David P. Balamuth

Dr. Balamuth is responsible to the dean for the Departments of Biology, Chemistry, Earth and Environmental Studies, Linguistics, Mathematics, Psychology, and Physics and Astronomy. He works with the dean on priorities and long-term planning in these fields and with department chairs on issues of personnel, budget, space, and facilities. Dr. Balamuth also oversees a number of academic personnel matters for the Dean's Office, including faculty retirement.

Dr. Balamuth was named associate dean in 1995. He is an experimental nuclear physicist whose research interests focus on atomic nuclei of unusual composition. He has served in several capacities as an adviser to the federal government, including a year as program officer for nuclear physics at the National Science Foundation and most recently as a member of the Long Range Plan Working Group of the Nuclear Science Advisory Committee. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Balamuth holds an A.B. from Harvard and a Ph.D. from Columbia. He came to Penn in 1968 and has served the University as graduate chair in physics, chair of the Faculty Senate, and chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy.

• Fellow, American Physical Society

• Associate Dean, School of Arts and Sciences (1995-)
• Chair, Department of Physics and Astronomy (1992-95)
• Executive Committee, Division of Nuclear Physics of the American Physical Society (1982-84)
• Panel on Instrumentation, Nuclear Sciences Advisory Committee, (1988)
• Software Development Committee, Project GAMMASPHERE, (1990-)
• Long Range Plan Working Group on Nuclear Science, (advisory to DoE and NSF), (1995)

• T. Chapuran, D. P. Balamuth, J. W. Arrison, and J. Gorres, "Channel Selection for In-Beam Gamma -Ray Spectroscopy using a 4 pi Phoswich Array", Nuclear Instruments and Methods A272, 767 (1988).
• D. P. Balamuth, T. Chapuran, and J. W. Arrison, "Applications of complete reconstruction of multi-particle final states in fusion-evaporation reactions using a 4 pi detector", Nucl. Instruments and Methods, A275, 315 (1989).
• P. H. Kutt and D. P. Balamuth, "Operating experience with a multiple-processor system for data acquisition and reduction in nuclear physics", Computers in Physics, vol. 3, No. 5, p. 52 (1989).
• J. W. Arrison, D. P. Balamuth, T. Chapuran, D. G. Popescu, J. Goerres, and U. J. Huettmeier, "Structure of the N = Z + 1 nucleus 69Se" Phys. Rev. C 40, 2010 (1989).
• J. W. Arrison, T. Chapuran, U. J. H/ttmeier, and D. P. Balamuth, "Electromagnetic transitions in the N = Z + 1 nucleus 71Br," Phys. Lett. B 248, 39 (1990).
• D. P. Balamuth, U. J. Huttmeier, T. Chapuran, D. G. Popescu, and J. W. Arrison, "In-beam gamma-ray spectroscopy of the N=Z+1 nucleus 63Ga", Phys. Rev. C 43, 2082 (1991).
• C. M. Laymon, K. D. Brown, and D. P. Balamuth, "The 0+(2) parentage of continuum levels in 20Ne," Phys. Rev. C 45, 576 (1992).
• U. J. Huttmeier, J. W. Arrison, and D. P. Balamuth, "In-beam gamma ray spectroscopy of 40Cl" Phys. Rev. C 48, 2648 (1993).
• K. R. Pohl, P. H. Regan, J. W. Arrison, and D. P. Balamuth, "Origin of correlations between evaporation protons and discrete gamma rays in heavy-ion fusion-evaporation reactions," Phys. Rev. C 49, 1372 (1994).
• D. P. Balamuth, K. A. Griffioen, J. E. Bush, K. R. Pohl, D. O. Handzy, A. Aguirre, B. M. Sherrill, J. S. Winfield, D. J. Morrissey, and M. Thoennessen, "Importance of nuclear effects in the dissociation of 6He and 6Li at E/A = 65 MeV," Phys. Rev. Lett.,72, 2355 (1994).