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Education

Ph.D., Cornell University, 1979
M.S., Cornell University, 1979

Professional Background

Founding Director, University Honors Program and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education, University of Minnesota, 2007-2016

Director of Undergraduate Studies, School of Physics, 2006-2007

Advisory Board, University of Minnesota Institute for Advanced Study, 2007-

Advisory Board, Seven Pines Institute, 2006-

Principal Investigator, NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates site at the School of Physics, University of Minnesota 2003-2007

Organizing Committee, SUSY30, Minneapolis, October 2000

Organizing Committee, APS-Particles and Fields Meeting, Minneapolis, 1996

Consultant, Particle Data Group, 1986-1996

Visiting Professor, Université de Paris XI, Orsay, 1994-1995

Governing Board, Lewes Center for Physics,1985-1988

Chairman, Sixth Workshop on Grand Unification, Minneapolis, 1985

Scientific & Professional Societies

Honors and Awards

Horace T. Morse Award for outstanding contributions to undergraduate education, 2012

George W. Taylor/ITAS Award for Distinguished Teaching, 2006

University of Minnesota IT Student Board, Best Instructor,1998

Fellow, American Physical Society, 1995

University of Minnesota IT Student Board, Outstanding Instructor, 1992

Herzberg Medal, Canadian Association of Physicists, 1985

NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, 1984-1991

Books

K. Olive, S. Rudaz amd M. Shifman (eds), SUSY 30, Proceedings of the International Symposium Celebrating 30 Years of Supersymmetry, Nuclear Physics Proceedings Supplement 101 (2001)

Selected Publications

2022

Kapusta, J.I., Rrapaj, E., Rudaz, S. (2022). Sphaleron transition rates and the chiral magnetic effect. International Journal of Modern Physics E. 31 (1), [2250010].
DOI: 10.1142/S0218301322500100

2020

Kapusta, J.I., Rrapaj, E., Rudaz, S. (2020). Hyperon polarization in relativistic heavy ion collisions and axial U(1) symmetry breaking at high temperature. Physical Review C. 101 (3), [031901].
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevC.101.031901

Kapusta, J.I., Rrapaj, E., Rudaz, S. (2020). Spin versus helicity equilibration times and Lagrangian for strange quarks in rotating quark-gluon plasma. Physical Review C. 102 (6), [064911].
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevC.102.064911

Kapusta, J.I., Rrapaj, E., Rudaz, S. (2020). Spin-vorticity coupling for massive vector mesons. Physical Review D. 102 (12), [125028].
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.102.125028

1999

Rudaz, S., Srivastava, A.M., Varma, S. (1999). Probing gauge string formation in a superconducting phase transition. International Journal of Modern Physics A. 14 (10), [1591-1604].
DOI: 10.1142/S0217751X99000804

1997

Carter, G.W., Ellis, P.J., Rudaz, S. (1997). An effective lagrangian with broken scale and chiral symmetry III. Mesons at finite temperature. Nuclear Physics A. 618 (3), [317-329].
DOI: 10.1016/S0375-9474(97)00048-1

1996

Carter, G., Ellis, P.J., Rudaz, S. (1996). An effective Lagrangian with broken scale and chiral symmetry II: Pion phenomenology. Nuclear Physics A. 603 (3-4), [367-386].
DOI: 10.1016/0375-9474(96)80007-E

Kim, J.K., Ko, P., Lee, K.Y., Rudaz, S. (1996). (formula presented)(1260) contribution to photon and dilepton productions from hot hadronic matter reexamined. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology. 53 (9), [4787-4792].
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.53.4787

1994

Heide, E.K., Rudaz, S., Ellis, P.J. (1994). An effective lagrangian with broken scale and chiral symmetry applied to nuclear matter and finite nuclei. Nuclear Physics, Section A. 571 (4), [713-732].
DOI: 10.1016/0375-9474(94)90717-X

Ellis, P.J., Heide, E.K., Rudaz, S., Prakash, M. (1994). Anharmonicity of the nuclear matter ground state and the RHA. Physics Reports. 242 (4-6), [379-385].
DOI: 10.1016/0370-1573(94)90172-4

Olive, K.A., Rudaz, S. (1994). Light stops in the MSSM: implications for photino dark matter and top quark decay. Physics Letters B. 340 (1-2), [74-80].
DOI: 10.1016/0370-2693(94)91300-5

Prakash, M., Ellis, P.J., Heide, E.K., Rudaz, S. (1994). Neutron stars and nuclei in the modified relativistic Hartree approximation. Nuclear Physics, Section A. 575 (3), [583-604].
DOI: 10.1016/0375-9474(94)90376-X

Ko, P., Rudaz, S. (1994). Phenomenology of scalar and vector mesons in the linear σ model. Physical Review D. 50 (11), [6877-6894].
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.50.6877

Ohnemus, J., Rudaz, S., Walsh, T.F., Zerwas, P.M. (1994). Single leptoquark production at hadron colliders. Physics Letters B. 334 (1-2), [203-207].
DOI: 10.1016/0370-2693(94)90612-2

1992

Rudaz, S., Ellis, P.J., Heide, E.K., Prakash, M. (1992). Anharmonicity of the nuclear matter ground state. Physics Letters B. 285 (3), [183-186].
DOI: 10.1016/0370-2693(92)91449-J

Heide, E.K., Rudaz, S., Ellis, P.J. (1992). Implications of a modified glueball potential for nuclear matter. Physics Letters B. 293 (3-4), [259-264].
DOI: 10.1016/0370-2693(92)90880-D

Ellis, P.J., Heide, E.K., Rudaz, S. (1992). On scale and chiral symmetry in nuclear matter. Physics Letters B. 282 (3-4), [271-275].
DOI: 10.1016/0370-2693(92)90637-J

1991

Heide, E.K., Rudaz, S. (1991). A modified relativistic Hartree approximation to the nuclear matter equation of state. Physics Letters B. 262 (4), [375-382].
DOI: 10.1016/0370-2693(91)90608-S

Rudaz, S., Stecker, F.W. (1991). On the observability of the gamma-ray line flux from dark matter annihilation. Astrophysical Journal. 368 (2), [406-410].
DOI: 10.1086/169705

1990

Rudaz, S. (1990). Electric-charge quantization in the standard model. Physical Review D. 41 (8), [2619-2621].
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.41.2619

Rudaz, S. (1990). Note on asymptotic series expansions for the derivative of the Hurwitz zeta function and related functions. Journal of Mathematical Physics. 31 (12), [2832-2834].
DOI: 10.1063/1.528986

Rudaz, S., Voloshin, M.B. (1990). On exclusive weak decays of Λ_b. Physics Letters B. 252 (3), [443-446].
DOI: 10.1016/0370-2693(90)90567-P

Khodjamirian, A.Y., Rudaz, S., Voloshin, M.B. (1990). Remarks on non BB decays of the Υ{hooked}(4S). Physics Letters B. 242 (3-4), [489-492].
DOI: 10.1016/0370-2693(90)91799-H

1989

Rudaz, S. (1989). Annihilation of heavy-neutral-fermion pairs into monochromatic rays and its astrophysical implications. Physical Review D. 39 (12), [3549-3556].
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.39.3549

Rudaz, S. (1989). Gamma ray line astronomy as a probe of cold dark matter. Nuclear Physics B (Proceedings Supplements). 10 (2), [114-118].
DOI: 10.1016/0920-5632(89)90044-3

Flores, R., Olive, K.A., Rudaz, S. (1989). Radiative processes in LSP annihilation. Physics Letters B. 232 (3), [377-382].
DOI: 10.1016/0370-2693(89)90760-0

1988

Ellis, J., Hagelin, J.S., Rudaz, S., Wu, D.D. (1988). Implications of recent measurements of B meson mixing and ϵ′/ϵK. Nuclear Physics, Section B. 304 (C), [205-235].
DOI: 10.1016/0550-3213(88)90625-6

1987

Ellis, J., Flores, R.A., Rudaz, S., Seckel, D. (1987). Comments on the possibility of electroweak baryon number violation at high temperatures. Physics Letters B. 194 (2), [241-246].
DOI: 10.1016/0370-2693(87)90535-1

Rudaz, S., Valin, P. (1987). Erratum: Koba-Nielsen-Olesen scaling, its violation, and the structure of hadrons (Physical Review D (1987) 35, 7, (2264)). Physical Review D. 35 (7), [2264].
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.35.2264

Ellis, J., Hagelin, J.S., Rudaz, S. (1987). Re-examination of the standard model in the light of B meson mixing. Physics Letters B. 192 (1-2), [201-206].
DOI: 10.1016/0370-2693(87)91168-3

Ellis, J., Rudaz, S., Tracas, N.D. (1987). Supersymmetric radiative corrections at the Z⁰ peak. Physics Letters B. 192 (3-4), [453-459].
DOI: 10.1016/0370-2693(87)90137-7

1986

Rudaz, S. (1986). Cosmic production of quarkonium?. Physical review letters. 56 (20), [2128-2131].
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.56.2128

Campbell, B.A., Ellis, J., Nanopoulos, D.V., Olive, K.A., Rudaz, S. (1986). Cosmic string from hidden-sector flux tubes. Physics Letters B. 179 (1-2), [37-42].
DOI: 10.1016/0370-2693(86)90431-4

Rudaz, S., Valin, P. (1986). Koba-Nielsen-Olesen scaling, its violation, and the structure of hadrons. Physical Review D. 34 (7), [2025-2042].
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.34.2025

Hosotani, Y., Nikolić, M., Rudaz, S. (1986). Pseudo-Goldstone bosons in curved space-time. Physical Review D. 34 (2), [627-640].
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.34.627

Kapusta, J., Reiss, D.B., Rudaz, S. (1986). Transition from weak to strong coupling in QCD and in grand unified models at high temperature. Nuclear Physics, Section B. 263 (1), [207-227].
DOI: 10.1016/0550-3213(86)90035-0

1985

Gaillard, M.K., Li, X.Q., Rudaz, S. (1985). Constituent gluons and a new mechanism for radiative weak decays of hyperons. Physics Letters B. 158 (2), [158-163].
DOI: 10.1016/0370-2693(85)91384-X

Stecker, F.W., Rudaz, S., Walsh, T.F. (1985). Galactic antiprotons from photinos. Physical review letters. 55 (23), [2622-2625].
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.55.2622

Bigi, I.I., Rudaz, S. (1985). Search for scalar superpartners of the top quark. Physics Letters B. 153 (4-5), [335-340].
DOI: 10.1016/0370-2693(85)90560-X

1984

Rudaz, S. (1984). Anomalies, vector mesons and the ω→3π contact term. Physics Letters B. 145 (3-4), [281-284].
DOI: 10.1016/0370-2693(84)90355-1

Reiss, D.B., Rudaz, S. (1984). Nonstandard fermion mass matrices and nucleon decay. Physical Review D. 30 (1), [118-122].
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.30.118

Johnson, J.E., Rudaz, S. (1984). Test of supersymmetry in single-scalar-fermion decays of the Z0 boson. Physical Review D. 30 (7), [1590-1593].
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.30.1590

1983

Ellis, J., Rudaz, S. (1983). Search for supersymmetry in toponium decays. Physics Letters B. 128 (3-4), [248-252].
DOI: 10.1016/0370-2693(83)90402-1

1982

Ellis, J., Nanopoulos, D.V., Rudaz, S. (1982). A phenomenological comparison of conventional and supersymmetric guts. Nuclear Physics, Section B. 202 (1), [43-62].
DOI: 10.1016/0550-3213(82)90220-6

Campbell, B.A., Ellis, J., Rudaz, S. (1982). Search for gluinos. Nuclear Physics, Section B. 198 (1), [1-12].
DOI: 10.1016/0550-3213(82)90540-5

1981

Ellis, J., Gaillard, M.K., Nanopoulos, D.V., Rudaz, S. (1981). A cosmological lower bound on the neutron electric dipole moment. Physics Letters B. 99 (2), [101-106].
DOI: 10.1016/0370-2693(81)90959-X

Ellis, J., Gaillard, M.K., Nanopoulos, D.V., Rudaz, S. (1981). Grand unification, the neutron electric dipole moment and galaxy formation. Nature. 293 (5827), [41-43].
DOI: 10.1038/293041a0

Ellis, J., Gaillard, M.K., Nanopoulos, D.V., Rudaz, S. (1981). The grand unified axion not observable?. Physics Letters B. 106 (4), [298-302].
DOI: 10.1016/0370-2693(81)90540-2

1980

Bais, F.A., Rudaz, S. (1980). On the suppression of monopole production in the very early universe. Nuclear Physics, Section B. 170 (3), [507-518].
DOI: 10.1016/0550-3213(80)90424-1

Ellis, J., Gaillard, M.K., Nanopoulos, D.V., Rudaz, S. (1980). Uncertainties in the proton lifetime. Nuclear Physics, Section B. 176 (1), [61-99].
DOI: 10.1016/0550-3213(80)90064-4