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Professional Preparation
Rubin H Landau
Biographical Sketch
Cornell University Engineering Physics B.S. (with Distinction) 1965
University of Illinois Physics M.S. 1966
University of Illinois Physics Ph.D. (Union Carbide Fellow) 1970
University of Pittsburgh Nuclear Theory Research Associate 1970‐1972
Univ of British Columbia Meson Physics NRC Postdoctoral Fellow 1972‐1974
Appointments
2003‐ Oregon State University, Professor of Physics, Emeritus
1999 Oregon State University Alumni Association Distinguished Professor
1999 Founding Director of BS degree program in Computational Physics
1998 Fellow American Physical Society
1997 Institute for Nonlinear Science & San Diego Supercomputing Center, UCSD,
1991, 1992 Nuclear Theory Institute, Seattle, Fellow
1988 Melbourne & Adelaide Universities, Australia, Visiting Faculty
1988 IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, Visiting Scientist
1983‐2003 Oregon State University, Professor of Physics
1982 Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Weitzman Institute, Visiting Scientist
1981‐1982 University of Surrey, UK, Science Research Council Senior Fellow
1978‐1983 Oregon State University, Associate Professor of Physics
1977‐1978 Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Physicist
1975‐1985 Tri Universities Meson Facility (TRIUMF), Visiting Scientist
1974‐1977 Oregon State University, Assistant Professor of Physics
Recognition
‐ Undergraduate Computational Engineering & Science (UCES) 2008 Award for A Survey of
Computational Physics, (M. Paez and C. Bordeianu, coauthors).
‐ American Library Association, 2006 Choice Award for A First Course in Scientific Computing.
‐ Undergraduate Computational Engineering & Science (UCES) 2006 Award for A First Course in
Scientific Computing.
‐ Fellow, American Physical Society
‐ Award for Ethical Integrity, OSU Program for Ethics, Science, and the Environment, 2002.
‐ OSU Alumni Association Distinguished Professor.
‐ Science Book‐Month‐Club Selection, Quantum Mechanics II, 1996.
‐ Undergraduate Computational Science & Engr (UCES) 1997 Award for Computational Physics.
Associations, Appointments
‐ CoEditor, Taylor & Francis Series in Computational Physics Textbooks.
‐ NSF Taskforce on High Performance Computing, 2009‐
‐ Education Editor, Computing in Science & Engineering, 2010‐
‐ News Editor, Computing in Science & Engineering, 2007‐2010.

‐ American Physical Society, Division of Computational Phys., Executive Committee (8 years).
‐ eXtreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment) advisory committee, 2009‐
‐ Program Committee, Various National & International Conferences, including SuperComputing Ed.
Program APS/DCOMP annual meetings, Joint Conference of ICCP6 and CCP2003, Education Session,
ICCS‐2001, San Francisco, May 2001, Chairman and Co‐Organizer, Education Program, Conference in
Computational Physics, Granada, 1998; Co‐Organizer, Education Session, APS/DCOMP Centenial
Meeting, Atlanta, 1999; Program Committee, APS/DCOMP Annual Meeting, MIT, June 2001;
Program Committee, Education Outreach & Training Day, NPACI ALL Hands Meeting, March 2002;
‐ Engaging People in CyberInfrastructure, 2004‐2007.
‐ National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure, Education, Outreach and Training
Thrust Area, 2001‐2004.
‐ The DOE Undergraduate Computational Engineering and Sciences Project.
‐ American Association of University Professors, Chapter President, 1998‐2001
‐ OSU Faculty Senate, Faculty Senate Executive Committee.
Publications
Books
1. A Survey of Computational Physics, Python Multimodal eBook Version, R.H. Landau, M.J. Paez
and C.C. Bordeianu, Princeton University Press, TBP,
www.physics.oregonstate.edu/~rubin/Books/CPeBook/ .
2. A Survey of Computational Physics, R.H. Landau, M.J. Paez and C.C. Bordeianu, Princeton
University Press, 2008, www.physics.oregonstate.edu/~rubin/Books/Survey/ .
3. Computational Physics: Problem Solving with Computers, 2 nd Edition with Java, R.H. Landau, M.J.
Paez and C.C. Bordeianu Wiley‐VCH, 2007, www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd‐
3527406263.html .
4. A First Course in Scientific Computing, Symbolic, Graphic, and Numerical Modeling Using Maple,
Java, Mathematica, and Fortran90, R.H. Landau, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2005,
pup.princeton.edu/titles/7916.html.
5. Computational Physics, Problem Solving with Computers, Rubin H. Landau and Manuel J. Paez,
John Wiley, New York, July 1997.
6. Quantum Mechanics II, Second Edition, Rubin H. Landau, John Wiley, New York, 1996, A Science
Book‐of‐the Month Club Selection.
7. A Scientist's and Engineer's Guide to Workstations and Supercomputers, Coping with Unix, RISC,
Vectors and Programming, R.H. Landau and P.J. Fink, Jr., Wiley‐Interscience, New York, 1993;
www.physics.orst.edu/~rubin/CPbook/copingbook.html.
Bi‐Monthly Column "Observatoire Landau", www.physics.oregonstate.edu/~rubin/Papers/CISEcolumns/
1. Introductions (War Stories)

2. Petascale Simulations May Shed Light on Frailty of Human Condition
3. Works and Plays Well with Others: From Vision to Wiki
4. Internet Abstractions Meet the Law
5. BPC & PC (Broadening Participation in Computing)
6. Advancing the Cause of Computation in Computational Physics
7. What Is Cyberinfrastructure, and Why Do We Hear So Much about It?
8. Discoveries Arising from Computing
9. Computational Scientific Thinking
Education Papers
1. Making Physics Education More Relevant and Accessible via Computation and eTextBooks, R. H.
Landau, M.J. Paez, C. Bordeianu and S. Haerer, Computer Physics Communications TBP, (Invited
Talk, Conference on Computational Physics 2010, Tronheim).
2. Wavelet Analyses and Applications, C.C. Bordeianu, R. H. Landau and M. J. Paez, Eur. J. Phys. 30
(2009) 1–14 (based on a chapter from the Survey text).
3. Resource Letter CP‐2: Computational Physics, Am. J. Phys. 76, April/May 2008, 296‐306.
4. What to Teach? Computational Science as an Improved Model for Science Education, Microsoft
Research Faculty Summit on Computational Education for Scientists, July 2008,
research.microsoft.com/en-us/events/facsum2008/.
5. Computational Physics, A Better Model for Physics Education? Computing in Science &
Engineering, 8, September/October 2006, 50‐58.
6. Components of a Research‐Rich BS Degree Program in Computational Physics at Oregon State
University, R. H. Landau, Proc. Int. Conf. Computational Science & Engineering, IT.56‐IT.65,
Istanbul, 2005.
7. Computational Physics for Undergraduates, the CPUG Degree Program at Oregon State
University, R. H. Landau, Computing in Sci & Engr, 6, 68‐75, March/April 2004.
8. Elements of Computational Science Education, O. Yaser and R.H. Landau, SIAM Review, 45, 787‐
805, 2003, http://epubs.siam.org/sam‐bin/dbq/article/40807.
9. Future Scientific Digital Documents with MathML, XML, and SVG, R. Landau, D. Vediner, P.
Wattananakasiwich, and K. Kyle, IEEE/AIP Computing in Sci & Engr, 4, 77‐86, March 2002.

10. Web‐Enhanced Undergraduate Course and Book for Computational Physics, R.H. Landau, H.
Kowallik, and M. J. Paez, Computers in Phys., 12, 240‐247, 1998; A Web version describing these
enhancements (with active links) can be found at www.aip.org/cip/pdf/landau.pdf.
11. Landau’s research group educational applet collection (developed in 1996‐1998 to show the
potential of the WWW for education),
http://www.physics.oregonstate.edu/~rubin/TALKS/CPtalk/DEMO/samples.html,
http://www.physics.oregonstate.edu/~rubin/nacphy/CPapplets/ including:
a. Coping with Unix (early Web tutorial)
b. Random Walk Simulation
c. Spontaneous Decay Simulation
d. Chaotic Pendulum with Java (and before)
e. Visualizing Data
f. Using Subroutine Libraries, LAPACK Without All the Pain
g. Parallel Programming Without A Parallel Computer, Getting Started With PVM
h. Monte Carlo Techniques
i. Differential Equations and Oscillations
j. Solving Simultaneous Nonlinear Equations
k. Visualizing Physics With Sound (Sonification)
l. Wavepacket‐Wavepacket Collision Movies
m. The CP Applet Collection (with University of Antioquia, Medellin)
n. Mechanical Oscillations Tutorial
12. Coping with Unix, An Interactive Survival Kit, (A Web workbook used at schools and computer
centers), http://www.physics.oregonstate.edu/~rubin/nacphy/UNIX/.
13. Developing Components and Curricula for a Research‐Rich Undergraduate Degree in
Computational Physics, 1051, Procd, Intl. Conf. Computl. Scie. 2001, V.N. Alexandrov, J.J. Dongarra,
B.A. Juliano, R.S. Renner, and C.J.K. Tan (Eds), Springer, Berlin, (2001).
14. Two‐Particle Schroedinger Equation animations of wave packet‐wave packet scattering, J.J.V.
Maestri, R.H. Landau, and M. J. Paez, Am. J. Phys. 68, 1113‐1119 (2000).
15. Web, Education, and Computational Physics; Good, Bad, and Ugly, Computer Phys. Comm. 121,
550, (1999).
16. Web Based Education in Computational Science and Engineering, T.L. Marchioro II and R.H.
Landau, IEEE Computational Sci. and Engr., 4 (1997).
17. Computer Scientists Should Not Teach Computational Science, R.H. Landau, IEEE Computational
Sci. and Engr., 3, 55 (1996).
18. Visualizations In Few Body Physics, R.H. Landau, T. Mefford, G. He, and P. Fink, Computers in
Physics, 7, 296 (1993).
Research Papers

1. Charmed Mesic Nuclei: Bound D and D states with 208 Pb, K. Tsushima, D.H. Lu, A.W. Thomas, K.
Saito an R.H. Landau, Phys. Rev. C 59, 2824 (1999).
2. Pi‐N Scattering and the Delta‐N‐N Coupling Constant in the Chiral Color Dielectric Model, D. Lu,
S.C. Phatak, and R.H. Landau, Phys. Rev. C. 51 2207 (1995).
3. PiN: Computation of Pion‐Nucleon Scattering in the Color Dielectric Quark Model, D. Lu, G. He,
S.C. Phatak, and R.H. Landau, Computer Physics Communication, 108,75 (1998).
4. A Cloudy Bag Model for the S‐D Wave K‐N System, G. He, and R.H. Landau, Nucl. Phys. A585, 379
(1995).
5. LPOT : A Distributed Memory Code for Polarized Proton‐Polarized Nucelus Scattering, T. Mefford
and R.H. Landau, submitted for publication.
6. PiN: Computation of Pion‐Nucleon Scattering in the Color Dielectric Quark Model, D. Lu, G. He,
S.C. Phatak, and R.H. Landau, Computer Physics Communication, accepted for publication (1998),
7. A Cloudy Bag Model for the S‐D Wave System, G. He, and R.H. Landau, Nucl. Phys. A585,
379 (1995).
8. Applications of the Chiral Color Dielectric Model to Low Energy Meson‐Baryon Interactions, D. Lu,
S.C. Phatak, and R.H. Landau, Nucl. Phys. A585, 381 (1995).
9. Spin Observables in Elastic Proton Scattering from Polarized He, E.J. Brash, O. Häusser, W.J.
Cummings, M. Bahrami, P.P.J. Delheij, R.S. Henderson, M.C. Vetterli, D.M. Whittal, B. Larson, R.H.
Landau, T. Mefford, and L. Ray, Phys. Rev. C, 52, 807 (1995).
10. Elastic Scattering of Polarized Protons from Polarized He, O. Häusser, B. Larson, W.P.
Alford, C. Chan, P.P.J. Delheij, R.S. Henderson, K.P. Jackson, R.H. Landau, T. Mefford, C.A. Miller, A.
Rahav, L. Ray, A. Trudel, and M.C. Vetterli, Phys. Lett. B343, 36 (1995).
11. Kaon Photoproduction in the Chiral Color Dielectric Model, D. Lu, R.H. Landau, and S.C. Phatak,
Phys. Rev. C 52, 1662 (1995).
12. N Scattering and the NN Coupling Constant in the Chiral Color Dielectric Model, D. Lu, S.C.
Phatak, and R.H. Landau, Phys. Rev. C. 51 2207 (1995).
13. Charge Symmetry Breaking in 500 MeV Nucleon‐Trinucleon Scattering, T. Mefford and R.H.
Landau, Phys. Rev. C, 52 1212‐1215 (1995).
14. Elastic Scattering of Polarized Protons from Polarized He, Scattering, O. Häusser, B. Larson,
W.P. Alford, C. Chan, P.P.J. Delheij, R.S. Henderson, K.P. Jackson, R.H. Landau, T. Mefford, C.A. Miller,
A. Rahav, L. Ray, A. Trudel, and M.C. Vetterli, Phys. Lett. B 343, 36 (1995).
15. Quark Models of the Low‐Energy and Interactions, R.H. Landau, DAE Symposium on
Nuclear Physics, Uktal University, India, Procds., 37A, 144 (1995).
16. Chiral Color Dielectric Model for S and P Wave Scattering in the Coupled System, D. Lu, S.C.
Phatak, and R.H. Landau, The N Newsletter, (ISSN 0942‐4148), 10, 209 (1995).
17. Coulomb plus Nuclear Scattering in Momentum Space for Coupled Angular‐Momentum States,
D. Lu, T. Mefford, G. Song, and R.H. Landau, Phys. Rev. C, 50, 3037 (1994).
18. Schrödinger Optical Potential Calculation of 500 MeV Polarized Proton Scattering from C, T.
Mefford, R. Landau, L. Berge, and K. Amos, Phys. Rev. C, 50, 1648 (1994).
19. Deep Pionic Bound States in a Nonlocal Optical Potential, D. Lu and R.H. Landau, Phys. Rev. C, 49,
878, (1994).
20. Cloudy Bag Model for the S‐D Wave System, G.He and R.H. Landau, Phys. Rev. C, 48, 3047
(1993).
21. Exotic Gamow States of Atoms, Nuclei, and Particles, R.H. Landau, Computational Quantum
Physics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, AIP Conf. Procds. 260, 83 (1992).
22. Microscopic Optical Potential Calculation of Hypernuclei and Atomic States in Carbon, P.J. Fink
Jr., J.W. Schnick, and R.H. Landau, Physical Review C, 42, 232, (1990).

23. Spin Observables for Polarized Proton Scattering from Polarized He, R.H. Landau, M. Sagen,
G. He, Physical Review C, 41, 50, (1990).
24. Bound States, Resonances, and Poles in Low‐Energy Interaction Models, P.J. Fink Jr., G. He,
R. H. Landau, and J. W. Schnick, Physical Review C, 41, 2720, (1990).
25. Method for Computing Coupled‐Channels Gamow‐State Energies, G. He, P. Fink, and R.H.
Landau, Phys. Rev. C 40, 1525, (1989).
26. Protonium, Baryonium, and Kaonic Hydrogen in Momentum Space, Notas de Fisica, 11, 171
(1988).
27. LPOTp: Nucleon Elastic‐Scattering from Spin 0 and Nuclei in Momentum Space, M. Paez, M.
Sagen, and R.H. Landau, Computer Phys. Communications, 52 141, (1988).
28. Protonium and Baryonium States with the Graz Potential, R. H. Landau and J. Schnick, Phys. Rev.
C36, 1942‐1950 (1987); Phys. Rev. C 38, 1087 (1988).
29. Low‐Energy Antikaon‐Nucleon Interaction, J. Schnick and R. H. Landau, Phys. Rev. Lett. 58, 1719‐
1722 (1987).
30. Microscopic Optical‐Potential Analysis of Charge‐Symmetry Violation in Elastic Scattering from
H and He, Kr. T. Kim, Y. E. Kim, and R.H. Landau, Physical Review C36, 2155‐2159 (1987).
31. Comparison of Bound State Calculations, R.H. Landau and Beato Cheng, Phys. Rev. C33, 734
(1986).
32. An Optical Model Calculation of Elastic and Charge Exchange Scattering of Protons from
Trinucleons, R.H. Landau and M. Sagen, Phys. Rev. C33, 447 (1986).
33. Kaonic Hydrogen and Helium, Czech. J. Phys. B36, 907‐910, 1986.
34. Sensitivity of He Scattering to Meson Exchange Currents and NN Phase Shifts, M. Sagen and
R.H. Landau, Phys. Lett. 158B, 197 (1985).
35. Partial Wave Expansions for Spin‐Dependent Potentials, R. H. Landau and M. J. Paez, Phys. Rev.
C30, 1757 (1984).
36. Antisymmetry and Spin Effects in He Scattering, R.H. Landau and M.J. Paez, Phys. Lett. 142B,
235 (1984).
37. Proton‐ He Scattering with Antisymmetrized Amplitudes at Intermediate Energy, M. J. Paez and
R.H. Landau, Phys. Rev. C29, 2267 (1984).
38. The Bound State with Coupling to the Hyperon Channels, R.H. Landau, Phys. Rev. C28, 1324‐
1333 (1983).
39. Coupled Bound and Continuum Eigenstates in Momentum Space, R. H. Landau, Phys. Rev. C27,
2191‐2197 (1983).
40. LPOTT ‐ Pion and Kaon Elastic Scattering from Spin Nuclei in Momentum Space, Computer
Physics Communications, 28, 109‐151 (1982).
41. A Model for the Spin, Isospin and Energy Dependence of Pion‐Nucleus Annihilation, K. B. Yoo and
R.H. Landau, Phys. Rev. C25, 489‐503 (1982).
42. Kaon Charge Exchange on H, M. J. Paez and R.H. Landau, Phys. Rev. C24, 2689‐2694 (1981).
43. Nuclear Structure Effects in Elastic Scattering from He, H, He, and , M.
J. Paez and R.H. Landau, Phys. Rev. C24, 1120‐1134 (1981).
44. Separable Potential Model for the Off Shell Amplitude, C. Coronis and R.H. Landau, Phys. Rev.
C24, 605‐513 (1981).
45. Proton Radii Determinations from the Ratio of Elastic Scattering from B and C, with B.
Barnett, W. Gyles, R. Johnson, K. L. Erdman, J. Johnstone, J. Kraushaar, S. Lepp, T. Masterson, E. Rost,
D. R. Gill, A. W. Thomas, J. Alster, and I. Navon, Phys. Lett. 97B, 45‐49 (1980).

46. Pion‐Nucleus Interactions: Multiple Scattering Approach, Procds. Workshop on the Future of
Pion‐Nucleus Interactions, 5, Eds. H. C. Lee, A. N. Saharia and A. W. Thomas, TRIUMF Report, TRI‐79‐
2 (1979).
47. Inclusive Pion Production in Proton and Ion Collisions with Nuclei, Meson‐Nuclear Physics ‐ 1979
(Houston), Ed. E. V. Hungerford III, A.I.P.; New York, 107, 1979.
48. Elements of the Theory of the Reaction, R. H. Landau and A. W. Thomas, Phys. Lett. 88B,
226‐230 (1979).
49. Pion‐Nucleus Interactions, High Energy Physics and Nuclear Structure, 289, Eds. D. F. Measday
and A. W. Thomas, North Holland, 1980.
50. Elastic and Charge Exchange Scattering of Pions from the 3 and 4 Nucleon System, LAMPF
Workshop on Pion Single Charge Exchange, Eds. H. Baer, D. Bowman, M. Johnson, Conference
Proceedings, LA‐7892‐C, Los Alamos, 150‐167, 1979.
51. Backward p‐ He Scattering with an Improved Optical Potential, Y. Alexander and R.H.
Landau, Phys. Lett. 84B, 292‐295 (1979).
52. Scaling and Non‐Scaling of Inclusive Pion Production in Nuclear Collisions, R.H. Landau and M.
Gyulassy, Phys. Rev. C19, 149‐163 (1979).
53. Inclusive Pion Production in Relativistic Proton Collisions with Nuclei, A Reexamination, R.H.
Landau, Phys. Rev. C17, 2144‐2150 (1978).
54. The Connection Between Elastic and Quasi‐Elastic Pion Scattering from Nuclei, A. W. Thomas and
R.H. Landau, Phys. Lett. 77B, 155‐158 (1978).
55. An Energy‐Dependent Phase Shift Analysis of Pion‐Nucleon Scattering Below 400 MeV, G. Rowe,
M. Salomon, and R. H. Landau, Phys. Rev. C18, 584‐489 (1978).
56. A Theory of Low Energy Pion‐Nucleus Elastic Scattering, R. H. Landau and A.W. Thomas, Nucl.
Phys. A302, 461‐492 (1978).
57. Elastic Scattering of Positive Pions from C at 30, 40 and 50 MeV, R.R. Johnson, T.G.
Masterson, K.L. Erdman, A.W. Thomas, and R.H. Landau, Nucl. Phys. A296, 444‐460 (1978).
58. An Improved Optical Potential Calculation of the Elastic and Charge Exchange Scattering of
Intermediate Energy Pions from the Helium Isotopes, R.H. Landau, Phys. Rev. C15, 2127‐2138 (1977).
59. The Necessity for an Improved Optical Potential in Low Energy Pion‐Nucleus Scattering, R.H.
Landau and A.W. Thomas, Phys.Letters 61B, 361‐364 (1976).
60. Scattering of Pions from He and He Calculated with Realistic Form Factors, R.H. Landau,
Annals of Physics 92, 205‐231 (1975).
61. Pion‐He Scattering, R.H. Landau, Physics Letters 57B, 13‐16 (1975).
62. The Role of Off‐Shell Scattering in the Pion Optical Potential, R.H. Landau and F. Tabakin, Nucl.
Phys. A23, 445‐454 (1974).
63. Pauli Principle Effects in Pion‐Nucleus Scattering, Proc. Pion‐Nucleus Scattering Summer School,
Los Alamos, 205 (1973).
64. Pauli Principal Effects in Pion‐Nucleus Scattering, R.H. Landau and J.M. McMillan, Phys. Rev. C8,
2094‐2100 (1973).
65. An Optical Potential Calculation of Elastic Scattering, R.H. Landau, S.C. Phatak, and F.
Tabakin, Phys. Rev. C7, 1803‐1809 (1973).
66. An Optical Potential Calculation of Elastic Scattering, R.H. Landau, S.C. Phatak, and F.
Tabakin, Phys. Rev. C7, 1803‐1809 (1973).
67. Improved Theoretical Pion‐Nucleus Optical Potentials, R.H. Landau, S.C. Phatak, and F. Tabakin,
Annals of Physics (N.Y.) 78, 299‐339 (1973).
68. Absorptive Separable Potentials Constructed from Data, R.H. Landau and F. Tabakin, Phys.
Rev. D5, 2746‐2754 (1972).

69. The Importance of Off‐Energy‐Shell Scattering and Fermi Motion in Scattering, R.H. Landau,
Nucl. Phys. B35, 390‐396 (1971).
70. Models for Meson‐Deuteron Scattering in the Resonant Region, R. H. Landau, Phys. Rev. D3, 81‐
92 (1971).