Harvey Rarback

Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory
Mail Stop 69
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Menlo Park, CA 94025
(650)926-3963
rarback@slac.stanford.edu

Education

*Ph.D.*	Physics	SUNY at Stony Brook	Stony Brook, NY
Thesis: The Development of a Scanning Soft X-Ray Microscope
*M.A.*	Physics	SUNY at Stony Brook	Stony Brook, NY
*B.A.*	Physics	Haverford College	Haverford, PA

Experience

Senior Application Developer, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, SLAC, Menlo Park, CA

Developed Insertion Device control software for 7 beamlines.
Developed Machine Protection software for SPEAR3 upgrade.
Participated in the team that converted the SPEAR3 control system to EPICS.

Beamline Scientist - Software Specialist, Consortium for Advanced Radiation Sources, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Managed over forty CARS computers including Unix workstations, an OpenVMS cluster, Macintosh computers and a Windows NT domain.
Assisted in the development of CARS controls and data acquisition software, including demonstrations of IDL widgets controlling EPICS hardware in a scanning light microscope (SLIM) and a multichannel analyzer.
Wrote the Equipment Protection System code for Sector 13 at the Advanced Photon Source, including the code for the Programmable Logic Controller and the EPICS user interface.
Organizing Committee member for New Opportunities for Better User Group Software (NOBUGS).
Wrote a control and data acquisition program for 13 element Ge detector.
Did the conceptual design for the Sector 13 beamlines using AutoCAD.

Associate Scientist, Medical Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY

Wrote a turnkey program using IDL widgets to control a 32 detector Whole Body Counter and automatically compute body composition.
Managed the instrumentation of the Multiple Energy Computed Tomography project at the National Synchrotron Light Source including writing control software for the feedback loops of the beamline high energy monochromator.

Associate Scientist, Research and Development Group, National Synchrotron Light Source, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY

Spokesperson for undulator beamlines X-1A and X-17T.
Managed the soft x-ray microscopy program including realtime software development using a novel intelligent CAMAC driver.
Chairman of the Users' Computing Committee.
Member of the Beamline Review Committee.
Co-organized International Symposium on X-Ray Microscopy II.

Postdoctoral Physicist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA

Instrumented and automated an x-ray scatterometer for in situ testing of the AXAF (Chandra X-ray Observatory) satellite x-ray mirrors.

Graduate and Teaching Assistant, SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY

Wrote the controls software for the U15 beamline at the National Synchrotron Light Source, including the toroidal grating monochromator and scanning transmission x-ray microscope.
Configured the first Ethernet at the National Synchrotron Light Source.

Associate Professor Of Physics, Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, FL

Equipped instructional laboratories with APL (A Programming Language) terminals to run physics experiments and train students in programming.
Integrated astronomy and physics Computer Aided Instruction materials into the curriculum.

Computer Skills

Languages: IDL, Fortran, C, C++, TeX, DCL, HTML
Operating Systems: OpenVMS, Unix (many flavors), MacOS, Windows NT
Hardware and network troubleshooting

Societies

Editorial Board of the Reviews of Scientific Instruments, 1986-1989
Member, American Physical Society
Member, Optical Society of America

Publications

X-ray Microscopy and Microchemical Analysis with the Four Degree Beam Line, P. Pianetta, J. Kirz, H. Rarback et al., Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory Report 79/01 (1979).

Plans for a Scanning Transmission X-ray Microscope, J. Kirz, R. Burg and H. Rarback, in Ultrasoft X-Ray Microscopy, ed. D. Parsons, Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci, 342, 135 (1980).

Scanning Soft X-ray Microscopy: First Tests with Synchrotron Radiation, H. Rarback, J. Kenney, J. Kirz and X. Xie, in Scanned Image Microscopy, ed. E. Ash (Academic Press, London) (1980).

The Optical Performance of Apodized Zone Plates, H. Rarback and J. Kirz, in High Resolution Soft X-Ray Optics, ed. E. Spiller, SPIE Proc. 316 (1981).

Soft X-ray Microscopy at the National Synchrotron Light Source, J. Kenney, J. Kirz, H. Rarback et al., Nucl. Instrum. and Methods, 222, 37 (1984).

Scanning Soft X-ray Microscopy with a Fresnel Zoneplate at the National Synchrotron Light Source, J. Kenney, J. Kirz, H. Rarback et al., in Science with Soft X-Rays, eds. F. Himpsel and R. Klaffky, SPIE Proc. 447, 158 (1984).

X-ray Holographic Microscopy Experiments at the Brookhaven Synchrotron Light Source, M. Howells, M. Iarocci, J. Kenney, et al., in Science with Soft X-Rays, eds. F. Himpsel and R. Klaffky, SPIE Proc. 447, 193 (1984).

Electron Beam Fabrication and Characterization of Fresnel Zone Plates for Soft X-ray Microscopy, D. Kern, P. Coane, R. Acosta et al., in Science with Soft X-Rays, eds. F. Himpsel and R. Klaffky, SPIE Proc. 447, 204 (1984).

Recent Results from the Stony Brook Scanning Microscope, H. Rarback, J. Kenney, J. Kirz et al., in X-Ray Microscopy, eds. G. Schmahl and D. Rudolph (Springer, Berlin) 203 (1984).

Soft X-ray Microscopes, J. Kirz and H. Rarback, Rev. Sci. Instrum., 56, 1, (1985).

Absorption Microanalysis with a Soft X-ray Microscope: Mapping the Distribution of Calcium in Bone, J. Kenney, C. Jacobsen, H. Rarback et. al., J. Microscopy, 138(3), 321 (1985).

Use of Heat Pipes for Synchrotron Radiation Cooling, P. Mortazavi, M. Woodle, H. Rarback et al., BNL Report 36903 (1985).

Applications of Holography to X-ray Imaging, M. Howells, M. Iarocci, J. Kenney et al., SPIE Proc. 523, 347 (1985).

Predictions on the Performance of the Soft X-Ray Undulator, C. Jacobsen and H. Rarback in Proc. of the International Conference on Insertion Devices for Synchrotron Sources, eds. R. Tatchyn and I. Lindau, SPIE Proc. 582, 201 (1985).

An Undulator Source Beamline for Soft X-ray Imaging, H. Rarback, S. Krinsky, P. Mortazavi et al., Nucl. Instrum. and Methods, A246, 159 (1986).

Scanning Soft X-ray Microscopy at the National Synchrotron Light Source, C. Jacobsen, J. Kirz, I. McNulty et al., in Short Wavelength Coherent Radiation: Generation and Applications, Am. Inst. Phys. Conf. Proc. 147, 57, (1986).

An Undulator Based Scanning Microscope at the National Synchrotron Light Source, H. Rarback, D. Shu, H. Ade et al., in X-Ray Imaging II, SPIE Proc. 691, 107 (1986).

High Flux Photon Beam Monitor, P. Mortazavi, M. Woodle, H. Rarback et al., Nucl. Instrum. and Methods, A246, 389 (1986).

Applications of Heat Pipes for High Thermal Load Beam Lines, D. Shu, P. Mortazavi, H. Rarback and M. Howells, Nucl. Instrum. and Methods, A246, 417 (1986).

Soft X-ray Scanning Microscopy: Its Practical Use for Elemental Mapping at the NSLS U-15 Beam Line, C. Jacobsen, J. Kenney, J. Kirz et al., Photochemistry and Photobiology 44(3), 421 (1986).

Microanalysis with a Soft X-ray Scanning Microprobe, C. Jacobsen, J. Kenney, J. Kirz et al., in Recent Advances in Electron and Light Optical Imaging in Biology and Medicine, ed. A. Somlyo, Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci., 483, 463 (1986).

Quantitative Imaging and Microanalysis with a Scanning Soft X-ray Microscope, C. Jacobsen, J. Kenney, J. Kirz, R. Rosser, F. Cinotti, H. Rarback and J. Pine, Phys. Med. Biol., 32(4), 431 (1987).

The X-17T Closed Orbit Feedback System, R. Nawrocky, L. Ma, H. Rarback et al., BNL Report 39595 (1987).

Elemental Analysis using Differential Absorption Techniques with Soft X-rays, H. Rarback, J. Kenney, C. Jacobsen et al., Biol. Trace Element Research, (1987).

In-situ Shearing Interferometry of National Synchrotron Light Source Mirrors, S. Qian, H. Rarback, D. Shu and P. Takacs, in Proc. Conference on Metrology: Figure and Finish, SPIE Proc. 749, 30 (1987).

Studies of Calcium Distribution in Bone by Scanning X-ray Microscopy, F. Cinotti, M. Voisin, C. Jacobsen et al., in X-ray Microscopy, eds. P. Cheng and G. Jan (Springer, Berlin), 311 (1987).

High Resolution Fresnel Zone Plates for Soft X-rays, Y. Vladimirsky, D. Kern, T. Chang et al., J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B, 6(1), 311 (1988).

The Performance of the NSLS Mini-undulator, H. Rarback, C. Jacobsen, J. Kirz and I. McNulty, Nucl. Instrum. and Methods, A266, 96 (1988).

Automatic Beam Steering in the NSLS Storage Rings Using Closed Orbit Feedback, R. Nawrocky, J. Bittner, L. Ma et al., Nucl. Instrum. and Methods, A266, 164 (1988).

Two-dimensional Laser Interferometric Encoder for the Soft X-ray Scanning Microscope at the NSLS, D. Shu, D. Siddons and H. Rarback, Nucl. Instrum. and Methods, A266, 313 (1988).

Zone Plate Lenses for X-ray Microscopy, Y. Vladimirsky, D. Kern, T. Chang, et al., Nucl. Instrum. and Methods, A266, 324 (1988).

A Water-cooled Mirror System for Synchrotron Radiation, R. DiGennaro, B. Gee, J. Guigli, H. Hogrefe, M. Howells and H. Rarback, Nucl. Instrum. and Methods, A266, 498 (1988).

A Scanning X-ray Microscope with 75 nm Resolution, H. Rarback, D. Shu, S. Feng, et al., Rev. Sci. Instrum. 59, 52 (1988).

The NSLS Mini-undulator, H. Rarback, C. Jacobsen, J. Kirz and I. McNulty, in X-Ray Microscopy II, eds. D. Sayre, M. Howells, J. Kirz and H. Rarback (Springer, Berlin) 10 (1988).

The Stony Brook/NSLS Scanning Microscope, H. Rarback, D. Shu, S. Feng et al., in X-Ray Microscopy II, eds. D. Sayre, M. Howells, J. Kirz and H. Rarback (Springer, Berlin) 194 (1988).

Possibilities for a Scanning Photoemission Microscope at the NSLS, H. Ade, J. Kirz, H. Rarback et al., in X-Ray Microscopy II, eds. D. Sayre, M. Howells, J. Kirz and H. Rarback (Springer, Berlin) 280 (1988).

The Biology of the Cell and the High Resolution X-ray Microscope, S. Rothman, N. Iskander, K. McQuaid et al. in X-Ray Microscopy II, eds. D. Sayre, M. Howells, J. Kirz and H. Rarback (Springer, Berlin) 372 (1988).

Exploration of the Demyelinated Axon of the Medullated Shrimp Giant Nerve by Soft X-ray Scanning Microscopy, S. Fan, H. Rarback, H. Ade and J. Kirz in X-Ray Microscopy II, eds. D. Sayre, M. Howells, J. Kirz and H. Rarback (Springer, Berlin) 399 (1988).

Soft X-ray Imaging with the 35 Period Undulator at the NSLS, C. Buckley, H. Rarback, D. Alforque et al., Rev. Sci. Instrum. 60 2444 (1989).

Advances in High Resolution X-ray Microscopy: Imaging the Interior of a Whole and Unmodified Biological Object, S. Rothman, N. Iskander, D. Attwood, et al., Biochim. et Biophy. Acta 991 484 (1989).

X-ray Microscopy for the Life and Physical Sciences, D. Attwood, Y. Vladimirisky, D. Kern et al., Proceedings of the 1988 Optical Society Conference on Coherent Sources of Short Wavelength Radiation (1989).

Scanning X-ray Microscopy, C. Buckley and H. Rarback, in Modern Microscopies, eds. A. Michette and P. Duke (Plenum NY) 129 (1989).

Soft X-ray Microscope using Fourier Transform Holography, I. McNulty, J. Kirz, C. Jacobsen et al., Nucl. Instrum. and Methods, A291, 74 (1990).

X-ray Microscopy with the NSLS Soft X-ray Undulator, J. Kirz, H. Ade, E. Anderson et al., Phys. Scripta, T31, 12 (1990).

Soft x-ray Microscopy in Biology and Medicine: Status and Prospects, S. Rothman, D.Attwood, E. Anderson et al., Phys. Scripta, T31, 18 (1990).

The Scanning Transmission Microscope at the NSLS, H. Rarback, C. Buckley, K. Goncz et al., Nucl. Instrum. and Methods, A291, 54 (1990).

Coherent Radiation for X-ray Imaging--the Soft X-Ray Undulator and the X1A Beamline at the NSLS, H. Rarback, C. Buckley, H. Ade et al., J. Xray Sci. Tech., 2, 274 (1990).

Soft X-ray Absorption Imaging of Whole Wet Tissue Culture Cells, J. Gilbert, J. Pine, J. Kirz et al., in X-Ray Microscopy III, eds. A. Michette, G. Morrison, C. Buckley (Springer, Berlin) 388 (1992).

Coherent Radiation for X-ray Imaging: the Performance of the X1A Beamline at the NSLS, S. Lindaas, H. Rarback, C. Buckley et al. in X-Ray Microscopy III, eds. A. Michette, G. Morrison, C. Buckley (Springer, Berlin) 34 (1992).

Multiple Energy Computed Tomography with Monochromatic X Rays from the NSLS, F. Dilmanian, R. Garrett, W. Thomlinson et al., IEEE Conf. Record of the Medical Imaging Conference, 3, 1831 (1992).

A Novel Monochromator Design for Multiple Energy Computed Tomography at the NSLS, F. Dilmanian, R. Garrett, H. Rarback et al., Proceedings of the 1991 International Conference on Synchrotron Radiation Instrumentation, Chester, UK (1992).

Monochromatic Computed Tomography of the Human Brain using Synchrotron X Rays, E. Nachaliel, F. Dilmanian, R. Garrett et al., Nucl. Instrum. and Methods, A319, 3305 (1992).

Small Animal Brain Imaging with a Monochromatic CT Scanner at the National Synchrotron Light Source, F. Dilmanian, H. Rarback, E. Nachaliel et al., Proc of the Twelfth International Conference on Applications of Accelerators in Research and Industry (1992).

A multielement Ge detector with complete spectrum readout for x-ray fluorexcence microprobe and microspectroscopy, M. Rivers, S. Sutton, H. Rarback, Rev Sci. Instrum., 66(2), 1455 (1994).

Calibration of the Delayed-Gamma Neutron Activation Facility, R. Ma, X. Zhao, H. Rarback, et al., Med. Phys., 23(2), 273 (1996).

Earth, soil and environmental science research facility at sector 13 of the Advanced Photon Source: sector layout and optical design, P. Eng, Y. Jaski, N. Lazarz, et al., Rev. Sci. Instrum., 67(9) (1996).

Earth, soil and environmental science research facility at sector 13 of the Advanced Photon Source: scientific program and experimental instrumentation, S. Sutton, P. Eng, Y. Jaski, et. al., Rev. Sci. Instrum., 67(9) (1996).

SPEAR3 Commissioning, J. Safranek, S. Allison, P. Bellomo, et. al., European Particle Accelerator Conference (2004).

SPEAR3 Commissioning, J. Safranek, S. Allison, P. Bellomo, et. al., Asian Particle Accelerator Conference (2004).