Daniel Neuman

daniel@madmadscientist.com

Education

Experience

San Francisco State University
Research with Professor Roger Bland, 1995-present
Underwater Acoustics Research Group.

Helped to design and implement a 200kHz ultrasonic velocity meter experimental apparatus for boat wake detection. Designed and built: selectable gain tuned amplifier, high-power transducer drivers and pseudo random m-sequence generator. Coded specialized data collection and analysis programs using the IDL and Matlab environments. Carried out wavelet analysis of boat wake signals and mathematical modeling of boat wakes.

Graduate Student Teaching Assistant. 1993-present
Considerable experience teaching the first two semesters of physics-for-biology- majors laboratory course and discussion section. Taught physics-for-poets laboratory course and discussion section.

University of San Francisco 1994-1995
Temporary Faculty, Physics Department.
Taught physics discussion sections and was responsible for grading all homework and lab reports.

University of California Santa Cruz 1992-1993
Research Assistant to Professor Clem Heusch, High Energy Physics Group.
As part of a project to develop particle detectors for high-energy accelerator experiments, I worked to refine a table-top experimental apparatus to clean Tetramethylpentane to less than one part per billion of contaminants. Gained experience in the design and construction of: particle detectors for high energy physics, ultra-high vacuum apparatus, high voltage electronics and analog signal detectors

Chabot Junior College
Homework and Lab report grader for lower division physics classes.

Additional Skills

Familiarity with: UNIX, DOS/Windows 3.1, 95, NT, Macintosh, Photoshop, Pagemill, Excel, FORTRAN, BASIC, PASCAL, and C.

Machine shop: lathe, vertical mill, drill press, band saw, tap and die.

Experience with digital and analog electronics.

Publications

R. Bland, D. Neuman, and R. Johnson, "Results From Cross-Correlation Measurements Of Estuarine Current Velocity," paper to be presented at the Seattle meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, June 24, 1998.

R. Bland, D. Neuman, M. Casolo, and R. Johnson, "Attenuation and Multi-path Interference in Ultrasonic Velocity Meter Measurements in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta," submitted talk presented at the AGU Fall Meeting, December 8-12, 1997, San Francisco, California.

R. Bland, A. Grant, K. Laws, D. Neuman, M. Uguawa, and M. Simpson, "Measurement of Open-Channel Water Velocity in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta Using a Phase-Modulated, Cross Correlation, Ultrasonic Velocity Meter," poster presented at the 1996 Ocean Sciences Meeting, Feb. 12-16, San Diego, California.

D. Neuman, "Studies Of A Room-Temperature Liquid Ionization Chamber For High-Energy Particle Calorimetry," senior thesis, June 1997. University of California Santa Cruz.

Professional Memberships

• American Geophysical Union
• International Society of Physics Students
• American Physical Society
• American Solar Energy Society