CURRICULUM VITAE - Sam M. Austin
Updated----29 March 1999

Born: June 6, 1933, Columbus, Wisconsin USA

Education:

University of Wisconsin B.S. (Physics), August 1955
University of Wisconsin M.S. (Physics), February, 1957

University of Wisconsin Ph.D. (Physics), June, 1960


Professional Societies:

The American Physical Society (Fellow)

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (Fellow)


Positions:
           Research Associate                                 May 1960 - September 1960
            Department of Physics
            University Wisconsin

National Science Foundation                    October 1960 - October 1961
Postdoctoral Fellow
Clarendon Laboratory
Oxford University

Assistant Professor of Physics                   November 1961 - August 1965
Stanford University

Associate Professor of Physics                 September 1965 - June 1969
Michigan State University

Professor of Physics                                 July 1969 - 1990
Michigan State University

University Distinguished  Professor            July 1990 - September 2000
Michigan State Univ.

University Distinguished Professor,            September 2000-
Emeritus, Michigan State Univ.
 

Visiting Positions
 
Guest, Niels Bohr Institute                         April 1970 - September 1970
Copenhagen, Denmark

Gästprofessor September                         1972 - August 1973
Universität München, Germany

Visiting Scientist September                        1979 - May 1980
CEN Saclay, France

Visiting Scientist                                         June 1980 - August 1980
Lab Rene Bernas, Orsay, France

Visiting Staff Member                                 October 1981 - September 1992
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Visiting Scientisit                                         August 1993-August 1994
Triumf

Professeur Invité                                         September ,1996
Univ. Paris,Sud, Orsay


Administrative positions:
 

Associate Director                                        October 1976 - July 1979
Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State Univ.

Chairman, Department of Physics                 September 1980 - August 1983
and Astronomy
Michigan State University

Research Director                                         November 1983 - July 1985
National Superconducting
Cyclotron Laboratory, MSU

Co-Director                                                  August 1985 - January 1989
National Superconducting
Cyclotron Laboratory, MSU

Director                                                         February 1989 - July 1992
National Superconducting
Cyclotron Laboratory, MSU

Acting Dean, College                                     Fall 1994
of Natural Science, MSU
 

Editorial Positions:
 
Editor, Physical Review C                               January 1988 - 2002

Associate Editor, Atomic Data                        1990-
and Nuclear Data Tables

Member, Editorial Committee                          1992-1996
Ann. Rev. Nucl. Particle Sci.

Editor, Virtual Jour. of  Nucl. Astrophysics      2003-


Fellowships and Awards:
 

National Science Foundation                              October 1960 - October 1961
Postdoctoral Fellow

Alfred P. Sloan Fellow                                       September 1963 - September 1966

Fellow, American Physical Society                      1972--

Senior Research Award Sigma Xi                       1977

Fellow, AAAS                                                    1988--

University Distinguished Prof.                               1990--

Michigan Association of                                        1992
Governing Boards
Distinguished Professor
 

Elected Positions in Professional Societies
Vice Chairman (and Chairman Elect), Division of Nuclear Physics of the American Physical Society, April 1981 - April 1982.

Chairman, Program Committee, Division of Nuclear Physics of the American Physical Society, April 1981 - April 1982.

Chairman, Division of Nuclear Physics of the American Physical Society, April 1982 - April 1983.

Executive Committee of the Division of Nuclear Physics of the American Physical Society, 1981-1984, 1986-1989. Vice Chair: 1981-82, Chair: 1982-83.

Council of the American Physical Society (Counselor for Division of Nuclear Physics), 1986-89.

Executive Committee, Council of American Physical Society 1987, 1988.

Nominating Committee of the Physics Electorate of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1987-90 (Chair 1990)

Panel on Public Affairs, American Physical Society, 1996-1998.

Nominating Committee of the Physics Electorate of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1999-2002. 
 

Other National and Internationall Committees

NAS/NRC Committee

 Nuclear Physics Panel of the National Research Council/National Academy of Sciences  Physics Survey Committee (To  produce the successor to the Brinkman Report).  1996-1999.

NSF/DoE Nuclear Science Advisory Committee (NSAC) and Subcommittees:  

DoE/NSF Nuclear Science Advisory Committee, January, 1981 -  December, 1983.

 Chairman, Light Ion Panel of NSAC to Update Long-Range Plan for Nuclear Science, Fall 1981. 

Participant in the Long-Range Plan Workshop of Nuclear Science Advisory Committee, Summer 1983 -             Chairman of Light Ion Panel and Elementary Excitations Panel. 

Facilities Subcommittee of NSAC; February 1981 - March 1981.  (Chairman of working group for Florida State Proposal). 

DoE/NSF Nuclear Science Advisory Committee Panel on Electron Accelerator Facilities, Spring, 1983. 

Subcommittee of Nuclear Science Advisory Committee for Solar Neutrino Experiments, Summer 1985. 

Nuclear Science Advisory Committee Subcommittee on Inflation, 1987-88. 

NSAC Long Range Planning Workshop, 1989 (Working Groups on Nucleons in Nuclei, Nuclei in the Universe, Fiscal Data and Planning Group) 

NSERC and NRC(Canada) Committees  

 Subatomic Physics Grant Selection Committee of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada, 1997-99. 

NSERC(GSC19) Review Committees: 1997:  Triumf   1998:  Triumf, SNO

NRC Triumf Peer Review Committee (October 21-23, 1998) 

NRC TRIUMF Peer Review Committee (September 10-12, 2003) 

National Laboratory Review/Advisory Committees  

Argonne Universities Association Special Committee for the Medium Energy Electron Facility at ANL, April 1981 - October 1982. 

University of Chicago Special Committee for the Medium Energy   Electron Accelerator at ANL.  November 1982 - January 1984. 

Associated Universities Visiting Committee for the Physics Department at Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1986-1991. 

Program Advisory Committee, Indiana University Cyclotron Facility, December 1988-December 1989. 

Director's Review Committee for the Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley, Laboratory, 1989-1993.  Chair, 1992. 

Physics Division Advisory Committee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1991-1995 

Physics Division Review Committee, Argonne National Laboratory, 1989-1997, Chair 1996,1997. 

Holifield Radioactive Ion Beam Facility Program Advisory Committee, 1994-1997. 

National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Program Advisory Committee (1997-98) 

NSF/DOE Committees:  

Subcommittee of Advisory Committee for Physics to Review NSF-Supported Nuclear Physics Laboratories, Spring 1979. 

Subcommittee of the NSF Advisory Committee for Physics to Review NSF Program in Atomic, Molecular and Plasma Physics, Spring 1985. 

Special NSF Reviewers Panel to Evaluate NSF Supported Programs in Nuclear Science, Spring, 1982.April 1982 - April 1983. 

Advisory Committee for Physics of the National Science Foundation, October 1983 - September 1986. 

Site Visit Committee to review the program of the Indiana University Cyclotron Facility, May 1984. 

Site Visit Committee at the University of Illinois to review program and proposal to construct a medium energy electron scattering facility, April 1985. 

Site Visit Committee to Review the Program at the University of Illinois Nuclear Physics Laboratory, June 1986. 

NSF Committee of Visitors for the NSF Division of Physics, April 1991. 

DOE Review Committee, Wright Nuclear Structure laboratory, Yale, 1991. 

Chair, Borexino Technical Review Committee, June 1997. Member, Panel to review the Institute for Nuclear Physics, December 1999. 

APS/AIP Committees  

Member of AIP Advisory Council on Publishing, 1974. 

Committee on Economics Concerns of the Nuclear Physics Division of the American Physical Society; Member, 1974-78; Chairman, 1976-78 

Member, Program Committee, Division of Nuclear Physics of the American Physical Society, April 1976-April 1978. 

Fellowship Committee, American Physical Society, 1986-88. 

APS Task Force on Meetings 1987-88. 

Nominating Committee, Division of Nuclear Physics (APS), 1986-1989. 

AIP Publications Board, 1988-.present 

APS Committee on Committees, American Physical Society 1988. 

Chair, APS Committee on Committees, 1989 

Vice-Chair, APS Bonner Prize Selection Committee, 1998 

Chair, APS Bonner Prize Selection Committee,1998 

Public Information Committee, Division of Nuclear Physics (1998, 1999) 

Bethe Prize Selection Committee, Jan. 2001-December 2003 

Other National Committees:   

Evaluation Committee for Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Colorado, March 1977. 

Steering Committee of Midwest Sponsors Organization for MSU  Superconducting Cyclotron Facility, October 1977 - August 1979. 

Council of the Gordon Research Conferences, 1983. 

User's Advisory Panel for the Time of Flight Facility, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1985 

Nominating Committee of the Physics Electorate of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1987-89. Chair, 1990. 

Steering Committee, Nuclear Physics Summer School (1996-2001) 

Nominating Committee of the Physics Electorate of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1999-2002. 

Executive Committee, Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics, 2003- 

International Advisory  Committee, Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics, 2003-