Kayvan Aflatooni
Assistant professor

E-Mail:kaflatoo@fhsu.edu

Deparment of Physics
Font Hans State University
Hays, KS- 67601-4099
Tel: (785)-28-5357
Fax:(785) 628-4146

Teaching Background

I am currently teaching two classes of Elementary General Physics II, which includes topics of Electricity and Magnetism, Optics, and Modern Physics, Spring 2000.

 

Supervised advanced level physics labs with more than thirty experiments in areas of optics, atomic and nuclear physics, vacuum technology, and Scanning Tunneling Microscopy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1990-1996.

Instructed undergraduate physics recitation classes and tutored undergraduate students in introductory physics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1994-1996.

 

Instructed physics and mathematics to gifted high school students, Lincoln Public Schools, 1982-1984.

 

Honors

 

The Distinguished Teaching Assistant Award, 1993.

Research Experience

Low energy electron transmission spectroscopy in molecules of chemical, biological, and environmental interest. Measurements of dissociative electron attachment cross sections for bond breaking in halogenated hydrocarbons. Post-Doctoral research, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Jan 99-Present.

Applications of Laser in atomic physics, using Nd-YAG, Ar ion, and Diode lasers, Post-Doctoral research, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Jan 99-Dec 00.

Laser and photoelectron spectroscopy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1992-1994.

Publications

K. W. McLaughlin, K. Aflatooni, and D. W. Duquette, "The near-Threshold Spectrum of Photoelectron Angular Distributions from Maximally Oriented Ca 4s5p1P" Physical Review A 55, 3615 (1997).

K. Aflatooni, G. A. Gallup, and P. D. Burrow, "Dissociative Electron Attachment in Chloroalkanes and the Correlation with Vertical Attachment Energies" Chemical Physics Letters 282, 398-402 (1998).

K. Aflatooni, G. A. Gallup, and P. D. Burrow, "Electron Attachment Energies of the DNA Bases" Journal of Physical Chemistry A 102, 6205-6207 (1998).

P. D. Burrow, K. Aflatooni, and G. A. Gallup, "Dechlorination Rate Constants on Iron and the Correlation with Vertical Attachment Energies", Submitted to Environmental Research and Technology, 1999.

K. Aflatooni, G. A. Gallup, and P. D. Burrow, "Temporary Anion States of Dichloroalkanes and Selected Polychloroalkanes", in preparation.

K. Aflatooni and P. D. Burrow, "The Absolute Cross Section for Dissociative Electron Attachment in Dichloroalkanes and Selected Polychloroalkanes and the Correlation with Vertical Attachment Energies", in preparation.

K. Aflatooni and P. D. Burrow, "The Absolute Cross Section for Dissociative Electron Attachment in Fluorochloromethanes and the Correlation with Vertical Attachment Energies", in preparation.

K. Aflatooni, B. Hitt, G. A. Gallup, and P. D. Burrow, "Temporary Anion states in Selected Amino Acids", in preparation.

K. Aflatooni and P. D. Burrow, "Vertical Electron Attachment Energies in gas phase Carboranes", in preparation.

Professional Society

Member of American Physical Society.

Professional Experience

Student member of the Graduate Committee, Department of Physics and Astronomy, university of Nebraska-Lincoln, 94-96.

Education

Ph.D., Experimental Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Personal Background

Temporary employment during undergraduate years included jobs in construction, cook, YMCA youth soccer official, assistant soccer coach for Lincoln Public High Schools, night security, and campus landscaping services.

Volunteer tutoring in Physics and Mathematics.

Enjoy playing and coaching soccer, and listening to a wide variety of music.

Married to Lynelle (Ediger) Aflatooni.