Ray H O Neal

ZOOM (https://famu.zoom.us/j/95602496178)
Tuesday/Thursday: 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

PHY 4703 Physical Electronics I • MWF 9:00 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.
PHY 6815L Advanced Graduate Laboratory • MWF 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
AST 1002 Astronomy • TuTh 9:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
AST 1002 Astronomy • W 11:00 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.

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Ray H. O'Neal, Jr., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Physics, Florida A&M University joined the faculty of the FAMU department of physics in the spring of 1999 after serving as staff astrophysicist of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Ultra-Violet Coronagraph Spectrometer (UVCS) instrument on board the Solar and Heliospheric Observer (SOHO) spacecraft - a joint NASA - ESA (European Space Agency) mission to study the astrophysics of the sun and the nature of the sun – earth space environment. He completed his bachelor's degree in physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where his undergraduate dissertation advisor was Prof. Jerome I. Friedman, MIT Institute Professor of physics and winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in physics. Prof. O'Neal completed his Ph.D. training as a NASA GSRP Fellow under Prof. A. B. C. Walker, Jr., Ph.D., at Stanford University's Center for Space Science and Astrophysics in X-Ray Astronomy / Solar Physics while working on the Multi-Spectral Solar Telescope Array (MSSTA), a suborbital rocket experiment which obtained the first simultaneously high spatial and high spectral resolution images of the solar corona in multiple wavelength bands of X-Ray and extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light using nano-structured X-Ray optical materials. After joining the faculty at FAMU, Prof. O'Neal has contributed to the development of software for secure communication, the development of bio-organic materials for use in the production of clean, renewable energy and RF signal detection and energy harvesting. He is leading the effort to establish a robotic astronomical observatory on the roof of Jones Hall, has contributed to the completion of the Gamma Ray Large Area Space Telescope (formerly GLAST, now FERMI) instrument, the analysis of gamma ray astrophysical data from the EGRET instrument on board the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory spacecraft, the Mixed Apparatus for Radar Investigation of Atmospheric Cosmic Rays of High Ionization (MARIACHI) experiment and has collaborated with the instrumentation division of the Brookhaven National Laboratory on the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope imaging sensors. He is director of the AstroParticle and Cosmic Radiation Detector Research and Development Laboratory (APCR-DRDL) at FAMU. During the 2009-2010 academic year he served as the Martin Luther King Jr. Visiting Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research. Prof. O’Neal also serves as Chief Physicist of the technical advisory board of 510nano, inc., a solar energy technology company.

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• Solar Physics
• High Energy Astronomy / Astrophysics
• Particle Astrophysics
• Observational Astronomy
• Renewable Energy
• Human Space Exploration
• Fundamental (Foundations of) Physics

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• Associate Professor • 2010 - Present
  Florida AM University (FAMU), Tallahassee, FL
• Visiting Professor • 2009 - 2010
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Physics and Kavli Institute of Astrophysics and Space Science, Cambridge, MA
• Associate Professor • 2005 - 2010
  Florida AM University (FAMU), Tallahassee, FL
• Assistant Professor • 1999 - 2005
  Florida A&M University (FAMU), Tallahassee, FL
• Staff Astrophysicist • 1996 - 1999
  Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), Cambridge, MA
• Research Associate • 1995 - 1996
  Howard University Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Michigan, Howard University, ATT Bell laboratories (now Lucent Technologies) Collaborative Access Team of the Advance Photon Source, Washington, DC
• Research Assistant • 1988 - 1995
  Stanford University, Center for Space Science and Astrophysics, (CSSA), Palo Alto, CA

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PUBLICATIONS / Patents / Patent Submissions

• O'Neal, R., Frank., M., Cube Shaped Detector of Astroparticle Cosmic Radiation, US Patent Pending #61/584583, January 12, 2012
• Parker, R., Edwards, J., O'Neal, R., Open Air Manufacturing Process for Producing Biologically Optimized Photovoltaic Cells, US Patent App# US2008/0128024
• P. Wikus; J. S. Adams; R. Baker; S. R. Bandler; W. Brys; D. Dewey; W. B. Doriese; M. E. Eckart; E. Figueroa-Feliciano; R. Goeke; R. Hamersma; G. C. Hilton; U. Hwang; K. D. Irwin; R. L. Kelley; C. A. Kilbourne; S. W. Leman; D. McCammon; T. Okajima; R. H. O'Neal, Jr.; F. S. Porter; C. D. Reintsema; J. M. Rutherford; P. Serlemitsos; T. Saab; K. Sato; Y. Soong; S. N. Trowbridge, Progress on the MicroX sounding rocket x-ray telescope: completion of flight hardware, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2010: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineering (SPIE) Proceedings Vol. 7732, July 2010.
• Michael P. Frank; Sachin S. Junnarkar; Triesha Fagan; Ray H. O'Neal; Helio Takai,Wireless Sensing, Localization, and Processing V, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineering (SPIE) Proceedings Vol. 7706, April 2010.
• Thompson, D., Bertsch, D., O’Neal, R. H., The Highest Energy Photons Observed by the Energetic Gamma Ray Experiment Telescope on the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 157:324–334, 2005
• O’Neal, R. H., Biophysical Radiation Detector, in 2002-2003 Cornell NanoScale Facility Research Accomplishments, Cornell University 2003.
• Spadaro, L . D. Gardner, S. Giordano, R. O'Neal, S. Fineschi, J. L. Kohl, C. Benna, A. Ciaravella, M. Romoli, and D. Judge, The Helium Focusing Cone of the Local Interstellar Medium Close to the Sun, The Astrophysical Journal, volume 568, part 1 (2002)
• A. Ciaravella, J. C. Raymond, B. J. Thompson, A. van Ballegooijen, L. Strachan, J. Li, L. Gardner, R. O'Neal, E. Antonucci, J. Kohl, and G. Noci, Solar and Heliospheric Observatory Observations of a Helical Coronal Mass Ejection The Astrophysical Journal, volume 529, part 1 (2000)
• Raymond, J C., Thompson, B. J., St. Cyr, O. C., Gopalswamy, Nat, Kahler, S., Kaiser, M., Lara, A.,Ciaravella, A., Romoli, M., O’Neal, R, SOHO and radio observations of a CME shock wave, Geophysical Research Letters 27, no. 10, (2000).
• Encinosa, M., O’Neal, R. H., “Quantum particle constrained to a curved surface in the presence of a vector potential.” arXiv:quant-ph/9908087 , Submitted to Physical Review
  Frazin, R.A., A. Ciaravella, E. Dennis, Fineschi, S., L. Gardner, J. Michels, R. O'Neal, J. Raymond, R. Wu, J. Kohl, A. Modigliani, G. Noci., ``UVCS/SOHO Ion Kinetics in Coronal Streamers'', Space Science Reviews Vol. 87, 189-192, 1999

SYNERGYSTIC ACTIVITIES

• Panelist and Speaker, Space Studies Board Future of Space Science Public Symposium, Challenger
  Space Science Learning Center, 2008
• Director, PI-FAMU INTEL Corporation Undergraduate Research Fellows and Integration of MultiCore Computing in Physics Programs (2006 – 2009)
• Chief Physicist, Technical Advisory Board, 510Nano, Inc. Renewable Energy and Green Solutions Company
• Director and Founder, AstroParticle and Cosmic Radiation Detector Research and Development
• Laboratory (APCR-DRDL), Florida A&M University Dept. of Physics, (2001- present)
• Co-PI FAMU NSF CREST Center for Astrophysical Science and Technology (2005 – 2010)

TECHNICAL AND CONTINUING EDUCATION

• “Charge-Coupled Device Detectors, Cameras and Applications”, Short Course, University of California at Los Angeles Extension, Los Angeles, California Summer 1997
• “Solid Propellant Rocket Propulsion”, Workshop and Short Course, Reaction Research Society, Mojave, California, spring 2000
• GEANT4 Tutorial Workshop,, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, May 2007
• “Organic, Molecular and Nanostructured Electronics - Physics and Technology”, Short Lecture Course and Laboratory Practicum, MIT Professional Institute, Cambridge, MA June 2007

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• PSC 1121 Physical Science
• AST 1002 Astronomy
• AST 4220 Astrophysics I
• PHY 2053 College Physics I
• PHY 2053L College Physics I Laboratory
• PHY 2054 College Physics II
• PHY 2054L College Physics II Laboratory
• PHY 2048 General Physics I
• PHY 2048L General Physics I Laboratory
• PHY 2049 General Physics II
• PHY 2049L General Physics II Laboratory
• PHZ 3302 Radiation Physics
• PHY 4703 Physical Electronics I
• PHY 3101 Modern Physics
• PHY 3503 Heat and Thermodynamics
• PHY 4802 Advanced Laboratory
• PHY 4936 Special Problems
• PHY 6815L Advanced Graduate Laboratory