Profile

Department

WP Instruction

Role: Faculty
Campus: West Plains

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Missouri State University-West Plains
WP Instruction
128 Garfield
West Plains, MO 65775

Details

Education

  • PhD Physics, Texas A&M University (2010)
  • BS Electrical Engineering, Southern Illinois University (1987)
  • Graduate courses in Electrical Engineering, University of Missouri-Rolla (1990-91)
  • Graduate courses in Mathematics, California State University-San Bernardino (2001-03)

Teaching

  • AST 113  Modern Astronomy
  • MTH 136  Pre-Calculus I: Algebra
  • PHY 100 Survey of Physics with Laboratory 
  • PHY 102  Survey of Physics
  • PHY 203  Foundations of Physics I
  • PHY 204  Foundations of Physics II

Prior courses taught:

  • Physics for Engineers I & II
  • College Physics I & II
  • Astronomy
  • Mathematical Methods of Physics
  • Quantum Mechanics
  • Modern Physics
  • Statistical Mechanics & Thermodynamics
  • Particle Physics

Professional experience

  • Assistant Professor of Physics, Missouri State University, West Plains, Missouri (2026-present)
  • Lecturer of Physics, Missouri State University, West Plains, Missouri (2025-26)
  • Assistant Professor of Physics, Louisiana State University, Shreveport, Louisiana (2017-21)
  • Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics, The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma (2014-17)
  • Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana (2013-14)
  • Postdoctoral Research Associate, Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics & Astronomy, College Station, Texas (2010-13)
  • Instructor of Physics, Blinn College, Bryan, Texas (2006-08)
  • Electrical Design Senior Engineer, Sony Electronics Corp, San Diego, California (1997-98)
  • Electronics Engineer, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme, California (1991-97)
  • Electrical Engineer, U.S. Army Aviation Systems Command, St. Louis, Missouri (1987-91)

Research and professional interests

  • Theoretical particle physics
  • Cosmology
  • AI models for high-energy physics
  • Superstring model building
  • Quantum information science

Awards and honors

Recent Invited Talks

  • A Natural Solution to Dark Matter, 2026, Colloquium, Ball State University
  • Dark Matter and Dark Energy: The Dark Sector of the Cosmos, 2019, The Mendeleevian Society Lecture Series, Shreveport, Louisiana
  • Our Universe: From the Beginning to the End, 2018, Shreveport-Bossier Astronomical Society, Shreveport, Louisiana

Recent Publications

  • Light Right-handed Smuons at the LHC: Natural Dark Matter and g−2 in an Unexplored Realm of the pMSSM. Physical Review D111, 015039 (2025).
  • The Right-Handed Slepton Bulk Region for Dark Matter in Generalized No-scale F-SU(5) with Effective Super-Natural Supersymmetry. Phys.Rev.D109, 115031 (2024).
  • Resolving the (g-2) Discrepancy with F-SU(5) Intersecting D-branes. JHEP 11 (2021) 081.
  • The 14 TeV LHC Takes Aim at SUSY: A No-Scale Supergravity Model for LHC Run 2. INVITED COMMENT published by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Physica Scripta 90 (2015) 9, 098001 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0031-8949/90/9/098001
  • Blueprints of the No-Scale Multiverse at the LHC. INVITED COMMENT contribution to the Proceedings of the International Symposium on "Subnuclear Physics: Past, Present, and Future" held at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Vatican City, 30 October- 2 November 2011. Pontifical Academy of Sciences Scripta Varia 119 (2011) 472-487 (Published 2014). https://www.pas.va/en/publications/scripta-varia/sv119pas.html

Complete list of all publications:

https://arxiv.org/search/?searchtype=author&query=Maxin%2C+J+A
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=fkAd7HEAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao