Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242 USA
Phone: 1-319-335-1843, Fax: 1-319-335-1753
E-mail: john-goreeATuiowa.edu
25 Jan 2008
Educational and Professional History
California Institute of Technology B.S. Applied Physics 1980
Princeton University M.A. Plasma Physics 1982
Princeton University Ph.D. Plasma Physics 1985
The University of Iowa Assistant Professor 1985 – 1991
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy Associate Professor 1991 – 1996
Professor 1996 – present
Max-Planck Institut
für Extraterrestrische Physik Guest Scientist 1991 – 1992
Garching, Germany Guest Scientist 1998
Professional Society Membership
American Physical Society
Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers
Research Interests
Plasma physics experiments and modeling:
Dusty plasmas, strongly-coupled plasmas, biomedical applications of plasmas
Condensed matter experiments and modeling:
Colloidal crystal lattice structure, melting transition, nonlinear waves, rheology
Awards
IBM Faculty Development Award 1986
Univ. of Iowa Faculty Scholar Award 1995
Amer. Physical Society Fellow 2001
Amer. Physical Society Distinguished Lecturer in Plasma Physics 2002 – 2003
News Articles Covering John A. Goree’s Research
Science, Vol. 264, p. 29
"A Dusty Road for Space Physics" 1 Apr 1994
Science News, Vol. 146, p. 84
"Forming Electric Crystals in a Dusty Plasma" Aug 1994
Nature, Vol. 370, p. 411
"Plasma Dust as Model Crystals" 11 Aug 1994
Physics World
"Plasma Crystal Opens New Branch of Research" Oct 1994
Physics News in 1994, pp. 59-61 (American Institute of Physics)
"Dusty Plasmas in the Cosmos and in Chip Manufacturing" 1995
Science
"Plasma Physics Gets a Home" 28 Mar 1997
Physical Review Focus
“Mach Cones: Shock Waves in Dusty Plasmas” 2 Nov 1999
http://www.aip.org/enews/physnews/1999/split/pnu455-3.htm
Featured image: “Shock Wave in a Dusty Plasma” 2000
“Mach cones studied in plasmas” Jan/Feb 2000
http://www.cerncourier.com/main/article/40/1/14
Science News, Vol. 158, No. 20, Nov. 11, 2000, p. 310
“Science gets a start on the space station” Nov 2000
Omaha World-Herald, Pg. 1E
“2001: A Space Community” by Julie Anderson 18 Feb 2001
NASA Space Research News
“Serendipity in the Laboratory: Dust Busters and Dust Seekers Find Common Ground”
Vol. 1, No. 2 Mar 2002
European television channel ARTE
"L'Astronome et l'Indien", documentary about interstellar dust grains Jan 2003
Physics Today, Vol. 57, pp. 32-38, featured cover story July 2004
“Dusty Plasmas in Industry, the Laboratory and Space”
circulation: 120,000 including public libraries around the country
Parity (Japanese science magazine)
“Dusty Plasmas in Industry, the Laboratory and Space” May 2005
Physics Web Physics News
Plasmas move into dentistry 16 August 2006
http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/10/8/12/1
Science News
"Radiant plasma may combat cavities"
Vol. 170, No. 11, p. 173, 2006. 9 September 2006
Consulting Experience
Norand Corp. Plasma processing 1985 – 1988
Eastman Kodak Co. Computer simulation of magnetron erosion 1989 – 1990
Applied Materials Computer simulation of magnetron erosion 1995 – 1996
Catalina Coatings Magnetron design 1997
Applied Films Corp. Computer simulation of magnetron erosion 1998
Veeco Instruments Inc. Particle control and plasma cleaning 2006
Grants
award period started
IBM
“Faculty Development Award” $60,000 lump sum 1986
Iowa Dept. of Economic Development
“Plasma Processing Laboratory” $1,000,000 lump sum 1987
Lockheed Missiles and Space Co.
“Dust-Plasma Interaction Experiment” $90,000 2 years 1990
NASA Origins of the Solar System Program
“Plasma Dust Experiments” $150,000 3 years 1992
“Plasma Dust Experiments” $35,000 1 year 1995
NASA Micro-Gravity Science and Applications Division
“Plasma Dust Crystallization” $330,000 3 years 1993
NSF Engineering Directorate
“Particulates in Low-Temperature Plasmas” $216,000 3 years 1993
NASA Micro-Gravity Science and Applications Division
“Graduate Student Researchers Program” $88,000 4 years 1994
NSF Physics
“Strongly Coupled Dusty Plasmas” $669,000 3 years 1997
NASA Micro-Gravity Science and Applications Division
“Plasma Dust Crystallization” $459,000 4 years 1997
Department of Energy
“Strongly Coupled Dusty Plasmas” $540,000 3 years 2000
Department of Energy
“Ninth Workshop on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas” $5,000 1 year 2001
NASA Physical Sciences Research Division
“Optically-Excited Waves in 3D Dusty Plasmas” $700,000 4 years 2002
Department of Energy
“Strongly Coupled Dusty Plasmas” $555,000 3 years 2003
US Civilian Research & Development Foundation $47,000 20 months 2004 “Mass transfer phenomena in weakly-ionized
dusty plasmas” with co-PI Olga S. Vaulina
NASA Physical Sciences Research Division
“Self-Structuring in Dusty Plasmas” $328,333 2 years 2005
Department of Energy
“Strongly Coupled Dusty Plasmas” $612,235 3 years 2006
NASA Physical Sciences Research Division
“Self-Structuring in Dusty Plasmas” $350,000 3 years 2007
total $6,187,568
degree completed
Chun-liu Han M.S. Electrical Engineering 1989
Matthew J. Goeckner Ph.D. Physics 1990
Afan Ottenheimer M.S. Physics 1995
Richard Quinn M.S. Physics 1995
Dmitry Samsonov Ph.D. Physics 1999
Richard Quinn Ph.D. Physics 2000
Timothy Flanagan MS Physics 2006 Ph.D. Physics in progress, supported by RA Yan Feng Ph.D. Physics in progress, supported by RA Stephen Hansen M.S. Physics in progress, supported by fellowship
Courses Taught at The University of Iowa
College Physics II 29:12 physics for premedical students
Intro. Physics I 29:17 mechanics & heat for physics majors
Intro. Physics III 29:19 modern physics for physics majors
Electronics 29:128 circuits & measurement for science majors
Electricity & Magnetism 29:129 electro & magnetostatics for physics majors
Electricity & Magnetism 29:130 electrodynamics for physics majors
Plasma Physics I 29:194 introductory plasma physics
Plasma Physics II 29:195 introductory plasma physics
Adv. Plasma Physics I 29:294 kinetic theory for graduate students
Adv. Plasma Physics II 29:295 MHD & transport for graduate students
Introductory Physics Labs 29:8/11/12/17/18/27/28 new labs & lab manuals
Teaching assignments since 1996
Semester Course Comment
Spring 1996 29:194 Electronics Effort included development of lab & lab manual
Fall 1996 none Faculty Scholar Award
Spring 1997 29:294 Adv. Plasma Physics
Fall 1997 none Faculty Scholar Award
Spring 1998 none Faculty Scholar Award - sabbatical in Germany
Fall 1998 none Sabbatical in Germany
Spring 1999 29:194 Electronics Effort included development of lab & lab manual
Fall 1999 29:8/11/12/17/18/27/28 Physics Labs - new labs & lab manuals
Spring 2000 29:194 Electronics Effort included development of lab & lab manual
Fall 2000 29:8/11/12/17/18/27/28 Physics Labs - new labs & lab manuals
Spring 2001 29:194 Electronics Effort included development of lab & lab manual
Fall 2001 29:8/11/12/17/18/27/28 Physics Labs - new labs & lab manuals
Spring 2002 29:194 Electronics Effort included development of lab & lab manual
Fall 2002 29:12 College Physics II 55 students enrolled
Spring 2003 29:194 Electronics 15 students enrolled
Effort included development of lab & lab manual
Fall 2003 29:294 Adv. Plasma Physics 6 students enrolled
Spring 2004 29:194 Electronics 12 students enrolled
Effort included development of lab & lab manual
Fall 2004 29:129 ElectricityMagnetism 18 students enrolled
Spring 2005 29:194 Electronics 16 students enrolled
Effort included development of lab & lab manual
Fall 2005 29:294 Adv. Plasma Physics 5 students enrolled
Spring 2006 29:194 Electronics 16 students enrolled
Effort included development of lab & lab manual
Fall 2006 none Career Development Award
Spring 2007 29:194 Electronics 16 students enrolled
Effort includes development of lab & lab manual
Fall 2007 Adv. Plasma Physics 5 students enrolled
Spring 2008 29:194 Electronics 18 students enrolled
Effort includes development of lab & lab manual
Various semesters Research in Physics
Awards won by thesis students
L.B. Sims Outstanding Master's Thesis Award, The University of Iowa
Timothy Flanagan 2007
Supervision of Postdoctoral Scientific Personnel
Assistant Research Scientist Terrence E. Sheridan, Jr. 1988 – 1991
Research Investigator Matthew J. Goeckner 1991
Research Investigator Chunshi Cui 1993 – 1995
Research Investigator G. Praburam 1993 – 1995
Research Investigator John B. Pieper 1995 – 1996
Postdoctoral Research Associate Volodymyr Nosenko 2000 – 2002
Assistant Research Scientist Volodymyr Nosenko 2002 – 2006
Associate Research Scientist Terrence E. Sheridan, Jr. 2000 – 2001
Postdoctoral Research Associate Shota Nunomura 2001 – 2002
Postdoctoral Research Associate Bin Liu 2001 – 2007
Associate Research Scientist Bin Liu 2007 – present
Supervision of Engineering Personnel
Mechanical Engineer Allen Cooper 2002 – 2003
Hosting of Visiting Scientific Personnel
Prof. Frank MelandsØ University of TromsØ, Norway 1994 – 1995
Prof. André Melzer University of Kiel, Germany 1999
Dr. Shota Nunomura University of Nagoya, Japan 1999 – 2001
Prof. Alexander Piel University of Kiel, Germany May 2001
Supervision of Undergraduate Research
Jerome Fung REU Student from Swarthmore College 2004
“Method of Measuring Charge in a Dusty Plasma”
Robert Merrill REU Student from Ohio Northern University 2005
“Plasma Tweezers Instrument for Dusty Plasmas”
Service to Department
Educational Operations 1987 – 1990
Faculty Search 1992 – 1993, 1997 – 1998
Comprehensive Exam 1993 – 1994
Review of Tenured Faculty 1999, 2001
Review of Untenured Faculty 2007
Executive Committee 1999 – 2001
Promotion and Tenure Committee 1999, 2004
Search Committee for Lab Coordinator 2000
Graduate Brochure & Website Committee 2001 – 2002
Recruiting and Admissions Committee 2002 – 2003
Thesis Exam Committee 2005
Colloquium organization AY 1992/93, 2000/01
Writing departmental self study 2000
Updating lab manuals, when not assigned as teaching 2000 – 2003
Plasma seminar organization almost every year
Qualifier exam question every year
Recruiting of graduate students since 2000
Graduate recruiting visit to MIPT, Moscow, Russia Sep 2000
Graduate College Open House representative of department 15 Nov 2001
Focus-group participant to review brochure and website 28 Nov 2001
Produced all-new web site, the largest of its kind nationwide 2001–2002
Photographed dozens of subjects for recruiting website, brochure, talks 2001–2002
Edited over 100 photos for recruiting website, brochure, talks 2001–2002
Produced all-new recruiting brochure 2001–2002
Produced all-new slides for recruiting talks 2002
Co-produced all-new pamphlet to recruit women graduate students 2002
Met with prospective graduate students visiting our campus 2001–2002
Graduate recruiting visit to Lawrence University, Appleton WI 15 Oct 2002
Graduate recruiting visit to Iowa State University 13 Jan 2003
Graduate recruiting visit to Grinnell College 21 Jan 2003
Graduate recruiting visit to Case Western Reserve University 13 Feb 2003
Graduate recruiting visit to Augustana College 17 April 2003
Graduate recruiting visit to Carleton College 25 Apr 2003
Graduate recruiting visit to Sonoma State College 12 May 2003
Graduate recruiting visit to Swarthmore College 26 Sep 2003
Graduate recruiting visit to California State University at Sacramento 23 Oct 2003
Graduate recruiting visit to Brigham Young University 7 Dec 2004
Recruiting of undergraduate students since 2000
Focus-group participant to review brochure and website Dec 2002
Service to University and College
Vice President for Research Committees
Advisory Committee on Physical and Mathematical Sciences 1992
Committee for Conflict of Interest in Sponsored Programs 1999 – 2002
College of Liberal Arts Committees
Review Committee for Dept. of Chemistry 1994
Service to Profession
Guest Editor IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science
Special Issue on Charged Dust in Plasmas 1993 – 1994
Journal Referee Applied Physics Letters
Europhysics Letters
IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science
Icarus
Journal of Applied Physics
Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics)
Journal of Physics D
Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology
Nature
Nature Physics
New Journal of Physics
Physical Review
Physical Review Letters
Physics Letters A
Physics of Fluids
Physics of Plasmas
Plasma Sources Science & Technology
Royal Society of Chemistry
Service to Professional Societies
Executive Committee American Vacuum Society Div. Plasma Science Tech. 1988 – 1990
Program Committee American Vacuum Society National Symposia 1989 – 1991
Program Committee Non-neutral Plasma Workshop 1997, 2000, 2003
Program Committee Second International Conference on Dusty Plasmas 1999
American Institute of Physics committee: update PACS codes for plasma physics 1999 – 2000
Co-organizer Ninth Dusty Plasma Workshop 2001
Program Committee Third International Conference on Dusty Plasmas 2002
Nominations Committee American Physical Society Div. of Plasma Physics 2002
Chairman, Nominations Committee
American Physical Society Div. of Plasma Physics 2003
Fellowship Committee American Physical Society Div. of Plasma Physics 2005
International Committee Fourth International Conference on Dusty Plasmas 2005
Vice Chair Marshall Rosenbluth Thesis Award Committee
American Physical Society Div. of Plasma Physics 2005-2006
Chair Marshall Rosenbluth Thesis Award Committee
American Physical Society Div. of Plasma Physics 2006-2007
Organizing Committee Workshop: Faraday Discussion 137
Spectroscopy and Dynamics of Microparticles 2006-2007
Scientific Advisory Committee 2007 - 2008
Fifth International Conference on Dusty Plasmas
Fellowship
Committee American
Physical Society Div. of Plasma Physics 2008
Service to Government Organizations
Review Panel National Science Foundation 1994, 2000, 2005, 2007
Review Panel NASA Mars Lander proposals 1997
Review Panel Swedish Research Council 2005
Proposal Referee U.S. Department of Energy, NASA, National Science Foundation
Service to International Organizations
Chairman International Advisory Board
International Microgravity Plasma Facility 1999 – 2003
Meetings of the advisory board, organized and run:
Hakone, Japan 25 May 1999
Munich, Germany 10 -11 Aug 1999
Munich, Germany 7 - 8 Dec 1999
Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA 25 Apr 2000
Lisbon, Port ugal 3 Jun 2000
Garching, Germany 7 Nov 2000
Iowa City, USA 23 - 24 May 2001
Moscow, Russia 4 - 5 Dec 2001
Durban, South Africa 24 May 2002
Garching, Germany 17 Dec 2002
Technology Transferred to Industrial Use
Palo Alto Research Corp
"Double Lock-in Technique" used in model PAR 100 Lock-In Extender/Enhancer
Eastman Kodak Co.
Consulting project led to a new magnetron design for web coaters
Outreach
Science Fair Judging:
Eastern Iowa Science & Engineering Fair 1991 93 97 99 00 01 02 07
Solon Science Fair 2002, 2007
Presentations at “Family Science Adventures”
(for children and parents of Iowa City area)
Gravity and Weightlessness in Space 2000, 2001
Sound Waves and How We Know the Earth’s Core is Molten 2006
K12 Presentations at Horn Elementary School, Iowa City:
Volcanoes, 1st and 2nd grade. Horn Elementary, Iowa City 2001, 2004
Pulleys and Levers, presented to four classes, 3rd and 4th grades 2002
Physics of Sound, presented to two classes, 3rd and 4th grades 2002
Buoyancy experiments, presented to three classes, 5th and 6th grades 2004
Chess Club – taught advanced class, for 16 students with 6 meetings 2004
Physics of Sound, presented to two classes, 3rd and 4th grades 2007
Organizer of “Take our daughters to work day” event
(for children of faculty and staff, Department of Physics and Astronomy) 2002
College Fair Night, Iowa City, Representing Caltech 2001, 2002
“Fast-Wave Current Drive in Toroidal Plasmas”
IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science, Canada May 1986
“Dust Shedding by Bodies in a Plasma”
COSPAR World Space Conference, Washington, D.C. Aug 1992
“The Plasma-Crystal Project”
Fifth Dusty Plasma Workshop, Huntsville, AL Mar 1993
“Ion Trapping by a Charged Dust Grain in a Plasma”
NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Formation, Transport
and Consequence of Particles in Plasma Processing, France Sep 1993
“Dusty Plasmas”
Non-neutral Plasmas Workshop, Berkeley, CA Jul 1994
“Dusty Plasma Experiments using the GEC Reference Cell”
Gaseous Electronics Conference Oct 1994
“Experiments with Strongly-Coupled Dusty Plasmas”
International Conf. on the Physics of Strongly Coupled Plasmas Sep 1995
“Dynamics of a Carbon Particle Cloud in a Sputtering Plasma”
Workshop on Dusty Plasmas 1995, Wickenburg, AZ Oct 1995
“Experiments with Strongly-Coupled Dusty Plasmas”
International Conference on Dusty Plasmas, Goa, India Oct 1996
“Experiments with Strongly-Coupled Dusty Plasmas”
International Conf. on Superlattices, Microstructures and Microdevices
Lincoln, NE Jul 1997
“Void and filamentary instabilities in a dusty plasma”
Seventh Dusty Plasma Workshop, Boulder, CO Apr 1998
“Mach Cones in a Dusty Plasma”
URSI, Boulder, CO Jan 1999
“Monolayer Plasma Crystals: Experiments and Simulations”
Second International Conference on Dusty Plasmas, Hakone, Japan May 1999
“Experiments with Coulomb-Crystal Dusty Plasmas”
Second Symposium on Non-conventional Plasmas, Niigata Japan Aug 1999
“Coulomb crystals in a monolayer dusty plasma”
Gaseous Electronics Conference, Norfolk, VA Oct 1999
“Coulomb Crystals made from Dusty Plasmas”
American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics, Seattle, WA Nov 1999
“Experiments with two-dimensional crystallized dusty plasmas”
American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics, Seattle, WA Nov 1999
“Shear Transverse Wave in a Complex Plasma”
European Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics, Section on Dusty Plasmas
Workshop, Lisbon Portugal Jun 2000
“Plasma Dust Crystallization”
Cleveland, OH Aug 2000
“Coulomb Crystal Experiments in Dusty Plasmas”
American Physical Society April Meeting, Washington D.C. Apr 2001
“International Microgravity Plasma Facility (IMPF) – Physics”
AIAA Conference on Space Station Utilization, Cape Canaveral, FL Oct 2001
“International Microgravity Plasma Facility (IMPF) – Engineering”
AIAA Conference on Space Station Utilization, Cape Canaveral, FL Oct 2001
“Waves in 2D Dusty Plasma Crystals”
International Conference on Strongly Coupled Coulomb Systems (SCCS)
Santa Fe, NM Sep 2002
“A Plasma that Acts Like a Crystal”
American Physical Society April Meeting, Philadelphia, PA Apr 2003
“Transverse optical mode in a one-dimensional Yukawa chain” Jul 2003
“Strongly-Coupled Dusty Plasmas” Aug 2004
“Review of Dust Particle Formation, Charging, and Transport” Apr 2005
Dust in Fusion Plasmas Workshop
(preceding the Transport Task Force Meeting), Napa, CA
“Waves in Dusty Plasmas” Jun 2005
“Wave Experiments in Dusty Plasmas: Linear and Nonlinear”
APS April Meeting mini-conference on Laboratory Experiments on Plasma Astrophysics
Dallas, TX Apr 2006
“Dusty Plasmas that Behave like Liquids or Solids”
European Physical Society Conference on Plasma Physics, Rome Italy Jun 2006
“Diffusion and super-diffusion in strongly-coupled dusty plasmas”
48th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics
Philadelphia, PA Oct 2006
“Diffusive Transport of Microparticles in an Rf Glow Discharge Plasma”
2007 IEEE Conference on Plasma Sciences
Albuquerque, NM Jun 2007
2008 International Conference on Strongly Coupled Coulomb Systems.
Camerino, Italy, July 29 August 2, 2008