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Contact information: jorgelopez@utep.edu, 915-747-7528.

2013

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 Independent Publishing Platform, 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. 29: Article "Coulomb effect on nuclear pasta" by C.O. Dorso, P. Giménez-Molinelli, J.A. López and E, Ramírez-Homs, submitted to The Physical Review C.
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.
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. 22: Article Surface modification by nitrogen PIII on austenitic AISI 304 stainless steel, M. Castro-Colín, W. Durrer, J. A. López and E. Ramirez-Homs, submitted to Rev. Mex. Fis.
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. 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: 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, 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.