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Steve Schnetzer - Rutgers University Steve Schnetzer is the senior member of the Rutgers High Energy Physics group and has been active in research in fundamental particle physics for over three decades. In the 1980s, he was co-founder of an international collaboration that constructed a large collider experiment for the TRISTAN electron-positron collider in Japan. In the 1990s, he worked on a major experiment at Fermilab studying matter-antimatter asymmetry. Twenty years ago, he proposed and pioneered the use of synthetic diamond as a radiation-hard particle detector. He currently works on the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment one of the large detector facilities being built for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. He is currently eagerly awaiting first physics from the LHC. |
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Akito Kusaka - KICP, Univeristy of Chicago Akito Kusaka is a research associate with the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago. He received his PhD from University of Tokyo for his research on the measurement of the CP violation in B meson system at Belle experiment. He started his carrier as an experimental cosmologist joining QUIET collaboration two years ago. QUIET measures anisotropy of the CMB polarization at the scale ~2 degrees on the sky, seeking for the possible signature of GUT scale physics from inflationary era. |
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Gottfried Kanbach - Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics Dr. Gottfried Kanbach is a Senior Staff Scientist and a Group Leader for High-Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy group at Max-Planck-Institute for extraterrestrial Physics in Germany. He has a long history with gamma-ray satellite missions such as OSO-7, SMM, COS-B and EGRET. He is currently an affiliated scientist for Fermi LAT. He is now developing a next generation low- to medium energy gamma ray telescope, GRIPS. |
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Gary S. Varner - University of Hawaii Gary Varner is a Professor of Physics at the University of Hawaii and directs his research interests in instrumentation development for particle and astroparticle physics through the Instrumentation Development Laboratory, which he founded and leads. Recently his team successfully developed the custom RF trigger and digitization electronics flown on the ANITA payload. Working toward the future, he is leading an effort to further improve low-power RF recording technology for a large volume terrestrial radio UHE neutrino detector at the South Pole. Remarkably similar sampling and readout technology is being concurrently explored for Super B-factory and ILC detector pixel vertex detectors, future particle identification techniques, as well as a semiconductor multiple Compton x-ray telescope. |
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Peter Krizan - University of Ljubljana and J. Stefan Institute Peter Krizan is a professor of physics at the University of Ljubljana, and a principal investigator at the J. Stefan Institute. He did his PhD on the Omicron experiment at CERN, after which he worked on the ARGUS and HERA-B experiments at DESY. In HERA-B, his team was, among others, responsible for the RICH counter. He then joined the Belle experiment at KEK, where he has been involved in several analyses, in the upgrade of the vertex detector, and in the preparation of the particle identification system upgrade for Belle-II. He is also serving as a chair of the Interim Steering Committee of the Belle-II collaboration. |
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Paolo Gorla - Gran Sasso National Laboratories Currently, I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at Laboratory Nazionali del Gran Sasso - INFN in Italy. I have been a member of the CUORICINO and CUORE collaborations for the past 10 years. I obtained my Ph.D. from University of Milano-Bicocca in Italy on 2005. My main research interest is focused on the development of advanced detectors for rare events astroparticle physics, and I also have a wide experience in low background techniques. My present research effort is concentrated on bolometric detectors. I actively participated in the construction and operation of the CUORICINO experiment (a detector with an effective mass of 40.2 kg) for the search of Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay. I have been involved in the R&D effort for CUORE -ton scale upgrade of CUORICINO- where my main focus has been the optimization of the detector resolution and its background reduction. Presently, I am part of the CUORE construction team. |
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Gil Travish - UCLA Gil Travish is an Associate Researcher at UCLA working with the Particle Beam Physics Laboratory (PBPL). Dr. Travish received his Ph.D. from UCLA and has authored over 100 scientific publications. He has worked in beam physics, radiation production and accelerator technology for the past 15 years including: the first high-gain FEL experiments (UCLA); first saturation of a visible high-gain FEL (ANL); development and operation of numerous RF photoinjectors; extensive development of drive lasers, diagnostics and magnet systems for high-brightness beams; and, the design, construction and integration of new accelerator projects in multiple laboratories worldwide. His current work includes the Micro Accelerator Platform, a laser-driven optical-scale accelerator, as well as other dielectric-based accelerator-structures for next generation high energy physics, light source and novel device applications. |
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Marc Christophersen - Naval Research Laboratory Dr. Marc Christophersen holds a PhD and a MS in material science and engineering from the University of Kiel, Germany. Since 2007 he is a NRC (National Research Council) postdoctoral fellow at the Naval Research Laboratory, Space Science Division, under the supervision of Dr. B. F. Phlips working on gamma-ray detector designs. Prior to his NRC, he has been a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Maryland and University Rochester working in photonics, MEMS and bioMEMS applications. |
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Daniel Rugar - IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center Daniel Rugar is currently Manager of Nanoscale Studies in the IBM Research Division, and a Consulting Professor of Applied Physics at Stanford University. Dr. Rugar has a long history of contributions to the field of scanning microscopy. He began his work in microscopy as a Ph.D. student in Applied Physics at Stanford University, where he developed a gigahertz frequency scanning acoustic microscope operating in superfluid helium with nanometer spatial resolution. He joined IBM in 1984 and made important contributions to the development of atomic force microscopy (AFM) and magnetic force microscopy (MFM), especially for imaging magnetic materials and for applications to data storage. His research group pioneered mechanical detection of ultrasmall forces, achieving the current record of 800 zeptonewtons in a 1 Hertz bandwidth. In 1992, he became inspired by the possibility of combining magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with ultrasensitive force detection to allow force microscopes to "see" below the surface and take three-dimensional images. He made the first demonstrations of magnetic resonance force microscopy (MRFM) in 1992 and has worked to improve its sensitivity and spatial resolution ever since. After improving the sensitivity by 7 orders of magnitude, this work reached a key milestone in 2004: the manipulation and detection of an individual electron spin. His current work is focused on three-dimensional nanoscale imaging based on MRFM detection of nuclear spins, with a long term goal of developing a microscope that can directly image the 3D atomic structure of molecules. Dr. Rugar has published over 100 scientific papers and holds 19 patents. He was the 1999-2000 Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Magnetic Society. He received the 2004 Scientific American 50 award for research leadership in the field of imaging and the 2005 World Technology Award for Materials. He has also received IBM internal awards for contributions to scanning probe microscopy, near field optical data storage and single electron spin detection. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), the American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). |
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Paul Brink - Stanford University Paul Brink is a Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Physics at Stanford. Detector design, fabrication, testing, and commissioning of the cryogenics of CDMS II at Soudan, Minnesota, have kept him occupied for the past 9 years. Other science interests have included cryogenic detectors for soft X-ray detection, with application for the warm-hot baryonic component of Dark Matter; and optical photon detectors of interest for compact time-varying astrophysical sources. Prior to 2000 he was employed by Oxford Instruments to develop cryogenic X-ray detectors for material analysis, and a superconducting gravity gradiometer. His post-doc was with Prof Blas Cabrera on CDMS I; and his thesis is from the University of Oxford, entitled 'Non-equilibrium Superconductivity induced by X-ray photons'. |
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Neal H. Clinthorne - University of Michigan Neal Clinthorne is Research Professor of Radiology at the University of Michigan. For the past three decades, he has been involved with development of new techniques and systems for single photon emission tomography (SPECT), PET, and X-ray CT. SPECT work has included coded apertures, developments for the widely used technique of rotating gamma camera SPECT, and electronically collimated (i.e., Compton camera) systems. PET investigations include development of application-specific imaging probes and use of novel detectors. His X-ray CT work was spun off into Xoran Technologies, which he co-founded and is currently Chairman and VP. |
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Clarence Chang - University of Chicago Clarence Chang is a research scientist with the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University working on CDMS-II which used Transition Edge Sensors (TES) in a direct-detection search for Dark Matter. He has spent the last four years as a member of the South Pole Telescope (SPT) collaboration. During that time, SPT hast constructed a 10-m telescope at the South Pole with a 700 element TES bolometer array. The missions of SPT include a galaxy cluster survey using the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect, studies of dusty galaxies, and measurements of primary and secondary anisotropies of the CMB. |
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James Buckley - Washington University James Buckley is Professor of Physics at Washington University where his research focuses on gamma-ray astronomy, indirect searches for dark matter as well as detector development including: MBE growth of AlGaN/InGaN photodetectors, optical design for astronomical telescopes, design of low-radioactive background detectors for direct dark matter detection and development of computer architectures for high-speed pipelined processing of large data sets. Buckley received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1992, and worked for the next 4 years on the Whipple Gamma-Ray experiment under Trevor Weekes, before moving on to a faculty position at Washington University. Prof. Buckley has been involved in VERITAS since its inception in 1996, and was responsible for the design and construction of the 2000 channel 500 MHz FADC system. Buckley has authored papers on a number of topics including multiwavelength studies of AGNs, phenomenological modeling of AGN emission, gamma-ray burst remnants in our galaxy, and prospects for gamma-ray detection of dark matter. |
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Cinzia Da Via - University of Manchester Cinzia DaVi is a permanent faculty member in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester, UK. She has been working on radiation hard detector development for the past 10 years and is one of the two co-discovers of the Lazarus effect. This is the recovery - from the dead - of silicon detectors after heavy irradiation when operated at cryogenic temperatures. Some of her Ph. D studies were based in Berkeley during which she participated in discussions which led to the design of 3D silicon sensors. She has been working on 3D silicon technology with the proponents since 1998. At present she leads the 3DAtlas pixel R&D, which aims to utilise 3D silicon pixels in the upgraded B-layer of the ATLAS experiment at CERN and is coordinating the 3D silicon detector development for the ATLASFP project, which aims to detect diffractive protons in the forward region in ATLAS. In 2006 she formed the 3D Consortium to transfer the original 3D silicon technology to industry. |
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Takeo Higuchi - KEK Takeo Higuchi is an assistant professor at High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK). He has been working on Belle at KEK, and has been co-produced together with BaBar at SLAC the experimental evidence of the Kobayashi-Maskawa theory as well as other remarkable physics results about the CP asymmetry in the B meson decays. Besides the physics research work, he is also involved in the detector readout electronics and the data acquisition system. The COPPER readout system, of which detail is presented in this seminar, is one of his major achievements toward the severer trigger rate and the larger data size expected in the luminosity-upgraded B-factory experiment. |
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Andrea Pocar - Stanford University Andrea Pocar is a postdoc at Stanford working on the EXO double beta decay experiment. He graduated from the University of Milan working on silicon pixel detectors for ATLAS. After a brief period spent at UC Santa Cruz developing silicon strips for GLAST, he settled on neutrino physics. He obtained his Ph.D. from Princeton working on the Borexino solar neutrino experiment at Gran Sasso. He has a specific expertise is building large, ultra-low background neutrino detectors, which he refined during his Stanford tenure. He will move to the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, as an assistant professor, in January |
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Paul O'Connor - BNL Paul O'Connor is Senior Physicist and Head of the Microelectronics Group in the Instrumentation Division at Brookhaven National Laboratory. After his Ph.D. in solid-state physics at Brown University he joined Bell Laboratories in the Advanced Semiconductor Device Group before coming to Brookhaven. He has been active in the field of sensor interface electronics and signal processing for applications ranging from fiber-optic communications, high energy physics, medical imaging, and astronomy. |
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Patric Muggli - University of Southern California Patric Muggli graduated in plasma physics from the physics departments of the Swiss Federal institute of Technology in Lausanne. He received his PhD from the same school after studying high power microwave sources. He then joined UCLA as a post-doctoral fellow. He is currently a research professor at the University of Southern California, and leads the laser plasma accelerator group. His main research interest is the plasma wakefield accelerator, which is a beam-driven, plasma-based accelerator. He is a lead experimentalist on the PWFA experiments at SLAC and Brookhaven National Laboratory. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, and a Nuclear and Plasma Science Society Distinguished Lecturer. |
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Harry van der Graaf - NIKHEF Harry van der Graaf obtained his PhD in 1986, at Delft University of Technology, on Signal Development and -Processing in MWPCs. Working for Nikhef, he was involved in the muon chambers of the L3 experiment at CERN, and, after that, the drift chambers for the ATLAS Muon Spectrometer. He developed the RASNIK alignment system which is used also outside particle physics experiments. Since 2001 he is working on a new generation of gaseous detectors, to be applied in future detectors at ILC, CLIC and SuperLHC. |
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Toshinori Abe - University of Tokyo Toshinori Abe is a research associate at University of Tokyo, working on high energy physics. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from Nagoya University and worked at SLAC on SLD, the NLC project, and the BaBar experiment. Currently, Toshi works on photo-detector development, the T2K neutrino oscillation experiment, and R&D towards the ILC. |
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Peter von Ballmoos - CESR Researcher at the Centre d'Etude Spatiale des Rayonnements, professor at the University of Toulouse. Main research interrests are the observation, analysis and interpretation of nuclear gamma-ray lines using various balloon and satellite instruments; Co-I of the ESA project INTEGRAL/SPI, PI of the project first gamma-ray lens (use of the first Laue diffraction lens) for the French Space Agency CNES. |
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Joel Goldstein - Bristol Joel Goldstein is a Reader in Physics at the University of Bristol, having built and operated silicon strip detectors at LEP and the Tevatron. For the past few years he has concentrated on the development of new silicon pixel-based particle detectors for future colliders. |
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Lothar Strder - MPI- Halbleiterlabor Lothar Strder is a researcher at the Max-Planck-Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Munich (1987) and a Professor of Physics at the University of Siegen (2001). He is an expert in the development of Imaging X-ray detectors and applications of state-of- the-art semiconductor detector systems. Lothar has led the MPI Semiconductor Laboratory (HLL) since 1990. This advanced laboratory provides silicon detectors for particle physics and X-ray astronomy not available commercially. The complete silicon technology of the HLL is adapted to the special requirements of semiconductor radiation detectors. Important features are in particular the ability to build wafer size defect free double-sided detectors on ultra-pure silicon. |
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Gregg Thayer - SLAC Gregg Thayer is a Software Developer at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. A victim of a Fermilab high school outreach program, he went on to receive his B.S. in Physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University where he contributed to the development and commissioning of the CLEOIII data acquisition system and studied rare B decays. Since coming to SLAC he has worked on GLAST focusing initially on testing the Trigger and Dataflow System and more recently on LAT operations. |
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Volker Schlott - PSI Switzerland |
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Masaaki Hayashida - SLAC Masaaki Hayashida is a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow at KIPAC/SLAC, working for high-energy astrophysics on the GLAST project. Previously, he worked at Max-Planck-Institute for Physics, Munich in Germany and involved in photodetector developments for MAGIC-II. He received his Ph.D. from Ludwig-Maximilian-University of Munich in March 2008 for work on study of very high-energy gamma-ray emission from active galactic nuclei using the MAGIC telescope. |
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John Byrd - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory John Byrd received a Ph.D. in accelerator physics from Cornell in 1991 and has been at Berkeley Lab ever since. Presently he lead the Beam Electrodynamics Group in the Center for Beam Physics. He is interested in a wide range of topics in beam dynamics and accelerator technologies. His first jazz CD was issued earlier this year. |
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Yoshio Nishi - Stanford University Director of Stanford Nanofabrication Facility Director of Research, Center for Integrated Systems Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering Stanford University Yoshio Nishi received BS in materials science and engineering from Waseda University, and PhD in electronics engineering from University of Tokyo (thesis doctor). He joined Toshiba Corporation, working in the area of semiconductor materials and processes during which he discovered ESR PB Center at Si-SiO2 interface which is now accepted as the origin of the fast interface states. He is one of the pioneers in MNOS nonvolatile memory resulting in 256 and 1024 bit MNOS RAM productized in early 70s. He led the group of silicon on sapphire (SOS) based device research in R&D Center, and developed technology for 16bit SOS microprocessor for medical computer for high speed image data processing. Later he managed the group of memory technology R&D in Semiconductor Device Engineering Laboratory which developed the world first 1Mbit CMOS DRAM, and 256Kbit SRAM and EPROM. In 1986 he joined Hewlett-Packard as Director of Silicon Process Lab, and then became Center Director for ICBD R&D Center running HPs high performance CMOS technology R&D for PA RISC chips. He established ULSI Research Laboratory as the advanced IC technology research for HP. In 1996 he joined Texas Instruments Inc, as Senior Vice President and Director of R&D in which he established new R&D model and Kilby Center for TIs IC technology R&D. In 2002 he joined Stanford University as Professor of Electrical Engineering, and also Director of Stanford Nanofabrication Facility, and lately Research Director of Center for Integrated Systems. His research interest at Stanford is quantum confined high mobility channel, metal gate work function engineering, resistance change nonvolatile memory device and 3D devices. Professor Nishi published more than 220 papers/conference talks, 12l books co-authored/edited, and held more than 50 patents in US and Japan. He is a Fellow of IEEE and the recipient of IEEE Jack Morton Award (1995), IEEE Robert Noyce Medal (2002) and PICMET Leadership in Technology Management Award (2007). |
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Uwe Oberlack - Rice University Uwe Oberlack is William V. Vietti Assistant Professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Rice University in Houston. After his Ph.D. thesis in gamma-ray astronomy at the Max Planck Institute for extraterrestrial Physics in Germany, he went to Columbia University to work on the LXeGRIT experiment, a balloon-borne liquid xenon TPC for gamma-ray astronomy. He is currently P.I. on a NASA grant for R&D towards a future Liquid Xenon Advanced Compton Telescope, and Co-I on the XENON Dark Matter project, with current focus on the XENON100 experiment at Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy. |
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Justin Vandenbroucke - UC Berkeley Justin Vandenbroucke is completing his PhD in the IceCube collaboration at UC Berkeley. In addition to working on acoustic neutrino detection R&D, he has helped build optical Cherenkov calibration devices and spent three seasons at the South Pole constructing the IceCube detector. |
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Mike Pivovaroff - Lawrence Livormore National Laboratory |
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Stefan Hau-Riege - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Stefan Hau-Riege is a physicist at LLNL, working on free-electron-laser interactions with materials in the context of LCLS. Previously he worked on Extreme-Ultraviolet Lithography and laser-assisted recrystallization. Prior to joining LLNL in 2001, he was with Intel Corp. working on metallization reliability, and prior to that with AT&T Bell Laboratories. He received his Ph.D. in Materials Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Masters in Solid-State Physics and Applied Mathematics from the University of Hamburg, Germany. He has published extensively in the areas of metallization, laser-material interaction, and diffractive imaging, holds several U.S. patents, and organized and taught UC Berkeley Extension courses for several years. |
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Stephen Derenzo - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory STEPHEN E. DERENZO is a Senior Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Head of the Medical Imaging Technology Department in the Life Sciences Division, and Professor-in-Residence in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at UC Berkeley. He and his colleagues constructed two pioneering positron emission tomographs (PET) and developed advanced scintillation detectors for PET that provide high spatial resolution, depth-of-interaction information, and compact integrated circuit readout. For the past 20 years he has lead a search for new heavy scintillators and currently heads a project for the discovery of scintillation detector materials that uses automation to increase the rate of synthesis and characterization. He has authored or co-authored over 200 technical publications and seven patents. He has received two awards from the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society: the Merit Award in 1992 and the Radiation Instrumentation Outstanding Achievement Award in 2001. He became an IEEE Fellow in 2000. |
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Andrew Sonnenschein - Fermilab Andrew Sonnenschein is a Wilson Fellow at Fermilab. He received a PhD in 1999 from the University of California, Santa Barbara and did postdoctoral work at Princeton University and the University of Chicago. His research has focused on the development of novel techniques for the detection of dark matter particles and solar neutrinos. |
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Brian Lantz - Stanford University Dr. Lantz (Ph.D. Physics, MIT, 1999) is a Senior Research Scientist at Stanford University. He is the lead scientist for the Seismic Isolation and Alignment System for Advanced LIGO. |
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Daniel Palanker - Stanford University Daniel Palanker is an Associate Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology and in Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory at Stanford University. Dr. Palanker received PhD in Physics in 1994 from the Department of Applied Physics at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. He is working at the interface of physics and medicine studying the interactions of electric field and light with biological cells and tissues. He develops applications of these interactions to imaging, diagnostic, therapeutic, and prosthetic technologies. His current therapeutic research includes surgical techniques with cellular precision based on pulsed lasers and plasma-mediated electrical discharges, as well as electronic control of vasculature. In the field of prosthetics he is working on a high-resolution optoelectronic retinal prosthesis for restoration of sight in patients with retinal degeneration. He also develops a wide-field Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering Microscopy for medical imaging and diagnostics. |
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Hartmut F.-W. Sadrozinski - SCIPP, UC Santa Cruz Hartmut F.-W. Sadrozinski has been working on Tracking Systems for Colliding Beam applications since getting his Ph.D. from MIT. This started at SPEAR with the Princeton group, where he built the polymeter, a 4pi tracker surrounding the beam pipe to identify event topologies. After moving to the University of California at Santa Cruz, he worked on prototyping and building the drift chamber for Mark II Upgrade at the SLC. As part of this work he started to be interested in radiation damage effects, in this case the aging of gases. With the rise of silicon detectors he applied them to the Leading Proton Spectrometer at HERA, which included the first radiation hard readout electronics. His interest in optimizing silicon sensors and readout electronics with special attention to radiation hardness continued with the silicon tracking system for the SSC, and was extended to the LHC, where he was involved in the development of many of the concepts used in the Semiconductor Tracker (SCT) in ATLAS. Radiation effects played also a role in GLAST, the first large-scale application of silicon sensors in space. With T. Ohsugi, he lead the procurement of the 11,500 silicon sensors for GLAST, jump-starting the use of 6 wafers in the commercial production of silicon detectors. In GLAST he also lead the radiation testing program for sensors and ASICs, including single event effect (SEE) testing in Legnaro and Texas A&M. The work on radiation effects led to application of silicon detectors in radiology. For the proton therapy synchrotron at Loma Linda University Medical Center, he built silicon strip detector tracking systems for Nanodosimetry and for the development of proton CT. The ultimate challenge in radiation hardness for semiconductor detectors will come with the proposed upgrade of the LHC, and he has responded to this challenge within the CERN collaboration RD50 for the last four years. Recently, ATLAS has organized the upgrade R&D work, and he is co-leading a collaboration to develop silicon strip sensors for the inner tracking detector. |
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Henry Kapteyn - JILA and Department of Physics, University of Colorado and NIST, Boulder CO 80304 |
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John Bowers - University of California at Santa Barbara John E. Bowers is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is also CTO and cofounder of Calient Networks. His research interests are primarily concerned with silicon photonics, optoelectronic devices, optical switching and transparent optical networks. Prof. Bowers is cofounder of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Engineering Management, and founder of Terabit Technology. Prof. Bowers received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University. He worked for AT&T Bell Laboratories and Honeywell before joining UCSB. Dr. Bowers is a fellow of the IEEE, OSA and the American Physical Society, and a recipient of the IEEE LEOS William Streifer Award and the South Coast Business and Technology Entrepreneur of the Year Award. He was an elected member of the IEEE LEOS Board of Governors, a LEOS Distinguished Lecturer, and Vice President for Conferences for LEOS. He has published eight book chapters, 400 journal papers, 600 conference papers and has received 52 patents. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He and coworkers received the ACE Award for Most Promising Technology for the hybrid silicon laser in 2007. |
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Jerry Va'vra - SLAC Jerry Va'vra works at SLAC since 1978. Since coming to SLAC, he worked on LASS, HRS, SLD and BaBar experiments. He has experience with many types of detectors, including RICH detectors, both gaseous and vacuum-based types. He organized SLAC 1998-99 detector school on detector techniques, where he also lectured. He contributed to the OPAL central drift chamber development while a visitor of CERN in 1982-83, and was also a visitor at Weizmann Institute working on CsI photo-cathodes. He is currently leading an effort to develop novel PID detectors Focusing DIRC and high precision TOF counter, both possible candidates for the Super B factory. His undergraduate studies were done at Charles University in Prague and his diploma work at Physics Institute of Academy of Science in Prague. His Ph.D. was obtained in 1972 at McGill University in Montreal for experiments on Bevatron, LBL. He was a post-doc at Triumf/UBC and Carleton Universities in Canada. |
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Robert Johnson - University of California at Santa Cruz Robert Johnson is a Professor of Physics at the University of California at Santa Cruz. He received his B.S. in physics from the University of Kansas and Ph.D. from Stanford University in the field of Experimental High Energy Particle Physics. He has worked on colliding-beam experiments at SLAC and CERN, contributing to instrumentation, reconstruction software, and data analysis in the areas of two-photon physics, b physics, and electroweak physics. During the past decade he has worked exclusively on the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope mission, for which he led all of the development work on the silicon-strip tracker and served as the tracker subsystem manager during the engineering and fabrication stages. |
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Kent Irwin - National Institute of Science & Technology, Boulder Dr. Kent Irwin ENational Institute of Standards and Technology
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Takaaki Tanaka - KIPAC Takaaki Tanaka is a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow at KIPAC/SLAC, working on high energy astrophysics. He has been involved in development of semiconductor detectors for hard X-ray detection and study of cosmic-ray acceleration in supernova remnants. He received his Ph.D. from University of Tokyo in 2007 for work on study of non-thermal X-ray emission from supernova remnants using data from a Japanese X-ray astronomy satellite, Suzaku. Currently, he is mainly working on GLAST mission. |
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Harris Kagan - Ohio State University Harris Kagan is a Professor of Physics at the Ohio State University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in the field of Experimental High Energy Physics. During his career he has carried out a broadly based research program on b, charm and tau physics as well as detector development and front end analog electronics. He is an APS fellow and is presently a member of the ATLAS and BaBar experiments. He was a co-proposer of the idea and has been a leading force in the development of diamond based detectors. |
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Masashi Yokoyama - Kyoto University Masashi Yokoyama is an assistant professor at Kyoto University in Japan, working for accelerator neutrino experiments. Before coming to Kyoto in 2003, he had been involved in the Belle experiment as a graduate student at the University of Tokyo. He worked with the silicon vertex detector and the observation of time-dependent CP asymmetry in the B meson system. Currently he is working for T2K neutrino oscillation experiment as the convener of the muon monitor group and co-convener of the near detector photo-sensor working group. He has also spent past year at Fermilab to lead the commissioning of SciBooNE neutrino scattering experiment. |
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Carl Haber - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Carl Haber is an experimental particle physicist. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from Columbia University and is a Senior Scientist in the Physics Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory at the University of California. Most of his research interest involves the development of instrumentation and methods for precision tracking. He is member of the ATLAS and CDF collaborations. He has also worked on the application of optical metrology and image analysis to recorded sound restoration. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. |
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Gary S. Varner - University of Hawaii Gary Varner is a Professor of Physics at the University of Hawaii and directs his research interests in instrumentation development for particle and astroparticle physics through the Instrumentation Development Laboratory, which he founded and leads. Recently his team successfully developed the custom RF trigger and digitization electronics flown on the ANITA payload. Working toward the future, he is leading an effort to further improve low-power RF recording technology for a large volume terrestrial radio UHE neutrino detector at the South Pole. Remarkably similar sampling and readout technology is being concurrently explored for Super B-factory and ILC detector pixel vertex detectors, future particle identification techniques, as well as a semiconductor multiple Compton x-ray telescope. |
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Erik Heijne - CERN Dr Erik H.M. Heijne is instrumentation physicist at CERN, where he has worked on silicon devices since he came there in 1973. Most of his innovations were derived from ongoing technology developments in industry. At first a few hundred classical silicon diode particle detectors were installed in the neutrino beams, for measuring the muon flux and calculating the neutrino cross section. In 1980 he built with Paul Burger in Strasbourg the first silicon microstrip detectors, for which Pierre Jarron designed miniaturized readout amplifiers. In 1988 the UA2 inner Si pad detector was the first to use CMOS readout chips in a particle collider. In 1991 the first operational hybridized silicon pixel detector telescope was used in the CERN Omega spectrometer for tracks from lead ion interactions. Around 1990 Erik also developed the ideas for radiation hard CMOS chips in deep submicron together with Nelson Saks from NRL. Most recently, quantum particle imaging devices such as Medipix and Timepix have been used to record direct images of interactions and particle trajectories, with precisions well below 1 um. |
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Kirk Gilmore - SLAC D. Kirk Gilmore is the camera manager of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) and is a research physicist at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC). His background is with the development of astronomical instrumentation at large telescopes and building infrared instruments that he has used for observing occultation's and the Galactic Center on the Kuipper Airborne Observatory, He was responsible for major instrument development and commissioning at the Multiple Mirror Telescope and the Keck Observatory. |
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Joe Dwyer - Florida Institute of Technology n/a |
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Peter Weilhammer - CERN Peter Weilhammer holds at present a Visiting Professorship at the University of Perugia/Italy and he works as a visiting scientist at CERN |
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Jessamyn Fairfield - University of Pennsylvania |
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Cameron Geddes - LBNL Cameron Geddes is a scientist in the LOASIS program at LBNL working on laser driven high gradient particle accelerators. Previous fields included laser fusion at at Livermore Laboratory, and tokamak and spheromak plasmas. He received the Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 2005, and B.A. from Swarthmore college in 1997. |
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Joe Incandela - UC Santa Barbara Joe Incandela is a professor at UC Santa Barbara. More information is coming soon! |
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Peter Denes - LBNL Speaker's Bio: not available |
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Dr. Jesse Wodin - SLAC Jesse Wodin is currently a postdoc for Marty Briendebach at SLAC, working on the EXO neutrinoless double beta decay experiment. In 2007, Jesse received his PhD. from the Stanford Physics Department under Giorgio Gratta for work done on trapping and observing single Ba ions in a buffer gas, in addition to liquid Xe energy detector physics studies. Prior to this, Jesse worked under Peter Fisher at MIT on the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer. |
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Dr. Lothar Strder - Max-Planck-Institute Lothar Strder is a researcher at the Max-Planck-Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Munich (1987) and a Professor of Physics at the University of Siegen (2001). He is an expert in the development of Imaging X-ray detectors and applications of state-of- the-art semiconductor detector systems. Lothar has lead the MPI Semiconductor Laboratory (HLL) since 1990. This advanced laboratory provides silicon detectors for particle physics and X-ray astronomy not available commercially. The complete silicon technology of the HLL is adapted to the special requirements of semiconductor radiation detectors. Important features are in particular the ability to build wafer size defect free double sided detectors on ultrapure silicon. |
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Peter Hommelhoff - PostDoc Stanford Physics Department Since 2003 Peter Hommelhoff works as a postdoc in Mark Kasevich's lab in Stanford's Physics Department and is currently a Trimble SCPNT fellow. Prior to coming to Stanford he worked as a postdoc in Ted Hansch's lab at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics and Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. In the same lab in 2002 he obtained his PhD for the first demonstration of Bose-Einstein condensation in a magnetic microtrap ('chip trap') and follow-up experiments. Dr. Hommelhoff holds a Diploma in Physics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich. |
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Helmuth Spieler - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory American born and educated in Germany, Helmuth Spieler returned to the US in 1982 as a staff scientist at LBNL where he is a leading expert in the development of semiconductor detectors, readout electronics and signal-processing techniques. His recent book, Semiconductor Detector Systems, has become an instant classic in the field and he is much sought after as a reviewer and lecturer on both detector technologies and readout electronics. Helmuth currently leads an effort to develop new instrumentation for measuring the cosmic microwave background (CMB), for which significant advances are required to achieve the sensitivity necessary for the next generation of experiments. |