C. V. S. M. OSMAN

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C1. Personale Information:

C1. a. Personale

Full Name: El Sayed Mahmoud Abdel Rahman Osman:

Dr. S. M. Osman

Nationality: Egyptian / Italian

Date of Birth: 5th of May 1950

Marital Status: Married ( Five Daughters ) Work Address: Physics Department, College of Science, Sultan Qaboos

University, P.O. Box 36, Code 123, Muscat, Sultanate of

Oman.

Telephone

Numbers:

Work: (00968) 24 14 14 51, Oman

Mobile: (00968) 99 45 12 93, Oman

Home: (00968) 244 144 33, Oman

Home: (00202) 22 67 13 70, Egypt

Home: (00204) 83 85 53 30, Egypt

E-mail: osm@squ.edu.om,

C1. b. SQU Information

SQU ID. No.: 2416

SQU Joining Date: 4th

October 1991

Department: Physics

College: Science

Current Position: Associate Professor

Last Promotion Date: 5th

June 2002

Grade: AB

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C2. Education and Employment Information:

C2. a. Qualifications

1st July 1988 PhD: University of East A nglia, England, UK.

Theory of Fluids [ Theoretical studies of the fluid-fluid interface ].

April 1978 MSc: Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.

Theoretical Solid State Physics, [ Phase transition in some simple glassy

semiconductors ].

June 1973 BSc: Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. [ Major Physics ].

C2. b. Employments

5th

June 2002 – Present Associate Professor: SQU, Sultanate of Oman

1st Jan. 1997 - 4

th June 2002 Assistant Professor: SQU, Sultanate of Oman

4th

Oct. 1991 – 31st Dec. 1996 Lecturer: SQU, Sultanate of Oman

May 1989 – Sept. 1991 Lecturer: Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.

April 1978 - May 1989 Asst. Lecturer: Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.

Sept. 1973 - April 1978 Demonstrator: Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.

C2. c. Research Positions

June 1999 – present Associate member:

LPLI, Metz University, Metz, France

June 1994 -- June 1999 Assistant Professor:

IRB, Monteroduni, Molise, Italy

June 1991 – Oct. 1996 Associate membership:

ICTP, Trieste, Italy

Oct. 1990 – Sept. 1991 Visiting Scientist: Condensed Matter Group, ICTP, Trieste, Italy

July 1988 – June 1989 Research Fellowship: University of East Anglia, England, UK.

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C2. d. Areas of Research Interests

C2. d. 1. Main Areas of Research Interests

During the past 35 years, I gain good experience in employing the following theories in my research

Theory of fluids and alloys

Theory of fluid interfaces

Density Functional Theory [DFT]

Statistical Mechanical Theory of Critical point

Transport properties of fluids

C2. d. 2. Secondary Areas of Research Interests

Over the past 35 years I have been engaged in several research topics within condensed matter Reseach.

Solid state materials science

Theory of one component fluids

Theory of Binary liquid mixtures

Density functional theory with applications to Fluid-Fluid interface

Phase transitions in general. In particular, liquid-vapour transition

Critical phenomena

Thermodynamic properties of nano-particles fluids

Thermodynamic properties of fluids with quantum effect.

Quit recently I shifted my interests to Petroleum engineering research topics which will include

two important points

i- The thermodynamics of the fluids used in oil well drilling

ii- The dynamics of the fluid flow down the well, during drilling process.

C3. Awards and Recognition:

C3. a. Awards and Prizes

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th March (2013), Best Researcher Award:

During the college of science annual retreat action, I was awarded the Best Researcher Award

from college of Science, SQU based on the research quality output within the past 5 years .

In November 2012, at the Silver Gobble festival of SQU , the 25th

anniversary,

I was awarded the certificate of recognition of good effort in teaching and research.

July (1996): ICTP grant: to participate at the condensed matter workshop held in the

ICTP, Trieste, Italy. (1 July - 25 July).

27 July - 8 Sept. (1995): ICTP grant: to participate at the Condensed Matter Workshop, held in

the ICTP, Trieste, Italy.

April (1994) - December (1999): I have been selected for honorary Assistant Professor position

at the Istituto Per La Ricerca Di Base, Monterodune, Molise, taly.

July (1990): The EPS (European Physics Society) grant: Funds for conference participation (I

participated at the first liquid matter conference held in Lyon , Franc ),

October (1986) - July (1987): The ORS grant: (Overseas Research Student Grant about 1500 )

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fees discount) from University of East Anglia, Norwich, England.

July - August (1985): The NAI (NATO Advanced Institute) grant: (grant number RG 86/0102)

Funds for summer school participation (I attended the summer school on

liquid and amorphous metals that was held in Passo de Mandola, Polsano, Italy).

C3. b. Membership of Professional Organizations and Other Scholarly Recognitions

July (2004): Invited speaker by LAM-12, held at (LPLI) Universite de Metz, Metz, France.

September (2003): Recognition by SQU for good co-organization of the International

Conference on Mössbauer Spectroscopy, 21-25 September, SQU, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman.

March (2002): Recognition by SQU/ Physics Department of good co-organization of the

First Regional GCC Workshop on Surface Physics (SPW), held at SQU (19-21 March ).

Jane (1990) - Dec (1995): Associate membership of the ICTP (International Centre for

Theoretical Physics), Trieste, Italy. It provides three visits to the centre each

of 90 days duration which was valid within 5 years.

April (1995): Invited speaker by the Workshop on Material Science and Applications,

held in University of Qatar ( physics department , faculty of science ) Doha city, Qatar.

Jane (1993): ICTP grant: to participate at the 6th international workshop on

computational condensed matter physics held in the ICTP, Trieste, Italy.

January (1992): Recognition by SQU/ Physics Department of good co-organization of the

Workshop on Material Science and Development, 18-29 January, SQU, Muscat, Oman

August (1992): The ICTP grant: Funds for conference participation. I participated at

the 8th international conference on liquid and amorphous metals held in Vienna, Austria .

June – Aug. (1991): The Universidad de Valladolid grant, Visiting scientist to the Facutad

di Ciencias, Universidad de Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain. I was collaborating with

Prof. J. A. Alonso group on liquid clusters. Also I gave a talk on the stability of Noble Gases droplets.

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C4. Teaching:

I have about 41 years of teaching experience in several areas of theoretical and experimental physics.

23 year teaching at SQU and 18 years teaching experience before joining SQU.

Teaching At The Department of Physics, SQU ( from 1991 – Present )

C4. a. Number and Level of Courses Taught

My Teaching resume includes teaching general physics to first and second years (undergraduate levels),

experimental courses to first, second and third year (undergraduate level). I also taught computational

methods for the fourth year undergraduate students and for MSc (postgraduate). Also I gave intensive

mathematical based courses. In addition to the regular lectures I have taught many tutorials for different

courses

2 postgraduate levels theoretical physics courses.

7 higher level undergraduate theoretical physics courses.

3 higher level theoretical methods for physics courses, including PHYS4005, PHYS3101

and PHYS3102.

3 computational physics courses, including PHYS4007.

11 general physics courses for first and second year students.

Several tutorials for 11 general physics courses.

7 different laboratory based courses.

Laboratory Supervision

Besides teaching, I was deeply involved in the preparation of laboratory manuals of several

physics labs related to the following courses,

PHYS 2001: Introductory Physics I for Science

PHYS 2002: Introductory Physics II for Engineering

SCIE 3000: Experimental physics for teachers (I introduced 5 new experiments and

maintained all other optics experiments)

PHYS 2101: General Physics I for Science

PHYS 2102: General Physics II for Science

PHYS 2107: General Physics I for Engineering

PHYS 2108: General Physics II for Engineering

Tutorials

I helped students in solving physics problems during regular tutorial sessions at all first year and second

year undergraduate-level courses. PHYS1000, PHYS2000, PHYS2101, PHYS2102, PHYS2107 and

PHYS2108

C4. b. Administration of Large Courses

I have been selected for Coordinating and Teaching almost all first and second-years-level physics

courses. Normally these courses include more than 250 students every semester which could be

distributed to several sections and taught by different instructors. The coordination of these courses is

very involved work which requires

1- Preparing the teaching schedules for the whole semester

2- preparing about 30 quizzes for all chapters and all section

3- preparing two mid-semester tests

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4- preparing final exam for the whole course.

This is very hard and time consuming work that no one can concentrate in doing any research work in

parallel with the course coordination. The list of courses, that I coordinated within the past 20 years are:

Course Code Course Title Teaching Semesters

PHYS 2108: Physics for Engineering II Fall-2013, Spring-2014 & Fall-2014

PHYS 2105: Physics for Medicine Fall-2004, Fall-2005 & Spring-2006

PHYS 2107: Physics for Engineering I Fall-2003 & Fall-2004

PHYS 2102: General Physics II Summer-2013, Summer-2007 Fall-

2002,, Fall-2001, & Spring-2001

PHYS 2101: General Physics I Spring-1999, Fall-1999 & Spring-2000

PHYS 2003: Physics for life Science Spring-1996 & Fall-1996

PHYS 2002: Introductory Physics II Spring-1995 & Fall-1995

PHYS 2001: Introductory Physics I Fall-1994 & Spring-1995

PHYS 2000: Introductory Physics II Fall-1993 & pring-1994

PHYS 1000: Introductory Physics I Fall-1992 & Spring-1993

PHYS 1091: Introductory Physics for Agriculture

Fall-1991, Spring-1992 & Fall-1992

C4. c. Teaching Performance

C4. c. 1. Preparation and Teaching of higher level physics Courses

I have been assigned by the department curriculum committee to teach 7 higher level courses (for 3rd

,

4th

& 5th

year BSc students). The preparing and teaching of these advanced physics course need vast

knowledge of advanced topics and advanced mathematics Only specialized person in statistical

mechanics, thermodynamics and theoretical physics can teach these courses. These courses require

also the preparation and marking of i- several quizzes ii- two mid-semester tests iii- final exam

Course

Code

Course Title #

Credit

Hours

Teaching Semesters

PHYS 4018: Thermal and Statistical Physics 4 Spring 2015, Spring 2013 , Fall 2012

Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011,

Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008,

Summer2008, Spring2007, Spring2006,

Spring2003 & Spring2002.

PHYS 5001: Electromagnetic Theory I 3 Spring2001,

PHYS 4022: Thermal and Atmospheric Physics 3 Spring2008 & Spring2007.

PHYS 3102: Theoretical Methods of Physics II 3 Fall2006, Fall2007, Spring2008,

Summer 2008, Fall2009, Spring 2010

& Fall 2010.

PHYS 3101 Dynamics 3 Spring 2016

PHYS 4005: Theoretical Methods of Physics 4 Fall 2003, Fall 2002 & Fall 2001

PHYS 4007: Computational Physics I 3 Fall 1998 & Fall 1999

PHYS 5015: Physics of Fluids 3 Spring 1993

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C4. c. 2. Preparation and Teaching MSc physics Courses

I prepared all materials of two MSc courses,

- the course contents - the course descriptions - the course outcomes - homework problems - topics for presentations - quizzes - two midterm tests - final exam

Course Code Course Title Teaching Semesters

PHYS 6001:

Classical Mechanics

Fall 2015, Fall 2014

PHYS 6014:

Physics of Disordered Materials

Fall 2002, Fall 2001

C4. d. Student Advising

Normally, office hours are assigned for each lecture-based course (6 hours for each course per week).

In these office hours students are able to ask questions and express their views and raise their concern

about the course materials and discuss their answers and grades of midterm tests.

In some higher level course, I assign topics for presentations to be given by students.

The students can collect and prepare the material and give the presentations.

For each higher level course, homework problems are assigned, marked and returned back to

students with comments.

C4. e. Undergraduate Project Supervision

I supervised 10 final year project within the project courses, PHYS4007, PHYS5000 and PHYS5501,

which include research topics and thesis. The Thesis for each project were submitted to physics

department and evaluated by a group of physics staff. The first two projects were two-semesters

projects (6 Credits) while all other projects are one-semester projects (3 Credits).

Semester Project title Student Name Supervisors

Names, Drs.

Spring 2016 applications of Variational Principle in

Physics and Mechanics

Majid Shaikhan Saleh

Al-Syabi

ID# 98038

S. M. Osman

Fall 2014 Second Virial coefficient of some simple

fluids He, Ne, Ar, H2 and N2

Raya Mubarak Al

Barashdi ID#89990

S. M. Osman &

Amr Radi

Fall 2013 Calculating the thermodynamic

properties of water from equation of state

Marwan Humaid Ali Al

Moqbali, ID # 85846

S. M. Osman

Spring 2013 Calculating the Speed of sound in water

from Van der Waals equation of state

Zainab Ali Gomaa Al-

Mamari, ID # 81437

S. M. Osman

& Raheel Shah

Fall 2012 Thermodynamic properties of simple

fluids with simple pair-potential (Square

Well and Square Solder potentials)

Fahd Mohamed Al-

Bahri , ID # 70178

S. M. Osman

Spring 2012 Thermodynamic properties of Xenon Xe

Fluid

Sheikha Salem AL-

Kasbi, ID # 83587

S. M. Osman

Spring 2012 Pair Potential and Transport Properties of

Uranium (U) Fluid

Alyaa Al-Hagri,

ID # 81870

S. M. Osman

Fall 2010 Virial equation of state and applications

to different fluids

Khlood Zaher

Al-Hosni , ID # 69257

S. M. Osman &

Nidhal Suleiman

Fall 2010 Van der Waals equation of state and

applications to different fluids

Mona Ahmed

Bitswailem , ID # 69272

S. M. Osman &

Nidhal Suleiman

Spring 2001 Solving The Radial Schrodinger Equation Aatika Ibrahim Saif Al- S. M. Osman

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for Different Potentials Kind

Spring 2000 Double Yukawa potential Rasim Abdallah Al-

Fahdi

S. M. Osman

C4. f. MSc and PhD Thesis Supervision

C4. f. 1. MSc Theses advising

I supervised one MSc candidate. The work was mainly on the concentration fluctuations Scc(0),

excess entropy and excess free energy of liquid binary mixtures that contain one component formed of

monatomic molecules and the other component is diatomic such as He-H2, Ne–H2 and Ar-H2. In this

project, the scaling theory was employed in conjunction with the conventional perturbation theory of

liquid alloys.

MSc degree title : Phase Stability in Binary Fluid Mixtures

Supervisors : Dr. S. M. Osman, Dr. Issam Ali & Prof. R. N. Singh.

Student name: Aatika Ibrahim Saif Al Kindi

Student ID # 6005 / 1999

Submitted to: Physics Department, College of Science, SQU. Academic year 2003

Starting Date : Fall 2001 Submission date: Spring 2003

C4. f. 2. MSc project. Starting date 1st September 2015.

MSc degree title : Density Functional Theory Calculations of the Surface Properties of

C60 Fullerene Fluids.

Supervisors : Dr. S. M. Osman , Dr. Nidhal Sulaiman & Dr. Amr Radi

Student name: Manal Ahmed Al Maadi

Student ID # 70312

Submitted to: Physics Department, College of Science, SQU. Academic year 2003

Starting Date : September 2015 Submission date: June 2016

C4. f. 3. Recent PhD Advising I have a joint PhD supervision with Tangier University, Morocco. The student will spend two years

in Tangier University for experimental work and one year at SQU for theoretical calculations.

Title : Effect of Surface-Fluid Coexistence (SFC) on the mechanism of

boiling and condensation

Candidate name: Anas El Maakouli

Nature of project Experimental and theoretical

Supervisors 1- Prof. Abdellatif Ben Abdellah,

Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tangier, Morocco.

2- Dr. S. M. Osman,

Physics Department, College of Science, Sultan Qaboos

University, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman

Starting date : 1st October 2015

Expected submission date: October 2018

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C4. g. MSc and PhD Examination

I acted as the external examiner for physical chemistry MSc thesis. The work was on the experimental

and theoretical investigations of surface tension of surfactant fluids. (evidence is provided within the list

of evidences).

I rejected several requests for examining MSc and PhD thesis due to the field of research does not fit

with my specialization. Provide the very low number of theoretical physics MSc / PhD registrations

during the past 15 years.

C4. h. Mentorship of Junior Staff

Normally,. when we coordinate large courses, we help and monitor the Junior Omani staff in solving

problem and exam marking etc…..

C4. i. Curriculum development and teaching management:

From 1998 – 2002 and from 2014 – present: I have been selected to be member and secretary

of the departmental Curriculum/Education Committee:

This committee is one of the very important committees as we meet weekly to

i- Develop and amend/revise the departmental curricula

ii- Assess the need of introduction of minors with the departmental major

iii- Prepare the course and work plans for majors and minors

iv- Prepare lists of courses to be offered in the semesters

v- Prepare the timetable and loading sheet to be sent to the A&R

vi- Prepare the Exam Timetable and liaison with the A&R

vii- Maintain Liaison with the College Curriculum Committee and the A&R

viii- Look after the Science Education matters in the department

ix- Liaise with the College Committee on Science Education

I took part in preparing the contents and manuscripts of the following course

PHYS 1091: Introductory physics for agriculture students

PHYS 2003: Physics for life Science

PHYS 2105: Physics for Medicine

PHYS 3102: Theoretical Methods of Physics II

PHYS 4005: Theoretical Methods of physics

PHYS 4007: Computational Physics I

PHYS 4018: Thermal and Statistical Physics

PHYS 4022: Thermal and Atmospheric Physics

PHYS 5001: Electromagnetic Theory I

PHYS 5015: Physics of Fluids

PHYS 6001 Classical physics

I prepared learning outcome for all physics courses that I taught, including PHYS3102, PHYS4018,

PHYS4022 and PHYS5001, PHYS6001.

SCIE3000 lab Committee: I served in this committee for four years. My job was mainly to

introduce several new experiments and prepare new lab manual. Notably, this lab was running for

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four years with two lab sessions (3 hours each) per week. This lab was serving about 100 students

every semester including all physics major and physics minor education students.

Physics coordinator of the science education program: Since the year 2000 - present: I am

acting as the program coordinator.

i- I prepare the degree plans and working plans for Phys. – Math., Phys. - Chem. And Phys. –

Biol. Degrees for every cohort.

ii- I introduce the necessary changes to the degree plan and working plan upon requests from

college of education

iii- I advise the education students during the registration process.

iv- I advise the student to tack equivalent courses and try to solve the time table clashes.

v- I monitor the performance of probation students and give the proper advise.

C4. j Others

C4. j. 1 Teaching Training Before Joining SQU

October 1973 – September 1983: I worked in the Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, Cairo

Egypt. I was demonstrating and teaching laboratory physics for all undergraduate level courses. In

addition, I designed several experiments on optics, electronics and condensed matter physics for

third year laboratory

October 1983 – May 1989: At the School of Mathematics and Physics, East Anglia University,

Norwich, England, UK. I had a good training in teaching computational physics for third year

undergraduate students. Also I gave tutorials for most of theoretical physics courses.

1990 – 1995: At the ICTP, Trieste, Italy, I had the opportunity of good training on several numerical

techniques in theoretical physics research using sophisticated computer packages

C5. Scholarly Achievement:

C5. a. Key Words

Statistical Mechanics – Thermodynamics - Theory of fluids - Theory of alloys - Density Functional

Theory - Theory of Nano-particles fluids – Theory of quantum fluids

C5. b. Papers Published in refereed International Journals (See Appendix A)

C5. c. Scholarly and Professional Activities

I do referee several papers every year for international journals as well as for SQU science journal ( Please

see provided evidence file )

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During the past 15 years, I have refereed several projects for SQU (college of science) internal grant

scheme.

I have participated at 29 local and international conferences.

I gave 10 Colloquia to college of science colleagues.

I have been engages in two projects with Metz university, Metz , France i- Pseudopotental Theory of liquid metals ii- Ga – Pb, Ga – Mn and Al – Mn liquid alloys

( 7 strong papers were published, please see list of publications )

C5. d. Focused Research Programs

C5. d. 1. In solid state research

I worked in two different points

Theory of crystallization of semiconducting material, in particular molten Selenium (Se). In this

point I tried to link the change of electrical conductivity σ (T) as a function of temperature with the

volume of growing crystals. I derived the proper relation via the percolation theory. This work was

part of my MSc degree.

The pseudopotential theory was applied to solid transition metals. I employed Ashcroft empty-core

pseudopotential but with considering the core radius rc as structural dependent parameters. In this

work we set an expression of rc as function of the nearest neighbour lattice parameters. This could

explain with reasonable accuracy the pressure induced solid-solid phase transition at low

temperature.

C5. d. 2. In the theory of one component liquid

I investigated several complicated points such as,

the transferability of pseudopotential for alkali metals (Li, Na, K, Rb, & Cs) from solid state

to liquid state,

the dimerization of sodium vapour near the critical point of liquid-vapour coexistence,

the relation between shear viscosity and surface tension of simple fluids,

the dependence of the effective hard sphere diameter on density and temperature,

the critical point parameters dependence on the potential range parameter of hard-sphere

Yukawa fluids

I set a new equation of state [EOS] for carbon C60 fluid, which was tested also for

C70 and C96 fullerene. It was found that the invented EOS works well with high accuracy,

C5. d. 3. In the theory of binary liquid mixtures and alloys

I published several Physical Review B , Physical Review E, Molecular Physics and Journal of Alloys

and Compounds. articles. The binary alloys that have been investigated are Ne-Ar, He-H2, Ne-H2, Ar-

H2, Ga-Pb, Ga-Mn and Al-Mn. For these alloys I presented,

(i) new analytical equation of state,

(ii) analytical expression of the concentration-concentration structure factor Scc(0),

(iii) I calculated the phase diagram, in particular, the binodal and spinodal curves,

(iv) I investigated the behaviour of the alloys along the miscibility gap up to the critical point,

(v) the surface tension at the Ga-rich side of Ga-Pb alloy binodal curve exhibits wetting and

prewetting transitions. I could investigate such complicated phenomena via our new equation of

state and Scc(0) expressions,

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(vi) I employed the idea of non-additivity of unlike pair-potentials of binary alloys. I explained its

important role in explaining most of well-known phenomena of mixing and demixing at low

temperatures and high pressures.

C5. d. 4. The quantum effect in quantum fluids

In liquids H2, He and Ne quantum effect plays an important role in controlling the thermodynamic

properties of these fluids. I managed to obtain an analytical expression for the quantum correction

term of the free energy of these fluids. I also checked the accuracy of the equation of state with the

quantum correction term comparable to empirical results, which shows remarkably good accuracy in

comparable with the empirical thermodynamic properties.

C5. e. Research Grants

C5. e. 1. Internally Research Grants

Since 2000 till present, The SQU offered five internally funded projects. Our theory group could

get four of these grants. (two to three years duration for each project). I served as the Principal

Investigator in All four projects.

Year

Project code

Project title

Budget

2001 – 2003

IG / SCI /PHYS / 01/04

Phase stability and concentration

fluctuations of helium-hydrogen

mixture

2,500.000 OR

2003 – 2006

IG / SCI / PHYS / 03/04

Electrical Resistivity of Liquid

Metals Under Extreme Conditions of

Temperatures and Pressures

2,500.000 OR

2007 – 2010

IG / SCI / PHYS / 07/05

Surface Properties of Liquid Metals 2,500.000 OR

2010 – 2013

IG IG/ SCI / PHYS/ 010/01

Transport Properties of expanded

liquid metals

1,500.000 OR

C5. e. 2. Strategic Research Projects

C5. e. 2. 1. Petroleum Engineering Project

Quite recently, I joined the Petroleum Engineering research group, at SQU, in a long term project on the fluid

dynamics of the Mud fluid which is used during oil well drilling. The project will continue for four years. This

project is potentially important for oil production industry in Oman.

C5. e. 2. 2. His Majesty Sultan Qaboos Strategic Project (HM project)

I served as co-investigator in His Majesty Sultan Qaboos funded project (HM project). My contribution

is to solve system of partial differential equations for underground water flow.

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C5. f. Research Collaborations

C5. f. 1 Local Research Collaborations

I have extremely successful collaborations with 11 distinguished academics at SQU and from five

different international institutes.

Duratio

n

Name Affiliation Research Area Number

of

Publica-

tions

1997 -

present

Dr. Issam Ali SQU 1-Theory of fluid

2-Theory of alloys

3-Theory of fluid-fluid interfaces

4-Theory of critical point

17

2002 -

present

Dr. Nidhal Sulaiman SQU 1-Theory of liquid mixtures

2-Theory of surface tension

6

1999 -

2009

Dr. Mohamed

Al-Busaidi

SQU 1-Theory of fluids

2- Theory of nano-particles fluids

5

1994 -

present

Prof. Ran N. Singh SQU Theory of fluids and fluid alloys 15

1994 -

present

Prof. S. M. Rahman SQU Pseudopotential Theory of solid

transition metals

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C5. f. 2. International Research Collaborations

I have extremely successful collaborations with 11 distinguished academics at SQU and from five

different international institutes.

Duratio

n

Name Affiliation Research Area Number

of Papers

2005 -

present

Dr. Mohamed Bahaa

Khedr

King Khalid

University,

Kingdom of Saudi

Arabia

1-Theory of nano-particles fluids

2-Properties of Lennard-Jones

fluids

3-Critical phenomena

6

2005 -

present

Dr. Abdellatif Ben

Abdellah

Tangier University

,Tangier, Morocco

Theory of Ga-Pb alloy &

Resistivity of liquid Cs

6

1999 -

present

Dr. Benoit

Grosdidier

Metz University,

Metz, France

1-Pseudopotential theory of metals

2-Theory of Ga-Pb, Ga-Mn

& Al-Mn alloys

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2015 Prof. J. G. Gasser Metz University,

Metz, France

Al-Mn and Ga-Mn alloys 2

1986 -

1989

Prof W. H. Young East Anglia

University,

England, UK

Phase diagram of liquid Sodium 2

1984 -

1991

Dr. M. Silbert East Anglia

University,

England, UK

Properties of Square-well fluids

and fluid mixtures

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C5. f. 3. Research visits during the past 15 years.

From 1990 to 1998: I used to visit the International Centre for Theoretical Physics [ICTP] to

collaborate with the members of condensed matter group. After 1999 till present, I shifted my interests

towards Metz university, Metz, France, where I established strong collaboration on liquid alloys.

The following 10 short visits were helpful to strengthen my research collaboration, update my

knowledge and benefit from the existing research facilities. All these visits were financially supported

by the host institutes.

Duration

Institute Purpose of the visit

1 – 31 August 2015 LPLI, LCP-A2MC, Laboratoire de

Chimie, Physique st Materiaus,

Universite de Lorrain, Metz Technopole

France

Research collaboration

20 – 31 July 2015 CMS, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland Exploring future research

Links with College of

Science, SQU, at large.

Also, I discussed my future

collaboration on Cryogenic

materials.

17 July–20 - August 2010 LPLI, Metz University, Metz, France Research collaboration

10 – 17 October 2006 ICTP, Trieste, Italy Learning several numerical

techniques in solving

nonlinear differential

equations

1 – 31 July 2005

LPLI, Metz University, Metz, France Research collaboration

24 June – 12 July 2002 ICTP, Trieste, Italy Attending condensed matter

summer school

10 – 22 January 2001

ICTP, Trieste, Italy Attending workshop

10 July – 20 August 2000

LPLI, Metz University, Metz, France Research collaboration

4 June–22 July 1999

LPLI, Metz University, Metz, France Research collaboration

24 – 29 August 1998 Max Planck fur Metallforschung,

Institute fur Werkstoffvissenschaft,

StuttGart, Germany

Research collaboration and

giving seminar

C5. g. Leadership in Research I am leading two research groups, one local and one international.

My role is mainly, suggesting the point and writing the papers and my collaborators are doing

the analytical and numerical calculations.

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Since 1998 till present, I am leading a group of three Omani physicists who are SQU academic staff

( Drs. Issam Ali, Mohamed Al Busaidy and Nidhal Sulaiman ).

We are doing research in three different areas within the theory of fluids.

i- Statistical thermodynamic Theory of fluids

ii- Theory of fluid alloys

iii- Theory of quantum fluids

This collaboration was extremely productive. We managed to publish 22 papers in international journals

with high impact factors. ( please see list of publications in Appendix A and table in Section C5. h. 1 )

At the international level, I am leading a group of three academics

i- Dr. Mohamed Bahaa Khedr (working in King Khaled university, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia),

ii- Dr. Abdellatife Ben Abdellah (working in Tangier university, Tangier, Marocco) and

iii- Dr. Benoit Grosdidier (working in Metz University, Metz, France).

We managed to publish 14 papers in high quality journals. ( please see list of publications in Appendix A and the table in section C5. f.2 )

C5. h. Others

C5. h. 1. Conferences Workshops and Summer Schools

(See Appendix B)

C5. h. 2. Research Technical Reports

I submitted more than 12 reports to international institutes and to local SQU grant system for

funding research projects

C6. Community Services:

C6. a. Administrative Positions

As I am expatriate, no position was offered to me. The possibility to be selected

for such positions is very limited for expatriates at SQU.

C6. b. Services and Activities at Departmental Level

C6. b. 1. Collaboration With Omani Academic Staff

The Theory group at physics department is suffering from the extremely small number of postgraduate

students who join the group for MSc / PhD projects. The other alternative is to collaborate with

colleagues who have the same interests. I had to lead a group of three junior Omani academic staff

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(Since 1998 till present). Four of us formed an extremely group. We worked in five different research

topics and managed to published 22 articles in high impact factor journals.

1998 – Present : Dr. Issam Ali (Associate Professor) [ 17 papers ]

Research topics: Theory of fluid - Theory of alloys - Theory of fluid-fluid interfaces - Theory of

critical point

2002 – Present : Dr. Nidhal Suliman (Assistant Professor) [ 6 papers ]

Research topics: Theory of liquid mixtures - Theory of surface tension - Theory of Quantum Fluid H2

1998 – 2006 : Dr. Mohamed Al-Busaidi (Assistant Professor) [ 5 papers ]

Research topics: Theory of fluids - Theory of nano-particles fluids

C6. b. 2. Collaborations with non-Omani colleagues

I had extremely successful collaborations with two expatriates at physics department

Profs S. M. Mujibur Rahman ( two papers were published )

Prof. Ram N. Singh (15 papers ).

C6. b. 3. Undergraduate Project Supervision

I took part in supervising 10 physics projects [ two long projects (two semesters project) and eight

short projects (one semester project)].

C6. b. 4. Postgraduate Project Supervision

During the past 13 years only (2002-present), when I promoted to Associate Professor, I am

allowed to take projects students. But only two MSc students have registered to do theory of fluids

projects. (one in the academic year 2002-2003 and the second is 2015-2016 registration). Along

this line, I have one international student who in recently registered to for PhD project Starting

October 2015 and it is expected to submit the thesis by October 2019.

C6. b. 5. Colloquia

I gave 10 seminars on my research topics to colleagues at physics department.

7th

November 2012 Ga-Pb Alloy: Miscibility gap and prewetting transition.

26th

March 2006 Carbon C60 Pair potential and thermodynamic Properties.

29th

April 2001 He - H2 liquid mixture at extreme conditions of temperatures & pressures.

17th

December 1996 New Pseudopotential for liquid metals.

22nd

May 1995 Density Functional Theory (DFT): An introduction.

28th

February 1994 Thermodynamic properties of solid transition metals.

14th

December 1003 Phase separation in liquid mixtures.

28th

February 1993 Expanded liquid metals, ~~~~ III.

15th

December 1992 Expanded liquid metals, ~~~~ II.

8th

December 1992 Expanded liquid metals, ~~~~ I.

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C6. b. 6. Departmental Committees

I served actively in about 15 departmental and college committees.

MSc programme committee: It was commissioned to develop the MSc degree program in

physics. I served actively in this committee for modifying the degree plan and the courses

contents of MSc degree.

MSc selection committee: (three years) Examining the candidates for MSc programme and

selecting the qualified students for the bridging year or for starting in the main programme.

I acted as a member of MSc examiner team, Spring semester (2007).

Appointment committee: (four academic years) The committee held several meetings to select

candidates for new positions and appoint teaching and research consultants.

Academic promotion committee: (one year) The committee was holding several meetings to

discuss the promotion applications for different academic position

Teaching and curriculum committee: [three years (1998 - 2001) and the current year (2014 -

2015)]. This is the most important committees in the department,

- recommend courses sections and tutorials,

- distribute teaching duties among physics staff and consultants,

- discuss current problems in teaching,

- recommend the necessary changes in the degree plan,

- suggest new courses,

- recommend the appointments of new teaching consultants,

- review the degree by reviewing the pre-requests and co-requests for all courses,

- checking the overlapping sections between courses with the same nature,

- communicating with the college curriculum committee.

Science Education programme committee: From 1998 till present, I was involved in coordinating

the Physics-Education Programs which includes the preparation of degree plans and working plans

for both Physics-Chemistry and Physics-Mathematics education students. In particular, the years

2000, 2005, 2006 and 2012 cohorts. Also I was coordinating with college of education on the

performance of physics teaching of courses related to education programs.

As I was appointed as physics representative for the college education program committee, I was

deeply involved in

i- preparing an Intended Learning Outcome (ILO) of the physics education program at SQU. This

includes writing the evaluations and outcomes for all physics courses in the program. This involved

writing extensive reports in both English and Arabic languages.

ii- I prepared the working plan for the new master degree in science education MASTERS OF

SCIENCE TEACHING which was intended as joint master degree with college of education. I

prepared the program plan, the degree plan and the contents of all physics courses required for this

suggested degree.

iii- Regularly, I am involved in advising education students (Phys - Math and Phys - Chem.) which

also includes monitoring the performance of education students who are under probation and

offering the proper advising.

iv- Also I was helping in resolving the timetable clashes during the registration period.

v- I was selected for physics representative for the ministry of education curriculum committee. I did

a critical evaluation of the contents of the physics course for grades 10, 11 and 12 in the basic

education system.

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Programmes and Industrial Liaison Committee: ( one year)

Students-Staff Liaison committee: Holding several meetings with the students representatives

for discussing the students problems and reporting these information to the immediate superior

(Dean, Asst. Dean and/or HOD).

Exhibition & Display committee: (one year) Decorating the department with scientific posters,

conferences, workshops proceedings and important published articles.

The year of physics celebration committee: In (2005), I helped in organizing the celebration

of the year of physics.

C6. b. 7. Undergraduate students advising:

Pre-major college advising Committee: For several semesters (1995-1999 and 2010 – 2013), I

was Involved in advising the first and second years students and helping them to select their major

and minor subjects.

Agriculture students coordination committee: For two years (1993-1995), I was coordinating

the physics for agriculture students courses with the college of agriculture. I reported the progress in

teaching physics for agriculture students and was advising agriculture students in their registrations.

Education students advising: regularly (2000- till present), I am involved in advising education

students (Phys - Math and Phys - Chem.). Currently, I am monitoring the performance of education

students who are under probation and helping education students who are about to graduate in

resolving the time table clashes by assigning equivalent courses.

C6. c. Committees and Activities at the College Level

C6. c. 1. College committees

Science Education College Committee: I served as member of the college committee that deals with

science education degree plan

Computer users committee: (2001 – 2003) I was responsible for improving computational

resources at physics department within the facilities and resources available in college of science and

throughout SQU.

C6. c. 2. Professional Services at the college level

Coordinating the agreement between SQU and CMS at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland:

The duration of the agreement is three years Starting January 2015. The aim is to develop this

agreement to a full membership at CMS.

I was selected by the VC office to act as the program coordinator between SQU and CMS.

The agreement includes helping academic staff and young researchers to benefit from the facilities

at CMS and :

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i- to establish links between SQU academics and research groups at CERN,

ii- to encourage college of science academics to join the projects offered by CMS,

iii- to help researchers at college of science to have access to fast computers at CERN.

iv- To help our MSc and PhD students to get funds to visit CERN and attend the summer workshop

v- To introduce the CMS facilities and projects to college of Science academics from Physics,

Mathematics and Computer Science departments and encourage them to join CMS research

programs,

Desalination research committee: (2000 - 2002), The members have met during one year to

discuss the possibility of organizing groups for carrying out research on water. Recently I have

submitted a project proposal to the MERC for establishing collaboration with the laboratory de

physique at Metz University, France.

Conferences and workshops organization committees: I was Involved in organizing

of conferences and workshops as a member of several organizing committees.

1. The International Conference on Mössbauer Spectroscopy, 25-27 September (2003) was held

at SQU, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman.

2. The First Regional G.C.C. Workshop on Surface Physics (SPW), 19-21 March (2002), SQU,

Muscat, Sultanate of Oman.

3. Workshop on Material Science and Development, held at SQU, 18-29 January (1992).

In (2010), I assisted college of science student activities during the annual science week.

C6. c. 3. Advising Project Students from other departments

I always help undergraduate students, from other departments and other colleges, in their projects. My help was

mainly concentrated on the better understanding of the physical phenomena related to thermodynamics, or

magnetism or surface phenomena. One of these projects won the first price in the university science day

festival is the Magnetic screening project.

Date 13 SQU Science Festival, 6 – 10 April 2014

Project Title The Design of Magnetic Mirror for the Roof of Iron Factory in Sohar.

Department Earth Science department

Group 5 Final year Earth Science students

The group leader: Mr. Adel Salem Nasser Al Mugheiri ID # 92817 / 2010

Summary We designed a two dimensional net of electric wires that carries electric current.

The value of the current and the wires spacing are carefully calculated in order to

stop iron powder from escaping away from specified region. The magnetic

confinement of iron tiny grains is critically calculated by Ampere’s law of

magnetism.

Promising 1- The project has won the first price in the university science day festival in May

2014.

2- The iron factory in Suhar (Sultanate of Oman) is having environmental

pollution problem. The factory offered to finance the buying of the necessary

experimental components and measuring devices in order to complete the

refinement of this project.

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C6. d. Activities and Services at the University Level

C6. d. 1. Technical Services and Consultancy

I refereed several research reports for SQU internal grants.

I Acted as external examiner for MSc examination team for several MSc thesis (2007 - 2008).

I established a strong research consultation program with Metz University, Metz, France which

reflected positively on our research output at SQU (seven strong articles were published ).

I established a long term research collaborations and consultation with, College of science, Besha,

King Khalid University. Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (2005 - 2011) as appeared in six strong

publications (Refs # 23, 27, 28, 29, 30, 32 in the list of journal publications).

C6. d. 2. Representing SQU at the International Level

I established strong links and collaborations with three international institutes.

i- International Centre for Theoretical Physics [ ICTP ], Trieste, Italy

ii- Metz University, Metz, France

iii- CMS, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

I established productive and long term collaborations with four professors working at international

institutes. I invited the following top theoreticians to visit SQU.

- Prof. F. Sumer ( Max Planck Institute, Stutgard, Germany ).

- Prof. Jean Georges Gasser ( Metz University France ).

- Dr. B. Grosdidier ( Metz University France ).

- Dr. Mohamed . Bahaa Khedr ( King Khaled University, Saudi Arabia ).

- Dr. Abdellatif Ben Abdellah ( Tanger University, Tanger, Morocco ).

C6. e. Services to Local Community Outside SQU

The assessment of physics school books: (2002-2004), Upon the request from the ministry of

higher education, I was Involved in the assessment of physics books in the basic education

curriculum in Oman

lectures to Omani army personnel: (2000 - 2005), I Gave five popular lectures to Omani army

personnel on physics topics such as,

- projectiles motions and rockets,

- aerodynamics and aeroplane lifting force ,

- thermodynamics or the atmosphere,

- nuclear physics and nuclear power generators

Physics workshops for teachers: Upon the request from the ministry of education, physics

department organized two teachers workshops.

- First workshop for teachers, (15 - 30 January 1994)

- Second workshop for teachers, (20 - 30 August 1994)

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These workshops were intended to strengthen the background of some physics school teachers who

have physics minor BSc degree. I have participated in organising and teaching of these physics

workshops

In (2006), I presented a popular lecture (in Arabic) on atmospheric phenomena in Oman to Omani

secondary school (Ahmed Ben Majid private school).

I welcomed receiving of many visitors to physics department, at different levels; ministers,

ambassadors and scientists SQU.

During the past 15 years, I refereed, reviewed and assessed several articles for international journals,

such as, Phys. Chem. Liquids, J. non-Crystalline Solids, Int. J. Mod. Physics B, J. Phys. Cond.

Matter, Phys. Rev. E and J. of Alloys and Compounds.

List of Abbreviation Used Throughout This C. V.

Abbreviation Refers to

SQU Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat , Sultanate of Oman

EPS European Physics Society

Fac. Sci. UAE Faculty of Science , United Arab Emarat University

GCC The Gulf Countries Council

IRB Istituto Per La Ricerca Di Base, Monteroduni, Molise, Italy

ICTP International Centre for Theoretical Physics

which is located in Trieste, Italy

KISR Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research

LPLI Laboratoire de Physique des Liquides et Interfaces, Institut de Physique-Chimie, Metz, France

LCP-A2MC Laboratoire de Chimie, Physique st Materiaus, Universite de Lorrain, Metz

Technopole, France.

CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research , Geneva, Switzerland.

CMS Compact Moun Solenoid Collaboration URL : http://cms.cern.ch

LAM-n The nth International Conference on Liquid and Amorphous metals (n=6……12 )

MERC Meddle East Research Centre

NATO North Atlantic Trite Organisation

ORS Overseas Research Student Grant. Awarded by the United Kingdom Universities committee

SPW Surface Physics workshop

NFE Nearly Free Electron Theory

DFT Density Functional Theory of non-uniform fluids

EOS Equation of State of fluid.

ITF Industry Technology Facilitator (Petroleum Engineering research funding council )

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Appendix A

A1. Statistics

I present a series of statistics on my publications list in order to facilitate getting clear information.

Total : 42

Published / accepted in international journals : 40

Submitted : 1

Pending : 1

The authors name with (*) is the corresponding author

I am the corresponding author for

26

Number of papers on which my name was not indicated as corresponding author 14

Papers that were done before joining SQU and not affiliated by SQU [ Refs. 1 - 6 ]

Papers that were done at SQU and affiliated by SQU [ Refs. 7 - 42 ]

6

36

The number of papers published during the current position (Associate Professor) from 2002

till Present

23

Number of single author papers 4

Number of two authors papers 17

Number of three authors papers 10

Number of four-authors papers 4

Number of papers in collaboration with Omani academic staff 22

Number of papers in collaboration with international collaborators. 18

A2. List of publications

In this section, I present a detailed list of my journal publications together with the Journal

Impact Factor [ IF ] and my contribution to each paper.

# Authors / Title / Journal

Contribution Year IF

42 S. M. Osman* and N. Sulaiman, Shear viscosity, Surface tension and speed of sound of

Hydrogen along the liquid-vapour coexistence, Molecular Physics (pending: writing up

In progress)

(2015) 1.819

41 S. M. Osman*, B. Grosdidier and A. Ben Abdellah, Metal-Nonmetal transition in

expanded liquid Cesium, Phys. Rev. E (recently submitted. Status; in progress ),

(2015) 2.255

40 S. M. Osman* and N. Sulaiman, Thermophysical properties of Hydrogen along the

liquid-vapour coexistence, Physica A (Accepted)

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2015.12.079 (doi: 10.1016/j.physa.2015.12.079),d

(2015) 1.732

39 A . Ben Abdellah, B. Grosdidier, S. M. Osman* , S. M. Mujibur Rahman , M. Mayoufi,

J. Ataati and J. G. Gasser, Spin-state dependence of electrical resistivity and

thermoelectric power of molten Al-Mn alloys: experiment and theory, J. of Alloys and

Compounds, 658, 1010-1019.

(2015) 2.999

List of Publications and Related Points

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38 B. Grosdidier , A. Ben Abdellah, S. M. Osman*, J. Ataati and J. G. Gasser, Chemical

short range order and magnetic correction in liquid Manganese–Gallium zero alloy,

Physica B , 479, 79 – 84,

(2015) 1.319

37 S. M. Osman*, B. Grosdidier, I. Ali and A. Ben Abdellah, Liquid Gallium-Lead mixture

phase diagram, surface tension near the critical mixing point and prewetting transition,

Phys. Rev. E, 87, 062103,

(2013) 2.255

36 S. M. Osman* , I. Ali and R. N. Singh, Phase diagram and thermodynamic properties of

H2, Phys. Rev. E, 87, 012122 ,

(2013) 2.255

35 M. Bahaa Khedr and S. M. Osman*, Critical parameters of hard-core Yukawa fluids

within the structural theory, Physica A, 391, PP 4427,

(2012) 1.732

34 S. M. Osman* and I. Ali, Structural theory of Liquid-Vapour critical point with

application

to hard-core Yukawa fluids, Phys. Chem. Liquids, Vol 50, PP 495,

(2012) 0.603

33 M. Bahaa Khedr* and S. M. Osman, Thermodynamic properties of the two higher

fullerites C70 and C96 along the liquid-vapour coexistence curve, AIP Conf. Proc.

(SPS5 Proceedings), Vol 1370, PP 173-184, doi # 10.1063 / 1.3638099,

(2011) 0.350

32 S. M. Osman* and M. Bahaa Khedr, Comprehensive study of the thermodynamic

properties of fullerene C60 along the liquid-vapour coexistence, Phys. Chem. Liquids,

vol 47, issue 5, pp 564,

(2009)

0.603

31 M. Bahaa Khedr, S. M. Osman* and M. S. Al Busaidi, Surface tension, shear viscosity

and isothermal compressibility of liquid C60 along the liquid-vapour coexistence, Molec.

Physics, vol 107, issue 13, pp 1355,

(2009) 1.819

30 M. Bahaa Khedr, S. M. Osman* and M. S. Al Busaidi, New equation of state for double

Yukawa potential with application to Lennard-Jones fluid, Phys. Chem. Liquids, vol 47,

issue 3, pp 237,

(2009) 0.603

29 S. M. Osman*, R. N. Singh and I. Ali, Stability of the H2-(He, Ne, Ar) fluid mixtures,

Molec. Physics, vol 106, issue 14, pp 1721,

(2008) 1.819

28 B. Grosdidier, S. M. Osman* and A. Ben Abdellah, Liquid , galium-lead mixture

spinodal, bimodal and excess thermodynamic properties, Phys. Rev. B, vol 78, pp

024205,

(2008) 3.691

27 B. Grosdidier, M. S. Al-Busaidy and S. M. Osman*, Transferable Individual Local

Pseudopotential for expanded liquid metals, J. Non-Cryst. Solids, vol 353, pp 3484,

(2007) 1.537

26 M. Bahaa . Khedr, M. S. Al-Busaidy and S. M. Osman* , A Model equation of state of

liquid C60 and thermodynamic properties along the liquid-vapour coexistence curve,

J. Phys. Cond. Matter, vol 17, pp 4411 ,

(2005) 2.546

25 I Ali*, S M Osman, N Sulaiman and R N Singh, Thermodynamic Properties of He-H2

Fluid Mixtures Over a Wide Range of Temperatures and Pressures, Phys. Rev. E, vol

69, pp 056104,

(2004) 2.255

24 I. Ali*, S. M. Osman and R. N. Singh, Shear viscosity of Hydrogen and Helium fluids

at extended regions of temperatures and pressures, J. Non-Newt. Fluid Mechanics,

vol 120, pp 79,

(2004) 2.037

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23 Ali*, S. M. Osman, N. Solaiman and R. N. Singh, Mixing and phase separation in

molecular fluid mixture, Molec. Physics, vol 101, pp 3239,

(2003) 1.819

22 S. M. Osman*, I. Ali and R. N. Singh, Shear viscosity along the liquid – vapour

coexistence, J. Phys. Cond Matter, vol 14, pp 8415,

(2002) 2.546

21 I. Ali*, B. Grodidiier, S. M. Osman and R. N. Singh, Surface tension of hard core

Yukawa fluid, J. Non-Cryst. Solids, vol 312-314, pp 485,

(2002) 1.537

20 N. Solaiman, S. M. Osman, I. Ali and R. N. Singh*, Concentration fluctuations of

monomer–dimmer mixture, J. Non-Cryst. Solids, vol 312-314, pp 227,

(2002) 1.537

19 S. M. Osman and I. Ali*, Model equation of state of liquid Argon based on modified

double Yukawa potential, J. Fac. Sci. UAE. Univ., vol 12A, pp 28,

(2002)

18 Issam Ali, S. M. Osman*, M. Al-Busaidi and R. N. Singh, Liquid-vapour equilibrium

with double Yukawa potential, Int. J. Mod. Phys. B, vol 13, pp 3261,

(1999) 0.941

17 I. Ali*, S. M. Osman and R. N.Singh, Compressibility factor for double Yukawa fluid,

J. Non-Cryst. Solids, vol 250-252, pp 364,

(1999) 1.537

16 I. Ali*, S. M. Osman and R. N.Singh , Equation of state of liquid mixtures with non-

additive potentials, J. Non-Cryst. Solids, vol 250-252, pp 360,

(1999) 1.537

15 I. Ali*, S. M. Osman and R. N. Singh , Ordering and structural properties of AL - Ge

alloys, J. Non-Cryst. Solids, vol 250-252, pp 321,

(1999) 1.537

14 S. M. Osman* and I. Ali, Effective hard-sphere diameters in simple classical fluids and

applications to double Yukawa potential, Int. J. Mod. Phys. B, vol 13, pp 1419,

(1999) 0.941

13 S. M. Osman* and R. N. Singh, Perturbation scheme for a binary mixture of hard-cores

with attractive tail, Molec. Physics, vol 96, pp 87,

(1999) 1.819

12 S M Osman* and S. M. M. Rahman, Structural and thermodynamic properties of 3-d

transition metals: pseudopotential theory: revisited,

Mod. Phys. Lett. B, vol 9, pp 553,

(1995) 0.474

11 S M Osman* and R N Singh, Description of the concentration fluctuations in liquid

binary mixtures with non-additive potentials, Phys. Rev. E, vol 51, pp 332 ,

(1995) 2.255

10 S M Osman*, Calculating the thermodynamic properties of planar and spherical liquid-

vapour interface, J. Phys. Cond. Matter, vol 6, pp 6965,

(1994) 2.546

9 S M Osman* and R N Singh, Concentration fluctuations at the liquid-vapour

coexistence in Ne-Ar mixture, J. Non-Cryst. Solids., vol 156-158, pp 459,

(1993) 1.537

8 S. M. Osman*, Calculation of the surface properties for liquid-vapour interface:

Illustrating the thermodynamic stability of the spherical microstructure, ICTP, Trieste,

Italy, ICTP-IC / 94 / 150,

(1993)

7 S. M. Osman*, Concentration Fluctuations at The Liquid-Vapour Coexistence in Ne-Ar,

ICTP, Trieste, Italy, ICTP-IC / 92 / 162- (5353/92),

(1992)

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6 S M Osman and M Silbert*, Simplified RPA Bhatia-Young calculations of the phase

diagram , for a binary mixtures 1: Equal size molecules,

Phys. Chem. Liquids., vol 23, pp 239,

(1991) 0.603

5 S.M Osman* and M Silbert, Density profile and surface tension of a model binary alloy,

J. Non-Cryst. Solids, vol 117-118, PP 646,

(1990) 1.537

4 S. M. Osman*, Theoretical study of fluid-fluid interface,

Thesis :Available from UMI in association with The British Library. Requires, opengrey.

eu. ethos.bl.uk. signed TDF,

(1988)

3 S M Osman and W H Young*, NFE Theory of expanded liquid sodium, Z. fur

Physikalische Chemie, Neue Folge, Bd. vol 156 , PP 213 & R. Oldanbourg Verlag

Munchen 0044-3336/88,

(1988) 1.36

2 S M Osman and M Silbert*, Simplified Bhatia-Young model of the liquid-vapour

surface, Phys. Chem. Liquids, vol 17, pp 257,

(1988) 0.603

1 S M Osman and W H Young*, Model for sub-critical liquid-vapour coexistence in

sodium, Phys. Chem. Liquids, vol 17, pp181,

(1987) 0.603

A3. Journals Impact Factor [ IF ] according to the Scopus (2014) issue

I published in 15 top level international journals.

# Journal name

( Publisher ) Short cut name IF

Number of

papers

published in

each journal

1 Physical Review B

( American Physics Society APS ) Phys. Rev. B 3.691 1

2 Journal of Alloys and Compounds

( Elsevier ) J. Alloys & Comp. 2.999 1

3 Journal of Physics Condensed Matter

( Institute of Physics IOP ) J. Phys. Cond. Matter 2.546 3

4 Physical Review E

( American Physics Society APS Phys. Rev. E 2.255 4

5 Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics

( Elsevier )

J. Non-Newt. Fluid

Mechanics, 2.037 1

6 Molecular Physics, ( Taylor and Francis ) Molec. Phys. 1.819 4

7 Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids

( Elcevier ) J. Non-Cryst. Solids 1.537 8

8 Physica A : Statistical Mechanics and its

Applications ( Elcevier ) Physica A 1.732 2

9

Zeitschrift fur Physikalische Chemie-

Physical Chemistry .( R Oldenbourg Verlag ,

Munchen )

Z. fur Physikalische

Chemie, Neue Folge, Bd. 1.36 1

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10 Physica B : Condensed matter

( Elcevier ) Physica B 1.319 1

11 International Journal of Modern Physics B

( World Science Publishing ) Int. J. Mod. Phys. B 0.941 3

12 Physics and chemistry of liquids ( Taylor and

Francis ) Phys. Chem. Liquids 0.603 6

13 International Centre for theoretical For

Theoretical Physics ICTP Reports ICTP, Trieste, Italy 0.5 3

14 AIP: American Institute of Physics

AIP: Conference

Proceedings 978-0-

7354-0930-9/S30.00

0.350

1

15 Journal of Faculty of Science,

( United Arab Emarat University) J. Fac. Sci. UAE. Univ.

Local

GCC

Journal

1

Total 40

A4. Citation Index and h-Index

According to Google Scholar search, shows 40 articles that have been cited from 1987 till June 2015.

The overall citation # 175 and the corresponding h-index # 7

Important Remarks

1- the Google record is more wide as it collects all articles published after 1950 while Scopus

record started from 1990 onwards. In my case Google Scholar citation record shows 39 articles

while Scopus shows 29 because Scopus does not show papers published from 1980 – 1990.

2- Normally, the theoretical research papers do not have high citations due to two main reasons

i- The extremely low number of theoreticians comparable to the huge number of

experimentalists through over the world

ii- The applicability of the theoretical research in industry is quite limited which reflects

negatively on the number of readers to each article.

(d) Google Scholar Url

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Appendix B

B1. List of Conference and workshops During the past three decades, I participated at 29 international conferences, workshops and

summer schools. My participation varies between submitting poster , giving talks, and presenting

paper in the proceeding and sharing in round table discussion.

# Dates Conference Name Venue Title Nature of

Participation

29 20 – 30 July

2015 Compact Moun Solenoid

(CMS) Collaboration

workshop.

European Organization for

Nuclear Research (CERN)

(CERN) , Geneva,

Switzerland.

URL : http://cms.cern.ch

Thermodynamic

Properties of

Hydrogen and Helium

at extremely low

temperatures

Oral

Presentation

28 10 -11

December

2014

ASREN, Arab States

Research and Education

Network

Grand Hayatt Hotel,

Muscat, Sultanate of

Oman

Discussing the

construction of

research network for

Arab States research

centers

Round table

discussion

27 15 – 16 June

2014 Disposal of Large Volume of

Water Challenge and

Opportunities

SQU, Water Research

Centre.

Under Ground Water

in North of Oman.

Round table

discussion

26. 11- 16 July

2010 ”LAM-14”, the 14th

International Conference on

Liquid and Amorphous

metals

University of Roma, ”

La Sapienza” Roma,

Italy.

Structural theory of

critical phenomena.

Poster and

proceeding published in

the European

Physical

Journal EPJ-

Web

25. 18 – 27 Oct.

2006 School in Nonlinear

Differential Equations

ICTP, Trieste, Italy Partial differential

equations, theory and

numerical solutions

Oral

Presentation

24. 11 – 16 Jul.

2004 LAM-12 Universite de Metz,

Metz, France

Expanded liquid

metals, theory and

experiment

Lecture

23. 19 – 21

March 2002 GCC Universities Surface

Physics Workshop

SQU, Muscat, Sultanate

of Oman

DFT of liquid droplets Lecture

22. 9 - 14

Sept. 2001

LAM-11 conference Keio University,

Yokohama, Japan

1- Concentration

fluctuations of

monomer – dimmer

mixture 2- Surface

tension of hard core

Yukawa fluid

2 Posters &

Abstracts

Conferences, Workshops and Summer Schools

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21. April 2000 The second UAE University

Symposium on Material

Science

UAE university, Al-

Ain, United Arab

Emirates

Model equation of

state of liquid Argon

based on modified

double Yukawa

potential

Lecture

20. 4 - 10 Jul.

1999 The 4th EPS Liquid Matter

Conference, that was

supported by the European

Physics Society, Liquid State

subgroup

Granada, Spain The structural

properties of expanded

liquid metals

Poster &

Abstract,

Round table

discussion

19. 30 Aug.– 4

Sept. 1998 LAM-10 Dortmund University,

Dortmund, Germany

1- Ordering and

Structural Properties

of AL - Ge Alloys

2- Compressibility

factor for Double

Yukawa Fluid

3-Equation of State of

Liquid Mixtures with

Non-Additive

Potentials

3 Posters

18. 31 Mar.– 2

Apr. 1997 The International Symposium

on Pre-treatment of Feed

water for Reverse Osmosis

Desalination

KISR, Kuwait Osmotic pressure in

liquid mixtures

Lecture,

Round table

discussion

17. 3 - 25 Jul.

1996 Research Workshop on

Condensed Matter Physics

ICTP, Trieste, Italy Pseudopotential theory

of liquid transition

metals

Poster &

Abstract

16. 6 - 14 Aug.

1995 International workshop Istituto Per La Ricerca

Di Base, Monteroduni

(IS), Molise, Italy

Applications of DFT

theory to liquid -

vapour interface

Lecture

15. 27 Jul. - 8

Sept. 1995 Research Workshop on

Condensed Matter Physics

ICTP, Trieste, Italy Density Functional

Theory [DFT] and

applications

Lecture,

Round table

discussion

14. 18 - 20 Apr.

1995 Workshop on Material

Science and Applications

Physics department,

faculty of science,

University of Qatar

Doha city, Qatar

Structural and

thermodynamic

properties of 3-d

transition metals

Lecture

13. 25 May. -

25 Jun.

1993

Workshop on Computational

Physics and Methods in

Material Science and

Engineering

ICTP, Trieste, Italy ICTP internal report #

IC / 94 / 150

Report,

Round table

discussion

12. 4 - 29 Jan.

1993 6th International Workshop on

Computational Condensed

Matter Physics and 2nd

Workshop on Functional

Analytic Methods

ICTP, Trieste, Italy ICTP internal report

number IC / 94 / 149

Report

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11. 31 Aug. - 4

Sept. 1992 LAM-8 Vienna University,

Vienna, Austria.

Also accepted as ICTP

internal report number Ic

/ 92 / 162, (1992)

Scc(o) of Ne-Ar

liquid mixture at the

liquid-vapour

coexistence

Proceeding

10. 15 Jul. - 30

Aug. 1992, Research Workshop on

Condensed Matter Physics

ICTP, Trieste, Italy

( ICTP internal report

Number IC / 92 / 162

Pseudopotential theory

of liquid metals

Poster

9. 18 - 29 Jan.

1992 Workshop on Material

Science and Development

SQU, Sultan Qaboos

University, Muscat,

Sultanate of Oman

Density functional

studies of the stability

of small liquid ,

droplets

Lecture &

proceeding

8. 7 - 11 Jul.

1990 The 1st EPS Liquid Matter

Conference that was

supported by the European

Physics Society, liquid state

subgroup

Echole Normale

Superiore de Lyon,

Lyon, France

Phase diagram of

liquid mixtures of non-

additive potentials

Poster &

Abstract

7. Jul. - Sept.

1989 Condensed Matter Workshop ICTP, Trieste, Italy Theory of freezing of

liquid metals

Poster &

Abstract

6. Sept. 1989 LAM-7 Kyoto, Tokyo, Japan. Surface tension of

binary liquid mixture

of non-additive

potentials

Proceeding

5. Apr. 1987 Royal Society Conference,

Faraday Division

Oxford University,

Oxford, England

Surface tension of

liquid Argon

Poster &

Abstract

4. Dec. 1986 International Conference on

Liquid and Solid State

Physics

Bristol University,

Bristol, England.

Surface phase

transition

Poster &

Abstract

3. Aug. 1986 LAM-6 Garmish Partenkirchen,

Munich, West Germany

Phase diagram of

expanded liquid

sodium

Proceeding

2. Dec. 1985 International Conference in

Solid State Physics

Southampton

University,

Southampton, England

Expanded liquid

sodium

Poster &

Abstract

1. 15 - 31 Aug. 1985

NATO Advanced Study

Institute summer school in

liquid and amorphous metals

Passo de Mendola, Italy Phase diagram of

liquid mixtures

Poster &

Abstract ,

Round table

discussion

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B2. Conference proceedings

18- Prewetting Transition in Ga-Pb liquid Alloy.

S. M. Osman: under preparation to be presented at LAM-16, will be held in

Kolon University, Germany, (from 20 – 22 May 2016).

17- Structural theory of critical point,

S. M. Osman: Presented at ”LAM-14”, the 14th

International Conference on Liquid and

Amorphous metals, University of Roma, ” La Sapienza” Roma, Italy, (11- 16 July 2010).

16- Theory of non-additive liquid alloys,

S. M. Osman: Presented at LAM-12 held at Universite de Metz, Metz, France,

(18 – 27 Oct. 2006).

15- Solution of non-linear differential equations,

S. M. Osman: Presented at School in Nonlinear Differential Equations, ICTP, Trieste, Italy,

(11 – 16 Jul. 2004).

14- Density functional theory of fluid-fluid interface,

S. M. Osman: Presented at GCC Universities Surface Physics Workshop held at SQU,

Muscat, Sultanate of Oman, (19 – 21 March 2002).

13 – Surface tension of hard core Yukawa fluid,

I. Ali, B. Grodidier, S. M. Osman and R. N. Singh: Presented at LAM-11 , held in Keio

University, Yokohama, Japan, ( 9 - 14 September 2001 )

12 - Concentration fluctuations of monomer – dimmer mixture,

N. Solaiman, S. M. Osman, I. Ali and R. N. Singh: Presented at LAM-11 , held in Keio

University, Yokohama, Japan, ( 9 - 14 September 2001 ).

11 - Model Equation of state of liquid Argon Based on Modified double Yukawa Potential,

S. M. Osman and I. Ali: Presented at LAM-11 , held in Keio University, Yokohama, Japan,

( 9 - 14 September 2001 ).

10 - Equation of State of Liquid Mixtures ,

I. Ali, S. M. Osman and R. N. Singh: Presented at LAM-10 , held in Dortmund University,

Dortmund, Germany, ( 30 August - 4 September 1998 ).

9 - Compressibility factor for Double Yukawa interaction Fluid,

I. Ali, S. M. Osman and R. N. Singh: Presented at LAM-10 , held in Dortmund University,

Dortmund, Germany, ( 30 August - 4 September 1998 ).

8 - Ordering and Structural Properties of AL - Ge Alloys

I. Ali, S. M. Osman and R. N. Singh: Presented at LAM-10 , held in Dortmund University,

Dortmund, Germany, ( 30 August - 4 September 1998 ).

7 - Applications of DFT theory to liquid - vapour interface ,

S M Osman: Presented at the international workshop in theoretical physics held in the Istituto

per La Ricerca Di Base , Monteroduni (IS), Molise, Italy, ( 6 - 14 August 1995 ).

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6 - Structural and thermodynamic properties of 3-d transition metals:

S M Osman and S. M. M. Rahman: Presented at the Workshop on Material Science and

Applications, held in University of Qatar ( physics department , faculty of science ), Doha city,

Qatar, ( 18-20 Apr. 1995 ).

5 - Scc(o) of Ne-Ar liquid mixture,

S M Osman and R N Singh: Presented at LAM-8 , held in Vienna, Austria ( September 1992 ).

Also accepted as ICTP internal report number Ic / 92 / 162, (1992) ..

4 - Density functional studies of the stability of droplets and air bobbles,

S M Osman: Presented at the Workshop on Material Science and Development, held in

Muscat, Sultanate of Oman, ( January 1992 ).

3- Phase diagram of liquid mixtures,

S M Osman: Presented at: The 1st EPS Liquid Matter Conference,

held in Lyon France .From 7 to 11 July (1990) .

( supported by the European Physics Society , Liquid State Group )

2 - Surface tension of binary liquid mixture,

S M Osman and M Silbert: Presented at LAM-7, held in Tokyo, Japan, ( September 1989 ).

1 - Phase diagram of expanded liquid metals,

S M Osman and W H Young: Presented at LAM-6 , held in Garmisch Partenkirchen, West

Germany, ( August 1986 ).

Summary Table

Contribution : Number Abstract + poster 20

Proceeding paper 18

Lecture presentation 10

Round table discussion 6