CURRICULUM VITAE

Harold.Williams@montgomerycollege.edu Montgomery College email account
hwilliams@bowiestate.edu Bowie State email account (only use when I actually teach a course there to reach my BSU students)
[240] 567-1463 (planetarium, ScienceSouth130, or office, ScienceNorth 106, at Montgomery College it rings in both places)
[240] 567-1674  FAX (in office as soon as I install a driver on the computer in ScienceNorth 106 my new office)
[301] 565-3709 (home)
[240] 567-1550 FAX (library on campus at Montgomery College)

BIRTHPLACE: Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
FAMILY: Wife Barbara Sue Whitehurst now Williams, daughter Stephanie Rose Williams born April 6, 1982, graduated from Montgomery College with honors on May 17, 2002 Associates in Arts, now a student at Drexel University in MAD, Media Art and Design (Graphic Arts).  

1984 Advanced study course on the Foundations of Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics at Albuquerque, N.M. and NATO Advanced Study Institute on Frontiers of Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics at Santa Fe, N.M.

1. American Astronomical Society (AAS)
2. Division on Dynamical Astronomy/AAS
3. Division for Planetary Sciences/AAS
4. American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)
5. Chesapeake Section of AAPT
6. Geological Society of Washington
7. American Physical Society
   

1. American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees, AFSCME local 2380, Montgomery Colllege Staff Union web master, vice  president again, former president, former vice-president, contract negotiating committee member, former executive board member, and on the organizing committee.
2. National Capital Astronomers   web maintainer, formerly president August 1996 through August 1998, vice-president (program chair) August 1994 through August 1996, and president again as of August 2005.
3. Astronomical Society of the Pacific
4. International Dark Sky Association
5. Planetary Society
6. International Occultation Timing Association

• Sept. 1992-Present:  Physics Lab Coordinator at Montgomery College in Takoma Park.
• Sept. 1996-Dec. 23, 1998  Associate in the Math Science Learning Center at Montgomery College in Takoma Park.
• Sept. 1998-Dec. 2003: Adjunct Professor at Bowie State University but teaching in Montgomery County or online using Blackboard.
  
• April 1992-Spring 1999:  Adjunct Professor at Southeastern University in District of Columbia.
• Sept. 21, 1990-Present:  Planetarium Coordinator and Adjunct Professor at Montgomery College in Takoma Park.
• Jan. 1990-Aug. 1990: taught mathematics at Montgomery College as adjunct instructor.
• Jan. 1988-Dec. 1989: Postdoctoral Fellow, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism .

Total of outside money in grants brought to Southeastern University $63,003.

Submitted through https://nspires.nasaprs.com the proposal title was Leonardo's Attic: Portraits of Earth Satellite Education Development (SED) The solicitation was NNH08ZNE005N, the acronym GCCE0, PI is Truett, Amanda submission date 10/24/2008, and status pending.  Adel Hali and Harold Williams, me, were Co-I.

Williams, H.A. Astronomy Across the Curriculum: A Workshop for Teachers, A Cooperative Venture Between Montgomery College at Takoma Park and the University of Maryland at College Park to the Maryland Higher Education Commission (MHEC) for a Title II Dwight D. Eisenhower mathematics and science act (124 pages, January 27, 1999, $86,011) to train 20 teachers. Proposed with $68,578 money from MHEC proposal number 99-20-217, the rest is institutional match. Funded for $65,000.

Williams, H.A. Astronomy Across the Science Curriculum: A Workshop for District of Columbia Science Teachers to the Department of Human Services District of  Columbia, DHSDC, for a Tittle II Dwight D. Eisenhower mathematics and science act (183 pages, May 26, 1998, $70,684 requested) to train 20 teachers. Funded with $63,003 real money for Southeastern University from DHSDC grant number 8G0071.

Williams, H.A. Astronomy Across the Science Curriculum: A Workshop for Science Teachers, A Cooperative Venture Between Montgomery College at Takoma Park and the University of Maryland at College Park to the Maryland Higher Education Commission (MHEC) for a Title II Dwight D. Eisenhower mathematics and science act (114 pages, January 15, 1998, $78,706) to train 20 teachers. Funded with $61,090 money from MHEC grant number 98-20-220, the rest is institutional match.  Keeping on keeping on!

Williams, H.A. Astronomy Across the Science Curriculum: A Workshop for Science Teachers, A Cooperative Venture Between Montgomery College at Takoma Park and the University of Maryland at College Park to the Maryland Higher Education Commission (MHEC) for a Title II Dwight D. Eisenhower mathematics and science act (103 pages, January 16, 1997, $74,388) to train 20 teachers. Funded with $58,099 money from MHEC grant number 97-20-211, the rest is institutional match. Funded, obviously persistence pays.

Williams, H.A. Astronomy Across the Science Curriculum: A Workshop for Science Teachers, A Cooperative Venture Between Montgomery College at Takoma Park and the University of Maryland at College Park to the Maryland Higher Education Commission (MHEC) for a Title II Dwight D. Eisenhower mathematics and science act (113 pages, November 15, 1995, $74,580) to train 20 teachers. Not funded, came in fourth and eleven were funded obviously some sort of strange politics at MHEC in Annapolis, Maryland. We protested quietly.

Williams, H.A. Astronomy Across the Science Curriculum: A Workshop for Science Teachers, A joint Cooperative Venture Between Montgomery College at Takoma Park and the University of Maryland at College Park to the Maryland Higher Education Commission (MHEC) for a Title II Dwight D. Eisenhower mathematics and science act (93 pages, November 17, 1994, $75,187) to train 20 teachers. Not funded, came in third with two cooperative proposals funded. According to the rating comments had this proposal been submitted as a competitive proposal instead of a cooperative one it would have been funded. Unfortunately the Request for Proposals (RFP) was not clear about the difference between cooperative and competitive proposals and the MHEC does not move proposals from one category to another unlike NSF. Next year we will submit this proposal again, but under competitive proposals category like I have done previously, when I did not cooperate with the University of Maryland and did not offer graduate credit to the teachers.

Pedersen, P.M. and Williams, H.A. Connection to NSFNET for Montgomery College to NSF June 1, 1993 funded 93-19-090 for $23,000. We actually did not get the money until middle of 1995.

Williams, H.A. and Olexia, J., Astronomy Across the Science Curriculum: A Workshop for Science Teachers, Grade 6 through 9, to to the Maryland Higher Education Commission for a Title II Dwight D. Eisenhower mathematics and science act (54 pages, November 11, 1991, $55,264) to train 16 middle school teachers. Funded with $35,000 real money, the rest is institutional match.

Williams, H.A. Proposal for the Crystal Vision Award, to the McDonnell Douglas employees community fund, 15 pages plus 15 more pages of supporting material, August 12, 1991. This request was for around $50,000 of new equipment. Not funded, but the local branch of McDonnell Douglas rated this request highly.

Schweizer, F., Boss, A.W., Campbell, A.W., Silver, P., and Williams, H.A., Proposal to Add the Carnegie Institution of Washington's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism to the Space Physics Analysis Network, 9 pages, to NASA on August 4, 1988. I motivated this proposal. I brought a copy of a successful LSU proposal to DTM when I became a postdoc. This grant provided DTM with it first world wide computer network link. Unfortunately for me DTM was connected just before my two year post-doc ended.

Williams, H.A., Tohline, J.E., Circumstellar Ring Formation in Rapidly Rotating Protostars, The Astrophysical Journal (1988) November 1, vol. 334, no. 1, pp. 449--464.

Lee, P., Watson, C., Williams, H.A., Miller, R., James, R., and Coskrey, W.,  A Simple Device for Occultation Observations, International Amateur-Professional Photoelectric Photometry (1987) December, pp. 5--14.

Williams, H.A., Tohline, J.E., Linear and Nonlinear Dynamic Instability of Rotating Polytropes, The Astrophysical Journal (1987) vol. 315, pp. 594--601.

O'Connell, R.F.,Wang, L., Williams, H.A., Time Dependence of a General Class of Quantum Distribution Functions, Physical Review A (1984) vol. 30, pp. 2187--2191.

Williams, H.A. Using A College Planetarium for Community Outreach (Maryland Space Grant Consortium 2nd Statewide Conference at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, June 9, 1995.

Williams, H.A. The Universe in Your Hand: teaching astronomy by using an astrolabe (Maryland Space Grant Consortium 2nd Statewide Conference at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, June 9, 1995.

Williams, H.A., Grade Specific Planetarium Programs (talk given to Middle Atlantic Planetarium Society 1993 Conference) 1993 MAPS Conference Proceedings

Williams, H.A., Light Pollution (talk given to Middle Atlantic Planetarium Society 1993 Conference) 1993 MAPS Conference Proceedings

Williams, H.A., Star Formation, Using 3-D Second-order Explicit Hydrodynamics with Artificial Viscosity, (poster paper 173rd meeting AAS), Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society (1988) vol. 20, no. 4, p. 1058.

Williams, H.A., Different Rotation Laws for Gas Clouds Around beta_d, (talk given to 19th meeting of DDA/AAS) Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society (1988) vol. 20, no. 3, p. 900.

Williams, H.A., Tohline, J.E., A Second Order, Three-Dimensional Hydrodynamic Computer Code (talk to the Working Group for Astronomical Software 170th meeting AAS), Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society (1987) vol. 19, no. 2, p. 744.

Williams, H.A., Tohline, J.E., Fission of Rapidly Rotating Protostars (poster paper 170th meeting AAS), Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society (1987) vol. 19, no. 2, p. 727.

Williams, H.A., Tohline, J.E., Toroidal Dynamic Instability of Rotating Polytropes: n=.8-1.8 (poster paper 167th meeting AAS), Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society (1985) vol. 17, no. 4, p. 834.

Montgomery College's Planetarium (Public Planetarium Program for 1994-1995 academic year) one page list of nine public planetarium programs, May 1994.

Montgomery College's Planetarium (Public Planetarium Program for 1993-1994 academic year) one page list of nine public planetarium programs, August 1993.

Montgomery College's Planetarium (Music/Laser Light Shows for 1993-1994 academic year) one page list of seven music/laser light planetarium shows, August 1993.

Montgomery College's Planetarium (Public Planetarium Program for 1992--1993 academic year) one page list of nine public planetarium programs, August 1992.

Montgomery College's Planetarium (Music/Laser Light Shows for 1992-1993 academic year) one page list of nine music/laser light planetarium shows, August 1992.

Montgomery College's Planetarium (Public planetarium programs for Summer 1992) one page list of three astronomy programs and two music/laser light shows, May 1992.

Montgomery College's Planetarium (Public Planetarium Program for 1991--1992 academic year), one page list of nine public planetarium programs, August 1991.

6 through 8 in the Planetarium two pages with brief descriptions of my grade-specific planetarium program used for getting teachers to bring their class to the planetarium, August 12, 1991.

K through 6 in the Planetarium four pages with brief descriptions of my grade-specific planetarium program used for getting teachers to bring their class to the planetarium, January 14, 1991.

Press releases and posters for twelve different public planetarium programs.

Williams, H.A. Automated Telescopes: The Talk and the Future Possibilities, Star Dust (1997) vol. 55, number 6, p. 3.

Williams, H.A. Superconducting Robotic Telescopes on the Moon, Star Dust (1996) vol. 54, number 9, p. 3.

Williams, H.A. Casy Lisse to speak on Comets, Star Dust (1996) vol. 54, number 9, p. 1.

Williams, H.A. Searching for the Cosmic Infrared Background, a review of a talk, Star Dust (1996) vol. 54, number 8, pp. 1-3.

Williams, H.A. Superconducting Robotic Telescopes on the Moon, Star Dust (1996) vol. 54, number 8, p. 1.

Williams, H.A. Searching for the Cosmic Infrared Background, Star Dust (1996) vol. 54, number 7, p. 1.

Williams, H.A. NCA and Astronomy on the World Wide Web, a review of a talk, Star Dust (1996) vol. 54, number 6, pp. 1-5.

Williams, H.A. Robotic Telescopes on the Moon, Star Dust (1996) vol. 54, number 6, p. 1.

Williams, H.A. Understanding Active Galaxies Through Observations of Their Ionized Gas, a review of a talk, Star Dust (1996) vol. 54, number 5, p. 3.

Williams, H.A. NCA and Astronomy on the World Wide Web, Star Dust (1996) vol. 54, number 5, p. 1.

Williams, H.A. The Winds of Other Worlds, a review of a talk, Star Dust (1995) vol. 54, number 4, p. 3.

Williams, H.A. Understanding Active Galaxies Through Observations of Their Ionized Gas, Star Dust (1995) vol. 54, number 4, pp. 1-4.

Williams, H.A. The Winds of Other Worlds, Star Dust (1995) vol. 54, number 3, pp. 1-5.

Williams, H.A. and Costanzo, D., Charged-Coupled Device (CCD) Astronomy Panel Discussion, a review of a talk, Star Dust (1995) vol. 54, number 2, pp. 3-4.

Williams, H.A., Near-Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) Mission, Star Dust (1995) vol. 54, number 2, pp. 1-4.

Williams, H.A., Charge Coupled Device (CCD) Panel Discussion, Star Dust (1995) vol. 54, number 1, pp. 1.

Williams, H.A., Alternative to Dark Matter a review of a talk, Star Dust (1995) vol. 53, number 10, pp. 1-3.

Williams, H.A., NCA Science Fair Winners to Report and Eclipse Video Star Dust (1995) vol. 53, number 10, p. 1.

Williams, H.A., Demosthanes Kazanas to speak on "Alternatives to Dark Matter" Star Dust (1995) vol. 53, number 9, pp. 1-4.

Williams, H.A., Talk on Solar Eclipse Exhibition Postponed until June Star Dust (1995) vol. 53, number 9, p. 3.

Williams, H.A., Observing the Sun from Earth and Space a review of a talk, Star Dust (1995) vol. 53, number 8, pp. 3-6.

Williams, H.A., David Batchelor to Speak on "Observing the Sun from Earth and Space" Star Dust (1995) vol. 53, number 7, p. 1.

Williams, H.A., 107th Annual Meeting of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific to meet this summer in College Park, Maryland, Star Dust (1995) vol. 53, number 7, p. 5.

Williams, H.A., Carol Jo Crannell to Speak on "Imaging Solar Flares in Hard X-Rays and Gamma Rays from Ballon-Borne Platforms" Star Dust (1995) vol. 53, number 6, p. 1.

Williams, H.A., The Formation of Binary Stars through Fission of a Single Mass: Past and Present, a review of a talk, Star Dust (1995) vol. 53, number 6, p. 3.

Williams, H.A., Dimitris Christodoulou to speak on "The Formation of Binary Stars Through Fission of a Single Mass: Past and PresentStar Dust (1995) vol. 53, number 5, pp. 1-3.

Williams, H.A., The Universe You Don't See: Existence and Nature of Dark Matter a review of a talk, Star Dust (1995) vol. 53, number 5, pp. 3-4.

Williams, H.A., Virginia Trimble to Speak on "The Universe You Don't See: Existence and Nature of Dark Matter", Star Dust (1994) vol. 53, number 4, pp. 1-3.

Williams, H.A., The beta Pictoris Phenomenon in Herbig Ae/Be and A-shell Stars, a review of a talk, Star Dust} (1994) vol. 53, number 4, p. 4.

Williams, H.A., Carol Ann Grady to Speak on "The beta Pictoris Phenomenon in Herbig Ae/Be and A-shellStars, Star Dust (1994) vol. 53, number 3, pp. 1-5.

Williams, H.A., The Peekskill Meteorite, October 9, 1992, Video Observations: An Orbit Determination a review of a talk, Star Dust (1994) vol. 53, number 3, pp. 3-5.

Williams, H.A., George Wetherill to Speak on "The Peekskill Meteorite, October 9, 1992, Video Observations: An Orbit Determination" Star Dust (1994) vol. 53, number 2, pp. 1-6.

Williams, H.A., The Comet, Shoemaker-Levy 9, Strikes Jupiter a review of a talk, Star Dust (1994) vol. 53, number 2, pp. 3-4.

Williams, H.A., Rob Landis to Speak on "The Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Strikes Jupiter", Star Dust (1994) vol. 53, number 1, pp. 3-6.

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