Martin Berz
Professor
High Energy Physics - Theoretical
Biomedical-Physical Sciences Bldg.
567 Wilson Rd., Room 3253
(517) 884-XXXX
berz@msu.edu
http://bt.pa.msu.edu/index_berz.htm
Education:
1986: Ph.D., University of Giessen
1986: Ph.D., University of Giessen
Professional Activities & Interests / Biographical Information
Research Interests
- Dynamical Systems
- Nonlinear Beam Physics
- High-Order Rigorous Computation
- Non-Archimedean Analysis
- Computational Differentiation
Brief Professional Biography
- 1986: Dr. rer. nat. “Summa Cum Laude”, University of Giessen.
(Also Master's Degrees in Physics, Mathematics, and Education) - 1986: Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley LBNL, and Consultant, LANL
- 1987: Faculty, University of Giessen
- 1988: Staff Scientist, UC Berkeley LBNL
- 1990: Faculty, Department of Physics and Astronomy, MSU
- 2001: Visiting Faculty, Fields Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Univ. Toronto
Honors and Awards
- R. E. Moore Prize for Interval Analysis (jointly with Kyoko Makino), 2008
- Doctor Honoris Causa Mathematics, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia, 2007
- MSU PA Graduate Teacher Award, 2002
- Fellow, American Physical Society, 1998
- Faculty Research Fellow, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 1992
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, 1987
- Fellow, Fulbright Commission
- Scholar, Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (German National Merit Foundation)
Service
- Chair, Tenth International Conference on Non-Archimedean Analysis, 2008
- Chair, Int.. Computational Accelerator Physics Conference ICAP02, Co-Chair ICAP04
- Chair, APS DPB Dissertation Award Committee
- Chair, APS DPB Brochure Committee
- APS Centenary Committee
- APS DPB Conference Committees, frequently since 1991
- Local Coordinator, MSU Program of Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
- Organizer, USA Meeting 1998 of Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (German National Merit Foundation) at MSU
- Chair, Second International SIAM Conference on Automatic Differentiation 1996
- Chair, Personnel Subcommittee, MSU University Committee of Faculty Affairs
Instructional Activities
- MSU PHY233B, PHY234B
- MSU PHY842 (Graduate E&M II)
- Development of MSU Beam Physics Curriculum
- Development of VUBeam (MSU's Virtual University Beam Physics Program)
- MSU PHY861, PHY962
- MSU PHY184, PHY287 (Introductory Physics)
- MSU PHY321, PHY422 (Mechanics), PHY431 (Optics)
- Courses at US Particle Accelerator School 1993, 1995, 1998, 2006
- Courses at CERN Academic Training Programme
- Courses at Summer Academy of German National Merit Foundation/Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes 1992, 1995