Jerry P. Draayer

Lois (Van Wyk of Sully, IA) & I, have three daughters:

Leah (35 - attorney lives in Jackson, MS), married to Patrick McDowell and they have 2 children, James Patrick age 9 and Claire Elizabeth age 6.

Sarah (33 - elementary ed lives in Nashville, TN), married to Brent Milligan and they have 2 children, Benjamin Miles age 5 and Ana Katherine age 3.

Martha (31 - MBA lives in Oxford, MS), married to Kyle Duncan who just finished his LLM degree in Law at Columbia and will be on the faculty at Ole Miss starting next fall. They are expecting a baby boy in July ...

We have 4 & soon to be 5 grandchildren. All healthy and normal.

Both of my parents, Bert and Hattie Draayer of Hollandale, MN are deceased; I have an older Brother (Donald Roger who lives in Minnetonka, MN), and older Sister (Dorothy Louise Kleinbeck who lives in Bloomington, MN) and a younger Sister (Ruth Suzanne Albright who lives in Grand Blanc, MN)

We have two homes, one in Baton Rouge, LA and another in McLean, VA and my schedule puts me in Washington, DC four days per week and at LSU in Baton Rouge either Friday or Monday plus the weekend. When I am home I like to ride my Harley Davidson - FXR / 1280 cc ... something that does what you ask it to do, unlike most people that I deal with on a daily basis!

(My Career Bio)

President of the Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA) and Professor of Physics and Computer Science at Louisiana State U (LSU), is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

He graduated from Iowa State U with a BS in 1964 and PhD (nuclear theory) in 1968. Upon graduation he was named an NSF postdoctoral fellow at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark, which was followed by a research appointments at the University of Michigan and the University of Rochester.

He joined LSU faculty in 1974, serving as Chair of the Department of Physics from 1985-94, Vice-President of the Faculty Senate from 1996-98, and Associate Commissioner of Higher Education for the State of Louisiana from 1995-98.

He has held guest professorships at the U of Tubingen, Germany and the U of Strasbourg, France. In 1998 he was named Corresponding Member of the Mexican National Academe of Sciences. Over his career he has hosted 16 sabbatical visitors (14 international, 2 domestic) as well as 9 postdoctoral associates (7 international, 2 domestic).

He has mentored 15 PhD students (currently 4), 12 from overseas including 2 from Armenia, 4 from Bulgaria, 3 from Germany, and 1 each from Indonesia, Korea, Pakistan, Romania, and the Ukraine.

He has been principal investigator on several NSF and DOE proposals totaling well over $20 million in awarded grants. He has co-authored 4 books, published over 175 refereed journal articles and is a regular invited lecturer at national and international scientific conferences that have yielded an additional 100 publications.

The focus of his research work is low-energy nuclear structure with special emphasis on the shell-model and related investigations; group theory and algebraic methods; and collective motion and nonlinear dynamics. Recent work in these areas include, respectively, the articulation of “twist” and “scissors+twist” modes as collective M1 transitions in strongly deformed nuclei; an algebraic solutions of the generalized pairing problem, inclusive of non-degenerate single-particle energies; and the evolution of deformation in nuclei, namely, solutions on the surface of a liquid drop.

Jerry P. Draayer

714 Woodgate Blvd

Baton Rouge, LA 70808