Chris Ray  |  Scholarship  

Education:

• Ph.D. Physics, University of California, Davis, December 1994
  Advisor: Ling-Lie Chau; Dissertation: A Small Piece of a Large System
• B.S. Physics & Mathematics, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California, May 1987

Teaching Experience:

• Professor - Saint Mary's College (2007 - Present)
• Director of 3+2 Engineering Program - Saint Mary's College (2000 - Present)
• Associate Professor - Saint Mary's College, Moraga, CA (2000 - 2007)
• Assistant Professor - Saint Mary's College, Moraga, CA (1996 - 2000)
• Lecturer - University of California, Davis (1995 - 1996)
• Instructional Lab Supervisor - University of California, Davis (1995 - 1996)
  Set objectives for labs, prepared and supervised TAs , rewrote lab manuals
• Lecturer - Sonoma State University (1988 - 1995)

Research Experience:

• Post-Graduate Researcher - University of California, Davis (1995)
  Development of experimental data analysis program
• Graduate Research Assistant - Los Alamos National Laboratory, Center for Nonlinear Studies (1990 - 1994)
  Simulation of retarded potentials; Quantization of constrained systems; Simulation of the reduced density matrix time evolution into a decoherent state; Simulation of decoherence with a finite environment; Investigated relaxation of nonlinear systems in nonequilibrium environments
• Research Assistant - University of California, Davis (1989 - 1994)
  Development of semiconductor pixel detectors; Consistent histories approach to self consistent quantum theory; Feynman-Vernon decoherence functionals; Coherent state path integrals

Presentations:

Selected Presentations

• Cause of peak in the delay-doppler map. Ray, Chris (talk, speech or lecture, invited)
  Starlab Barcelona space based earth observation group
  (December 2007)
• The Advantages of Not Doing Examples. Ray, Chris
  Spring Meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers, Stanford University, Stanford CA
  (March 2000)
• Student Directed Inquiry. Ray, Chris
  Fall Meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers, Sacramento State University, Sacramento CA
  (November 1998)
• Making Lab Practicals Practical. Ray, Chris
  Fall Meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers, Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa CA
  (October 1997)
• Verifying the Conservation of Mechanical Energy with the aid of Computer Data Acquisition. Ray, Chris
  Spring Meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers , Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo CA
  (May 1997)

Publications:

• Ray, C, Ruffini, G, Marco-Pallares, J, Fuentemilla, L and Grau, C. 2007. Complex networks in brain electrical activity, Europhysics Letters, vol. 79, pg.38004, Institute of Physics
• Millonas, Mark and Ray, Chris. 1995. Relaxation Kinetics of Nonlinear Systems Coupled to a Nonequilibrium Bath, Phys Rev Lett, vol. 75, pg.1110