab'', 9th Workshop of the APS Topical Group on Hadronic Physics, April 13-16, 2021.
The PRad experiment and the incredible shrinking proton'', Jefferson Lab User Organizatio, Annual virtual meeting, June 22, 2020.
Probing CSV with Deuteron beams at the EIC'', Electroweak and BSM physics at the EIC - CFNS workshop, Virtual Meeting, May 7-9, 2020.
The 12 GeV Science at the upgraded Jefferson Lab: the new and upcoming results'', SESAPS, Wrightsville Beach, NC , Nov 7-10, 2019.
The Proton Radius Puzzle: current status and future prospects'', International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics, Santa Fe, NM, Sept. 9-13, 2019.
Proton Propagation and Color Transparency, an Experimental Overview'', Lepton Interactions with Nucleons and Nuclei, Elba, Italy, June 23-28, 2019.
Electrons with a twist: a New Tool for Nuclear Physics'', Gordon Conference, Holderness, NH, Aug 5-10, 2018.
Search for the Onset of Color Transparency'', CIPANP 2018, Palm Springs, CA, May 28 - June 3, 2018.
The Search for the Onset of Color Transparency, International Workshop on (e,e'p) Process, Bled, Slovenia, July 2-6, 2017.
A Vortex Electron Source for Nuclear Physics, 22nd International Spin Symposium, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, Sept 26-30, 2016.
Straight outta Compton: Lorentz invariance tests with Compton scattering, Colloquium, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, Apr 25, 2016
TDIS Experiment: probing the mesonic content of nucleons'', Next generation nuclear physics with JLab12 and EIC, Miami, FL, Feb 10, 2016
Color Transparency, Hall C Users Meeting, Jefferson Lab, Newport News, VA, Jan 21, 2016.
The Qweak Experiment: A direct measurement of the weak charge of the proton, EINN 2015, Phapos, Cyprus, Nov 1, 2015.
Hadron propagation through the nuclear medium, EMMI Worksop on cold dense nuclear matter, Darmstadt, Germany, Oct 13-17, 2015.
Tagged DIS Experiment, BoNuS Fest, Jefferson Lab, Newport News, VA, Aug 21, 2015.
Tagged DIS Experiments: Exploring Flavor Dependence of the EMC effect and the Meson Cloud of the Nucleon, New Directions in Nuclear Deep Inelastic Scattering, ECT*, Trento, Italy, Jun 8-12, 2015
Precision Electron Beam Polarimetry, 21st International Spin Physics Symposium, SPIN 2014, Beijing (China) October 20 - October 24, 2014
Spin-Light Polarimetry at an EIC, EIC2014, Jefferson Lab, Newport News, VA, 17 -21 October, 2014.
The Proton Charge Radius: how large is it and why do we care?, Pac-Spin 2013, Jinan, China, Oct 28 -31, 2013.
Color Transparency at 6 and 12 GeV, Jefferson Lab, User Group Meeting, Newport News, VA, May 29 -31, 2013.
High Energy Proton Propagation in the Nuclear Medium, Hadron physics with high-momentum hadron beams at J-PARC, KEK, Tsukuba, Japan, Jan 15 -18, 2013.

Publications (listed separately)

Publication Summary: 144 peer reviewed journal articles, with an average of 71.6 citations per article.
1 article with over 500 citations.
9 articles with over 250 citations.
19 articles with 100-249 citations.
29 articles with 50-99 citations.
h-index number of 55.

Courses Taught

Guesstimation, PH1001 (first year seminar course, Fall 2009)
Physics for Scientists and Engineers-I, PH2213 (introductory physics, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Fall 2009, Spring 2019 (honors) & Fall 2019 (honors))
Text: University Physics by Young and Freedman, Mastering Physics and CPS clickers.
Physics for Scientists and Engineers-III, PH2233 (introductory physics, Spring 2009, \& Spring 2011, & Sprin 2013)
Text: University Physics by Young and Freedman, Mastering Physics and CPS clickers.
Modern Physics, PH3613 (upper level course for physics majors, Fall 2006, Fall 2018).
Text: Modern Physics by Tipler and Llewellyn.
Electronics for Scientists, PH4113/PH6113 (upper level course for physics majors, Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Fall 2010, Fall 2011, Fall 2012, & Fall 2016)
Text: Principles of Electronic Instrumentation, by Diefenderfer and Holton.
Introduction to Nuclear and Particle Physics, PH4613/PH6613 (upper level course for physics majors, Spring 2008, Spring 2012, Spring 2017, & Spring 2020)
Text: Nuclear and Particle Physics an Introduction by B. R. Martin & Subatomic Physics by E. Henley and A. Garcia
Nuclear Physics, PH8613 (graduate level nuclear physics, Fall 2007, & Fall 2010)
Text: Nuclear Physics, by Samuel S. M. Wong.
Introduction to Quantum Mechanics, PH4713/PH6713 (upper level course for physics majors, Fall 2013, Fall 2014, Fall 2015, Spring 2016,\& Fall 2017)
Text: Introduction to Quantum Mechanics, by David J. Griffiths (2013-2014), Quantum Mechanics: A Paradigms Approach, by D. McIntyre (2015).
Applications of Quantum Mechanics, PH4723/PH6723 (upper level course for physics majors, Spring 2014)
Text: Introduction to Quantum Mechanics, by David J. Griffiths.

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