Speakers
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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. |
