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2019

May 28: Article "Correlation Between Violence and Forced Migration", J. A. Lopez, in "Latin American Geopolitics Migration, Cities and Globalization", Eds: César Álvarez Alonso, and José Ignacio Hernández. See

2021

Article Lopez, J. A., Romero Gonzalez, S. S.*, Hernandez Rodriguez, O.*, Homes, J.*, Alarcon, R., (2021). GEANT4 Study of Proton–Body Interactions. J. Nuc. Phys., Mat. Sci., Radiation and Applications, 8(2), 1-7.

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2020

Dec. 17: Video Talk, "Astronomy and the end-of-year festivities", Grupo ChacMool and ArtStudio, Austin, TX.
Article Lopez, J. A., Romero Gonzalez, S. S.*, Hernandez Rodriguez, O.*, Homes, J.*, Alarcon, R., (2021). GEANT4 Study of Proton–Body Interactions. J. Nuc. Phys., Mat. Sci., Radiation and Applications, 8(2), 1-7.
Oct. 6: Selected as 2020 HENAAC Award for Education. See Press Release here, and the web page of Great Minds in STEM here. See Awards Ceremony here (starts at minute 21). See article in TECHNICA, the HENAAC magazine here, the ACCEPTANCE video here, and the THANK YOU video here.
Sep. 26: Video Talk "GEANT4 study of proton-tissue interactions" delivered by video to the XVI International Symposium on Radiation Physics. See the 14 min. talk here. or in my YouTube Channel.
Article, Schmidt, S., Lopez, J. A., (2020). RMEE: Estudio de la elección para gobernador de Chihuahua de 2016. Revista Mexicana de Estudios Electorales, 4(24), 81-110. https://somee.org.mx/rmestudioselectorales/index.php/RMEstudiosElectorales/article/view/305/pdf.
Article J.A. Lopez, “La física del cambio social”, in book "Por qué fracasan las izquierdas", S. Schmidt, Ed., Independently published 9/23/2020. ISBN-13 : 979-8689569390. See article here.
May 22: Video Talk, Former Students of Instituto Tecnológico de Ciudad Juárez. “Spectroscopy and applications,” online, audience: 40
Apr. 9: Video Talk, "Fisica atómica, El Chapo, Osama Bin Laden y El Papa", Grupo ChacMool and ArtStudio, Austin, TX. See older version of the presentation here (in Spanish).
Article J.A. López, S.S. Romero González, O. Hernández Rodríguez, J. Holmes and R. Alarcon, A GEANT4 study of a gamma-ray collimation array”, J. Nuc. Phys., Mat. Sci., Radiation and Applications, 7, 217-221, 2020. See article here.
Apr. 1, Article "Structural, magnetic and second harmonic generation properties in Mayan blue indigo nanostructured pigment", C.A. Díaz-Moreno, Y. Ding, L.M. Martínez, A. Hurtado Macías, S.R. Singamaneni, C. Li, J. A. López, R.R. Chianelli, 499 (2020) 166052. See article here.
Mar. 1, Article Diaz-Moreno, C. A., Sosa, C., Martinez, L. M.*, Hurtado Macias, A., Singamaneni, S. R., Lopez, J. A., Magnetic behavior in Coltan from México. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 497 (2020) 165781 (Elsevier). https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0304885319316312?via%3Dihub
Feb. 28, Article J.A. López, S.S. Romero González, O. Hernández Rodríguez, J. Holmes and R. Alarcon, A GEANT4 study of a gamma-ray collimation array”, J. Nuc. Phys., Mat. Sci., Radiation and Applications, 7, 217-221, 2020. See article here.
Feb. 28, Article Castro-Colin, M., Ramirez-Homs, E.*, Lopez, J. A., (2020). A data mining perspective of XRF elemental analysis of Pueblo peoples’ pottery. J. Nuc. Phys., Mat. Sci., Radiation and Applications, 7(2), 129 - 138. https://jnp.chitkara.edu.in/index.php/jnp/article/view/213
Feb. 10, Article Timambre-Heredia, C. D., Olaya-Davila, H., Sevilla, A. C., Rahul Samasundaram, S. A., Lopez, J. A., Martinez Ovalle, S. A., Sajo Bohus, L., (2020). Radon Progeny Recoil Effect in Retrospective Indoor Glass Dosimetry. J. Nuc. Phys., Mat. Sci., Radiation and Applications, 7(1), 35-41. https://jnp.chitkara.edu.in/index.php/jnp/article/view/195.
Feb. 9-10: Meeting, Advancing Research and Technologies in the Sciences (ARTS) Forum, Department of Energy, Washington, DC. See agenda here.
Feb. 5, Article .A. López, A. Gaytán Terrazas, S. Terrazas Porras, “Isospin-dependent phase diagram of nuclear matter”, Nucl. Phys. A994, 121664 (2020), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysa. 2019.121664. See article here.
Jan. 20-24: Talk, Isospin dependent phase diagram of nuclear matter, J.A. López, XIII Latin American Symposium of Nuclear Physics and Applications, San José, Costa Rica. See abstract here.
Article Samuel Schmidt and J.A. López, "Estudio de la elección para gobernador de Chihuahua de 2016", El Cotidiano, 215, 71-82, 2020. See article here: http://www.elcotidianoenlinea.com.mx/pdf/215.pdf.

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2019

Article C.D. Tibambre-Heredia, H. Olaya-Dávila, A.C. Sevilla, S.A, Rahul Samasundaram, Jorge A. Lopez, S.A. Martinez-Ovalle, L. Sajo-Bohus, “Radon Progeny Recoil Effect in Retrospective Indoor Glass Dosimetry”, J. Nuc. Phys., Mat. Sci., Radiation and Applications, 7, 35-41, 2019. See article here.
Article J.A. López, J.A. Muñoz, C. Dorso, Frank, G., “Machine learning Minkoswki functionals of neutron star crusts”, IOP Conference Series, 1643, 012054. See article here.
Nov. 22: Thesis Defense, Adrián Gaytán Terrazas; "Phase diagram of nuclear matter".
Nov. 20: Meeting of CAPEF (Consejo de Acreditación de Programas Educativos de Física), Academia Mexicana de Ciencias, San Andrés Totoltepec, Mexico City, Mexico.
Nov. 14: Talk “El papel del tutor en la educación de físicos”, Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers – Chapter Mexico, Nov. 14, 2019, UACJ, Cd. Juarez, Chih. Mexico. See abstract here.
Nov. 8: Talk "GEANT4 study of gamma ray collimation array" given at the XXIV Reunión Universitaria de Investigación en Materiales (RUIM 2019) at Universidad de Sonora, Hermosillo, Son, Mexico. More information here and abstract here.
Nov. 1, 2019: Article “Understanding a Physicist’s Work to Explore the Stars and His Community: An Interview with Dr. Jorge Lopez from the University of Texas at El Paso”, written by Andrew Lowrance, Journal of Young Investigators, Nov. 1, 2019, Vol. 37, Pp. 43-44, see article here.
Oct. 8-10: Talk "GEANT4 study of gamma ray collimation array" given at the XV International Symposium on Radiation Physics in conjunction to the Congreso Nacional de Física, Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico
Sep. 3: Article Carlos A. Díaz Moreno, C. Sosa, L.M. Martinez, A. Hurtado Macias, S.R. Singamaneni, J.A. López, “Magnetic behavior in Coltan from México”, J. Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 497, 165781 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmmm.2019.165781. See article here.
Aug. 19-23: Talk "Fisica nuclear, El Chapo, Osama Bin Laden y el Papa" given at the Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí (Aug. 20) and Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas. (Aug, 22). See video of presentation at UAZ here.
July 29-Aug 2: Talk "The pasta structure of neutron star matter" at the International Nuclear Physics Conference 2019, Glasgow UK. See program here and abstract here, and the PPT presentation here.
Jul. 3: Participant, Foro de la región noroeste sobre la Ley General de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación, Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez (UACJ), representing CAPEF.
Jun 26: Meeting of CAPEF (Consejo de Acreditación de Programas Educativos de Física), Academia Mexicana de Ciencias, San Andrés Totoltepec, Mexico City, Mexico.
Jun 25: Meeting, Sistema de Ciencia y Tecnología e Innovación del Estado de San Luis Potosí (SICITI), San Luis Potosi, SLP, Mexico.
June 10-21, Guest Claudio Dorso, Universidad de Buenos Aires. On June 18 Claudio gave the Physics Seminar "Diffusion of fear in crowds".
May 28: Article “Correlation between Violence and Forced Migration”, Chapter in book “Latin American Geopolitics: Migration, Cities and Globalization”, Eds. César Álvarez Alonso and José Ignacio Hernández, Palgrave Macmillan, 978-3-319-99551-9, Feb. 2019. See more information here. See article here.
May 20-24: Participant of the Workshop the Workshop Machine Learning Applied to Nuclear Physics at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams on the Michigan State University campus in East Lansing, MI.
Inducted into the UTEP Academy of Distinguished Teachers, 28/April/2019.
Apr. 25: Received a Recognition of Excellence from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board in Austin, Texas. See a 12 min excerpt of the webcast of the meeting showing the Lopez participation here. See the complete webcast of the Board meeting here, it lasts six hours and the Recognition of Excellence for Drs. Dimitiu, Karp, Villalobos and Yours Truly runs from 2:07:00 – 2:45:00.
Apr. 1: Talk "Física anti-narco, anti-terrorismo y anti-fraudes religiosos" at the Instituto de Ingeniería y Tecnología of the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, México.
Mar. 24-26: Panelist at NSF, I cannot say which panel.
Mar. 19: Talk "Física anti-narco, anti-terrorismo y anti-fraudes religiosos" at the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez Campus CU, Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, México.
Mar. 14: Article "Sustainable Synthesis and Remarkable Adsorption Capacity of MOF/Graphene Oxide and MOF/CNT based Hybrid Nanocomposites for the Removal of Bisphenol A from Water", M.A. Ahsan, V. Jabbari, M.T. Islam, R.S. Turley, N. Dominguez, H. Kim,E. Castro, J.A. Hernandez-Viezcas, M.L. Currye, J. Lopez, J.L. Gardea-Torresdey, J.C.Noveron, 672 (2019) 306-307. See article here.
Mar. 19: Talk "Física anti-narco, anti-terrorismo y anti-fraudes religiosos" at the Ciudad Universitaria of the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, México.
Jan. 31-Mar. 15: Panelist at the NSF-GRFP.
Jan. 29: Article "Analytical expression and neural network study of the symmetry energy", Jorge A. López and Jorge A. Muñoz, CERN-Proceedings-2019-001, ISBN 978-92-9083-519-6 (paperback), ISBN 978-92-9083-520-2 (PDF), DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23727/CERN-Proceedings-2019-001, (2019). See article here.
Jan. 24: Article "Symmetry Energy in Neutron Star Matter", C. Dorso, Frank, G., and J.A. López, Nuclear Physics A, 984, 77-98, (2019). See article here.

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2018

Dec. 18: Selected as 2018 NATURE Lifetime Achievement Award for Mentoring. See Nature article here and SpringerNature article here. See UTEP's news release and video here, video with Spanish subtitles here. See the news report in Spanish in El Diario de El Paso, the report in El Diario de Juarez, and the report in The Herald Post.
Dec. 15: Selected as Grand Marshall of the 2018 UTEP Winter Commencement. See video here and President Natalicio's remarks here.
Nov. 30: Talk "SOBRE LA DEGRADACIÓN DE FILMES FOTOVOLTÁICOS DE PEROVSKITA CON HALOGENUROS METÁLICOS", delivered at the XXIII Reunión Universitaria de Investigación en Materiales (2018 RUIM), Universidad de Sonora, Hermosillo, Sonora, México. See abstract here in p. 241.
Nov. 29 and 30: Talks "Graduate studies at UTEP" at the Physics Department of the Universidad de Sonora, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico.
Nov. 18: Article “Modern Physics Simulations”, Jorge A. López, Milijana Suskavcevic and Carlos Velasco, posted on arXiv:1811.09363 [physics.ed-ph] on Nov. 25, 2018. Written in Oct. 2005.
Nov. 7: Meeting of CAPEF (Consejo de Acreditación de Programas Educativos de Física), Academia Mexicana de Ciencias, San Andrés Totoltepec, Mexico City, Mexico.
Sep. 27: Physics Colloquium, "Symmetry energy and phase transitions in the nuclear pasta", at Texas A&M-Commerce.
Sep. 13: Article "Green synthesis of a highly efficient biosorbent for organic, pharmaceutical, and heavy metal pollutants removal: Engineering surface chemistry of polymeric biomass of spent coffee waste", A. Ahsan et el., J. Water Process Engineering, 25, 309-319, (2018). See article here.
Sep. 9: Article "Multiferroic and Optical Properties of La0.05Li0.85NbO3 and LiNbO3 Nanocrystals", C.A. Díaz-Moreno, Jorge A. López, et al., J. Nanotechnology, 3721095, 2018, (2018). See article here.
Sep. 5: Interview at radio show "Pájaro Latinoamericano" with Chelis López, KPOO Radio 89.5 FM, San Francisco, CA, listen to the 30 min Spanish language interview here.
Aug 28: Book "L a Ciencia en el Paso del Norte", Jorge Alberto López Gallardo, Independently published, 136 pages, Spanish language, ISBN-13: 978-1719916585.
Aug. 20: Interview at radio show "Café con Leche" with Lilia Galindo, Radio Hermosa 1470 AM, in Palmdale, CA, listen to Spanish language 15 min interview here.
Aug. 6: Article "Phase transitions and symmetry energy in nuclear pasta", C. Dorso, Frank, G., and Jorge López, Nuclear Physics A, 978, 35-61, (2018). See article here.
Aug. 1: Article “Temperature Effects in the Composition of Metal Halide Perovskite thin Films”, by M. Castro-Colin, L. Banuelos , C. Diaz-Moreno, D. Hodges, E. Ramirez-Homs, D. Korolkov, N. Sharmin, and J. A. Lopez, J. Nucl. Phy. Mat. Sci. Rad. A., 6, 39-49, (2018). DOI 10.15415/jnp.2018.61007. See article here. or here.
July 27: Thesis Defense, of my M.S. student Pamela Lara; "Gravitational waves research at TOROS UTRGV", see thesis here.
June 25-27: Received The Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM) from the White House and the National Science Foundation. See announcement here, the PAESMEM page here, the personalized PAESMEM page here, the UTEP announcement here, the Spanish language news in El Diario here, and some pictures here.
25 Jun–14 Jul. 2018, Guest Claudio Dorso, Universidad de Buenos Aires. On July 13 Claudio gave the Physics Seminar "Measles Outbreaks. Is the World Health Organization wrong?"
June 11-15: Talk "Phase transitions and symmetry energy in nuclear pasta", delivered at the 15th Varenna Conference on Nuclear Reaction Mechanisms, Varenna, Italy. Supported by the Bouchet Award of the American Physical Society. See program here.
May 21-25: Talk "Temperature affects in the composition of metal halide perovskite thin films", delivered at the XIV International Symposium on Radiation Physics, BUAP, Puebla, México.
May 18-22: Presentations of book "Basta de fraudes electorales 1988-2018", at Grupo María Cristina Mexico City (Apr. 14), UACJ Economía (May 14), UAM-I (May 18, click numbers to see video 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5), UNAM - FyL (May 18), UAEH Pachuca (May 21), MORENA Del. Polanco (May 21), BUAP Puebla (May 22), Librería BUAP (May 22). Feria del LIbro Cd. Juárez (May 26). See newspaper reports here: Germán Molina (Puebla), Intolerancia (Puebla, May 24), Sin Embargo (Mar. 19), Milenio (May 20), EA Noticias (May 21), La Jornada (May 2).
May. 9: Thesis Defense, of my M.S. student Selim Romero; "Geant4 study of a gamma ray collimator for proton therapy".
May. 8: Thesis Defense, of my M.S. student Omar Hernández; "Geant4 study of proton-tissue interactions".
Apr. 18: Article “Adsorptive removal of methylene blue, tetracycline and Cr(VI) from water using sulfonated tea waste”, by Ahsan, Md. A., S. K. Katla, Md. T. Islam, J. A. Hernandez-Viezcas, L. M. Martinez, C.A. Díaz-Moreno, J. Lopez, S. R. Singamaneni, J. Banuelos, J. Gardea-Torresdey, J.C. Noveron, Environmental Technology & Innovation, 11, 23 – 40, (2018). See article here.
Apr. 16: Interview at radio show "Hilo Directo" with Angel Otero, Arturo Del Hierro, and Servando Pineda, Radio Net in Juarez, Mexico, about electoral fraud.
3 - 8 Apr. 2018, Guest Alfredo Aranda, Universidad de Colima, Research guest and seminar speaker: “A hidden interaction with flipped generations”, 5/Apr/2018.
30 Mar. 2018, Guest Jesus Pando, DePaul University, Chicago, Il, seminar speaker: “Wavelets and the large scale structure of the universe", and a second talk in my ASTR 1308 "Multimessenger astronomy."
Mar. 22: Inducted into the Academy of Distinguished Former Students of Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas. See complete information here.
Feb. 2: Article "Optical Properties of Ferroelectric Lanthanum Lithium Niobate", C. Diaz Moreno, Ding, Y., Li, , J. Portelles, J. Heiras, A. Hurtado Macias, A. Syeed, A. Paez, C. Li, Jorge López, Ryan Wicker, J. Ceramics International, 44, 4727-4733, (2018). See article here.
Jan. 17-20: Visiting Southern Illinois University in Carbondale Illinois to review the Physics Department.
Jan. 4-5: Commissioning my new AJA Orion 5 Sputtering instrument, with AJA's Mike Sheehan (see picture).

2017

Dec. 15: My former students were featured in the College of Science Fall 2017 e-Newsletter, Karla Rosita Téllez-Girón Flores in page 4, and Alan Salcedo in page 17.
Dec. 12: Received the 2017 Best Thesis Research Mentoring Award. at the UTEP College of Science winter Pre-Commencement Ceremony, for work with Karla Rosita Tellez-Giron Flores. See diploma here.
Dec. 4: Interview, in internet radio show "La Vida es una Tómbola" of José Pérez Rucobo in La Nueva Republica Radio, conversing about the Mexican Interior Security Law, Conspiracy theories (water engines, cancer cures, designed obsolescence, etc.). Listen to the 1:00 hour show here .
Nov. 18-25: Visiting Claudio Dorso at the University of Buenos Aires.
Nov. 9-11: Guest Carlos Bertulani, Texas A&M Commerce. See about Carlos's research here. On Nov. 9 Carlos delivered a lecture in my Astronomy class "Nucleosynthesis", and on Nov. 10 he presented the Physics Seminar "Non-extensive statistics solution of the cosmological lithium problem". He was also interviewed by Science Studio.
Sep. 20: Physics Colloquium, "Italian delicacies served up in a neutron star crust", at Notre Dame University. See announcement here. Supported by the Bouchet Award of the American Physical Society. See pictures from Notre Dame University here.
Sep. 12: Interview, in internet radio show "La Vida es una Tómbola" of José Pérez Rucobo in La Nueva Republica Radio, conversing about Mexican politics, DACA, North Korea. Listen to the 1:38 hour show here .
Sep. 6-9: Guest Jason Holmes, Arizona State University. See about Jason's research here. On Sep. 8 Jason gave the Physics Seminar "Next Generation detectors for proton therapy quality assurance".
Aug. 7: Article "XPS Study of the Oxidation State of Uranium Dioxide", J.A. López et al., J. Nuc. Phys., Mat. Sci., Radiation and Applications, Vol-5, 237–242, 2017. See article here or here.
Aug. 4: Thesis Defense, of my M.S. student Germán Rodríguez; "Using underground radon to detect inactive geological faults".
Aug. 3: Thesis Defense, of my M.S. student Enrique Ramírez-Homs; "Electron gas and neutron star crusts".
Aug. 2: Thesis Defense, of my M.S. student Karla Rosita Téllez-Girón Flores; "Neutrino oscillations and the RENO experiment".
July 26: Thesis Defense, of my M.S. student Nazia Sharmin; "Time degradation of perovskites".
Jul. 25: Article "Electrocatalytic hydrogen gas generation by cobalt molybdenum disulfide sythesized using alkyl-containing thiomolybdate precursors" Y. Wu et al., International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 1-8 Vol. 42, 20669-20676, (2017); https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2017.07.028. See article here.
Jul. 1: Article "Relaxor ferroelectricity, ferromagnetic and optical second harmonic properties in lanthanum lithium niobate (La_0.05Li_0.85NbO₃) nanoparticles", C. Diaz Moreno et al., J. Magnetism and Magnetic Mats., 433, (2017) 262–270. See article here.
23- Jun. – 8 Jul. 2017, Guest Claudio Dorso, Universidad de Buenos Aires. On July 7 Claudio gave the Physics Seminar "Italian Delicacies Served Up in a Neutron Star Crust".
June. 5 - Aug. 4: Summer guest Víctor Manuel Lizárraga Rubio, from Universidad de Sinaloa, working on project "Neutron diffusion".
June. 12 - Aug. 18: Summer guests Andrea Valdez-Rivas, from Franklin High School, working on project "XPS study of materials".
June. 5 - Aug. 4: Summer guest Jeremiah Lopez, from UTEP, working on project "XPS study of Maya Blue", see poster here.
May 9: Best MS student and Summa Cum laude, Karla Rosita Téllez-Girón Flores, see pictures here and here.
May 8: Thesis Defense, of my UACJ B.S. student Adrián Gaytán Terrazas; see thesis here, and see picture here.
May 5: Thesis Defense, of my B.S. student Israel Chavarria; see thesis here, and see picture here.
Apr. 28: Profile, for UTEP College of Science e-Newsletter Spring 2017 issue, Pp. 14-15. See profile here.
Apr. 17: Interview, in internet radio show "La Vida es una Tómbola" of José Pérez Rucobo in La Nueva Republica Radio, conversing about Syria, the 3rd World War, the MOAB, Chemical weapons, etc. Listen to the 1-hour show here .
Mar. 12-15: Visiting AJA International in Scituate MA for training on my new Orion 5 sputtering system. Yes, I was trapped by the snow blizzard that hit Boston on the 14th, see pictures and training videos here.
Feb. 14: Interview, in article "#Sinvotonohaydinero" of Antonia Tapia in magazine Reporte Nivel Uno, about how to finance the Mexican political parties.
Jan 28-31: Attending the April Meeting of the American Physical Society, in Washington, DC as a Member of the Forum on Education.
Jan 25-27: Attending the Convocation of the American Physical Society, in Washington, DC as Leadership Convocation Participant representing the Texas Section of APS.
Jan. 20: Talk, at the Seminario de Nanotecnología of the Universidad Tecnológica de Cd. Juárez, See news report here . or its PDF here.

Beautiful example of data compression by Fast Fourier Transform.

2016

Nov. 28-Dec. 21: Installing new XPS/AES/UV PHI 5600 equipment in UTEP's Surface Physics Lab. See the time video of the installation here, and see the Surface Physics Lab web page for more information.
Oct. 20-23: Chair, of nuclear physics session, 2016 Joint Meeting 4CS + TSAPS Meeting, and Executive Board Meeting of TSAPS, Las Cruces, NM.
Oct. 3: Article "Symmetry energy in the liquid-gas mixture", J.A. López and S. Terrazas Porras, Nuc. Phys. A A957, 312 (2017); see article here.
Sep. 29: Received the UTEP CoS-BUILDing Scholar Mentoring Award. See notification here.
Aug. 25: Article "Correlation Between Underground Radon Gas and Dormant Geological Faults", J.A. López, O. Dena Ornelas , L. Sajo-Bohus, G. Rodríguez, I. Chavarría, J. Nuc. Phys., Mat.Sci., Rad. and Applications, Vol-4, No-1, August 2016 pp. 265–275 (2016); see article here.
Aug. 24: Received the Regents Outstanding Teaching Award. at the J.W. Marriot Hotel in Austin, Texas. See notification here. and official website here. See some pictures here and UTEP Magazine article here.
Aug. 24: Attending Teaching Forum of the Academy of Distinguished Teachers, at the Etter-Harbin Alumni Center at UT Austin.
Aug. 16-17: Talk "Materials Characterization at UTEP" at 4to Taller de espectrometría de Masas con Aceleradores (LEMA)" at the Instituto de Física of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. See pictures of the visit here.
Aug. 2: Meeting of CAPEF (Consejo de Acreditación de Programas Educativos de Física), Academia Mexicana de Ciencias, San Andrés Totoltepec, Mexico City, Mexico.
July 11: Article "Thermodynamics of neutron-rich nuclear matter", J.A. López, S. Terrazas Porras and Araceli Rodríguez Gutiérrez, AIP Conf. Proc. 1753, 050001 (2016); see article here.
June 2: Received DOD HBCU Instrumentation grant for $400 k. See notification here.
May 31 - Aug. 5: Visiting Arizona State University with Ricardo Alarcón under a BUILDing Summer Sabbatical Grant.
May 30: Interview, in Spanish, 2 Hrs, with José Cruz Pérez Rucobo in his radio program "Filosofía a ras de suelo" of Radio Nueva República. Listen to the interview here.
April 23: Article "Surface modification by nitrogen plasma immersion ion implantation on Austenitic AISI 304 stainless steel", with M. Castro-Colín, W. Durrer and E. Ramírez-Homs, in J. of Iron and Steel Research International 23(4), 380-384, 2016; see article here.
April 16-18: Talk, chair of session, FED Executive Committee Meeting, APS April Meeting, Salt Lake City. See abstract and presentation here, and see details of the session chaired here.
April 14: Presentation of book "Estudios científicos de fraudes electorales en México", UACJ-ICSA. Read interview in El Diario here.
April 7: Talk "The Physics of CSI", Facultad de Física, Benemérita Universidad de Puebla, Puebla, México. See "CONSTANCIA" here.
April 7: Presentation of book "Estudios científicos de fraudes electorales en México", Librería Leon, Puebla, México. Hear the interview from Sala de prensa BUAP here.
April 6 - 8: XII International Symposium on Radiation Physics, BUAP, Puebla, México. See web page here.
Mar. 8: Talk "Física en UTEP" at Universidad de Sonora, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico.
Mar. 7: Talk "Física del CSI" at Universidad de Sonora, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico.
Feb. 19: Talk "Estudios científicos de Fraudes electorales en México" at Librería Casa de Letras, Zapotlán, Jalisco.
Feb. 19: Interview,20 Min. in program "Cosa Pública" of Radio Universidad de la U de Guadalajara. Listen to the interview here (starts in minute 13).
Feb. 19: Talk "Estudios científicos de Fraudes electorales en México" at CUSCH of the Universidad de Guadalajara.
Feb. 19: Talk "Física en UTEP" at CUSEI of the Universidad de Guadalajara
Feb. 19: Interview, in program radio DK1250 of Guadalajara.
Feb. 15: Talk "Física nuclear, el Chapo, Osama Bin Laden, y el Papa" at the Tercera Semana de Física y Matemáticas in Universidad de Colima; see news report here.
Feb. 15: Interview, with Max Cortés in Radio FM 92.5 of Colima. Listen to the interview here.
Feb. 14-18: Visiting Universidad de Colima.
Jan. 6: Book "Estudios Científicos de Fraudes Electoral en Mexico", Jorge Alberto López Gallardo, published by Plaza y Valdes, 186 pages, Spanish, ISBN: mo2-835-5.

2015

Nov. 30 - Dec. 4: Talks "Isospin-dependent phase diagram of nuclear matter" and "Summary Talk", and Chair of sessions "1.2 Monday parallel session 1: Applications: Medical I" and "4.2 Thursday parallel session 1: Hadron structure and interactions II", at the XI Latin American Symposium on Nuclear Physics and Applications, Medellin Colombia; see pictures here.
Sep. 4: Talk "Uso de 'BOTs' en Física" at the Congreso Universitario in Universidad Tecnológica de Cd. Juárez; see news report here, and pictures here.
July 24: Proceedings "XI International Symposium on Radiation Physics", AIP Conference Proceedings, G. Espinosa, C. Vázquez and J. López Eds., 1671, 010001 (2015), DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4927175; see book here.
June 3-4 and July 8-9: Workshops about "Scientific Research Methodology" at the Universidad Tecnológica de Paquimé.
May 11: Article "Effect of an electron gas on a neutron-rich nuclear pasta", with Enrique Ramírez-Homs, in Nuclear Science and Techniques (China), V. 26, P. S20502, 2015; see article here.
Apr. 11-13: Talk at the APS April Meeting in Baltimore, to receive the 2015 Bouchet Award of the American Physical Society. See APS news release "Bridge-builder to Hispanic Community wins Bouchet Award" here, see pictures of the Awards Ceremony and Reception as well as of Baltimore here.
Mar. 23-27: Organizer and Speaker, Workshop on Studies of Electoral Data, at the Electoral Institute of Chihuahua in Chihuahua, Chih. México, organized by the Colegio de Chihuahua. See pictures and more information here.
Mar. 4-6: Chairman, XI International Symposium on Radiation Physics, IIT-UACJ, Cd. Juárez, Chihuahua, México. See web page here.

2014

Dec. 3: Book "Estudios Científicos del Fraude Electoral del 2012" by J. López and Hahnemann Ortiz, published by CreateSpace Publishing, 216 pages, Spanish, ISBN: 978-1503161948 available in print and ebook, to purchase inAmazon click here, and to see the YouTube announcement click here.
Oct. 24: Talk "Estrellas de neutrones" at the 21st Science and technology Week in La Rodadora in Cd. Juárez, Mexico; see announcement here.
Oct. 20: Article "El proyecto I-STAR", Rev. Orientación Educacional (Chile), V. 28, No. 53, P. 71, 2014; see article here.
Oct. 7-11: Talk at the IV Joint Japan-USA Nuclear Physics Conference in Kona, Hawaii to receive the 2014 Mentoring Award of the Division of Nuclear Physics of the American Physical Society; see pictures here.
Sep. 25: Article "Chayito" with José Luis Esparza. Published by SDP Noticias.
Aug. 15 - 18: Attending conference 4th International workshop on nuclear dynamics in heavy ion reactions in Lanzhou, China.
Aug. 10 - 14: Attending conference CUSTIPEN at the Peking University in Beijing, China. See program and talks here.
July 24 - 25: Attending conference Nuclear Structure 2014 at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC Canada,
July 22: Article "¿Por qué Costa Rica sí y México no?" with Emmanuel Ameth, published by El portal en Red, SDP Noticias and Forbes-Mexico.
July 16: "Neutron-Rich nuclear matter" colloquium talk at Nuclear Theory Group of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Click here to see abstract.
June 11: Elected Member-at-Large of the Executive Committee of the Texas Section of the American Physical Society for o 2014-2017.
June 9 - 12: Attending conference Collective Dynamics in High Energy Collisions at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab in Berkeley, CA,
June 2 - Aug. 8: Visiting the Nuclear Theory Group of the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab in Berkeley, CA, with Enrique Ramirez-Homs.
May 26: Article "El sueño guajiro de la reforma energética en México" with Emmanuel Ameth. Published by Los Angeles Press and Forbes Mexico.
May 20: Meeting of Fellowship Committee of APS' Forum on Education.
May 9: Completion of Sloan Mastery Series Online Labs, see certificate here.
May 16-17: Dissertation Defense of Maria Isabel López Fierro at UC San Diego, and celebration party in Escondido, CA.
May 12: Dissertation Defense of Olienka de la O Fernandez at UTEP.
Apr. 29: Meeting of External Advisory Board of the Center for Gravitational Wave Astronomy of UT Brownsville.
Apr. 17: Colloquium talk and Seminar at Oklahoma State University.
Apr. 2-5: Invited talk at The X International Symposium on Radiation Physics, at the MCTP in Tuxtla Guiterrez, Chiapas, Mexico.
Mar. 6: Hispanic Physicists interview: Jorge Muñoz "Life as a graduate student at Caltech". See the interview here.
Feb. 26: Elected Member-at-Large of the Forum on Education of the American Physical Society.
Feb. 5: Article "Isospin-asymmetric nuclear matter", by J.A. López, E. Ramírez-Homs, R. González and R. Ravelo, Phys. Rev. C 89, 024611 (2014); see preprint here.
Jan. 24: Article "Simulations of cold matter at subsaturation densities", by P.A. Giménez Molinelli, J.I. Nichols, J.A. López and C.O. Dorso, Nuc. Phys. A, 923, Pp. 31-50, 2014.
Jan. 23: Article in Colloqui Las calenturientas mentes del calentamiento global (all you ever wanted to know about global warming without even knowing that you wanted to know it.)
Jan. 15: New project: Hispanic Physicists, the web page of the program "The Hispanic Physics Radio Education Project" profiling outstanding Hispanic researchers, funded by the American Physical Society, designed by Ixtlan Communications and the National Society of Hispanic Physicists.
Jan. 4-11: Visit to Universidad Católica del Norte in Antofagasta, Chile. See pictures here.

2013

Dec. 9-12: Talk in JUSTIPEN-JUSEIPEN Workshop at RIKEN in Tokyo, Japan. JUSTIPEN is The Japan-U.S. Theory Institute for Physics with Exotic Nuclei.
Nov. 8: Completion of UTEP's Teaching Online Academy. See certificate here and Blackboard Certificate here .
Oct. 23. Interview, 30 Min., by Dr. Leon Blevins for Perspectives El Paso of EPCC Channel 13 KCOS, Oct. 23, 2013. See the interview here.
Oct. 15: Meeting of the Osheroff Fellowship Board at UACJ in Cd. Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico.
Oct. 14 - Nov. 7: Teaching MASE 6402 - MME 5401 See material here.
Oct. 14: Meeting of Consejo de Acreditación de Programas Educativos en Física, A.C CAPEF, in Mexico City.
Sep. 27: Invited Talk in Symposium on Low Temperature Physics at UACJ, in Cd. Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico.
Jul. 23: Article "Monitoring detachment and difussion of metallic species in polycarbonate", AIP Conf. Proc. 1544, pp. 19-24, 2013.
Jul. 15: Article in Colloqui La accidentada educacion pre-escolar en México.
Jul. 10: Interview in El Diario de El Paso "Academicos locales refutan a politologo que vaticina derrota de ley migratoria".
Jun. 3 - Aug. 9: Visiting the Nuclear Theory group of the Nuclear Science Division of The Lawrence Berkeley Lab, with students Enrique Ramirez Homs and Rodolfo Gonzalez. See here for note in LBL-NSD newsletter (p.4).
May 24: Colloquium "Materia nuclear cocinada al estilo italiano, Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Auditorio Marcos Moshinsky, UNAM 24/mayo 11:00, Mexico City.
Apr. 23: Meeting of CAPEF (Consejo de Acreditación de Programas Educativos de Física), Instituto de Física, UNAM, Mexico D.F.
Apr. 25: Meeting of External Advisory Board of the Center for Gravitational Wave Astronomy, UT Brownsville.
Apr. 15-17: Invited Talk in IX Symposium on Radiation Physics at BUAP, in Puebla, Mexico.
Apr. 3: Book "Surface Spectroscopy" by J. López and Miguel Castro Colín, published by CreateSpace Publishing, ISBN 978-1483999968, more information here.
Feb. 9: Interview in Proceso in Patricia Dávila's article "La explosión en Pemex: no les creemos...", if you do not have a subscription read it here.
Jan 28: Member of Consejo de Acreditación de Programas Educativos en Física, A.C CAPEF, of Mexico.
Jan. 26: High School student Alejandra Robles, member of my XRF group obtains Most Outstanding Award in the El Paso Independent School District Science Fair and she is off to the Regional Science Fair! Congratulations Alex!.

2012

Nov. 29: Article Spotlight "Topological characterization of neutron star crusts selected to appear in Physics-Spotlighting Exceptional research: Italian Delicacies Served Up in a Neutron Star Crust.
Nov. 29: Article "Topological characterization of neutron star crusts " by C.O. Dorso, P. Giménez-Molinelli and J.A. López, published in The Physical Review C86 055805 (2012). See preprint in the Arxivs.
Nov. 23: Article "Cold nuclear matter" by C.O. Dorso, P. Giménez-Molinelli, J.I. Nichols and J.A. López.
Oct. 22 - Nov. 7: Teaching MASE 6402 - MME 5401 See material here.
Oct. 12: Interview in Línea Abierta, listen to the interview here.
Oct. 5: Interview in Línea Abierta, listen to the interview here, it starts in minute 40.
Oct. 4: Interview in Hecho en California, listen to the interview here.
Sep. 28: Visit of Javier Miranda from the Instituto de Física - UNAM to give a Physics Seminar "PIXE and XRF: why does PIXE need XRF?".
Sep. 9 - 22: Visit of Manuel Matus and Alfonso Velasquez Rios from the Universidad de Playa Ancha to study our "Peer Led Team Learning".
Sep. 15: Reviewed questions for ETS TX Physics.
Sep. 13: Reviewed Chs. 30-35 of a new Physics book for Cengage.
Aug. 28: Talk "Estudio de los incrementos del PREP" delivered by Alberto Altamirano in Coloquio de Análisis de Elecciones, Mexico City.
Aug. 28: Talk "Estudio de las casillas especiales" delivered by Artemio Gallegos (UNAM) in Coloquio de Análisis de Elecciones, Mexico City.
Aug. 27: Talk "Estudio de correlaciones en el PREP" delivered by Artemio Gallegos (UNAM) in Coloquio de Análisis de Elecciones, Mexico City.
Aug. 27-28: Member of Organizing Committee of Coloquio de Análisis de Elecciones, Mexico City.
Aug. 7: Invited Talk "Nuclear matter at low temperatures and densities: the pasta revisited" in Nuclear Physics Forum at the Lawrence Berkeley Lab's 88-inch Cyclotron.
Aug. 5: Member of Organizing Committee of Latin American Symposium of Nuclear Physics and Applications, to be held in Oct. 2013 in Montevideo, Uruguay.
Aug. 2: Interview in Hecho en California with Marcos Gutiérrez in 1010 AM in San Francisco, CA.
Jul. 9: Video interview ""El Compló"" in program "Rendijas" of Leonardo Schwebel of OchoTV Guadalajara.
Jul. 8: Interview in Enfoque Latino with Rubén Tapia in Radio Pacifica in Los Angeles, listen to the interview here.
Jul. 5: Interview in Caja Negra of the University of Guadalajara, listen to the interview here.
Jul. 3: Interview in el5antuario, listen to the interview here.
Jul. 3: Interview in Línea Abierta with Chelis López in Radio Bilingüe in Oakland, CA, listen to the whole program here, or to the interview here.
Jul. 2: Interview in Latinos Post Mexico Elections 2012: IFE Fraud and Number Manipulation Claims Trending Among Mexican Social Media Users.
Jun. 23: Interview in Proceso with Oswaldo Zavala, read the article "Observadores internacionales desconfían del aparato electoral", if you do not have a subscription read it here.
Jun. 20: Interview in Hecho en California with Marcos Gutiérrez in 1010 AM in San Francisco, CA, listen to the interview here.
Jun. 19: Interview in Café con Leche with Lilia Galindo in 1470 AM in Palmdale, CA, listen to the interview here.
Jun. 18: Interview in Línea Abierta with Chelis López in Radio Bilingüe in Oakland, CA, listen to the whole program here, or to the interview here.
Jun. 14: Interview in Enfoque Latino with Rubén Tapia in Radio Pacifica in Los Angeles, listen to the interview here.
Jun. 12: 8 Multimedia Articles "Detección del fraude electoral en México" in Colloqui.
Jun. 9: Invited Talk "Mexican Presidential Election at Risk of Electronic Fraud" in event organized by Enfoque Latino with Rubén Tapia in Los Angeles, see announcement here.
Jun. 9: Interview in Hecho en California with Marcos Gutierrez in KIQI 1010 AM in San Francisco.
Jun. 8: Editor of .
Jun. 8: Article "El voto rural y la preparación del fraude " in Colloqui.
Jun. 7: Multimedia Interview "Dos Lecturas del 2012" by Roberta Carrillo in Reporte Indigo.
Jun. 4 - Aug. 10: Visiting the Nuclear Theory group of the Nuclear Science Division of The Lawrence Berkeley Lab, with student Enrique Ramirez Homs.
Jun. 1: Interview in article "Poll: PRD candidate, Mexican front-runner nearly tied" in El Paso Times, if not available click here.
Jun. 1: Undergraduate thesis defense, Enrique Ramirez-Homs, "X-ray Fluorescence Analysis of Pueblo Indian Pottery", Supervisor: Jorge A. López.
May 17: Interview in Enfoque Latino with Rubén Tapia in Radio Pacifica in Los Angeles, listen to the interview here.
May 12-26: Visiting the University of Buenos Aires with Claudio Dorso, delivering a Colloquium Talk: "From nuclei to nuclear pasta" (17/5/2012), and a LAFEC Seminar Talk: "De urnas y vivillos, el fraude electoral en México 2006" (21/5/2012).
May 9: Interview in Enfoque Latino with Rubén Tapia in Radio Pacifica in Los Angeles, listen to the interview here.
May 7: Mentioned in column "Astillero" in La Jornada, if not available click here.
May 6: Interview in El Diario de El Paso, if not available click here.
May 5: Book "2012 ¿Fraude Electoral?" published by Universidad de Guadalajara, more information here.
May 5: Interview in Canadian Radio Network's Roy Green Show, listen to the interview here.
May 5: Interview in article "Mexico's top drug kingpin "Chapo" Guzman could sway election" in El Paso Times, if not available click here.
Apr. 27: Meeting of UTEP's Teaching Effectiveness Committee, UTEP.
Apr. 20: Meeting of UTEP Global Task Force, UTEP.
Apr. 16: Meeting of External Advisory Board of the Center for Gravitational Wave Astronomy, Phone conference, UT Brownsville.
Apr. 15: Reviewed questions for ETS GRE Physics.
Apr. 12: Inducted as a Corresponding Member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences, delivered an Invited Talk at IFUNAM in Mexico City.
Apr. 10: Elected Vice President of the Division of Radiation Physics of the Sociedad Mexicana de Física, in Mexico City.
Apr. 9-11: Invited Talk in VIII Symposium on Radiation Physics at IFUNAM, in Mexico City.
Mar. 27: Interview, for The Peer-Led Team Learning International Society (click under physics); if link is not active, click here.
Mar. 22-24: Visit and Invited Talk at the Physics Department of Bradley University in Peoria Illinois, visiting Jose Lozano.
Mar. 17: Interview, Volumen Extremo Programa "Visión Morena", Dallas, Texas, 12:00 - 2:00 pm, listen to the 29 min interview here.
Mar. 9: Article Tecnología en la educación pre-escolar en México, Rev. Orientación Educacional (Chile), V 25 No. 48, Pp. 59-75, 2011.
Feb. 24: Designed questions for ETS GRE Physics.
Feb. 14: Designed questions for ETS TX-116 Science 4-8 exam and TX-137 Physical Science 8-12 exam.
Jan. 10-13: Panelist at the NSF-GRFP, Washington, DC.

2011

Dec. 27-29: Visiting Santa Fe, NM Research Lab.
Dec. 1-6: VisitingUniversidad de Colima.
Nov. 16: Elected as Corresponding Member of the Mexican Academy of Sciencies. See report in El Paso's newspaper El Diario (in Spanish).
Oct. 28: Educator of the Year Award and Invited Talk, 2011 SHPE National Conference, Anaheim, CA. See SHPE Award information here, UTEP Press release here, and Channel 9 report here.
Oct. 27-28: Invited Talk, 2011 SACNAS National Conference, San Jose, CA, see program here.
Oct. 11: Mentioned in a Newspaper article, "Fraude 2006" by Samuel Schmidt, La Opinión, Los Angeles, CA.
Oct. 10: Article "From nuclei to nuclear pasta" by C.O. Dorso, P.A. Gímenez Molinelli and J.A. López as a chapter in book "Neutron Star Crust", Eds. C.A. Bertulani and J. Piekarewicz, 2012 Nova Science Publishers, Inc. See preprint here
Oct. 3-30: Guest Dr. Claudio Dorso, Universidad de Buenos Aires.
Sep. 30: Interview, "Profesor de la UTEP es Educadore del año 2011", Radio KAMA 750, Univision.
Sep. 24: Interview, "Nombran Maestro del Año a físico ...", El Diario de El Paso, El Paso, TX.
Sep. 21-24: Invited Talk - Round Table Panelist - Poster Judge - Session Chair, 2011 NSHP National Conference, Austin, TX.
Sep. 21: Article Isoscaling and the nuclear EOS, published in J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 38 (2011) 115101.
Sep. 19: Interview, "Estudiarán alemanes basurero nuclear...", El Diario de El Paso, El Paso, TX.
Jul. 20: Article published "Bridging the Gap between Policy and Implementation:Preschool Education in Mexico, Latin America and Spain" as Chapter 12 in book "Technology and Young Children: Bridging the Communication-Generation Gap", Eds. Blake, Windsor, Allen, in print, IGI Global.
July 15: Article El lenguaje de la física, published by Rev. Digital Universitaria, UNAM, México, 15 pages.
July 10-14: Participant at Meeting of INCREASE, at SLAC in Stanford University and LBNL in Berkeley California, see pictures here.
June 24: Book "2012 ¿Fraude Electoral?" submitted for publication to Universidad de Guadalajara.
May 12: Colloquium Talk, University of California - Riverside.
May 8: General audience article Roswell: el fin de un mito, La Jornada Veracruz, Mexico.
Apr. 22: General Audience Talk, "Quantum Consciousness", Phyl-Phys group of Juan Ferret, 6:00-8:30, GlasBox (Texas and Cotton), El Paso, TX.
Apr. 14: Finished writing and reviewing questions for ETS' Physics GRE Exam.
Apr. 12: Interview about nuclear energy, The Prospector, UTEP. Read the interview.
Apr. 5: Interview, The RAYMN8R Report, AC Radio Network, New York, NY. Hear the interview (move the play bar to minute 24).
Mar. 18: Colloquium Talk, Cal State U - Fresno.
Mar. 17: Interview, "Breaking it down with DT", AC Radio Network, New York, NY. Hear the interview.
Mar. 15: Invited Talk, Scientific studies of electoral data, Centro Universitario de Ciencias Exactas e Ingenierías, Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico.
Mar. 15: Interview, TV UdG, Universidad de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico. Hear the interview.
Mar. 14: Invited Talk, Scientific studies of electoral data, Centro Universitario de Ciencias Económico Administrativas, Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico.
Mar. 14-15: Plenary Talk, Symposium on the use of mathematics on social sciences, Centro Universitario de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico.
Mar. 11: Article Nuestra trinchera, Revista Paso del Río Grande del Norte, No. 5, Pp. 1-2, 2011, Universidad Autónoma de Cd. Juárez, México.
Mar. 1: Grant, "Hispanic Physics Radio Education Project", American Physical Society, $10,000, see announcement here:.
Feb. 30: Article "Searching for the origin of isoscaling: confinement and expansion" was published in REVISTA MEXICANA DE FISICA S 57 (1) 14–17, 2011.
Feb. 29: Meeting of External Advisory Board of the Center for Gravitational Wave Astronomy, UT Brownsville.
Feb. 28: Article Mathematical analyses of electoral data was accepted for publication in book to be published by the Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico.
Feb. 27: Finished reviewing questions for ETS' Texas Physics Exam.
Feb. 26: Finished review of book "Physics" of Glencoe.
Feb. 18-20: Panelist, NDSEG Fellowship Program, National Harbor, MD.
Feb. 10-13: Panelist, NSF-GRFP physics panel, National Harbor, MD.
Jan. 26-28: Hosting Scott Pratt (Michigan State U) for Physics Seminar and chat with students.
Jan. 14-17: Trip to Austin.
Jan. 4-7: Member of International Advisory Committee, XXXIV Symposium of Nuclear Physics, Cocoyoc, Mexico.
Jan. 3: Finished writing questions for ETS' Texas Physics Exam.

2010

Dec. 30: Finished review of book "University Physics" of Bauer and Westfall.
Dec. 28: Book "Secretos científicos de las películas" with Steve Wolf and based on his book was accepted for publication by Special FX International.
Nov. 8: Progress report of the XRF study of Pueblo Indian pottery with UTEP Anthropology professor Dr. David Carmichael and MASE-MME students
Nov. 2: Dr. Carlos Bertulani visited me and delivered talks at UTEP and NMSU we had Texas BBQ at The State Line and real margaritas at La Posta in La Mesilla.
Nov. 1: Finished teaching physics part of MASE 6402 - MME 4501 class
Oct. 22 and 23: Coordination of Lecture Series of the Austin Science and Engineering Festival. See certificate.
Oct. 11: Start of XRF study of Pueblo Indian pottery with UTEP Anthropology professor Dr. David Carmichael and MASE-MME students
Oct. 2: Party in my house in Escondido CA to celebrate Maribel's invited talk at SACNAS conference in Anaheim, CA and my MAES award.
Oct. 1: Award: Bravo Outstanding MAEStro Award, at MAES National Conference in Anaheim, CA.
Sep. 30: Seminar Talk "Physics and Art", in "Frontiers in Science" Series al Cal State U San Marcos.
Sep. 28: Article "Isoscaling and symmentropy in confined systems" was submitted for publication to Intl. J. Modern Physics E.
Sep. 23: Article "Probabilistic aspects of isoscaling" was published in Rev. Mex. Fis. S56, 85-88, 2010.
Sep. 9: Grant, UTEP URI grant for Auger/XPS equipment, $5,000, see announcement here:.
Sep. 1: Became the Faculty Advisor of the UTEP chapter of Global Zero.
Aug. 1-13: Talk and participation in PASI 2010 on Rare Isotopes, Joao Pessoa, Brazil. See PASI wiki page here, my personal page here, and the Neutron Stars page here, to see how hard we worked see the photos here, to see my talk see the high quality video here, or the low quality video here.
Jul. 15: Book "2006 ¿Fraude Electoral? 2nd Ed." based on my previous book was completed and submitted for publication to a major Spanish language publishing company.
Jun. 25-27: Talk "Recruitment and retention of Hispanics: a multifaceted approach" was delivered at AAPT's Spin-UP workshop http://www.aapt.org/Programs/projects/spinup/sanluisobispo.cfm at CalPoly State U in San Luis Obispo.
Jun. 7: Completed participation of NSF Science Value Inventory at Drury University.
May 20: Talk at the Universidad de Guadalajara about my book "2006 Fraude Electoral".
May 16-22: Talk was delivered at the Universidad de Colima.
May 6: Defense of BS thesis of Miguel Bencomo.
Apr. 29: Talk at New Mexico Tech, "The new nuclear physics".
Apr. 8-10: Two talks at U. North Carolina at Wilmington.
Mar. 31: Article "Paper AC 2010-1659: IMPLEMENTING PEER LED TEAM LEARNING IN GATEWAY SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS COURSES FOR ENGINEERING MAJORS" with B. Flores, James Becvar, Ann Darnell, Helmut Knaust, and Josefina Tinajero was accepted for publication.
Mar 28: Article "Líderes de aprendizaje" with B. Flores was published in Rev. Orientación Educacional V. 44 pp. 15-34
Mar. 9: Two Talks and an interview in Radio Zacatecas about my book "2006 Fraude Electoral".
Mar. 7 - 10: Talk delivered at the Symposium of Physics of Radiations of the Sociedad Mexicana de Física in Zacatecas, Mexico. See photos here.
Feb. 18 - 21: Participated in the conference University Physics Bauer/Westfall in Napa, CA. See photos here.

2009

Dec. 7-11: I was invited to the Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepciónin Chile to evaluate an educational project. see photos here.
Dec. 9: Gave a Talk at the Facultad de Ciencias Jurídicas y Sociales of the Universidad de Concepción about my book "2006 Fraude Electoral"; see photos here. I also visited Santiago de Chile, see photos here.
Oct. 23: Award: Received the Hyer Award with Jorge Muñoz from the Texas Section of the American Physical Society in San Marcos, TX.
Oct. 13-17: Gave a Talk at the Joint Japan-USA Nuclear Physics Conference in Kona, Hawaii. See photos here.
Feb. 2009: Article published "Technology and Preschool Education in Mexico:A Country in Transformation" with M.E. López as Chapter 4 in book "TECHNOLOGY FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND SOCIALIZATION: DEVELOPMENTAL APPLICATIONS AND METHODOLOGIES", Eds. Sally Blake and Satomi Taylor. IGI Global, ISBN10: 1605667846.

2007

Dec. 12: Entrevista en el programa nacional de radio "Linea Abierta Edicion Texas" - FÍSICO LATINO, una entrevista con el Dr. Jorge López, director del Departamento de Física de la Universidad de Texas en El Paso. El Dr. López fue recientemente nombrado "Fellow" de la American Physical Society como reconocimiento a su trabajo en física teórica y a su promoción científica en América Latina, incluso su labor de facilitar la visita de estudiantes latinoamericanos a centros de estudio de Estados Unidos. oíga la entrevista aquí.