Mike McKerns
 307 Keck Laboratory MC138-78
 California Institute of Technology
 TEL: (626)395-5773 or (626)590-8470
 FAX: (626)795-6132
 mmckerns [at] caltech.edu
me

Website under construction...

For now, please redirect to:
  • http://danse.us for current work on the DANSE project
  • http://danse.us/trac for the DANSE developer's site
  • http://www.its.caltech.edu/~mmckerns/danse.html for a summary of DANSE presented at ACNS 2008
  • http://www.its.caltech.edu/~mmckerns/mystic.html for an overview of mystic design presented at the 2009 PSAAP site visit
  • http://www.its.caltech.edu/~mmckerns/software.html for community software I maintain
  • http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/projects/ARCS for recent work on the ARCS project
  • http://www.phy.uab.edu/~mmckerns for prior research information


    • Most recent updates to my information can be found here:
  • vitae


    • Selected Publications:
  • Experimental Inelastic Neutron Scattering, Introduction to DANSE,
        B. Fultz, T. Kelley, M. McKerns, J. Lin, J. Lee, O. Delaire, M. Kresch, M. Aivazis, (Springer-Verlag, in preparation; internet draft, DANSE website 2007).

  • "Amplification of narrow line LiF:F2+** color center laser oscillation",
        A. VanEngen Spivey, V. Fedorov, M. McKerns, C. Lawson, S. Mirov, Optics Comm. 254, 290 (2005).

  • "Higher-order triplet interaction in energy-level modeling of excited-state absorption for an expanded porphyrin cadmium complex",
        M. McKerns, W. Sun, C. Lawson, G. Gray, JOSA B 22(4), 852 (2005).

  • "Distributed Analysis of Neutron Scattering Experiments on the TeraGrid",
        M. McKerns, J. McCorquodale, B. Fultz, ORNL Technical Report (2005).

  • "Excited state lifetime and intersystem crossing rate of asymmetric pentaazadentate porphyrin-like metal complexes",
        C. Byeon, M. McKerns, W. Sun, T. Nordlund, C. Lawson, G. Gray, Appl. Phys. Lett. 84(25), 5174 (2004).

  • Characterization of Molecular Structure, Excited-state Absorption, and Nonlinear Optical Response of Metallotexaphyrin Complexes,
        M. McKerns, Doctoral Dissertation (University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2002).

  • "Pushbroom imaging spectrometer with high spectroscopic data fidelity: experimental demonstration",
        P. Mouroulis, M. McKerns, Opt. Eng. 39, 808 (2000).

  • "Optical limiting performances of asymmetric pentaazadentate porphyrin-like cadmium complexes",
        W. Sun, C. Byeon, M. McKerns, C. Lawson, G. Gray, D. Wang, Appl. Phys. Lett. 73(9), 1167 (1998).

  • "Oxidative enhancement of the chi(3) values of solutions of cis-Mo(CO)4L2 (L = PPh3, AsPh3, PPh2Np) complexes as measured by DFWM",
        W. Sun, C. Byeon, M. McKerns, C. Lawson, J. Dunn, M. Hariharasarma, G. Gray, Opt. Mat. 11, 87 (1998).
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    Selected Presentations:
  • "DANSE: Extending the Scientific Toolkit for the Neutron Community",
        The International Conference on Neutron Scattering Knoxville, TN (2009).

  • "DANSE Project Management",
        NSF IMR-MIP: DANSE CONST Annual Review, Manassas, VA (2007).

  • "A Data Analysis Framework for the Neutron Community",
        XSD Scientific Software Workshop, Argonne, IL (2006).

  • "Techniques for the Measurement and Design of Electronic Excited State Materials",
        U. of Alabama Birmingham Physics Dept. Seminar, Birmingham, AL (2006).

  • "Grid Services Light",
        Neutron Scattering Software Workshop, Pasadena, CA (2004).

  • "New Directions in the Characterization of Organic NLO Materials",
        U.S. Air Force Academy Physics Dept. Seminar Colorado Springs, CO (2002).
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