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PERSONAL DATA

           

Full Name:                                    Eqab Mahmoud Mohammad Rabei

Date and Place of Birth:              May 7, 1963, Rimoun

Nationality:                                   Jordanian

 Permanent Address:                   Department of Physics, Al al Bayt University,

                                                       P.O.Box 130040, Mafraq-Jordan .

                                                       FAX:(962-6) 6297000/ext 2177

                                                       eqabrabei@gmail.com

 

Home Address:                            P.O.Box.   4

                                                      Rimoon, Jarash—Jordan

                                                      Tel: (962) 2-6338250

                                                      Mobile: (962) 7 77780681

Marital Status:                              Married, Four daughters and two sons          

Profession:                                    Professor of Mathematical Physics

                                                       

 

Academic Qualification

 

1.         Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D in Physics), Middle East Technical University             (METU),    

          Mathematical Physics 1992.

            Thesis Title: "AN INVESTIGATION OF THE HAMILTONIAN             FORMULATION OF SINGULAR SYSTEMS".

 

2.         Master of Science (M.SC. in Physics), Middle East Technical University             (METU),  

          Mathematical Physics 1988.

            Thesis Title: "A REVIEW OF CONSTRAINED SYSTEMS".

 

3.                  Bachelor of Science (B.Sc. in Physics), Yarmouk University, Irbid, 1986.

 

Research  Interest

 

1.       The Hamiltonian and the Lagrangian approaches for constrained systems.

2.         Hamilton-Jacobi treatment and quantization of constrained systems.

3.         Mathematical Physics and High Energy Physics.

4.         Quantum Geometric Phases and Bargmann Invariants.

5 .        Fractional Calculus and its Physical Applications.

 

 

Publications in Reviewed Journals

 

1. Eqab M. Rabei and Bashar S. Ababneh, Hamilton-Jacobi Fractional Mechanics,           Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, 344, 799-805, (2008).

2. Sami I. Muslih, Dumitru Baleanu and Eqab M. Rabei, Solutions of Massless         Conformal Scalar Field in an n-Dimensional Einstein Space, Acta Physica Polonica Vol. 39,No. 4,(2008).

3.   Sami I. Musleh, Dumitru Baleanu, and Eqab M. Rabei, On Fractional     Schrodinger Equation in Alpha-Dimentional Fractional Space, has been   accepted for publication in Nonlinear Analysis Series B: Real World Applications, (2008) .

4.  Sami I. Musleh, Dumitru Baleanu, and Eqab M. Rabei, Hamiltonian   Formulation for Continuous Systems with Second Order Derivatives,  International Journal of Theoretical Physics,Vol. 47, 2195-2202, (2008).

5.  Eqab M. Rabei, Ibtesam Almayteh, Sami I. Muslih and Dumitru Baleanu,        Hamilton-Jacobi Formulation of Systems within Caputo's Fractional Derivative,     Physica Scripta, Vol. 77, 1-6,  (2008).

6. Sami I. Musleh, Dumitru Baleanu, and Eqab M. Rabei, Fractional Hamilton's         Equations of Motion in Fractional time, Central European Journal of Physics,  Vol. 5, No. 4, 549-557,(2007).

7.  Sami I. Musleh, Dumitru Baleanu, and Eqab M. Rabei, Gravitational    Potential in Fractional Space, Central European Journal of Physics, Vol. 5,   No. 3, 285-292, (2007).

8. Eqab M. Rabei, Derar M. Tarawneh, Sami I. Musleh, and Dumitru Baleanu,        Heisenberg’s Equations of Motion with Fractional Derivatives, Journal Vibration  

And Control, vo1.13, pp. 1239-1247, (2007).

9.   Dumitru Baleanu, Sami I. Musleh and Eqab M. Rabei, On Fractional Euler-  Lagrange and Hamilton Equations and The Fractional Generalized of Total Time Derivative, Nonlinear Dynamics, 53, 67-74, (2007).

10.  Eqab M. Rabei and Moaz M. Tarawneh, The Quantization of Higher Order Regular

Lagrangians as First Order Singular Lagrangians, International Journal of Theoretical  

 Physics, Vol. 46, no. 4 April, 884-897, (2007).

11.  Eqab M. Rabei, Khaled I. Nawafleh, Raed S Hijjawi, Sami I Musleh and Dumitru Baleanu, The Hamilton Formalism With Fractional Derivatives,  Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, Vol 327, Issue  2, 891-897, (2007).

12.  Sami I. Muslih, Eqab M. Rabei, and Dumitru Baleanu, Proceedings of the 2nd IFAC

Workshop on Fractional Differentiation and its Applications, Porto, Portugal, July 19-

21, 148-151, (2006).

13. Eqab M. Rabei, Abdul-Wali Ajlouni, and Humam B. Ghassib, quantization with Fractional Calculus,Proceedings of the 9th WSEAS International Conference on Applied Mathematics, Istanbul, Turkey, May 27-29, pp256-262,(2006).

14. Eqab M. Rabei, Abdul-Wali Ajlouni, and Humam B. Ghassib, Quantization of Non-conservative Systems Using Fractional Calculus, WSEAS Transaction on Mathematics, Issue 7, Vol. 5,853,(2006).

15.  Sami I. Musleh, D. Baleanu and   Eqab M. Rabei,  Hamiltonian  Formulation      of  Classical Fields with Riemann-Liouville Fractional Derivatives, Physica   Scripta, Vol. 73, 436-483,(2006).

16.  Eqab M. Rabei, Abdul-Wali Ajlouni, and Humam B. Gassib, Quantization of Brownian Motion, International journal of  Theoretical physics, Vol.45, 1619-1629, (2006).

17.  Sami I. Musleh, Eqab M. Rabei, Quantization of Mechanical Systems with   Fractional Derivatives, Modern Physics  Letters A, Vol. 20,No.27,2095, (2005).

18. Sami I. Musleh, Hosam A. El-Zalan and Eqab M. Rabei, Hamilton-Jacobi                Quantization of Singular Lagrangians with Linear Velocities, International  Journal of Theoretical Physics, Vol. 44, No 8, 1271,.(2005).

19.  Eqab M. Rabei, Eyad H. Hassan, and Humam B. Ghassib, Quantization   of Second-Order Constrained  Lagrangians Systems Using the WKB   Approximation, International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics,   Vol.2,No. 3, 485-504, (2005).

20.  Eqab M. Rabei, Eyad H. Hassan, and Humam B. Ghassib, quantization   of Higher-Order Constrained Lagrangian Systems Using the WKB Approximation,  International Journal of   Theoretical Physics, Vol.43, No.11,   2285, (2004).

21.  Eqab M. Rabei, Tareq S. Alhalholy, and A. A. Taani, On Hamiltonian   Formulation of Non-Conservative Systems, Turkish Journal of Physics, Vol. 28, 213, (2004).

22. Eqab M. Rabei, Eyad H. Hassan, and Humam B. Ghassib, Hamilton-Jacobi           Treatment of Constrained Systems with Second-Order Lagrangians, International               Journal of Theoretical Physics,Vol.43,No. 4,1073,(2004).

23.  Eqab M. Rabei, T. S. Alhalholy, and Akram  A, Rousan, Potentials of Arbitrary               Forces with fractional Derivatives, International Journal of Modern Physics A, Vol. 19, 3083, (2004).  

24.  Eqab M. Rabei, Khaled I. Nawafleh,  and Humam B. Ghassib, The Motion of a Spinning Particle in an External Electromagnetic Field as a Constrained System , Journal of Dynamical Systems and Geometric Theories,  vol. 2, 1, (2004).

25.   Khaled I. Nawafleh,  Eqab M. Rabei, Humam B. Ghassib, Hamilton-Jacobi Treatment of Constrained Systems, International Journal of  Modern Physics A, Vol. 19, No 3, 347, (2004).

26.  Eqab M. Rabei, Khaled I. Nawafleh, and Humam B. Ghassib, Quantization  of   Reparameterizatized Systems Using the WKB Method, Tur. J. Phys, 29,1, (2003).

27. Eqab M. Rabei, Quantization of Christ-Lee Model Using the WKB                   Approximation, International Journal of Theoretical Physics, Vol. 42, No. 9, 2097, (2003).

28. Eqab M. Rabei, Khaled I Nawafleh, Yacuob S. Abdelrahman, and H. Y.                Rashed Omari, Hamilton-Jacobi Treatment of Lagrangians with Linear  Velocities, Modern Physics Letters A, Vol.18, No. 23, 1591, (2003).

29. Hussain Y. Rashed Omari, and Eqab M. Rabei, Off-axis Large Time Scale                                                               Polarization of polar stars, Indian Journal of Radio and Space Physics,Vol. 31,       (2002).

30.   Hussain Y. Rashed Omari, and Eqab M. Rabei, On-axis Large Time Scale Polarization of AM-Her Stars, Abhath Al-Yarmouk Journal, Vol. 11,287,(2002).  

31. Akram A. Rousan, Ehab Malkawi, Eqab M. Rabei, Hatem  Widyan,   Application of Fractional Calculus to Gravity, Fractional Calculus &  Applied Analysis, vol. 5,155, ( 2002).

32.  Eqab M. Rabei, Khaled I. Nawafleh, and Humam B. Ghassib, Quantization  of Constrained Systems Using the WKB Approximation, physical review  A., vol. 66, 024101, (2002).

33. Eqab M. Rabei, Hatem Widyan, and Ehab Malkawi, Treating Quantum                                                                                           Chromo dynamics as Constrained System, Hadronic Journal, Vol.24, 507,  (2001).   

34. Eqab M. Rabei, Khaled M. AL-Khaled and Humam B. Ghassib, the Path-               Integral Approach for Constrained Systems in its Lagrangian Form, Hadronic              Journal Supplement, Vol. 15, n. 2, 211, ( 2000).

35.   Eqab M. Rabei, On the Quantization of Constrained Systems Using  Path-integral                                       

 Approach, Il Nuovo Cimento,vol.115B,N.10,1159,(2000).

36.   Eqab M. Rabei, and Hussain Y. Rashed Omari, The Treatment of Holonomic Systems as Singular Systems Using the Dirac method, Mutah  Lil-Buhooth Wa Al-Dirasat, (Natural and Applied Sciences) vol.15, No.1,83, (2000).

37.  Eqab M. Rabei, Arvind, R. Simon and N. Mukunda, Bergmann Invariants         and Geometric Phases-A Generalized Connection. Phys. Rev. A Vol.. 60, n.5, 3397 –3409, (1999).

38. Eqab M. Rabei, Khaled I. Nawafleh, and Humam B. Ghassib, Some Physical Applications of the Canonical Method, Hadronic Journal, Vol.22, 241,       (1999).

39. Eqab M. Rabei, Canonical Treatment of Regular Lagrangian with Holonomic Constraints as Singular Systems, AMS/IP Studies in Advanced Mathematics, Vol.13, 441,  (1999).

40.  Eqab M. Rabei, An Investigation of singular Lagrangians as field systems, II Nuovo Cimento, vol. 112B, issue 11, Novembery 1447,(1997).

41.  Eqab M. Rabei and Salam Tawfiq, Hamilton-Jacobi Treatment of QED and Yang-Mills Theory as Constrained Systems, Hadronic Journal, Vol. 20, 232 (1997).

42.  Eqab M. Rabei, Hamilton-Jacobi Partial Differential Equations of Singular Systems, Journal of the Physical Society of Japan. vol.66 No .4, 995,(1997).

43.  Eqab M. Rabei, On Hamiltonian Systems with Constraints, Hadronic Journal, vol. 19, 597, (1996).

44.   Eqab M. Rabei and Y. Guler, An Investigation of the Dirac Conjecture on Constrained Systems, II Nuovo Cimento, vol. 110B, 893, (1995).

45.   Eqab M. Rabei, On the Lagrangian Formulations of Singular Systems, Tr. J.              of  Physics, Vol. 19, 1580, (1995).

46.  Eqab m. Rabei and Y. Guler, A Treatment of Electromagnetic Theory as a Singular system, II Nuovo Cimento, vol. 109B, 341,(1994).

47.   Eqab M. Rabei and Y. Guler, An Investigation of a Singular System, Tr. J. of Physics vol. 16, 297, (1992).

48.  Eqab M. Rabei and Y. Guler, The Hamilton-Jacobi Treatment of  Second  Class Constraints, Phys. Rev. A, vol.. 46,3513,  (1992).

 

49.  Eqab M. Rabei, Sami I Musleh and Dumitru Baleanu, Quantization of Fractional Systems Using WKB Approximation, Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulations, Accepted for publication

 

50.  Eqab M. Rabei, Ibrahim M. A. Altarazi, Sami I Musleh and Dumitru Baleanu,  Fractional WKB Approximation, Nonlinear Dynamics, vol. 57: 171-175, (2009).

 

51. M. Serhan, M. Abusini, Eqab M. Rabei, Quantization of Holonomic Systems Using WKB Approximation, International Journal of Theoretical Physics,  vol. 48: 2731-2739.(2009)

 

52. Khaldoun M. Tarawneh, Eqab M. Rabei, and Humam B. Ghassib, Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Formulations of the Damped Harmonic Oscillator Using Caputo Fractional Derivative, Journal of Dynamical Systems and Geometric Theories. Vol. 8,No 1, 59-70, May (2010).

53. R. Eid, Sami I. Musleh, Dumitru Baleanu, and Eqab M. Rabei, Fractional Dimensional Harmonic Oscillator, Romanian Journal of Physics. Accepted paper

54. Sami I. Musleh, Madhat Saddallah, Dumitru Baleanu, and Eqab M. Rabei, Lagrangian Formulation of Maxwell's Field in Fractional D dimensional Space-Time, Romanian Journal of Physics. Accepted paper

 

 

 

 

 

 

Published Books (in Arabic)

 

 

Introduction to Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Mechanics, Mu’tah University, (1998).

 

 

Conferences Attended

 

1.  The Second Jordanian Mathematics Conference at Mutah University, Jordan, 11-

14 sept.,1994 

                                                     

2. Mechanics First Maghrebin congress at Ghardaia, Algerie, March 23-26,1996

3.Trends in Mathematical Physics at the University of Tennessee, knoxville,           October 14-17, 1998.

 

4. The 32nd Symposium on Mathematical Physics, Torun, Poland, June 6-10,2000 5Sixth Petra School of Physics 6-13 September 1998 .

5.  The First Conference on Medical Physics and its Applications, Zarka private  University, Jordan 24th-26th April 2000.

6.   Third Science Day. Jordan University of Science and Technology. May, 23, 2000

7.   Mu’tah Mathematical Workshop, Tuesday 29th, February 2000.

8.   Seventh Petra School of Physics,17-22 September 2000.

9.   Summer School and Workshop, Dirac Operators: Yesterday and Today, August 27-September 7,2001, Center for Advanced Mathematical Sciences, AUB-Beirut-Lebanon.

10.   The International Conference Mathematics, Nuclear Physics and

      Application, Cairo, Egypt, 8-13 March,2003.

 

11. International Workshop on Global Analysis, Cankaya University, AnkaraTurkey, April 15-17, 2004,

 

12.  Sixth International Conference On Symmetry in Nonlinear Mathematical  Physics, June 20-26,2005, Kyiv, Ukraine.

 

13.  Mathematical Methods in Engineering International Symposium, Cankaya University, Ankara- Turkey, 27-29 April 2006.

 

14. 9th WSEAS Int. Conf. on Applied Mathematics, Istanbul, Turkey, May 27-29, 2006.

 

15. Second IFAC Workshop on Fractional Differentiation and its Applications, 19-21 July, 2006, Porto, Portugal.

 

16.  The Ninth International conference on Geometry, Integrability, and Quantization, June 8-13,2007, Varna, Bulgaria.

 

17. 3rd IFAC Workshop on Fractional Calculus and Its Applications, Ankara, Turkey, 05-07 November, 2008

18. Asian Mathematical Conference AMC2009, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia 22-26, June, 2009.

19. International Conference on Analysis and Applications, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat Oman, January 24-26,2010.

20- AQT- Advances in Quantum Theory, International Centre for Mathematical Modelling in Physics, Engineering and Cognitive Sciences, Linnaeus University, Sweden, June 14-17, 2010.

 

 

Scientific Visits                 

 

1.    Visit to Middle East Technical University for a period of one month.

2 . Visiting Fellowship at the international center for Theoretical Physics for a        period of three months in 1995.

3.   Fellowship by the Third World Academy of Sciences, (ICTP) Trieste, to visit   the

   Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Indian institute        of  

   Science, Bangalore, India, for a period of two months.

 

Awards

 

 

1.         The 1999 Third world Academy of Sciences (TWAS) Prize.

2.         Prize of Prof. Ehab the late general secretary of the Arab Universities Union

3.         Abdul Hameed Shoman Prize

 

 

Committees

 

1.  Member of Scientific research committee.

2.  Member of preparatory committee, First Conference on Material Science,          Mutah University.

3. Head of the Postgraduate studies committee.

4. Member of Science Faculty Council./ Mutah Univ.

5.  Member of Higher studies council.

6.  Acted as External Examiner on M.Sc. and Ph. D.  Committees

7.  Participated in a number of Seminars.

8.  Member of Trustees Board of Jarash University

9.  Member of American Mathematical Society.

10.     Associate membership, Center for Advanced Mathematical Sciences, American University of Beirut.

11.     Member of scientific advisory committee.

12.    University Council/ Al al-Bayt University

13.    Member of Science Faculty council / Al-alBayt univ.

14.    Accreditation Committee for Science and Engineering/ Ministry of Higher Education 2007-2009.

 

REVIEWER IN

 

1.        Journal of Mathematical Physics (published by American Institute of Physics)

2.        Mathematical Methods in Applied Sciences

3.         The IOP (Institute of  Physics, England) Journals.

4.         IL Nuovo Cimento B.

5.         The International Journal of Theoretical Physics

6.        Nonlinear Analysis: Modeling and Control

 

 

 

 

 

SUPERVISORY

 

Title

Degree

Institution

Year

Constrained Hamiltonian Systems

M.Sc.

Jordan University

1998

Quantization of Constrained Systems

M.Sc.

Jordan University

1999

Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Formulation with Fractional

Derivatives.

 

M.Sc.

Mutah University

2003

Hamiltonian Formulation of Higher-order Lagrangians

M.Sc.

Mutah University

2003

 

Some Physical Applications of Fractional Calculus

M.Sc.

Mutah University

2004

 

 

The Treatment of Regular Higher-Order Lagrangian as Singular First Order Lagrangian

M. Sc.

Mutah University

2004

 

 

The Path-Integral Quantization for the Non-Conservative Systems

M. Sc.

Mutah University

2006

Generalized Hamilton-Jacobi Partial Differential Equation

M. Sc.

Mutah University

2007

Quantization using Fractional WKB Approximation

M. Sc.

Mutah University

2007

Quantization of Constrained Systems Using the WKB Approximation

Ph.D.

Jordan University

2001

Quantization of  Higher-Order  Constrained Lagrangian  Systems Using  the WKB Approximation

Ph.D.

Jordan University

2004

Quantization of Non-Conservative systems Using Fractional Calculus

Ph.D.

Jordan University

2004

 

Hamiltonian Formulation of Damped Harmonic Oscilator

Ph. D.

Jordan University

2008

Quantization of the Fractional Harmonic Oscillator in Terms Of Riesz Fractional Derivatives

M. Sc.

Al Al-Bayt University

2010

Treatment of Damped Harmonic Oscillator Using Fractional Calculus

M. Sc.

Al Al-Bayt University

2010

 

 

 

Posts

           

 

1988-1992 Research Assistant, Physics Department, METU.

1993-1998 Assistant Prof., Mutah University.

1998-2000 Associate Prof., Mutah University.

1999-2000 Head of Physics Department, Mutah University

2000-2001 Associate Prof, Jordan University of Science and Technology             (sabbatical year)

2001-2003              Associate Prof., Mutah University.

2003- 2005     Prof., Mutah University.

2005 – 2006   Jerash University (sabbatical year)

2006-  2008     Prof., Mutah University.

2008-   Now    Prof. ,   Al al-Bayt University

2008 -  2010     Head of Physics Department, Al al-Bayt University

2010-   N0w   Dean of  Faculty of Science

 

Courses in Physics I Taught      

           

1.            General Physics (101, 102)

2.            General Physics Laboratories (111, 112)

3.            Quantum Mechanics 1 (351)

4.            Quantum Mechanics 2 (452)

5.            Mathematical Physics 1 (292)

6.            Mathematical Physics 2 (392)

7.            Classical Mechanics 1 (214)

8.            Classical Mechanics 2 (314)

9.            Nuclear Physics (442)

10.        Vibrations and waves (201)

11.        Optics (281)

12.        Mathematical Physics (591)

13.        Classical Mechanics (514)   

14.        Quantum mechanics (551)

 

REFERENCES:

 

Prof. Dr. Humam B. Ghassib

Physics Department

University of Jordan

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