Andrea’s nerd certifications
And then, just to show them, I’ll sail to Ka-Troo And Bring Back an It-Kutch a Preep and a Proo A Nerkle a Nerd and a Seersucker, too!
- If I Ran the Zoo, Dr. Seuss, 1950
Yes, Andrea is guilty of a slightly nerdly bent. For those of you who care, here’s the list:
Product development
Andrea Belz, The McGraw-Hill 36 Hour Course: Product Development (McGraw-Hill, 2010).
Andrea Belz, Innovation when cash is tight, MWorld (Journal of the American Management Association), September, 2010.
Andrea Belz, The Prometheus Problem: Challenges in Technology Commercialization, Invited talk, HRL (formerly Hughes Research Laboratory), June, 2010.
Andrea Belz, Fast Track to Product Development, Invited talk, Product Development Management Association, Los Angeles Chapter, May, 2010.
Andrea Belz, Challenges in Technology Infusion: Adapting Best Practices from the Private Sector, 2010 IEEE Aerospace Conference, April, 2010.
Andrea Belz, Product development: Inside the sausage factory, Invited talk, Young Inventors International, November, 2009.
Systems engineering
A. Belz and J. Cutts, “Planning for planetary protection and contamination control: challenges beyond Mars,” 2006 IEEE Aerospace Conference, DOI : 10.1109/AERO.2006.1655739
A. Belz et al., “Planetary Protection and Contamination Control Technologies for Future Space Science Missions”, JPL D-31974 (2005).
L. Hamlin, et al., “Design tools for cost-effective implementation of planetary protection requirements”, 2006 IEEE Aerospace Conference, DOI: 10.1109/AERO.2006.1655740
Semiconductor manufacturing and microanalysis
K. Finster, et al., “Applications of Electrostatic Spray Techniques to Surface Cleaning”, Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium on Ultra-Clean Processing of Semiconductor Surfaces, (Scitec Publications Ltd, Zuerich-Uetikon, Switzerland, 2009), special edition of Solid State Phenomena Vols. 145-146 (2008).
T. Balint, et al., “Extreme Environments Technologies for Probes to Venus and Jupiter,” NASA document 20090020302, (2007).
A. Belz, C. Ahn, and K. Nealson, “Environmental Controls of Biological Manganese Oxidation”, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2001, abstract #B22A-0128 (2002).
A. Belz, C. Ahn, and K. Nealson, “Microanalysis of biologically transformed manganese oxides,” Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Vol. 46, Part C, abstract #AB.007 (2002).
Biogeochemistry
K. Nealson, A. Belz, and B. McKee, “Breathing metals as a way of life: geobiology in action”, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, 81 (1-4), 215-222(8), (2002).
K. Brinton, A. Belz, and G. McDonald, “Amino acid racemization on Mars”, Abs. Pap. ACS 211, GEOC-17 (2001).
B. Gilbert, et al., “Multiple Scattering Calculations of Bonding and X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy of Manganese Oxides,” J. Phys. Chem. A, 2003, 107 (16), pp 2839–2847, DOI: 10.1021/jp021493s (2003).
B. L. Cox, et al., “Organization and elemental analysis of P-, S-, and Fe-rich inclusions in a population of freshwater magnetococci”, Geomicrobiol. J. 19, 387-406. (2002)
Optical pumping and cryogenic systems
A. P. Dvoredsky, for the HERMES collaboration, “He-3 polarimetry in the HERMES experiment”, Given at 7th International Workshop on Polarized Gas Targets and Polarized Beams, Urbana, IL, 18-22 (August 1997).
M. L. Pitt, et al., “TOM: A Target Optical Monitor of polarization and luminosity for polarized internal gas targets”, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Polarized Beams and Polarized Gas Targets (July 1995).
W. Korsch, et al., “Temperature dependence of ^3He polarization in the HERMES internal target”, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Polarized Beams and Polarized Gas Targets (July 1995).
S. F. Pate, et al., “Cryogenic polarized internal ^3He gas target for HERMES”, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Polarized Beams and Polarized Gas Targets (July 1995).
Nuclear and particle physics
Andrea Paulina Dvoredsky, “Investigations of novel effects in semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering”, UMI-99-56107, DESY-HERMES-99-42, 2000. 174pp. Ph.D. Thesis.
See the many publications of the HERMES collaboration
M.G. Khayat, et al., “Analyzing power reduction in quasifree pion-nucleon knockout reactions”, Phys. Rev. C64, 064606-1 (2001).
B. A. Raue, et al., “Analyzing powers for polarized H-1 (pi+, pi- p) at T(pi) = 165-MeV and 240-MeV”, Phys.Rev.C53:1005-1008 (1996).
