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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 University1999
B. Tech.Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay1992

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

  • Faculty Research Award for the College of Arts and Science, 2020s
  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.
  • Flavor Dependence of the EMC Effect, Jefferson Lab, Hall-C Summer Workshop, Newport News, VA, June 22 - 24, 2012.
  • Propagation of Hadrons Through the Nuclear Medium, Hadrons in the Nuclear Medium, ECT*, Trento, Italy, May 14 -18, 2012
  • The Proton: How Large Is It, And Why Do We Care?'' Physics Colloquium, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, Mar 5, 2012
  • SHMS Collimator and Sieve Slit Design, Jefferson Lab Hall-C Users Meet ing, Newport News, VA, Jan 13-14, 2012
  • Experimental Overview of the Search for Color Transparency in Nuclei, Partons in Nucleons and Nuclei 2011, Marrakech, Morocco, Sept 25-30, 2011.
  • A New High Precision Experiment to Measure the Charge Radius of the Proton, Partons in Nucleons and Nuclei 2011, Marrakech, Morocco, Sept 25-30, 2011
  • Hadron Propagation in the Nuclear Medium, Jefferson Lab, Hall-C Summer Workshop, Newport News, VA, Aug 19 - 20, 2011.
  • Search for QCD in Nuclei: A JLab Perspective, Particles and Nuclei International Conference 2011, Cambridge, MA, Jul 25-29, 2011.

Publications (listed separately)

  • Publication Summary: 109 peer reviewed journal articles, with an average of 57 citations per article.
  • 5 articles with over 250 citations.
  • 14 articles with 100-249 citations.
  • 18 articles with 50-99 citations.
  • h-index number of 43.

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.

Last modified: 2020/03/05

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