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John King Gamble, <strong>Curriculum</strong> <strong>Vitae</strong> 3<br />

2008 The Arthur H. Compton Prize in <strong>Physics</strong> from The College <strong>of</strong> Wooster.<br />

2008 The William H. Wilson Prize in Mathematics from The College <strong>of</strong> Wooster.<br />

2008 Recipient <strong>of</strong> a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.<br />

Service<br />

2006 Technical writing and educational consulting for the Applied Mathematics Research<br />

Experience program at The College <strong>of</strong> Wooster, Wooster, Ohio.<br />

2006–2008 Participation in Society <strong>of</strong> <strong>Physics</strong> Students outreach effort to local elementary schools.<br />

2005–2008 Teaching assistant and tutor, The <strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Physics</strong>, The College <strong>of</strong> Wooster,<br />

Wooster, Ohio.<br />

2010 Referee, Quantum Information Processing.<br />

2011 Referee, Recent Patents on Computer Science.<br />

2012 Referee, Physical Review Letters.<br />

Pr<strong>of</strong>essional Experience<br />

2005 Experimental work under the Research Experience for Undergraduates program funded<br />

by the National Science Foundation at The College <strong>of</strong> Wooster, Wooster, Ohio.<br />

Overview: Investigated the dielectric properties <strong>of</strong> binary mixtures <strong>of</strong> nematic-phase liquid<br />

crystals. Correlations were found between the concentration <strong>of</strong> mixture components<br />

and the resulting anisotropy <strong>of</strong> dielectric permattivity. The supervising scientist was Dr.<br />

Shila Garg (Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> <strong>Physics</strong> and Dean <strong>of</strong> the Faculty, The College <strong>of</strong> Wooster).<br />

2006 Theoretical research for the REU program at The <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> California, San Diego<br />

(UCSD), La Jolla, California.<br />

Overview: Investigated the nature <strong>of</strong> turbulence in the electron liquid at a nanoscale<br />

junction. Comparisons were made between classical simulations integrating the Navier-<br />

Stokes equations and quantum time-dependent current density functional theory (TD-<br />

CDFT) simulations. The two were found to be startlingly similar, providing evidence<br />

for the validity <strong>of</strong> approximations used in earlier work on the similarity between classical<br />

fluid and electron liquid stress tensors when confined to a nanoscale junction. The<br />

principal investigator was Dr. Massimiliano Di Ventra (Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> <strong>Physics</strong>, UCSD).<br />

2007 Theoretical research for the Los Alamos Summer School in <strong>Physics</strong> REU program at<br />

Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, New Mexico.<br />

Overview: Theoretically developed, numerically implemented , and tested a new quantum<br />

simulation algorithm for experimental realization on a seven-qubit liquid-phase<br />

NMR quantum computer. The simulation successfully numerically reproduced a sevenspin<br />

disordered Ising model Hamiltonian. The supervising scientist was Dr. Fernando<br />

Cucchietti (Director’s Postdoctoral Fellow, LANL).<br />

2007–2008 Theoretical research at The College <strong>of</strong> Wooster, Wooster, Ohio.<br />

Overview: Completed a yearlong research project investigating the physical foundations<br />

<strong>of</strong> quantum decoherence theory. The study illuminated connections between discrete<br />

and continuous quantum systems, and showed how random noise formally resulted in<br />

the loss <strong>of</strong> quantum information. The supervising pr<strong>of</strong>essor was Dr. John Lindner<br />

(Moore Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> Astronomy and Chair <strong>of</strong> <strong>Physics</strong>, The College <strong>of</strong> Wooster).

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