Verne Jacobs Visiting Faculty Research Assistant Mailing Address: Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics Energy Research Facility, Room 1202W University of Maryland College Park, Maryland 20742-3511 Phone: (301) 405-2311 Email: jacobs at dave.nrl.navy.mil FAX: (301) 314-9437

Verne Jacobs received a B.S. degree in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1964. He received a Ph.D. degree in physics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1968. At Berkeley he conducted research in solid state theory and in atomic theory. From 1968 to 1971, he held a Weizmann Fellowship working at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. His post-doctoral research work was centered on radiative transitions of two-electron atomic systems. This research was continued during a second post-doctoral appointment at the Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland, from 1971 to 1972. The investigation on atomic radiative transitions was also continued during the tenure of a National Academy of Sciences - Resident Research Associateship, from 1972 to 1974, at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

From 1974 to 1977, Verne jacobs worked for Science Applications, Inc. on atomic radiation processes in plasmas. In 1977, he joined the Naval Research Laboratory as a research physicist and later as Consultant for Atomic Radiation Processes, in the Complex Systems Theory Branch of the Condensed Matter and Radiation Science Division. Presently he is a Visiting Faculty Research Assistant at IREAP. In 1985, he was elected to Fellowship in the American Physical Society.

Verne Jacobs' research interests include atomic radiative processes in electron-ion beam interactions and in high-temperature plasmas, with particular emphasis on dielectronic recombination and other processes involving autoionization resonances; coherent radiation processes of energetic electrons in crystal lattices, such as coherent bremsstrahlung and channeling radiation; radiative interactions in quantum-confinement systyem, e.g., semiconductor heterostructures; and coherent radiation processes involving relativistic electrons in electric and magnetic fields. Density-matrix and Liouville-space projection operation techniques are employed, which facilitate a self-consistent description of level-population kinetics and spectral-line shapes and lead to a unified investigation of the angular distribution and polarization of radiative emissions.

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