Work Address: Department of Physics, Austin College, Sherman, Texas 75090
Work Telephone: 903 813 2480
Work Fax: 903 813 2420
Work Electronic Mail: dsalisbury@austincollege.edu
Work World Wide Web: http://artemis.austincollege.edu/acad/physics/dsalis
Home Address: 1002 Hyde Park Drive, McKinney, Texas 75069
Home Telephone: 972 548 0135
Home Fax: 972 548 0135
Home Electronic Mail: dcsalisbury@comcast.net
Birthdate: May 6, 1946
Marital Status: Married to Maria Cecilia Salisbury
Ph.D. in Physics, Syracuse University, May, 1977
Dissertation:"The Quantization of the Relativistic Closed String"
Dissertation Advisor: Peter G. Bergmann (Relativity Theory)
Secondary Advisor: A.P. Balachandran (Particle Theory)
B.A., Oberlin College, June, 1968
Major Field: Physics
Elementary and High School: Pulaski Academy and Central School, Pulaski, New York
Institut für Europäische Studien, Vienna, Austria, Summer, 1967
L'Accueil Fraternel, Le Chambon sur Lignon, France, Fall, 1970
German, French, Spanish and Italian
Austin College Science Division Research Award 2002, 2006
Austin College Priddy Research Grant for $8200, Summer, 2006
Austin College Priddy Research Grant for $8200, Summer, 2004
NSF Grant PHY99-50415: "CCLI-ADAPTATION AND IMPLEMENTATION: A Computer-Based
Laboratory-Classroom for Active Learning
In Introductory Physics and Astronomy " matching grant for $27,956 (Co-PI)
NSF Grant PHY94-13063: "RUI: Connection Approaches to Numerical Relativity"
for $42,690 (PI)
NSF Grant PHY92-11953: "RUI: Numerical Solutions of Planar Vacuum Einstein
Equations Using Ashtekar Variables" for $34,372 (PI)
Who's Who Among America's Teachers
Who's Who in American Education
Who's Who in the South and Southwest
American Men and Women of Science
Chair, Austin College Department of Physics, 1996-2005
Standing Committee, International Association for Relativistic Dynamics, 1998-2002
Physics/Astronomy Councilor of the Council on Undergraduate Research, 1995-98
Physics/Astronomy divisional associate editor of the Council on Undergraduate
Research Quarterly, 1995-96
| EMPLOYER | DATES | RANK |
| Austin College, Sherman, Texas | 9/90 - |
Associate Professor |
| Austin College, Sherman, Texas | 9/87 -90 |
Assistant Professor |
| Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York | 9/85 - 8/87 |
Assistant Professor |
| Reed College, Portland, Oregon | 9/83 - 8/85 |
Visiting Assistant Professor |
| Rutgers University-Newark,Newark, New Jersey | 6/83 - 7/83 |
Adjunct Professor |
| Cooper Union School of Engineering, New York, New York | 9/82 - 5/83 |
Adjunct Professor |
| Rutgers University-Newark | 9/82 -12/82 |
Adjunct Professor |
| Cooper Union | 6/82 - 7/82 |
Adjunct Professor |
| Free University of Berlin, West Berlin, Germany | 6/80 - 6/82 |
Research Assistant (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) |
| New York City Community, College, Brooklyn, New York | 2/80 - 5/80 |
Adjunct Professor |
| Rutgers University-Newark | 9/79 - 5/80 |
Adjunct Professor |
| New York University, New York, New York | 7/79 - 8/79 |
Adjunct Professor |
| Cooper Union School of Engineering | 6/79 - 7/79 |
Adjunct Professor |
| Rutgers University-Newark | 9/78 - 5/79 |
Adjunct Professor |
| Free University of Berlin | 12/77 - 8/78 |
Research Assistant |
| Rutgers University-Newark | 9/77 - 12/77 |
Adjunct Professor |
| Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York | 6/77 - 8/77 |
Research Assistant |
| Syracuse University | 9/71 - 5/77 |
Teaching Assitant |
| Institut Brinton, Sandoa, Zaire, Africa | 5/70 - 8/71 |
High School Teacher |
| Syracuse University | 9/68 - 5/69 |
Teaching Assistant |
Visiting Scholar, Department of Physics, Syracuse University, September 2001 - December 2001
Visiting Scholar, Center for Relativity, Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin, June 1993 - January 1994
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, June, 2005
Department of Physics, University of Maryland, June, 2003
Department of Physics, University of Florence, Italy, July, 2000, 2001
Visiting Scholar, Center for Relativity, Department of Physics, University of
Texas at Austin, Summers 1991-1995, 1997-98
Department of Physics, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, June, 1990
and July, 1988
Instructor, with Thomas Settle of the Florence Science History Museum, of a National Science Foundation Chautauqua Short Course for College Teachers, Galileo's Genius Viewed in Craft, Engineering, Scientific, Artistic and Political Context, May 26-31, 2006
Instructor with Jeff Fontana and Max Grober of National Science Foundation Chautauqua Short Course for College Teachers, Galileo's Genius Viewed in Scientific, Artistic, Political and Religious Context, Florence, Italy, May 27 - 31, 2004 and May 26 - 30, 2005
Physical Review Letters
Physical Review E
Annales of Physics
Journal of Mathematical Physics
General Relativity and Gravitation
Journal of Physics A
Modern Physics Letters A
Associate Editor, Directory of Research in Physics/Astronomy at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions, Council on Undergraduate Research, 1997 (G. Ruppeiner, ed.) ISBN 0-941933-17-2
"A generalized Schroedinger equation for loop quantum gravity", to appear in the Proceedings of the Eleventh Marcel Grossmann Meeting, gr-qc/0702132
"Rosenfeld, Bergmann, Dirac and the invention of constrained Hamiltonian dynamics", to appear in the Proceedings of the Eleventh Marcel Grossmann Meeting, physics/0701299
"Peter Bergmann and the invention of constrained Hamiltonian dynamics", to appear in the Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on the History of General Relativity, physics/0608067
"Albert Einstein and Peter Bergmann", (in English and German translation)
in Albert Einstein: Engineer of the Universe: One Hundred Authors for Einstein,
Jürgen Renn ed. (Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2005) ISBN 10:3-527-40574-7
"Reparameterization invariants for anisotropic Bianchi I cosmology with
a massless scalar source", (with AC students Josh Helpert and Allison Schmitz),
gr-qc/0503014, submitted to General Relativity and Gravitation
"The issue of time in generally covariant theories and the Komar-Bergmann
approach to observables in general relativity", (with Josep Pons), Physical
Review D71, 12402 (2005) gr-qc/0503013
"Gauge Fixing and Observables in General Relativity", Modern Physics Letters A18, 2475 - 2482 (2003)
"Quantum general invariance", in Proceedings of the Ninth Marcel Grossmann Meeting, edited by V.G. Gurzadyan, R. T. Jantzen and R. Ruffini, (World Scientific, New Jersey, 2002), 1300-1301
"The gauge group in the Ashtekar-Barbero formulation of canonical gravity", in Proceedings of the Ninth Marcel Grossmann Meeting, edited by V.G. Gurzadyan, R. T. Jantzen and R. Ruffini, (World Scientific, New Jersey, 2002), 1298-1299 (with J. Pons)
"Quantum general invariance and loop gravity", Foundations of Physics 31, 1105 - 1118 (2001)
"The gauge group and the reality conditions in Ashtekar's formulation
of general relativity", Phys. Rev.
D62 , 064026 - 064040 (2000) (with J.M. Pons and L.C. Shepley) gr-qc/9912085
"The gauge group in the real triad formulation of general relativity", Gen. Rel. Grav. 32, 1727 - 1744 (2000) (with J.M. Pons and L.C. Shepley) gr-qc/9912087
"Gauge transformations in Einstein-Yang-Mills theories", J. Math. Phys. 41, 5557 - 5571 (2000) (with J.M. Pons and L.C. Shepley) gr-qc/9912086
"Gauge symmetries in Ashtekar's formulation of general relativity", Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl. 88, 314-317 (2000) (with J.M. Pons and L.C. Shepley) gr-qc/0004013
"Gauge transformations in general relativity - A report", Tr. J. Phys. 1, 1 - 8 (1999) (with J.M. Pons and L.C. Shepley)
"Reduced Phase Space: Quotienting Procedure for Gauge Theories", J. Phys. A 32, 419 (1999) (with J.M. Pons and L.C. Shepley) math-ph/9811029
"Classical Canonical General Coordinate and Gauge Symmetries", Found. Phys. 28, 1425 (1998)
"A Classical and Quantum Relativistic Interacting Variable-Mass Model", Found. Phys. 28, 1433 (1998)
"Gauge Transformations in the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Formalisms of Generally Covariant Theories", Physical Review D 55, 658-668 (1997) (with J.M. Pons and L.C. Shepley)
"A Connection Approach to Numerical Relativity", Classical and Quantum Gravity 11, 2789-2806 (1994) (with A. Adams, D. Mann, B. Turner, L. Turvan, and L. Shepley )
"Black Hole Explorer", Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Physics, edited by M. Shapiro and J. Feagin (California State University Fullerton, 1991), (with J. Burciaga)
"Quantum Relativistic Action at a Distance", Foundations of Physics, 19, (December 1989) (with M. Pollot)
"How to Make Relativistic Strings", unpublished, 1985 (with P. Das)
"The Quantization of the Relativistic String", General Relativity and Gravitation 16, 955-978 (1984)
"Semiclassical Quantization of the Klein-Gordon Field: On Defining Particles", in Unified Field Theories of More Than Four Dimensions, edited by E. Schmutzer, (World Scientific, Singapore, 1983) (with T. Dray and J. Renn)
"Particle Creation with Finite Energy Density", Letters in Mathematical Physics 7, 145-153(1983) (with T. Dray and J. Renn)
"Local Symmetries of Einstein-Yang-Mills Theory as Phase Space Transformations", Physical Review D27, 757-763(1983) (with K. Sundermeyer)
"The Realization in Phase Space of General Coordinate Transformations", Physical Review D27, 740-756(1983) (with K. Sundermeyer)
"Stationary Properties of Nambu Strings", Nuclear Physics B191, 260-268 (1981) (with K. Sundermeyer)
"The Quantization of the Relativistic Closed String", Syracuse University Preprint, 1978 (with P.G. Bergmann)
Book Reviews
Reviews of Introduction to Relativity, by John B. Kogut, and Relativity: Special,
General, and Cosmological, by Wolfgang Rindler, American Journal of Physics
71, 1085-1086 (2003)
Review of A Unified Grand Tour of Theoretical Physics, by Ian D. Lawrie, General
Relativity and Gravitation 36, 225-227 (2004)
"Time and observables in general relativity", Mini-symposium on the Nature of Time, Austin College, February, 2007
"An eternal history of frozen time?", Mini-symposium on the Nature of Time, Austin College, February, 2007
"Astronomía mesoamericana", Ciencia de Frontera, Universidad de Juarez, November 2006
"The passage of time in Einstein's universe", Joint Physics/Philosphy Seminar, University of Texas at El Paso, November 2006
"Rosenfeld, Bergmann, Dirac, and the Invention of Constrained Hamiltonian Dynamics", North Texas Relativity and Cosmology Seminar, University of Texas at Dallas, October, 2006
"A generalized Schrödinger equation for loop quantum cosmology", XI'th Marcel Grossmann Meeting, Berlin, July 2006
"Rosenfeld, Bergmann, Dirac, and the Invention of Constrained Hamiltonian Dynamics", invited talk at the XI'th Marcel Grossmann Meeting, Berlin, July 2006
"Rosenfeld, Bergmann, and the Invention of Constrained Hamiltonian Dynamics", April Meeting of the American Physical Society, Dallas, April, 2006
"Einstein, Gravity, and the Search for a Unified Field Theory", University of North Texas Physics Colloquium, November, 2005
"Observables in general relativity", North Texas Relativity Seminar, University of Texas at Dallas, September, 2005
"Albert Einstein, Peter Bergmann, ...and the Problem of Time, Austin College Physics Colloquium, April, 2005
"Peter Bergmann and the invention of constrained Hamiltonian dynamics", invited talk at the Seventh International Conference on the History of General Relativity, Tenerife, Spain, March 2005
"La Verdadera Historia de Galileo Galilei", Barranquilla Planetarium, Colombia, December 2004
"Reparameterization invariants for anisotropic cosmology with a massless scalar source", Fall Meeting of the Texas Section of the American Physical Society, Waco, October, 2004 (presentation by Josh Helpert and Allison Schmitz)
"Intrinsic coordinates, diffeomorphism invariants, and quantum gravity", Albert Einstein Institute seminar, Berlin, Germany, June, 2004
"The accelerating universe and other adventures in modern cosmology", miniprogram on Theorists at Undergraduate Institutions, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara, July, 2003
"Gauge Fixing, Observables, and the Problem of Time in General Relativity", Relativity Theory Seminar, University of Maryland, June, 2003
"Gauge Fixing and Observables in General Relativity", symposium celebrating the 65'th birthday of A.P. Balachandran: Spacetime and Fundamental Interactions: Quantum Aspects, Vietri sul Mare, Salerno, Italy, May 2003
"Komar-Bergmann gauge fixing and observables in general relativity", Joint Relativity/High Energy Theory Seminar, Department of Physics, Syracuse University, November, 2001
"Finite diffeomorphisms and general invariants", International Workshop: General covariance and the "quantum", where do we stand?, University of Parma, June, 2001
"Diffeomorphism invariance in tangent space and in phase space", International Workshop: General covariance and the "quantum", where do we stand?, University of Parma, June (presentation given by J. Pons), June, 2001
"Toward a quantum theory of time", presentation to the Austin College
faculty, May, 2001
"Quantum general invariance and loop gravity", IX Marcel Grossmann
Meeting, Rome, Italy, July, 2000
"Quantum general invariance and loop gravity", 2'nd International Conference on Relativistic Dynamics, Tel Aviv, Israel, June, 2000
"Gauge symmetries in Ashtekar's formulaton of general relativity," Fall Meeting of the Texas Section of the American Physical Socitey, Austin, Texas, October, 1999
"Gauge symmetries in Ashtekar's formulaton of general relativity," Third Meeting on Constrained Dynamics and Quantum Gravity, Sardinia, Italy, September, 1999
"Gauge symmetries in Ashtekar's formulaton of general relativity," Mathematical/Theoretical Physics Seminar, University of Adelaide, Australia, June, 1999
"A Quantum Interacting Variable Mass Model and Associated Probability Interpretations", International Conference on Parameterized Relativistic Quantum Theory, Houston, February, 1998
"Classical Canonical General Coordinate Symmetries and Possible Quantum Implications", International Conference on Parameterized Relativistic Quantum Theory, Houston, February, 1998
"Gauge Transformations in Einstein-Yang-Mills and Ashtekar Theories", Fall Meeting of the Texas Section of the American Physical Society, Denton, October, 1997
"Numerical Relativity", Physics Colloquium, Southern Methodist University, March, 1997
"Gauge Transformations in the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Formalisms of Generally Covariant Theories", Relativity Seminar, University of Texas at Austin, March, 1997
"Establishing PUI Physics and Astonomy Research Links with Universities and Industry", Workshop Leader, 6th National Conference of the Council on Undergraduate Research, North Carolina Central University, June, 1996
"Tracing Light Through a Wormhole", Spring Meeting of the Texas APS, Abilene, March, 1996 (co-authored with A. Haney and presented by A. Haney)
"Numerical Solution of Constraints in a Planar Cosmological Model", Spring Meeting of the Texas APS, Abilene, March, 1996 (co-authored with E. Whittington and N. Kumar. Presented by E. Whittington)
"Perturbative Test-Bed Check of a Planar Cosmological Numerical Code", Spring Meeting of the Texas APS, Abilene, March, 1996 (co-authored with E. Whittington and N. Kumar. Presented by N. Kumar)
"Fixing Initial Gravitational Waves in Numerical Relativity", North Texas Relativity Seminar, Dallas, January, 1996
"Connection Approaches to Numerical Relativity in 3+1 and 2+2 Formalisms", 7th Greynog Relativity Workshop, Wales, England, August, 1995
"A Connection Approach to Numerical Relativity", General Relativity and Gravitation 14, Florence, Italy, August, 1995
"Hawking Black Hole Radiation and the Information Loss Puzzle: An Introduction", North Texas Relativity Seminar, University of Texas at Dallas, May, 1995
"A Connection Approach to Numerical Relativity", Pacific Coast Gravity Meeting, California Institute of Technology, March, 1995
"Loops, Knots ... and Knotty Spacetime Problems", Physics Colloquium, Austin College, October, 1994
"Introduction to Ashtekar Variables in Classical (and What the Heck, Quantum) Gravity", Mathematics Colloquium, East Texas State University, Commerce, October, 1994
"A Connection Approach to Numerical Relativity", Spring Meeting of the Texas Section of the APS, University of Texas at Dallas, March, 1994
"Toward Numerical Solutions of Colliding Gravitational Plane-Fronted Waves Using Ashtekar Variables", Spring Meeting of the Texas Section of the APS, University of Texas at Dallas, March, 1994 (presented by B. Turner)
"A Connection Approach to Numerical Relativity", North Texas Relativity Seminar, University of Texas at Dallas, February, 1994
"Use of Ashtekar Variables in Numerical Planar Cosmology", Relativity Seminar, University of Texas at Austin, October, 1993
"Numerical Code for the Planar Vacuum Einstein Equations in Triad Variables", Fall Meeting of the Texas Section of the APS, Texas A&M University, October, 1993
"Development of a MathTensor Package for the Calculation of Ashtekar Variables in General Relativity", Fall Meeting of the Texas Section of the APS, Texas A&M University, October, 1993 (presented by Larry Turvan)
"Use of Ashtekar Variables in Numerical Planar Cosmology", Numerical Relativity Conference, Penn State University, October, 1993 (AC students Darren Mann and Larry Turvan participated in presentation)
"Applying MathTensor to Ashtekar Variables in General Relativity", Spring Meeting of the Texas Section of the APS, University of Texas-Pan American, March, 1993 (presented by Larry Turvan)
"Toward Numerical Solutions of Colliding Gravitational Waves", Spring Meeting of the Texas Section of the APS, University of Texas-Pan American, March, 1993 (presented by Brian Turner)
"Astronomical Observations of the Ancient Maya", Physics Colloquim, University of North Texas, February, 1993
"Agujeros Negros", Amigos de la Astronomía, Barranquilla, Colombia, December, 1992
"Real Phantoms: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Big Bang", Last Lecture Series, Austin College, October, 1992
"New Approaches to Quantum Gravity", North Texas Relativity Seminar, Southern Methodist University, May, 1992
"Progress Toward Non-Perturbative Quantum Gravity: The Ashtekar Program", North Texas Relativity Seminar, University of Texas at Dallas, February, 1992
"The Hamiltonian Symmetry Group Realized by Ashtekar Variables", Fall Meeting of the Texas Section of the American Physical Society, University of North Texas, November, 1991
"Hamiltonian Symmetry Groups and Ashtekar Variables", IX Italian Conference on General Relativity and Gravitational Physics, Capri, Italy, September, 1990
"Quantum Relativistic Action at a Distance", University of Barcelona, Spain, June, 1990
"Classical Relativistic Action at a Distance", University of Barcelona, Spain, June, 1990