Jerry D. Hinnefeld

Professor
Department of Physics & Astronomy
Indiana University South Bend
P.O. Box 7111
1700 Mishawaka Ave.
South Bend, IN 46634-7111

Office: Northside Hall 355
Phone: (574) 520-4467
FAX: (574) 520-6589
e-mail: jhinnefe@iusb.edu

My Courses

In the Spring 2007 semester I'm teaching:

My Research

I'm an experimental nuclear physicist, with interests in heavy-ion reaction mechanisms, reactions with radioactive beams, and reactions with astrophysical implications. Since coming to IUSB I've collaborated in experiments at Notre Dame's Nuclear Structure Laboratory, at Argonne National Laboratory, at the University of Toronto, the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, and at the Université catholique de Louvain, in Belgium. Currently I'm representing IUSB on the MoNA collaboration. MoNA (the Modular Neutron Array) is a high-efficiency neutron detection wall being constructed for the NSCL. Assembly, testing, and calibration of the 144 plastic scinillator elements of MoNA was carried out primarily at eight undergraduate institutions. You're welcome to look at my list of publications if you like. Also, here's a description of Research in Nuclear Physics at IUSB.

My Education

I received a B.A. in physics from Hanover College in 1977, and my Ph.D. in nuclear physics from Notre Dame in 1987.

My Professional Experience

I spent two years, from 1987-89, as a post-doctoral research associate ("onderzoeker") at the Kernfysisch Versneller Instituut (KVI) in Groningen, the Netherlands (ik spreek nog een heel klein beetje Nederlands). From 1989-91 I was a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Radiology, Division of Nuclear Medicine, at the University of Cincinnati. I've been a faculty member in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at IUSB since 1991, where I also served as Acting Assistant Dean of the Division of Liberal Arts & Sciences from 1995 to 1997. In the summer of 2006 I began my second three-year term as department chair. During the 1998-99 academic year, while on sabbatical, I had a visiting appointment at the Institut de Physique Nucléaire, of the Université Catholique de Louvain, in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (oui, je parle aussi un tres petit peu francais). I also spent two years as a physics and math teacher at North Putnam Jr-Sr High School, in Bainbridge, Indiana, before I started graduate school.

My Other Interests

I'm a bicycle transportation advocate, serving as chairperson of the St. Joseph County Bicycle/Pedestrian Committee, an advisory committee of the Michiana Area Council of Governments (MACOG). This committee has prepared a comprehensive revision to the Bicycle/Pedestrian Element of the MACOG 2015 Transportation Plan, which was approved by the MACOG Policy Board in May, 1996. Some time ago I posted a draft version of this Bicycle/Pedestrian Plan. It is essentially the same as the version adopted by the Policy Board.

There are lots of good bicycle sites on the Web. Two I've found are BikePlan Source and Cyber Cyclery. For us Hoosiers, there's the Indiana Bicycle Coalition web site.

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Last updated: March 1, 2007
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