What have I been doing?

2011

• Oct. 27-30: Invited Talk, 2011 SACNAS National Conference, Oct. 27-30, 2011, San Jose, CA.
• May 12: Colloquium Talk, University of California - Riverside.
• Apr. 22: General Audience Talk, ""Quantum Consciousness", Phyl-Phys group of Juan Ferret, GlassBox, El Paso, TX.
• Apr. 14: Finished writing and reviewing questions for ETS' Physics GRE Exam.
• Apr. 12: Interview, The Prospector, UTEP newspaper
• 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. 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. 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: Article "Searching for the origin of isoscaling: confinement and expansion" was accepted for publication in Rev. Mex. Fis.
• 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.
• 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. 20: Article published "Language and Technology in Preschool Education in Mexico" as Chapter X in book "Technology and Young Children: Bridging the Communication-Generation Gap", Eds. Blake, Windsor, Allen, in print, IGI Global.
• 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.

Contact information

• jorgelopez@utep.edu, 915-747-7528
• Curriculum Vitae, Previous academic page, Spanish writings, My "New York Times" page