RAFAEL E. PENA, Ph.D.

3200 South Gessner

Houston, Texas  77063

(713)781-6633

 

 

 

                        WORK EXPERIENCE

 

 

Microcomputer Software Specialist

     P.O. Box 771787, Houston, Texas 77215

     July 1984 -

 

     IBM-PC and Compatible microcomputer systems.  Programming, training and troubleshooting.  Languages and software systems: "C", dBASE III PLUS, FORTRAN-77, LOTUS 123, SYMPHONY, MS/PC-DOS, Intel 8086/8087 Assembly, Number Nine NNIOS Graphics Operating System, Motorola 6808 Assembly, BASIC, WordStar 2000 PLUS, IBM 360/370 Assembly.

 

Theoretical Research Associate

     Seiscom Delta, Inc., P.O. Box 4610, Houston, Texas 77210

     September 1981 - July 1984

 

     Work on improved sonic determination of the earth's subsurface structure: wave propagation in randomly stratified media, inversion methods for seismic data, trace interpolation, F-K and pre-stack migration, 3D synthetic forward modeling, formulation of long-range goals of the theoretical research department.

 

Research Assistant Professor

     Physics Department, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322

     December 1980 - August 1981

 

     Providing theoretical and computational support for Emory's experimental effort in far-infrared spectroscopy: far-infrared behavior of homogeneous and inhomogeneous (granular) superconducting thin films.

 

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

     School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology,

     Atlanta, Georgia 30332

     February 1980 - November 1980

 

     Investigations of the effect of impurities on superconductivity, onset of strong-coupling behavior in mathematical models of impurity magnetism, charge-transfer theory of chemisorption, numerical molecular-dynamic studies of mixtures of Lennard-Jones particles, far from equilibrium transport behavior.

                  WORK EXPERIENCE (continued)

 

 

Research Associate

     Polytechnic Institute of New York,

     Professor Daniel C. Mattis, 333 Jay Street, Brooklyn, New York 11201

     September 1978 - January 1980

 

     Studies of the electronic structure of hydrogen in metals, mathematical techniques for the analysis of many-body effects at impurities in metals, selfconsistent theory of magnetism, optical line-shapes of impurities in insulators, conductivity in quasi-one-dimensional organic materials.

 

Adjunct Professor

     New York City Community College, 300 Jay Street, Brooklyn, New York 11201

     September 1978 - January 1979

 

     Instructor of two sections of an introductory course to the physical sciences.

 

Systems Programmer/Analyst

     Whitlow Computer Systems, 560 Sylvan Avenue, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey

     September 1977 - March 1978

 

     Technical support for users of SyncSort, a sorting package for IBM 360/370 systems.  Training in OS and OS/VS operating systems, system control blocks, job control language, data management and access methods, utilities, channel programs.  Programming languages: IBM Assembler, FORTRAN, and exposure to PL/1, COBOL.

 

National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow

     Professor Daniel C. Mattis, Yeshiva University, New York, New York

     February 1976 - January 1977

 

     Work on a unified theory of electron (and phonon) impurity states in insulators, in the bulk and near surfaces.  Color centers in alkali-halides and alkali-metal hydrides.  Electronic structure of solid surfaces.

 

Physics Instructor

     Stern and Yeshiva Colleges, New York, New York

     June 1974 - June 1976

 

     Taught two courses in introductory physics, two one-semester courses in computer science and an intensive summer course in statistical mechanics to second year physics majors.

                  WORK EXPERIENCE (continued)

 

 

Programmer/Troubleshooter

     Yeshiva University New York, New York

     September 1971 - June 1974

 

     Supervised operation and use of an IBM 1130 system on a part-time basis.  Duties included troubleshooting user programs and system malfunctions.

 

Research Assistant

     Professor Eugene P. Gross, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02154

     November 1970 - September 1971

 

     Development of a method of moments for the description of plasma instabilities.  Theoretical calculations in advance of an experimental effort in Brillouin scattering from gases.

 

 

 

                           EDUCATION

 

 

Doctor of Philosophy.  Solid State Physics

Yeshiva University, New York, New York, June 1976

 

Dissertation Topic: "Many-Body Theory of a Localized Phonon in an Electron Gas."

Thesis Advisor:    Professor Daniel C. Mattis

Research: Various problems in statistical mechanics, band theory of ferromagnetism, quantum theory of diffusion, conductivity in one-dimensional systems, thermodynamic structure of classical mechanics.

 

Master of Arts.  Physics

Yeshiva University, New York, New York, January 1973

 

Research: Numerical study of Moxies, a class of thermally activated switching devices.  Computer graphics for various network problems in combinatorial topology.

 

Bachelor of Arts.  Physics / Mathematics

Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, June 1970

 

Senior Thesis: "A Theory of Lithium Induced Annealing in Silicon Solar Cells."

Research: The Black-body problem, radiative transfer in stars.

                            HONORS

 

 

National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow

     Yeshiva University, February 1976 - January 1977

 

Wien International Scholarship Recipient

     Brandeis University, September 1966 - June 1970

 

President of The Latin American Society

     Brandeis University, September 1968 - June 1969

 

First Prizes in Physics and Chemistry and Mathematics

     City-Wide contest for high school seniors.  La Paz, Bolivia 1965

 

First Prizes in Physics and Chemistry

     City-Wide contest for high school juniors.  La Paz, Bolivia 1964

 

 

 

                        EXTRACURRICULAR

 

 

Chess

     Tournaments, prizes, President of the Brandeis Chess Club.

 

Dance

     Accomplished israeli folk dancer.

 

Guitar / Singing

     Public performances, latin-american folk music.

 

Painting

     A beginner.

 

Piano

     Recitals, scholarship offer to study music in Germany.

 

Photography

     Darkroom, black and white.

 

Tennis

     Tournaments, tennis instructor.

                           PERSONAL

 

 

Origin

     Norman, Oklahoma

 

Nationality

     U.S.A., Bolivia

 

Languages

     Bilingual : English, Spanish

 

 

 

                      RESEARCH INTERESTS

 

 

Wave Propagation in Random Media.

 

 

 

            PUBLICATIONS, SYMPOSIA AND UNPUBLISHED

 

 

E.P. Gross and R.E. Pena, "The Moment Method in Plasma    Physics II, Multicomponent Plasmas," unpublished, 1971.

 

J.L. Lebowitz and R.E. Pena, "Low Density Form of the Free Energy of Real Matter," Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 59, p. 1362, 1973.

 

D.C. Mattis and R.E. Pena, "Effect of Band Structure on     Ferromagnetism," Physical Review B : Condensed Matter,      Vol. 10, p. 1006, 1974.

 

R.E. Pena, "Electronic Structure of Multiband Defects in Insulators," unpublished, 1978.

 

R.E. Pena, "A Suggestive Picture of Hydrogen in Metals," unpublished, 1979.

 

R.E. Pena, "Enhanced Cooper-Pairing in the Vicinity of a High Frequency Phonon Mode," Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Vol. 25, p. 365, 1980.

 

R.E. Pena, "Many-Body Theory of Impurities in Metals and Alloys. The Wolff Model: A Case Study," Annals of Physics, Vol. 128, p. 154, 1981.

 

R.E. Pena, "Cooper-Pairing in the Vicinity of a Localized Phonon Mode.  A Selfconsistent Many-Body Theory," unpublished, 1981.

      PUBLICATIONS, SYMPOSIA AND UNPUBLISHED (continued)

 

 

R.E. Pena and D.C. Mattis, "Optical Line Shapes and Electronic Eigenstates of Substitutional Defects and Vacancies," Journal of Physics C : Solid State Physics, Vol. 14, p. 647, 1981.

 

R.E. Pena and D.C. Mattis, "On the Origin of Ferromagnetism," unpublished, 1979.

 

R.E. Pena, "Band Symmetry and Photo-Ionization Line Shapes of Shallow and Deep Acceptor States in Silicon," unpublished, 1981.

 

R.E. Pena, "On the Potential for Leadership in Theoretical    Geophysical Research at Seiscom Delta United. A Personal Appraisal," internal report, 1981.

 

D. Karecki, R.E. Pena and S. Perkowitz, "Far-infrared     Transmission of Superconducting Homogeneous NbN Films; Scattering Time Effects," Physical Review B : Condensed Matter, Vol. 25, p. 1565, 1982.

 

R.E. Pena, "3D Synthetic Seismograms for a Stratified Earth," unpublished, 1983.

 

R.E. Pena, "An Eigenvalue Technique for 3D Synthetic Sections," delivered at the 53rd Annual Meeting, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Las Vegas, Nevada, 1983.

 

R.E. Pena, "Effective Propagators for Electrons in Substitutional Alloys with Off-Diagonal Disorder and Short-Range Order," Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Vol. 29, p. 209, 1984.

 

R.E. Pena, "Simple Cluster Mean-Field Theory for Disordered Systems : Off-Diagonal Disorder in Substitutional Alloys," Physical Review B : Condensed Matter, Vol. 29, p. 6859, 1984.

 

R.E. Pena, "Acoustic Waves in Randomly Stratified Media,"     delivered at the 54th Annual Meeting, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Atlanta, Georgia, December 1984.

 

R.E. Pena, "A Cluster Mean-Field Technique for Strong     Multiple-Scattering of Waves in Random Continua," delivered at the SIAM Conference on Mathematical and Computational Methods in Seismic Exploration and Reservoir Modeling, Houston, Texas, January 1985.

      PUBLICATIONS, SYMPOSIA AND UNPUBLISHED (continued)

 

 

R.E. Pena, "Reading Micro-Stratigraphy from Seismic Reflection Data," delivered at the 1985 Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, Texas, May 1985.

 

R.E. Pena, "Technical Self-Instruction.  A Course Proposal," submitted to the Data Processing Division, Houston Community College, Houston, Texas, unpublished 1986.

 

R.E. Pena, "Uniform Visibility Control of Local Language Environments in The C Programming Language.  Systematic Modular Design in Large Bodies of Code," March 1988, unpublished.

 

R.E. Pena, "Justice From Our Jury Rooms ?  An Appeal To Reason," July 1992, unpublished.