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  • 1981 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Donald J. Weidner is affiliated with Stony Brook University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant emphasis on Geophysics. The scientist's work covers multiple subfields, including Artificial Intelligence, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The main topics of their research include:

  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Topic Modeling
  • Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Advanced Text Analysis Techniques
  • NMR spectroscopy and applications

Key recent publications by Donald J. Weidner include:

  • Low frequency bulk modulus of partially molten peridotite, KLB-1, 2021, Physics of The Earth and Planetary Interiors
  • Flow strength of Davemaoite at Mantle P, T conditions using DT25, 2023, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Generation-Focused Table-Based Intermediate Pre-training for Free-Form Question Answering, 2022, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • Full waveform analysis for high pressure ultrasonic measurement, 2020, Review of Scientific Instruments
  • Bulk modulus measurement at mHz frequencies and high-pressure using synchrotron x-ray radiation, 2020, Review of Scientific Instruments

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Donald J. Weidner include:

  • L. Li
  • Peng Shi
  • Patrick Ng
  • Nan Feng
  • Henghui Zhu

Their publications are commonly found in the following venues:

  • Review of Scientific Instruments
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • Physics of The Earth and Planetary Interiors
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Donald J. Weidner was awarded the Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 1981.

Best Publications

  • Structure and elastic properties of quartz at pressure

    Louise Levien;Charles T. Prewitt;Donald J. Weidner

  • Elasticity of α-Cristobalite: A Silicon Dioxide with a Negative Poisson's Ratio

    Amir Yeganeh-Haeri;Donald J. Weidner;John B. Parise

  • Single‐crystal elastic properties of the spinel phase of Mg2SiO4

    Donald J. Weidner;Hiroshi Sawamoto;Satoshi Sasaki;Mineo Kumazawa

  • The deformation-DIA: A new apparatus for high temperature triaxial deformation to pressures up to 15 GPa

    Yanbin Wang;William B. Durham;Ivan C. Getting;Donald J. Weidner

  • The single‐crystal elastic moduli of stishovite

    Donald J. Weidner;Jay D. Bass;A. E. Ringwood;William Sinclair

  • Elasticity of coesite

    Donald J. Weidner;Herbert R. Carleton

  • Single-Crystal Elastic Properties of the Modified Spinel (Beta) Phase of Magnesium Orthosilicate

    Hiroshi Sawamoto;Donald J. Weidner;Satoshi Sasaki;Mineo Kumazawa

  • Elasticity of diopside

    Louise Levien;Donald J. Weidner;Charles T. Prewitt

  • Elastic properties of hydrous ringwoodite (γ-phase) in Mg2SiO4

    Toru Inoue;Donald J Weidner;Paul A Northrup;John B Parise

  • Perovskite-type MgSiO 3 ; single-crystal X-ray diffraction study

    Hiroyuki Horiuchi;Eiji Ito;Donald J. Weidner

  • Elasticity of orthoenstatite

    Donald J. Weidner;Herbert Wang;Jun Ito

  • Thermal expansion and structural distortion of perovskite — data for NaMgF3 perovskite. Part I

    Yusheng Zhao;Donald J. Weidner;John B. Parise;David E. Cox

  • Elastic properties from acoustic and volume compression experiments

    Jay D. Bass;Robert C. Liebermann;Donald J. Weidner;Stephen J. Finch

  • P-V-T equation of state of (Mg, Fe)SiO3 perovskite: constraints on composition of the lower mantle

    Yanbin Wang;Donald J. Weidner;Robert C. Liebermann;Yusheng Zhao

  • Thermal equation of state of CaSiO3 perovskite

    Yanbin Wang;Donald J. Weidner;François Guyot

  • A mineral physics test of a pyrolite mantle

    Donald J. Weidner

  • Elasticity of MgSiO3 in the ilmenite phase

    Donald J. Weidner;Eiji Ito

  • Elasticity of single crystal pyrope and implications for garnet solid solution series

    Barbara J. Leitner;Donald J. Weidner;Robert C. Liebermann

  • Structure and twinning of single-crystal MgSiO3 garnet synthesized at 17 GPa and 1800 oC

    R. J. Angel;R. J. Angel;L. W. Finger;R. M. Hazen;M. Kanzaki

  • Perovskite : a structure of great interest to geophysics and materials science

    Alexandra Navrotsky;Donald J. Weidner

  • Elasticity of single‐crystal orthoferrosilite

    Jay D. Bass;Donald J. Weidner

  • Yield strength at high pressure and temperature

    Donald J. Weidner;Yanbin Wang;Michael T. Vaughan

Frequent Co-Authors

Yanbin Wang
Yanbin Wang University of Chicago
John B. Parise
John B. Parise Stony Brook University
Yusheng Zhao
Yusheng Zhao Southern University of Science and Technology
Robert C. Liebermann
Robert C. Liebermann Stony Brook University
John P. Brodholt
John P. Brodholt University College London
Jianzhong Zhang
Jianzhong Zhang Los Alamos National Laboratory
Thomas S. Duffy
Thomas S. Duffy Princeton University
Eiji Ito
Eiji Ito Okayama University
Renata M. Wentzcovitch
Renata M. Wentzcovitch Columbia University

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