Dr. Howard Richards Assistant Professor  of Physics   B.S., University of Alabama M.S., Ph.D., Florida State University

Address:

Department of Physics and Physical Science

Marshall University

One John Marshall Drive

Huntington, WV 25755 (USA)

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Teaching: Spring 2010

Research Activities

Articles published since 2005

• "Beyond the Wigner distribution: Schroedinger equations and terrace width distributions", Howard L. Richards and T. L. Einstein. Phys. Rev. E 72, 016124 (2005).
• "Terrace width distributions for vicinal surfaces with steps of alternating Stiffness", Jeremy A. Yancey, Howard L. Richards, and T. L. Einstein. Surf. Sci. 598, 78-87 (2005).
• "Step position distributions and the pairwise Einstein model for steps on crystal surfaces", Amber N. Benson, Howard L. Richards, and T. L. Einstein. Phys. Rev. B 73, 115429 (2006).
• (in preparation)  "Irreversibly growing droplets in the Ising model on triangular lattices with small-world interactions", Howard L. Richards, to be submitted to Phys. Rev. E.
• (in preparation) "Numerical transfer-matrix studies of the effects of large step stiffness ratios on terrace width distributions", Howard L. Richards, to be submitted to Phys. Rev. B.
  

Presentations while at Marshall University

• 2009 March Meeting of the APS; March 16-20, 2009; Pittsburgh, PA
• V9.12: "Monte Carlo Studies of the Isoperimetric Dimension of Growing Droplets in Metastable Decay of the Ising Model on Small-World Graphs", Howard L. Richards
• 2008 Fall Meeting of the Ohio-Region Section of the APS; October 10-11, 2008;  Fairborn, OH
• C6.05: "Terrace Width Distributions in the Limit $\tilde{\beta}_B / \tilde{\beta}_A \to \infty$: Numerical Transfer Matrix Results$", Howard L. Richards
• 2008 Spring Meeting of the Ohio-Region Section of the APS; March 28-29, 2008; Youngstown, OH
• C2.06: "Ensemble Approach to Vicinal Crystal Surfaces", Howard L. Richards and Ryan P. Jacob

Recent external grant applications

• $174,875 (NSF):  "RUI: Monte Carlo Simulations of Metastable Decay in the lsing Model on Small-World Networks" (Declined)
• $241,842 (NSF):  "REU: Computational Science Training at Marshall University for Undergraduates in the Mathematical Sciences and Physics" (Declined)
• $197,321 (NSF):  "RUI: Monte Carlo Simulations of Metastable Decay in the lsing Model on Small-World Networks" (Declined)
• $326,484 (NSF):  "REU: Computational Science Training at Marshall University for Undergraduates in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences" (Awarded)