Degrees

S.B. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1965, William Barton Rogers Scholar
Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1970, National Science Foundation Fellow

Research Area

Nuclear Theory - Neutrino masses and mixings. Quark gluon structure of the proton, neutron, and excited baryons. Meson-nucleus interactions.

Professor of Physics, Vanderbilt University
Adjunct Professor, Fisk University
Secretary, National Society of Hispanic Physicists
Vanderbilt Representative, Board of Trustees, member, Jeferson Lab Committee and Steering Committee, and member, Nominating Committee, Southeast Universities Research Association
Member, US Liaison Committee, International Union of Pure and Applied Physics
Member, Minority Recruitment Sub-Committee, American Association of Physicists in Medicine
Member, Executive Council and Executive Board, American Physical Society
Member, Executive Committee, Forum on International Physics, American Physical Society
Member, Liaison Committee for Under-Represented Minorities, American Institute of Physics
Co-Chair, Division of Nuclear and Particle Physics, National Society of Black Physicists
Member and Chair, User Relations Subcommittee, Programs Committee, Jefferson Science Associates, LLC

1970-72: Assistant Professor/Professor, Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del I.P.N., Mexico
1972-75: Research Associate/Instructor, Case Western Reserve University
1975-80: Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University
1979-80: Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Washington
1980-85: Associate Professor, Texas A&M University
1985-92: Professor, Texas A&M University
1992-95; 1997-1999: 2002-2004; Chair, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University
1995-97: Associate Dean, College of Arts and Science, Vanderbilt University
1997-1998: Assistant to the Dean, College of Arts and Science, Vanderbilt University
1999-2000: Interim Director, W. M. Keck Foundation Free Electron Laser Center, Vanderbilt University
2000-2001: Visiting Scientist, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, Virginia

Outstanding Teacher, Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University (1983)
Fellow, American Physical Society (1985 - present)
Alexander Heard Distinguished Service Professor, Vanderbilt University (2002 - 2003)
Affirmative Action and Diversity Initiative Award, Vanderbilt University (2004)

C.M. Chen, D.J. Ernst, and M.B. Johnson, "Extracting Forward Strong Amplitudes from Elastic Differential Cross Sections," submitted to Nucl. Phys.
D.C. Latimer and D.J. Ernst, "Physical region for three-neutrino mixing angles," Phys. Rev. D 71, 017301 (2005).
D.C. Latimer and D.J. Ernst, "On the degeneracies of the mass-squared differences for three neutrino oscillations," Mod. Phys. Lett. A 20, 1663 (2005).
D.C. Latimer and D.J. Ernst, "Neutrino oscillations: measuring theta_13 including its sign," Phys. Rev. C 71, 062501(R) (2005).
D.C. Latimer and D.J. Ernst, "Correlations between theta_13 and theta_23 in a very long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment," Phys. Rev. C 72, 045502 (2005).
D.C. Latimer and D.J. Ernst, "Local demands on sterile neutrinos," Mod. Phys. Lett. A 21, 197 (2006).
D.C. Latimer, J. Escamilla, and D. J. Ernst, "Measuring the mass of a sterile neutrino with a very short baseline experiment," Phys. Rev. C 75, 042501(R) (2007).
D.C. Latimer, J. Escamilla, and D. J. Ernst, "On detecting CP violation in a single neutrino oscillation channel at very long baselines," Phys. Rev. C 76, 055502 (2007).
J. Escamilla, D.C. Latimer, and D.J. Ernst, "Analysing Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillations," in "VII Latin American Symposium on Nuclear Physics and Applications, Cusco, Peru, 11-17 June, 2007," ed. R. Alarcon, P. L. Cole, C. Djalili, and F. Umeres (American Institute of Physics, Ridge, New York, 2007) p. 227.