I grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota and stayed north by attending Bates College in Lewiston, Maine where I received a Bachelor's degree in Physics and Mathematics in 1992. Continuing my northern tour took me to the University of Wisconsin at Madison where I earned a Ph.D. in Physics in 1998. I spent a few years further south as a Research Associate at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee before moving to the University of Colorado at Boulder where I am an Assistant Professor in the Physics Department in the particle physics group.
I have been working in experimental high energy physics, aka particle physics, since 1995. Until recently, all of the experiments I have been involved in were at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory outside of Chicago and involved the investigation of the properties of charm and beauty quarks as part of the E791, FOCUS, and BTeV collaborations. I have begun working on the CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) experiment which will be located inside the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. The LHC is scheduled to turn on in 2007 and will open up a new energy frontier for particle physics. At CMS we hope to discover the Higgs particle which is responsible for giving mass to most of the fundamental particles. We will also be searching for exciting new phenomena such as supersymmetry which predicts that all of the fundamental particles have supersymmetric partners which have heretofore been unobserved.
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| University of Colorado | 580 Homestead St | |
| Department of Physics | Lafayette, CO 80026 | |
| Campus Box 390 | ||
| Boulder, CO 80309-0390 | (720) 530-9634 (cell) | |
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