Blogging Toward Startup
Thursday, June 12th, 2008US LHC Bloggers
http://www.interactions.org/LHC/
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Rene BellwiedI am a Physics Professor at Wayne State University in Detroit, and I am presently involved in the STAR experiment at RHIC and ALICE at LHC. ALICE will be the most versatile heavy ion detector at the LHC, and I am looking forward to using the detector to determine properties of the Quark Gluon Plasma in order to understand the origin of matter in the universe. |
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Freya BlekmanOriginally from Amsterdam, the Netherlands, I now work at CERN as a Research Associate for Cornell University. Working as a physicist in the CMS collaboration, I am permanently based at CERN. My time is split between making sure the CMS pixel detector is ready and doing software and algorithm preparation so CMS can analyze data once collisions start. |
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Ken BloomI am an assistant professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, involved with the CMS experiment at the LHC and the DØ experiment at Fermilab. Since 2005 I have been the project manager for the 7 US CMS Tier-2 computing sites, and I also co-lead a working group at Fermilab’s LHC Physics Center. |
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Rama CalagaI graduated from SUNY Stony Brook in 2006 and now belong to the rare breed called “accelerator physicists.” I am at the end of my Toohig Fellowship under the U.S. LHC Accelerator Research Program, through which I worked on the LHC. I will soon start an Assistant Physicist position at BNL, but will continue to work on LHC commissioning and upgrade projects. |
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Monica DunfordI started college at the University of California, Irvine intending to major in chemistry, maybe math but absolutely under NO circumstance physics. Ten years later, I find myself with a B.S. in physics from UCI and Ph.D. in the subject from the University of Pennsylvania and an Enrico Fermi Fellowship working on the LHC experiment ATLAS with the University of Chicago. |
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Pamela KlabbersI am an Associate Scientist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. I work for the portion of the UW Compact Muon Solenoid group responsible for constructing the Regional Calorimeter Trigger for CMS at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. |
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Steve NahnI’ve been an Assistant Professor of Physics at MIT for the last few years, currently working on the CMS experiment at the LHC, as well as teaching, playing some soccer, sailing, and goofing off with my wife and kids. |
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Peter SteinbergI am a physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), working on two experiments at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (PHOBOS & PHENIX), but spending most of my time preparing a proposal to do heavy ion physics with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. I have been at BNL for the last 7 years. |
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Adam YurkewiczI am a postdoc for SUNY Stony Brook, working on the ATLAS experiment at CERN and living in nearby France. I’m helping commission the Liquid Argon Calorimeter and writing and testing part of the reconstruction software dealing with Missing ET, which means that most of my time is spent analyzing data and writing software. I was born and raised in Queens, New York. |
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Seth ZenzI am a graduate student at the University of California, working with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory group on the ATLAS experiment and living in Geneva, Switzerland. My major focus at the moment is on testing the experiment’s offline software and preparing to write my Ph.D. thesis. In my spare time, I have taught math and physics to inmates and an hour-long gravity lesson to second-graders. |