Peter Gibbs

B.Sc.(UWI), M.Sc.(Guelph) Dip.Ed.(UWI)

 Senior Lecturer in Electronics & Physics

 Deputy Dean, Outreach & Research

 

 

RESEARCH

  • Microcontroller Applications
  • Computational Physics
  • Control & Instrumentation
  • Data Acquisition & Sensors
  •   SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

"A new rotational transition in the Hydrogen molecule"

P.W.Gibbs, C.G.Gray, J.L.Hunt, S.Paddi Reddy, R.H.Tipping, K.Chang

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, P.256-258, VOL.33, #5, JULY 1974

               

"A note on some integrals useful in Collision-Induced absorption"

P.W.Gibbs, J.L.Hunt, J.D.Poll

CANADIAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICS, P.981-982, VOL.57, #7, 1979

 

"Dynamic Monte Carlo Renormalization Group II"

L.L.Moseley, P.W.Gibbs, Naeem Jan

JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL PHYSICS, P.421-427, VOL.7, #1 & 2, 1989

 

"A computer controlled laboratory model solar crop dryer"

N.S.Barker, P.W.Gibbs, L.L.Moseley

PROC. INTERNATIONAL SOLAR CONGRESS, VOL.2, P.643-647, 1990

 

"Kawasaki dynamics with infinite-range spin exchange"

L.L.Moseley, P.W.Gibbs, Naeem Jan

JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL PHYSICS, P.813-818, VOL.67, #3 & 4, 1992

 

The design of a protype electronic cricket scoring display"

P.W.Gibbs, C.A.Nyack and P.A.Walcott

PROC. I.E.E.E. CONFERENCE ON COMMUNICATION, P.118-121, 1995

 

"Electric Field effects on the pretransitional optical activity of CB15"

C.Hunte, U.Singh and P.W.Gibbs

JOURNAL de PHYSIQUE II, P.1291-1300, vol.6, 1996

 

"Search for Asymptotic Death in the Game of Life"

P.W.Gibbs and D.Stauffer

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MODERN PHYSICS C, P.601-604, vol.8, #3, 1997

 

"A complete phase diagram for the Blue Phases in CB15-E9 mixtures"

U.Singh, C.Hunte, and P.W.Gibbs

MOLECULAR CRYSTALS & LIQUID CRYSTALS, Vol.330, p.227-284, June 1999

 

“IR remote-controller video multiplexer”

P.W.Gibbs

Circuit Cellar Online-Journal of Microcontroller applications, Nov.2000 (http://www.chipcenter.com/circuitcellar/main.htm)

 

“Self organised Criticality in an Asexual model”

C.Chisholm, M.Jan, P.W.Gibbs and A.Erzan

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MODERN PHYSICS C, Vol.11, #6, P.1257-1262, Nov.2000 (Millenium Issue)

 

" An optical technique for studying phase transitions" - C.Hunte, P.Gibbs, & U.Singh, American Journal of Physics, Vol.69, No.1, p.91-92, Jan., 2001

 

“Automatic gate Control”

P .W. Gibbs

THE MICROCOMPUTER APPLICATIONS JOURNAL (Circuit Cellar), P.28-33,

#177, April, 2005

 

“Large-Scale Electronic Display”

P. W. Gibbs

THE MICROCOMPUTER APPLICATIONS JOURNAL (Circuit Cellar), P.16-19,

#184, November, 2005

 

“LED message display”

P. W. Gibbs & R. B. Sargeant

THE MICROCOMPUTER APPLICATIONS JOURNAL (Circuit Cellar), P.40-51,

#195, October, 2006

 

“A Dew Point Sensor”

P. W. Gibbs & R. B. Sargeant

THE MICROCOMPUTER APPLICATIONS JOURNAL (Circuit Cellar), P.32-37,

#203, June, 2007

 


POSTGRADUATES

M.Phil.

Thesis Title

Postgraduate

The Design of Electronic Scoring and Signing Systems

Paul Walcott (1994)

A Computer Controlled Laboratory Model Solar Dryer

Nigel Barker (1989) *

The Development of a Computer Model of a Solar Crop Drier with a view to practical Applications

Erwin Edwards (1988)*

The Effect of Electric Fields on the Optical Activity of CB15/E9 Mixtures

Carlos Hunte (1997)*

Solar Powered Air-Conditioners: A Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Option for Barbados

Tricia King (2005)*

Development of a low-cost Internet-Controlled modular large-screen LED display system

Ramon Sargeant (2006)


* indicates co-supervisor

Postgraduate Diploma in Electronics

 Dissertation Title

Postgraduate

Investigation of the use of serial transmission of data from sensors on the roof of the lab

Sandra Sealy (1989)

Infra-red remote controller

Joan Bourne (1989)

A microprocessor trainer

Derek Griffith (1989)

  • SELECTED REPORTS

"An automatic closed loop cooling system"

CMP Department Technical Report: CMP-TR-01, July, 1999, 12pp.

 

"Detecting & displaying Caller ID"

CMP Department Technical Report: CMP-TR-02, Nov,  1999, 10pp.

 

"Computational challenges in the Game of Life"

CMP Department Technical Report: CMP-TR-03, Dec,  1999, 24pp.

 

"Computational model in Econophysics"

CMP Department Technical Report: CMP-TR-04, Dec,  1999, 16pp.

 

"A Time/Temperature display system for the Cave Hill Campus"

CMP Department Technical Report: CMP-TR-05,  May, 2000, 15pp.

 

"An infrared remote controlled video multiplexer"

CMP Department Technical Report: CMP-TR-06,  June, 2000, 12pp.

 

“Large cricket scoreboard for Kensington Oval”

CMP Department Technical Report:  CMP-TR-07, Feb. 2001, 15 pp.

 

“Large Digital Clock”

CMP Department Technical Report:  CMP-TR-08, June 2001, 10 pp.

 

“Microprocessor control of Compound Pendulum experiment”

CMP Department Technical Report:  CMP-TR-09, March. 2002, 8 pp.

 

“Large LED clock  using BS2 micro-controller”

CMP Department Technical Report:  CMP-TR-10, Sept. 2003, 7 pp.

 

“UWI cricket scoreboard”

CMP Department Technical Report:  CMP-TR-11, June 2003, 12 pp.

 


LECTURE COURSES ONLINE


USEFUL LINKS

Barbados Federation of Island Triathletes (BFIT)

Barbados Swimming Association

University of Guelph

For further information, contact me via email: pgibbs@uwichill.edu.bb