Luis Nasser

Experienced academic professional with proven track record in delivering engaging and insightful lectures. Adept at curriculum development, research, and fostering inclusive learning environment. Strong focus on collaboration and achieving academic excellence. Reliable and adaptable, with skills in critical thinking, communication, and classroom management. Also, critically acclaimed musician, composer and producer.

• Summer School on Statistical Mechanics, Altenberg, Germany, 1998
• AAPT Summer meeting, Omaha, NE, 2011
• AAPT Summer meeting, Philadelphia, PA, 2012
• Visiting Researcher, Instituto de Matemáticas, CDMX, Mexico, 12/01/18
• Visiting Researcher, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, 07/01/19
• Visiting Researcher, Instituto de Matemáticas, CDMX, Mexico, 12/01/19
• Visiting Researcher, Instituto de Astronomía, CDMX, Mexico, Sabbatical 2024

• NSF Grant PHY-2110425: Thermodynamics and Harmony, 12/01/21 - 10/01/25
• Faculty Development Grant, Columbia College Chicago, 2016
• UIC grant for educational development, 2007
• First non-native English speaker to be awarded a master of science writing degree at Johns Hopkins
• Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, 05/01/98
• Head Teaching Assistant, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, 1998 - 1999
• German Government fellowship to attend the 1998 Altenberg Summer School on Statistical Physics

• Chaos and Fractals: Hidden Dimensions in Nature and the Arts, Columbia College Chicago, Department of Science and Mathematics Colloquium, 02/16/11
• Using Movies to Teach Thermodynamics, Biennial Conference on Chemical education, Penn State University, 07/30/12
• Movie Physics: Using Physics to Serve Continuity in Storytelling, Chicago State University, Physics seminar series, 04/18/13
• Composición Musical a Partir de la Teoría del Caos y Física Fractal, SAE Institute, Mexico City, 09/02/15
• Geometría Fractal en la Composición Musical, SIMSUR UNAM San Cristóbal, Chiapas, 06/08/16
• Fractals and Music, Columbia College Chicago, Department of Science and Mathematics Colloquium, 10/17/18
• Composition using the Thue-Morse Sequence, Composer Forum, Columbia College Chicago, 04/25/19
• Chaos and Fractal Geometry: From Statistical Mechanics to Music, Physics Seminar Series, NYU Abu Dhabi, 05/29/19
• Letter for a dead friend, Eduardo Pontón Memorial Symposium, International Center for Theoretical Physics, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 10/28/19
• Composition using the Cantor Set, Composer Forum, Columbia College Chicago, 11/22/19
• A New Spherical solution to the Gravitational Accretion Problem, Department of Physics, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile, 06/29/22
• Thermodynamics of Harmony - Workshop for the Villa Rica Flute Ensemble, Crisol Celeste, Villa Rica, Chile, 07/01/22
• Chaos, Fractal Geometry and The Thermodynamic origin of Structure in Music, Centro Cultural Municipal de Villa Rica, Chile, 07/04/22
• La creación de Rizoma, por Luz de Riada, Fonoteca Nacional de México, CDMX, 05/29/24

• Search From Sea To Sea, KURGAN'S BANE, Independent, U. S., 1997
• Laughter In The Dark, RADIO SILENCE, Independent Release, U. S., 1997
• The Future Lies Broken, KURGAN'S BANE, Record Heaven, Sweden, 2000
• Snapshots From Limbo, SONUS UMBRA, Moonchild Records, U. S., 2000
• Progressive Sampler, VARIOUS ARTISTS, Record Heaven, Sweden, 2000
• The Spirit Of The Black Rose, VARIOUS ARTISTS TRIBUTE TO PHIL LYNNOTT, Record Heaven, Sweden, 2001
• What's New In Baltimore?, VARIOUS ARTISTS, Independent Release, U. S., 2001
• Alone But Not Lonely, PETE LARAMEE, CDBaby, U. S., 2001
• Snapshots From Limbo (European Edition), SONUS UMBRA, Musea, France, 2001
• Sound The Deep Waters, IZOLDA, CDBaby, U. S., 2002
• Spiritual Vertigo, SONUS UMBRA, Subluminal Records, U. S., 2003
• Terra incognita Vol 1, VARIOUS ARTISTS, Ipso Facto, Quebec, 2004, OUT OF PRINT
• Digging For Zeros, SONUS UMBRA, Subluminal Records, U. S., 2005
• Camouflaged In Static, KURGAN'S BANE, CDBaby, U. S., 2005
• All Intertwined, MIGHT COULD, CDBaby, U. S., 2005
• Wood Knot, MIGHT COULD, CDBaby, U. S., 2007
• Childhood Memories, PETE LARAMEE, CDBaby, U. S., 2008
• 7 String Cinematoid, PETE LARAMEE, CDBaby, U. S., 2011
• Relics From The Wasteland, MIGHT COULD, CDBaby, U. S., 2013
• Winter Soulstice, SONUS UMBRA, Subluminal Records, U. S., 2013
• Beyond the Panopticon, SONUS UMBRA, Subluminal Records, U. S., 2015
• The N.E.S.F.A.N. Trilogy, MIGHT COULD, CDBaby, U. S., 2016
• Chin Music, PETE LARAMEE, CDBaby, U. S., 2016
• Hidden Village, STEVE KATSIKAS, Hipkat Records, U. S., 2019
• The Devil's Staircase, THE DEVIL'S STAIRCASE, Subluminal Records, U. S., 2020
• A Sky Full of Ghosts, SONUS UMBRA, Subluminal Records, U. S., 2020
• 42 Años: Una retrospectiva sonora 1980 - 2024, OXOMAXOMA, Grabaxiones Alicia, Ignoto records, México, 2022
• Rizoma, LUZ DE RIADA, Progrock Essentials, U. S., 2024
• Whiteout, SONUS UMBRA, Progrock Essentials, U. S., 2024
• Seige, IMAGINAERIUM, Progrock Essentials, U. S., 2025

• Studies of Dual Charges and Radiation Reaction, Jose Luis Jimenez, Eduardo Roa Neri, Foundations of Physics Letters, 9, 6, 1996, 535-550
• Self-Torque on a Dual-Charged Dumb-Bell, Jose Luis Jimenez, Eduardo Roa Neri, Foundations of Physics Letters, 10, 2, 1997, 143-151
• Chaos Theory and the Foundations of Statistical Mechanics, J. R. Dorfman, 1998-present, Dissertation research, unpublished
• Non-Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics, Modern Topics in Kinetic Theory and Hydrodynamic Mode Coupling, J. R. Dorfman, 1998-present, Dissertation and Post-Doctoral research, unpublished
• Characterization of Non-Equilibrium Steady States in One-Dimensional Hard-Sphere Systems using Inelastic Collisions, K. Katsov, 1999, unpublished
• Modeling of Charge Transport on Thin Polymer Films, J. Benedetto, D. Healey, 2001, consulting work for the US Army - unpublished
• Polystyrene network-network inter-diffusion, U. Perez-Salas, R. M. Briber, W. A. Hamilton, M. H. Rafailovich, J. Sokolov, MACROMOLECULES, 35, 17, 08/13/02, 6638-6644
• Oxygen Reduction and Superconductivity in T-Structure Cuprates, Annual report of the Advanced Photon Source, 2008, 1931-5007
• The Effect of Sample Geometry on Magnetization Reversal Dynamics, Annual report of the Advanced Photon Source, 2008, 1931-5007
• Surprising Low-Temperature Domain Wall Fluctuations in Antiferromagnets, Annual report of the Advanced Photon Source, 2008
• Transport Across Domain Walls in Antiferromagnetic Materials, Annual report of the Advanced Photon Source, 07/25/09, 1931-5007
• Synthesizing a Broad Class of Porous, Chalcogenide Materials, Annual report of the Advanced Photon Source, 07/25/09, 1931-5007
• Non-Equilibrium Processes in Pulsed Laser Deposition, Annual report of the Advanced Photon Source, 07/25/09, 1931-5007
• Putting the Squeeze on Magnetic Superconductors, Annual report of the Advanced Photon Source, 2010, 1931-5007
• A Synchrotron as a Lens to Observe Condensed Matter Under Extreme Shockwave Compression, Annual report of the Advanced Photon Source, 2010, 1931-5007
• The massive elliptical galaxy NGC 4649 from the perspective of extended gravity, X Hernández, The Astrophysical Journal, 768, 142, 2013
• Teaching Representation Translations with Magnetic Field Experiments, The Physics Teacher, 55, 44, 2017, https://doi.org/10.1119/1.4972499
• An exact solution for isothermal self-gravitating profiles in MOND, X. Hernández, unpublished
• Approaching the Dark Sector through a Bounding Curvature Criterion, X. Hernández, 2017, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
• An Alternative Formulation of the Magnetostatic Boundary Value Problem, Z. Chacko, 2019, American Journal of Physics, 87, 971, https://doi.org/10.1119/10.0000004
• Gómez, R., Nasser, L. (2020). Symbolic structures in music theory and composition, binary keyboards, and the Thue-Morse shift., Journal of Mathematics and Music, 15, 3, 247-266, https://doi.org/10.1080/17459737.2020.1732490
• A new hydrodynamic spherical accretion exact solution and its quasi-spherical perturbations, X. Hernández, A. Aguayo, 03/01/23, Astrophysical Journal
• Formal stability analysis for the recent γ = 5/3 power-law spherical accretion solution, X. Hernández, P. L. Rendón, 02/01/23, Astrophysical Journal
• Statistical analysis of the gravitational anomaly in Gaia wide binaries, X. Hernandez, V. Verteletskyi, L. Nasser, A. Aguayo-Ortiz, 09/19/23, Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc., 528, 3, 4720-4732, 2309.10995 [astro-ph.GA]
• Thermodynamics of Harmony, L. Nasser, A. Tillotson, X. Hernandez, 2025, PLOS ONE, https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0322385