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Toronto, Ontario, M2J 1Z2

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Email: nichitiu@sympatico.ca

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1974     Ph.D. in Physics            Bucharest University,  Bucharest, Romania

1970    Master in Science           Faculty of  Physics, Bucharest University, Bucharest, Romania.

Work on issues relating to the MOPITT instrument(on Terra Satellite),

MAESTRO instrument (on SCSIAT spacecraft) and other areas of atmospheric remote sounding from space.

Projects: "Service Opportunity Tracking Application", "Prioritization Application". Design, developed and implemented the application’s prototype and demo version for an application (MS Access and VB6) that addressed executive and managerial level regarding the decision-making process .

 Hand repair of SMT and PTH components on PCB, Special repair.

Promoted the affiliation of IFA(Bucharest) to the international experimental projects named COMPASS  (Common Muon Proton Apparatus for Structure and Spectroscopy)  as well as DIRAC ( DImeson Relativistic Atom Complex) , experiments which are on-going at CERN : NA 58 and PS212.

     Senior Scientific Researcher (Leader of the Experimental Data Analysis Group)

Worked in the OBELIX Collaboration Project: Antiproton-nucleon Interaction and Meson Spectroscopy   (magnetic spectrometer at Lear-CERN, PS 201) where I was directly responsible for data analysis and physical interpretation of the experimental results. Developed large projects related to experimental data acquisition and physical interpretation .

Brought into practice and promoted the Romanian participation to the experimental project named DEAR (Dafne Exotic Atoms Research) (Austria, Canada, Italy, Japan, Romania, Switzerland, USA cooperation). The project is currently with the National Laboratory Frascati.

Participated to:

1. - Italy-Dubna –Bucharest Collaboration:  antiprotons on light nuclei;  streamer chamber experiment at  LEAR-CERN.
2. - LNPI (St.Petesburg, Russia)-JINR (Dubna) –IFA (Bucharest) Collaboration: Pion-Nucleon Phase Shift Analysis.
3. - Torino-Frascati-Dubna Collaboration: (streamer chamber experiment at JINR- Dubna).

• Coordinated projects and developed large amounts of code for data analysis.
• Involved in the establishment of the project titled Obelix (collaboration on behalf Italy, Russia and Romania). Obelix has been deployed to CERN (LEAR).
• Represented Romania at the International Installment Commission designated for inaugurating a new statute of JINR-Dubna (The Joint Institute for Nuclear Research)

I have published 90 scientific works in international journals, one book, 2 patents  (Optics and Electrochemistry), invited talks and contributions to International Conferences and International Schools in Canada, France, Germany, Italy and England. (List of publications) 

An important expectation of Quantum Chromo Dynamics (QCD) is the existence of a new kind of non-(q-qbar) mesons, states composed entirely of gluons ( glueballs), states composed of a mixture of quarks, antiquarks and gluons (hybrids) or multiquarks states.

An experimental confirmation of such exotic states would be an important test of the theory and would give fundamental information on the behavior of QCD in the confinement region.

My research focuses on experimental tests of this model by studying particle interactions at medium and high energies. My special interest has been in the field of particle structure and exotic physics.

Since a non-(q-qbar) state, if it exist, appears in an ‘environment ‘ of many other ‘normal (q-qbar) states’, and since the actual strategy is to observe similar meson states in a variety of processes ( that the new generation of experiments are providing with good accuracy and high statistics) I have also a specific interest in developing methods and models of data analysis which are able to disentangle from data, the exotic part of information.

In the last decade, my field of interest was antinucleon physics, spin-parity analysis and meson spectroscopy, being deeply involved in data analysis and physical interpretation of the experimental results.

My last activities include a talk at the High Energy and Relativity Seminar of the University of Toronto in April 1999 ("The Spectroscopy of E/iota in pbar-p Annihilation at Rest").

I was also involved in teaching graduate students delivering a number of lectures in the field of "Phase shift analysis of nuclear interactions", "Spin-parity analysis", "Statistics and experimental data analysis". My activity includes the supervision of graduate students for Master and Ph.D theses. This activity has been done in Bucharest (IFA), Dubna (JINR) and Frascati (LNF-INFN).

I like to be thoroughly familiar with the material I am teaching. I like to emphasize the simplest parts in detail, in other words, I would rather do one problem in a lot of detail rather than two without enough details. I like to give problems which go a little beyond the material covered in class, and test in this way the comprehension of students. For small classes in advanced course I like to give individual projects to students, which allow them to work independently.

• Award of the second JINR prize in 1990 for works on "Antiproton Interaction with Nuclei at the LEAR Energies".
• Award of the second JINR prize in 1979 for works on "Pion Interaction with Few Nucleon Systems   (He3 and He4)".

• "An Introduction to the Vector Mesons";
  NATO Summer School on Hadron Spectroscopy and the Confinement Problems, June 1995, London, UK.
• "Phase Shift Analysis in Physics of Nuclear Interactions":
  - 1980 (in Romanian), Romanian Academy Editing House (Bucharest),
  - 1983 (in Russian) an enlarged edition: MIR Editing House (Moscow).

• Programming Languages: C/C++, Fortran, Visual Basic, Java.
• Knowledge of word processing: Latex, Word
• Web technology: HTML, ASP, JavaScript, MS-FrontPage, Inter Dev, Dreamweaver.
• Designed and implemented applications for scientific computations and data analysis

• Broad experience in designing, implementing and conducting experimental research in Physics  (at Institute of Atomic Physics, Joint Institute of Nuclear Research, National Lab. Frascati and CERN).
• Concrete experience in leading research teams, and managing large projects
• Strong mathematical skills with a good working knowledge in Statistics
• Innovative problem-solving skills, and ability to develop algorithms, software design, development, testing and product implementation.
• Extended skills in editing scientific, technical, and user training documentation

References : ( names of ref.)

English, Italian, Russian, Romanian

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