BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: GEORGE L. JOHNSTON A. Curriculum Vitae 12 Billings Street, Acton, Massachusetts 01720-2702 (508) 263-2192; Education B.S., physics, California Institute of Technology, 1954 J.D., Harvard University, 1957 M.S., engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, 1962 Ph.D., theoretical physics (plasma physics), University of California, Los Angeles, 1967 Employment (selective) Member of Technical Staff, Space Technology Laboratories, Inc., June 1957 - Sept. 1960. Member of Technical Staff, Aerospace Corporation, Sept. 1960 - Sept. 1964. Post-doctoral fellow in theoretical plasma physics, Physics Department, Univ of California, Los Angeles, Feb. 1967 - July 1969. Assistant Professor of Physics, Sonoma State College, Sept. 1969 - Aug. 1972. Associate Professor of Physics, Physics, Sonoma State University, Sept. 1972 - Aug. 1980. Research Associate, Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sept. 1975 - Aug. 1977. Visiting Scientist, Plasma Fusion Center, M.I.T., Feb. 1981 - Jan. l984. Research Scientist, Plasma Fusion Center (PFC), M.I.T., Feb. 1984 - Apr. 1993. Consultant, University of Hartford, September 1993 -. Development and presentation of NSF-funded workshops for science education of elementary school teachers. Other Professional Activities Visiting Scientist, PFC, M.I.T., April 1993 -. Teaching experience Sonoma State University, 1969-1980: Descriptive Astronomy, Descriptive Physics, Planetary and Space Physics, General Physics, Introduction to Physics I (mechanics, heat, and sound) and II (electricity, magnetism, and optics), The Relation of Physics to Society, Electricity and Magnetism, Theory of Light, Quantum Physics, Mathematical Physics, Statistical Physics. Chaos: An Introduction to Nonlinear Dynamics, 1990-1992. A high-school level course taught to students in California, Colorado, Montana, and Wyoming from Cambridge, Massachusetts, by distributed asynchronous computer conferencing over a store-and-forward telephone-based network. Professional society membership American Physical Society State Bar of California (Inactive) B. Selected publications (10) "Effect of Fokker-Planck collisions on plasma wave echoes," Phys. Fluids 13, 136 (1970). "Dominant effect of Coulomb collisions on maintenance of Landau damping," Phys. Fluids 14, 2719 (1971). "Representation of dielectric function of magnetized plasma," Phys. Fluids 16, 1540 (1973). "Drifting oscillating two-stream instability," Phys. Fluids 17, 416 (1974). "Integral representations of particular integrals of a class of inhomogeneous linear ordinary differential equations," J. Math. Physics 19, 635 (1978). "Langer's method for weakly bound states of the Helmholtz equation with symmetric profiles," J. Math. Physics 23, 2122 (1982). "Nonlinear traveling waves in a helical wiggler free electron laser," with R.C. Davidson and A. Sen, Phys. Rev. A 34, 392 (1986). "Hamiltonian structure of particle motion in an ideal helical wiggler with guide field," with A.N. Kaufman and R.G. Littlejohn, Phys. Lett. A 120, 291 (1987). "Resonant operation of the cross-field free-electron laser: Kinetic and fluid equilibria," with G. Bekefi, R.C. Davidson, and F. Hartemann, Phys. Rev. A 38, 1309 (1988). "Soliton solutions for free-electron-laser application," with A. Sen, Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 786 (1993). C. List of collaborators (within 48 months) Prof. Shien-chi Chen, M.I.T., and Prof. Abhijit Sen, Institute for Plasma Research, India. Collaborators in current research activities. Messrs. Dave Hughes and David Hughes, Jr., of Old Colorado City Communications. Development of Distance Learning methodologies. Prof. Marilyn Schaffer, Professor of Education, University of Hartford. Director of International Center for Technology in Education and NSF-funded workshops for science education of elementary school teachers. D. Graduate and postgraduate advisors Prof. Eldon L. Knuth, Department of Engineering, U.C.L.A. Prof. Alfredo Banos, Jr., Department of Physics, U.C.L.A.