Curriculum Vitae Roy Frederick Schwitters August, 2013
Personal Information: Date, Place of Birth: June 20, 1944 Seattle, Washington Citizenship: U.S. Marital Status: Married, 3 children email address: schwitters@physics.utexas.edu
Education S.B., Physics, M.I.T., 1966 Ph.D., Physics, M.I.T., 1971
Research Interests Experimental High Energy Physics
Professional Employment 1990 – present S.W. Richardson Regents Professor of Physics The University of Texas at Austin (1990 – 1994 0% time) (1994 – present 100% time) 2001 – 2005 Chair, UT Department of Physics 1989 – 1993 Director, Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory 1979 – 1990 Professor of Physics, Harvard University 1977 – 1979 Associate Professor, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center 1974 – 1977 Assistant Professor, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center 1971 – 1974 Research Associate, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Professional Activities (Partial List) 2013 – present Member, LLNL Global Security Directorate Review Committee 2013 – present Member, LLNL National Ignition Facility Management Advisory Committee 2011 – present Member, American Physical Society, Panel on Public Affairs (POPA) 2011 – present Member, LLNL Physical and Life Sciences External Review Committee 2009 – present Member, ATLAS-Canada Standing Review Committee, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada 2008 – present Member, LLNL Weapons and Complex Integration Directorate Review Committee 1996 – present Member, JASON (Chair of Steering Committee 2004-2011) 2007 – 2010 Member, LANL Weapons Science and Engineering Capabilities
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Review Committee, (Chair 2007-2009). 2004 – 2010 Member, NNSA Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) Predictive Science Panel 1991 – 1996 Member, International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA) 1989 – 1997 Member, Extended Scientific Council of DESY 1988 – 1991 Member, Commission Physical Sciences, Mathematics and Resources, National Research Council 1981 – 1984 Member, High Energy Physics Advisory Committee, U.S. Dept. of Energy 1981 – 1984 Member, Advisory Committee for Physics, National Science Foundation 1980 – 1983 Divisional Associate Editor for Particles and Fields, Physical Review Letters 1978 – 1989 Associate Editor, Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science
Professional Associations Fellow, American Physical Society Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Awards and Honors Sigma Xi Award, Stanford University, 1975 Alan T. Waterman Award, National Science Foundation, 1980 Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1987 Member, Texas Philosophical Society, 1992 Honorary Doctor of Laws, Southwest Adventist College, 1993 Panofsky Prize, American Physical Society, 1996 Humboldt Research Prize, A. von Humboldt Foundation, 1998
Selected Publications 1. (with Augustin, J.E.; Boyarski, A.M.; Breidenbach, M.; et al) “Dis- covery of a Narrow Resonance in e+ e− Annihilation”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 33, 1406-8 (Dec. 2, 1974).
2. (with K. Strauch),“The Physics of e+ e− Collisions”, Annual Review of Nuclear Science 26, 89-149 (1976).
3. “Fundamental Particles with Charm”, Scientific American 237, No. 4, 56-70 (October 1977). August 2013 3
4. (with Quigg, C.) “Elementary Particle Physics and the Superconduct- ing Super Collider”, Science 231, 1522 (1986).
5. (with Abe, F., et al) “The CDF Detector: An Overview”, Nuclear Instruments and Methods A27l, 387 (1988).
6. (with Gerald F. Dugan, James R. Sanford, et al), “Superconducting Super Collider A Retrospective Summary 1989-1993”, SSCL-SR-1235 (April 1994).
7. “Unexpected Windfall” from The Particle Century, G. Fraser, ed., Institute of Physics Publishing, Bristol and Philadelphia (1998).