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                                             CURRICULUM VITAE

 

NAME :  MANUEL  JOSE  PAEZ-MEJIA.

 

PLACE OF BIRTH: Salamina-Caldas, Colombia.

 

NATIONALITY:  Colombian.

 

WORK ADDRESS: Departamento de Física , Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, COLOMBIA.

 

SECONDARY EDUCATION

 

1957-1962 Colegio Mayor de San Bartolomé, Bogotá.

 

UNIVERSITY studies:

 

1964-1968    Universidad  Nacional de Colombia , Bogotá, Physics. Degree: B. Sc. in Physics 1970

1971-1973  Carnegie-Mellon University , Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Degree: M. Sc. in Physics 1974

1982 Occasional Student, University of Surrey, Guilford, Surrey.

1979-1982 Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon. Degree: Ph. D. in Physics

 ( Nuclear), 1983.

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

 

I have been working in the physics department or the Universidad de Antioquia since january 1969,

I taught courses in Modern Physics, Nuclear Physics, Computational Physics, Mathematical Physics and programming in Fortran, Pascal and C languages.

 

ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS

Director of Graduate Studies in Physics, Universidad de Antioquia, Physics Department, 1983.

 

PUBLICATIONS.

Rubin H. Landau,  Manuel José Páez, Cristian C. Bordeianu, A Survey of Computacional Physics, (2008), Princeton University  Press, Princeton.

 

Rubin H Landau,  Manuel José Páez, Cristian Bordeianu, (2007), 2nd Ed., Wiley-VCH,  Weinheim, Germany.

 

Rubin H. Landau and Manuel J. Páez,  Computational Physics, (1997), John Wiley and Sons, New York.

 

Manuel J. Páez, Mecánica, Fluidos y termodinámica, Editorial Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín,  2005, This book come with 5 CD with videos, demostrations, animations etc.

 

Contributor to the book of Rubin H. Landau, A first course in scientific computing, Princeton University Press , Princeton,  (2005)

Manuel J. Páez ,  “C y C++ de afán, (C and C++ in a hurry),  (2006), Second Edition, Editorial Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia.

 

Manuel J. Páez ,  “C y C++ de afán, (C and C++ in a hurry), Editorial Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia,  (2003)

 

R. H. Landau,  J. Maestri and M. J. Páez, ``Two particle Schrödinger  equation animations of wavepacket-wavepacket  scattering”, Am. J. Phys. 68, (2000).

http://www.physics.orst.edu/CPUG/CPlab/Kirk/Packets/krpack.pdf

Landau Páez, “Meson Scattering from nuclei”, in Web page:

http://www.physics.orst.edu/CPUG/CPlab/index.html

Manuel J. Páez, Milton E. Sagen and Rubin H. Landau, LPOTp:Nucleon elastic scattering from spin 0 and 1/2 nuclei in momentum space.,  Comput. Phys. Comm. 52 (1988) 141-159.

R.H. Landau, M.J. Páez, Antisymmetry and spin effects in p-3He scattering, Phys. Lett., 142B (1984), 235-240.

R.H.Landau, M.J. Páez, Angular momentum decompositions for spin-dependent potentials, Phys.Rev

C-30 (1984) 1757-1759.

M.J.Páez, R.H. Landau, Proton-3He scattering with antisymmetrized amplitudes and intermediate energy. Phys. Rev. C-29 (1984), 2267-2280.

M.J.Páez, R.H. Landau, Proton-3He scattering with antisymmetrized amplitudes and intermediate energy. Phys. Rev. Abstracts -15 (1984), 23.

Manuel J. Páez, Rubin H. Landau, Kaon charge exchange on 3H, Phys. Rev. C 24 (1981), 2689-2694.

Manuel J. Páez, Rubin H. Landau, Nuclear structure effects in k+ elastic scattering from 3He, 3H, 4He, and 12C., Phys. Rev. C 24 (1981) 1120-1134.

Manuel J. Páez, Eddien Alvarez, Louis R. Weber, Am. Jour. Phys., 38, (1970) ,778

Some other papers have been presented at The Colombian Physics Congresses.

 

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

 

Laboratory Manual for Electricity and Magnetism (in spanish) ,Editor, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín 1987 and subsequent editions.

Laboratory Manual of Demostrative Experiments in Physics, written with two physics students,  Universidad de Antioquia ,Medellín 1992.

Physics for Life Science (in spanish), Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín ,1977.

 Interactive Java Programs in:

      http://fisica.udea.edu.co/~mpaez/Index.html,

 

AWARDS

 

UCES08, For our Book A Survey of Computational Physics, Austin, Texas,  Nov. 2008.

 

 Gold Medal Francisco J. de Caldas, to the Academic Excellency, Universidad de Antioquia, 1998. Highest honor for a University Professor in this University.

 

SKILLS

    Languages: Spanish my mother language. English:with good abilities for speaking, reading  and writing.

Italian: good for listening.

French:  reading.

 

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES

 

Python, C, C++, Java, Fortran.