CURRICULUM VITAE
NAME
: MANUEL JOSE
PAEZ-MEJIA.
PLACE OF BIRTH:
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 ,
1982
Occasional Student,
1979-1982
Oregon State University,
( 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,
Rubin H. Landau and
Manuel J. Páez, Computational Physics, (1997), John
Wiley and Sons,
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 ,
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,
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.