Resume for T.L. Gibson

Thomas L. Gibson

EDUCATION:

1982 Ph.D. in Theoretical AMO Physics, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma

1977 B.S. in Physics, Cameron University, Lawton, Oklahoma

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

September 1991---Present

Associate Professor of Physics

Texas Tech University

Lubbock, Texas

September 1985---August 1991

Assistant Professor of Physics

Texas Tech University

Summer 1987

NASA-ASEE Fellow in the Computational Chemistry

Group at NASA Ames Research Center

Mountain View, California

June 1982---June 1985

Research Fellow in Chemistry

California Institute of Technology

Pasadena, California

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS:

American Physical Society (APS)

Division of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics of the APS

Division of Computational Physics of the APS

COMPUTER SKILLS:

Dr. Gibson has taught computational physics courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. He has extensive experience with developing, debugging, and modifying large codes for use in scientific computing. Dr. Gibson has ported standard serial code to VECTOR, SIMD, and MIMD computer platforms. His expertise includes the following:

Operating Systems
MS Windows
VMS
Gnu/Linux
Unix Platforms
Intel x86
DEC Alpha
MasPar
Cray X-MP
Intel Paragon
SGI Origin 2000
Beowulf Cluster Languages
Fortran 77
C/C++
MPI
MAPLE V
LaTeX
HTML
JavaScript
Perl

HONORS AND AWARDS:

Graduated with Highest Honors (1977): Cameron University
Nielsen Award for Outstanding Graduate Student (1982): University of Oklahoma
Alumni Association New Faculty Award (1989): Texas Tech University
Phi Kappa Phi Distinguished Alumnus (1990): Cameron University
Excellence in Physics Teaching Award (1995): Texas Tech University
Charter Member of Teaching Academy (1997): Texas Tech University
Professing Excellence Award (2008): Texas Tech University
Outstanding Professor of the Year in Physics (2013): Texas Tech University

TEACHING:

PHYS 5322: Graduate Computational Physics

PHYS 5307 & 5308: Graduate Theoretical Physics I & II

PHYS 5300: Topics in Advanced Computational Physics

PHYS 4307: Introduction to Quantum Mechanics

PHYS 4301: Undergraduate Computational Physics

PHYS 1408 & 2401: Introductory Physics I & II for scientists & engineers

PHYS 1403 & 1404: Introductory Physics I & II for health science majors

PHYS 1401: Introductory Physics for nonscience majors

PHYS 1305: Engineering Physics Analysis I

RESEARCH:

Current research interests include the following areas:

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