University of Lethbridge

Biography

David is an associate professor with the department of physics He has been a faculty member since 1990. David has a B.Sc. (first class honours) from Carleton, his M.Sc. is from the University of Toronto, and he graduated in 1982 with a Ph.D. from the University of Guelph. David's Ph.D. research was with the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance group at Guelph and this continues to be his area of research.

Selected Publications

D.J. Siminovitch: "Angular Momentum Coupling in NMR: A New View of Rotation Matrix Products via Racah Algebra", Molecular Physics 106, 2607-2625 (2008).

M. Siemens, J. Hancock and D.J. Siminovitch: "Beyond Euler Angles: Exploiting the Angle-Axis Parametrization in a Multipole Expansion of the Rotation Operator", Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance 31, 35-54 (2007).

R.P. Goodman, J. Hancock, M. Siemens, H.C. Jarrell and D.J. Siminovitch: "DRAMAtic Transforms in Magic-Angle Spinning Recoupling NMR: The Bessel Function Pathway", Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance 28, 22-30 (2005).

D. Siminovitch, T.S. Untidt, and N.C. Nielsen: "Exact Effective Hamiltonian Theory. II : Expansion of Matrix Functions and Entangled Unitary Exponential Operators", Journal of Chemical Physics 120, 51-67 (2004).

S. Hamieh, J. Qi, D.J. Siminovitch and M.K. Ali: "Extracting Classical Correlations from a Bipartite Quantum System", Physical Review A 67, art. no. 014301 (2003).

W. Liu, E. Crocker, D.J. Siminovitch and S.O. Smith: "Role of Side-Chain Conformational Entropy in Transmembrane Helix Dimerization of Glycophorin A", Biophysical Journal 84, 1263-1271 (2003).


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In The Media

U of L Faculty Members Encourage Youth to Study Physics; Legend; September 2005.

Current Research and Creative Activity

Title	Location	Grant Information	Principal Investigator	Co Researchers
Solid-State NMR: Theory, Practice and Biological Applications		Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), $20,000 per annum, 2007-12.	David Siminovitch, University of Lethbridge

Previous Research

Title	Grant Agency	Completion Date
Solid-state NMR: Theory, Practice and Biological Applications	Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)	2007

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