J. David Gavenda
Professor Emeritus of Physics
(Graphs showing Lake
Travis levels from 1988 to 2005)
Office Address
Department of Physics
Campus mail code: C1600
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712
Telephone: (512) 471-3201
Email: <gavenda@physics.utexas.edu>
Education
Bachelor of Science in physics, June 1954
The University of Texas at Austin
Master of Arts in physics, June 1956
The University of Texas at Austin
Doctor of Philosophy in Physics, June 1959
Brown University
Honors and Awards
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Fellow of the American Physical Society.
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Robert N. Little Award for Outstanding Contributions to Physics Higher
Education in Texas (1988, Texas Section of the American Association of
Physics Teachers).
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College of Natural Sciences Advisory Council Award for Teaching
Excellence
(1994).
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Distinguished Service Citation (1997, American Association of Physics
Teachers).
Professional Experience
Academic
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Member of the faculty of the Department of Physics, The University of
Texas
at Austin, since 1959.
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On leave as NATO Senior Fellow at the University of Oslo in 1969.
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On leave as Senior Research Fellow at the University of Chicago in 1963.
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Joint appointment in the College of Education since 1965.
Other
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Research Scientist at UT Applied Research Laboratory at various times
since
joining the faculty.
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Consultant on measuring and suppressing electromagnetic emissions from
computing equipment at IBM Corp., Ray Proof Shielding Systems,
etc.
Research Interests
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Experimental study of the transport properties of conduction electrons
in metals at low temperatures.
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Electromagnetic wave propagation.
January 1, 2005