Scholars@Duke
Roxanne P. Springer

Roxanne P. Springer

Professor of Physics
Physics
Box 90305, Durham, NC 27708-0305
252 Physics Bldg, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Presentations & Appearances

Diversity and Inclusion in Nuclear Physics · October 2021 Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium APS Division of Nuclear Physics
DNP Allies Training · October 2021 Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium American Physical Society, virtual

I was one of five DNP Allies who took the "train the trainers" program (developed by me and our facilitator Paulette Russell) so that we could train the next cohort of APS Allies -- this DNP meeting was the first application.
Fundamental Symmetries in Frontiers of Nuclear Science · October 2021 Invited Talk APS Division of Nuclear Physics, virtual
Scientists Creating Equity - Seaborg award Symposium for Sherry Yennello · August 2021 Invited Talk American Chemical Society, Atlanta and virtual
Men as Allies · July 2021 International Meeting or Conference International Conference for Women in Physics, Australia/virtual

plenary panelist
The importance of female mentorship · March 2021 Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium Women in Science and Engineering (WISE)/Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Advancement, and Leadership (IDEALS), virtual

panelist
APS DNP Allies Program - colloquium · November 6, 2020 Invited Talk Argonne National Laboratory, virtual
Death by 1000 Cuts - Annual All Members Meeting · September 18, 2020 Invited Talk Consortium on Sexual Harassment in STEMM, virtual
Effective Field Theories and Some Applications - Beyond the Standard Model Physics with Nucleons and Nuclei · July 27, 2020 Invited Talk UW Seattle Institute for Nuclear Theory, virtual
Division of Nuclear Physics Allies Program - American Physical Society Annual Leadership Conference · February 1, 2020 Invited Talk APS, Washington, DC
Large-N constraints on pioness EFT: a low-energy few-nucleon window into QCD · November 14, 2019 Invited Talk University of Maryland
Effective Field Theory Techniques, co-organizer - Doctoral Training Program · June 24, 2019 - July 12, 2019 Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium ECT* , Trento, Italy
Feynmanʼs Footprints: Quantum Field Theory in Nuclear and Particle Physics - colloqium · January 28, 2019 Invited Talk Temple University, Philadelphia
EFT for Nuclear Physics - Interface of Effective Field Theories and Lattice Gauge Theory · October 2018 - November 2018 Invited Talk MIAPP, Munich, Germany
Feynman's Footprints: Quantum Field Theory in Nuclear and Particle Physics - Kavli Foundation Keynote Plenary Session: A Feynman Century · April 14, 2018 Keynote/Named Lecture APS April Meeting, Columbus, OH
Pionless Effective Field Theory and low-energy few-nucleon parity violation - Hadronic Parity Nonconservation · March 2018 Invited Talk KITP, Santa Barbara
Tests of Fundamental Symmetries -- theory of hadronic parity violation and future possibilities for its measurement - workshop · April 10, 2015 Invited Talk American Physical Society, Baltimore, MD
Theory of Hadronic Parity Violation - HIGS workshop · April 3, 2014 Invited Talk American Physical Society, Savannah, GA
Discussion/critique of proposed low energy/high intensity upgrade of the High Intensity Gamma Source: theory needs and experimental issues, for INT workshop Nuclei and Fundamental Symmetries: Theory Needs of Next-Decade Experiments · August 12, 2013 Lecture Seattle, WA
The X(3872) and characteristics of hadronic bound states in the charm and beauty sector · March 19, 2013 Lecture Charlottesville, VA
Attributes of molecule-like exotics in the heavy sector · November 4, 2012 Lecture Institute for Nuclear Theory, Seattle, WA
Molecule-like exotics in the heavy sector · July 24, 2012 Lecture Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing, China
Quarkonium-like States · July 17, 2012 Lecture Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics China, Beijing, China
Colloquium: Low Energy Parity Violation in Few Nucleon Systems · February 27, 2012 Lecture NC-State, Raleigh, NC, NC-State, Raleigh, NC
Colloquium: New Bound States of Quantum Chromodynamics · February 16, 2012 Lecture University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL
The Theory of X, Y, Z states · June 16, 2011 Lecture Hadron 2011, Munich
An Effective-Field-Theory Analysis of Low-energy Parity Violation in the NN System · February 14, 2010 Lecture APS invited talk, April Meeting, Wash D.C.
Parity Violation in the NN Interaction · October 8, 2009 Lecture Madison, Wisconsin
Parity Violation in the NN Interaction · September 1, 2009 Lecture Few Body 19 Conference, Bonn, Germany
An Effective-Field-Theory Analysis of Low-energy Parity Violation in the NN System · February 14, 2009 Lecture APS invited talk, April Meeting, Wash D.C.
Parity violation in low energy NN interactions · November 25, 2008 Lecture Duke Physics HEP series
Nurturing Under-Represented Minorities in Science and Engineering -- · May 28, 2008 Lecture Ohio University
Charmed Mesons in HQET: Lecture 2 · January 24, 2008 Lecture California Institute of Technology
Charmed Mesons in HQET: Lecture I · January 17, 2008 Lecture California Institute of Technology

Outreach & Engaged Scholarship

author · August 2018 Advocacy APS News Backpage, ``APS in the #MeToo Era"
Past-Chair - Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society · December 21, 2013 Other
Past-Chair - Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society · December 21, 2013 Other Other Service to the Community
Unknown - APS Committee on the Status of Women in Physics "Conversations" Visit · December 13, 2012 Other Y-12 at Oak Ridge, TN Other Service to the Community
Unknown - APS Committee on the Status of Women in Physics "Conversations" Visit · December 13, 2012 Other Y-12 at Oak Ridge, TN
Unknown - APS Conversations, Northeastern University · December 22, 2010 Other Other Service to the Community
Unknown - APS Conversations, Northeastern University · December 22, 2010 Other
Unknown - APS Conversations visit, Towson University · December 20, 2010 Other
Vice-Chair - Southeastern Section of the APS · December 20, 2010 Other
Unknown - APS Conversations visit, Towson University · December 20, 2010 Other Other Service to the Community
Vice-Chair - Southeastern Section of the APS · December 20, 2010 Other Other Service to the Community

Service to the Profession

co-chair - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion · 2021 Committee Service APS Divsion of Nuclear Physics

inaugural DNP DEI committee. I chose another co-chair and we put together the membership and themes for the year.
member - Train the Trainers · 2021 - 2021 Committee Service APS

In order to expand the Allies program to other APS divisions, I put together the proposal and obtained funding. Five current Allies where trained to be able to train future Allies at future meetings.
chair - dnp allies program · 2020 - 2021 Committee Service aps

We are a presence at DNP meetings to help reduce harassment.
chair - APS DNP ad hoc committee to create harassment prevention program · 2020 Committee Service
program committee · 2020 - 2021 Committee Service APS DNP

creates the program for APS DNP at APS April meeting and October DNP meeting
chair - APS April and APS DNP session chair training · 2020 - 2021 Committee Service APS DNP

I put together the content and case studies, overseeing the training of 70-100 session chairs for each of two meetings per year.
consulting editor - Physical Review X · 2019 Editorial Activities

continuing
chair - CSWP Site-visit and external review of Geneseo physics department · 2019 Committee Service APS
Subatomic Physics Evaluation · 2019 - 2021 Committee Service NSERC

panelist to determine funding of nuclear and particle science in Canada
member - CSWP Site visit - UW Seattle physics · 2018 Committee Service APS
associate editor · 2018 - 2021 Editorial Activities Reviews of Modern Physics
member - program committee · 2018 Committee Service APS Few Body Topical Group
Participant - Faculty Success Program · 2017 Professional Development National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity (NCFDD)
dnp allies program · 2017 Committee Service aps dnp
member, harassment prevention · 2016 - 2019 Committee Service APS DNP
chair · 2016 Committee Service APS DNP Publications Committee
committee of visitors · 2015 Committee Service national science foundation

The committee of visitors review the NSF funding decisions
Executive Committee · 2015 - 2017 Committee Service APS DNP
chair and organizer : SESAPS 2013 session "ethical responsibility in research" · December 21, 2013 Editorial Activities Bowling Green, Kentucky
co-organizer : HIGS: Photonuclear reactions at the intensity frontier. · December 21, 2013 Editorial Activities Savannah, Georgia
NSF nuclear theory review panel · December 21, 2013 Editorial Activities Washington, D.C.
co-organizer of HIGS2 workshop · March 7, 2013 Editorial Activities Durham, NC
Chair : Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society Annual Meeting · December 13, 2012 Event/Organization Administration Tallahassee, FL
Chair : Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society · 2012 Editorial Activities
organized and chaired SESAPS 2012 panel session · 2012 Editorial Activities Tallahassee, FL
Chair-Elect : Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society · December 21, 2011 Editorial Activities
Program Chair : Southeastern Section of the APS annual meeting 2011 · October 2011 Event/Organization Administration Roanoke, VA
Program Committee Member : Southeastern Section of the APS annual meeting · December 20, 2010 Event/Organization Administration Baton Rouge, LA
APS Conversations Program · May 2009 - December 17, 2009 Committee Service
Advisory Committee : Institute for Nuclear Theory 20th Anniversary · 2009 - 2010 Event/Organization Administration

Service to Duke

Haravifard mentoring committee (Department) · 2020 - 2021 Committee Service
TEAM-Up (Department) · 2020 - 2021 Committee Service

implementation of efforts to make our department explicitly anti-racist.
Conduct Accountability Committee (Department) · 2019 - 2021 Committee Service Physics

ongoing
Search Committee for Lecturer (Department) · 2019 Committee Service Physics
Barbeau tenure committee (Department) · 2018 Committee Service Physics
QM assessment for incoming graduate students (Department) · 2018 - 2021 Committee Service Physics

write and grade assessment exam so that incoming Duke Physics undergraduates are appropriately placed in courses.
Confidentiality Policy Committee (Department) · 2018 Committee Service Physics
co-convener . Senior Women in Science · 2018 - 2021 Professional Development

ongoing
Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (Department) · 2018 - 2021 Committee Service Physics
Faculty Advisory Committee of Office of Faculty Advancement (University) · 2018 Committee Service
GRE Evaluation Committee (Department) · 2018 Committee Service Physics
Sloan proposal for University Center for Exemplary Mentoring (University) · 2017 Committee Service

proposal was funded
chair, Advisory Committee for Sloan (University) · 2017 - 2021 Committee Service
Graduate Admissions Committee (Department) · 2016 - 2018 Committee Service Physics
Diversity Task Force (University) · 2014 - 2015 Committee Service
Committee to Develop Diverse Faculty Pool (Department) · 2014 - 2016 Committee Service Physics
Faculty Diversity Standing Committee (University) · 2014 - 2015 Committee Service
Academic Council (University) · 2013 - 2019 Committee Service