Service to community
Morten Hjorth-Jensen [1, 2]
[1] Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Norway
[2] Department of Physics and Astronomy and National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, USA
Aug 23, 2020
Synergistic Activities and service through the years:
- Since 1999 I have established an activity in computational physics at the Department of Physics at the University of Oslo. I have also started from scratch and developed several courses on computational physics and many-body physics. This activity was recognized with the Excellence in Teaching award from the University of Oslo in 2015. During the last 20 years I have guided more than 100 gradute students and post-doctoral fellows at Michigan State University and the University of Oslo.
- With colleagues at the University of Oslo, I have been strongly involved in the development of a totally new teaching philosophy which merges computation with the traditional science amd mathematics curriculum . This project is called Computing in Science Education and has received considerable support from the University of Oslo and the Norwegian Ministry of research and education. It received the University of Oslo award for excellence in teaching in 2011 and the NOKUT award in 2012.
- With colleagues from the USA and other European countries, we have started the Nuclear Talent initiate":"http://www.nucleartalent.org", where we aim at providing an advanced and comprehensive training to graduate students and young researchers in low-energy nuclear theory. The network aims at developing a broad curriculum that will provide the platform for a cutting-edge theory for understanding nuclei and nuclear reactions.
- I initiated and lead the new Master of Science program on Computational Science at the University of Oslo. This is a new and multi-disciplinary program across several disciplines at the College of Natural Science of the University of Oslo. It includes now seven departments at the faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences of the University of Oslo.
Editorial boards and committees
- Board member of the European Center for Theoretical Studies in Nuclear Physics and Related Areas, Trento, Italy, 2017-present
- Member of the Physics Advisory Comittee at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA, 2003-2008
- Member of the Canadian research council's evaluation board on subatomic physics 2012-2015.
- Member of the Swedish research council's evaluation board on subatomic physics 2007-2008.
- Editorial Board member of Physical Review C, 2014-2016
- Editorial Board member of European Physical Journal A, 2010-2016
- Editorial Board member of European Physical Journal Special Topics, 2010-present
- Editorial Board member of Springer's Lecture Notes in Physics, 2010-present
- Editorial Board member of Springer's Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics, 2014-present
- Editorial Board member of Springer's University Texts in Physics, 2015-present
- Editorial Board member of Springer's Undergraduate Texts in Physics, 2016-present
- Editorial Board member of Springer's Graduate Texts in Physics, 2018-present
- Editorial board member of Computers in Science and Discovery journal, a journal by IOP, UK, 2008-2014
- Steering Committee member of the FRIB theory alliance at Michigan State University 2013-2016
- Initiated and led the Nuclear Talent initiative from 2010 till 2015, member of the Steering committee till end of 2019.
- Member of the Board of Usit at UiO (Center for information technology at the University of Oslo), 2002-2004
- Project leader for High-performance computing courses at UiO, 2000-2003
- Board member of the Bachelor program Mathematics, Information theory and Technology at the University of Oslo, 2002-2008
- Leader of the Bachelor program Physics, Astronomy and Meteorology at the University of Oslo, 2002-2011
- Together with colleagues from the Department of Physics, Department of Mathematics and Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo, we started the Computers in Science Education project in 2004. This project, which we conceived back in 2003, has changed totally changed the way Science is taught.
- Member of the OECD working group on nuclear physics 2006-2008
- January 2009-December 2011, leader of the Nuclear Physics group at the University of Oslo
- Leader the new Master of Science program on Computational Science at the University of Oslo. This is a new and multi-disciplinary program across several disciplines at the College of Natural Science of the University of Oslo.
Referee for International Journals
- Referee for Reviews of Modern Physics
- Referee for Physical Review Letters
- Referee for Nature
- Referee for Physical Review C
- Referee for Physical Review D
- Referee for Nuclear Physics A
- Referee for Physics Letters B
- Referee for Astrophysical Journal
- Referee for Journal of Chemical Physics
- Referee for Journal of Physics A: Mathematical Physics
- Referee for Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics
- Referee for European Journal of Physics A
- Referee for European Physics Letters
- Referee for Few Body Systems
- Referee for Modern Journal of Physics E
- Referee for Physica Scripta
- Referee for Annals of Physics
- Referee for SIAM
- Referee for Computer Physics Communications
- Referee for Computers in Science and Discovery
- Referee for Journal of Mathematics Physics
- Referee for Progress in Theoretical Physics
- Referee for Polish Journal of Physics
Other Referee Activities
- Referee for the Canadian Research Council
- Referee for the Israelian Research Council
- Referee for the South African Research Council
- Referee for the British Research Council
- Referee for the German Research Council
- Referee for the American Department of Energy (DOE)
- Referee for the American National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Referee for INFN, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Italy
- Referee for ESF, European Science Foundation
- Referee for Vetenskapsrådet, the Swedish Research Council
- Referee for the Danish Resource Council
- Referee for the Serbian Research Ministry
- Referee for the Russian Research Council
- Referee for the Research Council of Luxembourg
- Opponent at several PhD dissertations.
- Member of several PhD guidance committees at Michigan State University
- Several expert evaluations on promotion applications.
- Member or leader of several job assessment committees in Norway and the USA
Member of International Advisory committees
- 22nd International Few-Body Conference, member of IAC 2018
- International Nuclear Physics Conference, member of IAC since 2008
- Nuclear Structure 2010 and 2014, member of IAC
- Program Advisor Committee for Recent Progress in Many-Body Theories, member since 2007
- Scientific advisory committee for Nuclear Theory in the Supercomputing Era
- International Advisory committee of International Conference on Mathematical Modeling in Physical Sciences
- International Advisory committee for XI Latin American Symposium on Nuclear Physics and Applications
- International Advisory Board for Conference on Computational Physics
- International Advisory committee for EURORIB15 and EURORIB18
- International Advisory committee for SIAM conference on Computational Science and Engineering in Boston, 2013
Member of Advisory Committees at Michigan State University
I am member or chair person of the following graduate student committees at Michigan State University:
- Justin Lietz, chair, defended thesis June 2019.
- Fei Yuan, chair. Defended thesis January 24 2018.
- Sam Novario, chair. Defends thesis February 7 2018.
- John Bower, chair together with Scott Bogner. Master of Science thesis May 2017.
- Adam Jones, committee member. Master of Science thesis July 2017.
- Chris Sullivan, committee member. Defended thesis January 2018.
- Thomas Redpath, committee member. Defended thesis October 2019.
- Sean Sweany, committee member, defends thesis fall 2020.
- Rachel Taverner, committee member. Defended thesis May 2019.
- Nathan Parzuchowski, committee member. Defended thesis April 2017.
- Titus Morris, committee member. Defended thesis May 2016
- Kenneth Whitmore, committee member. Defended thesis June 2016
- Alex Dombos, committee member. Defended thesis May 2018.
- Josh Bradt, committee member, Defended thesis July 2017.
- Charles Loelius, committee member, Defended thesis May 2017.
- Safwan Shanab, committee member. Defended thesis January 2020.
- Hao Lin, committee member. Defended thesis July 2020.
- Mao Xingze, committee member. Defended thesis July 2020.
- Amy Lovell, committee member. Defended thesis January 24 2018.
- Debra Richman, committee member, defends thesis December 2020.
- Roy Ready, committee member. Defended thesis May 2020.
- Nathan Watwood, committee member
- Ben Hall, chair
- Udiani Omokuyani, committee member
- Jane Kim, chair
- Khna Zhu, committee member
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