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Michael J. O’Shea

 

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University Service

      Current

Chair of Graduate entrance committee (physics) – current

Recruits within the U.S. and internationally in collaboration with other committee members.  Evaluates graduate applications for admission to graduate school in physics. 

      Departmental graduate advisor (physics) – current

Advises all incoming graduate students in physics, advises all graduate students in physics in collaboration with their research advisor. 

            Past

Graduate Council of Kansas State University (two 3-year terms).  This council decides overarching university rules /policy for graduate degree programs and graduate certificate programs for Kansas State University.  It is also the final gatekeeper for admission of faculty into the ‘graduate faculty’ allowing them to supervise advanced (M.S. and Ph.D.) degrees. 

Search committees

o   Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences, 

o   Associate Dean of the Graduate School

 

National or International Professional Experience

Served on the program committee (reviews abstracts and selects papers for presentation at the conference)

o   8th Joint MMM-Intermag Conference”, San Antonio, TX, Jan. 7-11, 2001

 

Served as publications editor (duties: selecting referees for conference papers, communicating referee reports to authors, handling appeals of publication decisions) for

o   9th Joint MMM- Intermag Conference, Anaheim, CA, January 5-9, 2004

o   10th Joint MMM/Intermag Conference, Baltimore, MD, January 7-11, 2007

 

Served as publications editor (duties: selecting referees for conference papers, communicating referee reports to authors, handling appeals of publication decisions) for: 

o   47th Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, Tampa, FL, Nov. 11-15, 2002

o   49th Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, Nov. 7-11, 2004

o   50th Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, San Jose, CA, Oct. 30-Nov. 3, 2005,

o   52nd Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, Tampa, FL, Nov. 5-9, 2007

 

Organized the 45th Midwest Solid State Conference which was hosted at K-State. 

o   October 3-4, 1997.   Invited and contributed papers over 2 days spanned biophysics, semiconductors, magnetism, surfaces and liquids.   This conference brings condensed matter researchers in the mid-west together for a yearly meeting.