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Demetris Nicolaides is an award-winning professor of physics at Bloomfield College. He has authored two books, many articles in peer-reviewed journals, and presented his work at conferences nationally and internationally. His scientific research is diverse—from theoretical physics, to observational astronomy, to philosophy. He is a member of the American Physical Society, the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, and the International Association for Presocratic Studies.
In Search of a Theory of Everything is an adventurous journey through space and time on a quest for the theory that will ultimately explain all the phenomena of nature via a single immutable overarching law.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
In the Light of Science is a unique approach to the history of science revealing the important links between the ancient past and the present scientific endeavor to understand the universe
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Tatiana A. Tagirova – Daley
Assistant Professor, Language, Literature & Communication
Tatiana A. Tagirova-Daley obtained her Ph.D.in Caribbean literature and linguistics at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus and teaches literature and writing at Elizabeth City State University. Among some of her scholarly publications are those on Claude McKay, Frantz Fanon, Derek Walcott, Jacques Roumain, Ralph de Boissière, and Patrick Chamoiseau. She is the co-editor of Critical Perspectives on Caribbean Literature and Culture (2010).
Tatiana A. Tagirova-Daley grew up in St. Petersburg, Russia and has lived and studied in Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Puerto Rico. She obtained her Ph.D. in Caribbean Literature and Linguistics at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus. She is the recipient of the Joan Fayer Award given in recognition of the highest academic achievements in all the requirements of the Doctor of Philosophy Degree. Among some of her scholarly publications are those on Claude McKay, Frantz Fanon, Derek Walcott, Jacques Roumain, Ralph de Boissière, Rosario Ferré, and Patrick Chamoiseau. She is the co-editor of “Critical Perspectives on Caribbean Literature and Culture” (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010) and the author of “Claude Mckay’s Liberating Narrative:Russian and Anglophone Caribbean Literary Connections” (Peter Lang, 2012). Her areas of expertise are Russian literature, Caribbean literature, American Literature, World Literature, Comparative Literature, Young Adult Literature, Bible as Literature, and Composition.
Jont Allen
Allen graduated from the Univ of IL in 1966, and then did an MS (1968) and PHD (1970) at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA. He then went to Bell Labs, where he enjoyed a 32 year AT&T Bell Labs career. At AT&T Allen specialized in nonlinear cochlear modeling, auditory and cochlear speech processing, and speech perception.
In 1982-1987 Allen had primary responsibility with the development of the first commercial multi-band wide-band dynamic range compression (WDRC) hearing aid, later sold as the ReSound hearing aid. During this 5 years he was working closely with clinical audiologists and speech and hearing scientists, and with several hearing aid manufactures (Starkey, Phonak, Etymotic), who subsequently funded Allen’s work.
In Aug. 2003 he join the ECE faculty as a Professor, University of IL, Urbana, where he teaches and works with his students on the theory and practice of human speech recognition, for both normal and hearing impaired hearing. From 2005-present Allen has also worked on reading disabilities in young children, in collaboration with Prof. Cynthia Johnson of the UIUC Speech and Hearing Science Department.
He teaches courses in mathematical physics (ECE493), Concepts in Engineering Math (ECE 298JA), Speech processing (ECE537), analog (ECE210) and digital signal processing (ECE310), and Audio Engineering & transducer design (ECE403). The details may be found at http:\\auditorymodels.org.
Since the early 1990’s, Allen has been a visiting scientist in the Departments of Otolaryngology of Columbia University, City university of New York, and University of Calgary, and was an Osher Fellow at the Exploratorium Museum, San Francisco. He has been very active in IEEE and the ASA, running both major conferences and small workshops. Allen has more than 20 US patents on hearing aids, signal processing and middle ear measurement diagnostics.