William Alfredo Loinaz

Oﬃce Department of Physics Amherst College Amherst, MA 01002

EDUCATION: Ph.D. in Physics, July 1995 THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, Ann Arbor, MI. Doctoral Thesis: EXCLUSIVE SEMILEPTONIC AND RADIATIVE DECAYS OF B BARYONS TO LIGHT BARYONS M.S. in Physics, May 1991 THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, Ann Arbor, MI. B.S.E in Mechanical Engineering, Certiﬁcate in Engineering Physics, May 1989: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, Princeton, NJ. Undergraduate Thesis: AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE USE OF STIMULATED RAMAN SCATTERING FROM O2 FOR USE IN TAGGING SUPERSONIC AIRFLOWS

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE: Visiting Researcher (July 2007-present) UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AT AMHERST. Associate Professor (July 2007-present) AMHERST COLLEGE. KITP Scholars Program (2003-2005) KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS (UNIVER- SITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SANTA BARBARA). Assistant Professor (July 2000-June 2007) AMHERST COLLEGE. Visiting Researcher (July 2003-July 2004) UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AT AMHERST. Fermilab Summer Visitors Program (July/August 1999) FERMILAB. Research in electroweak phenomenology, strong coupling gauge theories. Postdoctoral Research Associate (1997-2000) VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNI- VERSITY. Research in electroweak and Higgs physics, gauge theories, perturbative QCD, lattice field theory, SUSY and strongly-coupled extensions to the Standard Model. Postdoctoral Research Associate (1995-1997) THE UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH. Research in perturbative QCD as applied to B physics, Higgs physics, and lattice field theory. Fermilab Summer Visitors Program (July/August 1995) FERMILAB. Research in perturbative QCD, and B physics. Research Assistant (1992-1995) THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN with Prof. R. Akhoury. Research in chiral perturbation theory, perturbative QCD, and B physics. Research Assistant (1991-1992) THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN with Prof. J.W. Rasul. Research in condensed matter theory, including the two-impurity Kondo problem and strong-coupling expansions. Research Assistant (1990-1991) THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN with Prof. D. Gidley. Research in experimental atomic physics, concentrating on fabrication of high-intensity positron sources. Undergraduate Research Assistant (1988-1989) PRINCETON UNIVERSITY with Prof. R. B. Miles. Experimental research in laser tagging of hypersonic airflows and nonlinear Raman spectroscopy, theoretical work on molecular spectroscopy.

EXTERNAL FUNDING: NSF Grant 0521169 MRI: Interdisciplinary Cluster Computing at a Liberal Arts College ($298,839), co-PI (09/05-09/08).

AWARDS: Faculty Research Award Program (FRAP) Grant (2007) AMHERST COLLEGE ($6,000). Class of 1952 Dean Eugene S. Wilson Faculty Development Fellowship (2003) AMHERST COL- LEGE. Rackham Discretionary Funds Grant (1993) THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN. DSO Fellowship (1992) THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: Referee for Journal of Physics A (1999-present). Referee for Physical Review D (1999-present). Referee for American Journal of Physics (2001-present). Referee for Physical Review Letters (2007-present). Member of American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) (1999-present). Member of Sigma Xi (2002-present). Member of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2003-present). Member of Mathematical Association of America (MAA) (2003-present). Member of National Society of Hispanic Physicists (2005-present). Member of American Mathematical Society (2006-present). Member of American Physical Society (2006-present). Physics Editor, American Journal of Undergraduate Research (2002-2007). Founding member and Liaison to Amherst College, Anacapa Society (July 2007-present). Electroweak Working Group Coordinator, Neutrino Scattering on Glass (NuSOnG) Experiment (October 2007-present).

TEACHING EXPERIENCE: Amherst College Physics 98: Special Topics: Cardiac Electrophysiology. S06 Physics 98: Special Topics: General Relativity. S05 Physics 75: Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics. F00, F01 Physics 53: Quantum Mechanics II. F04 Physics 52: Electromagnetic Theory II. F05 Physics 47: Electromagnetic Theory I. F06 Physics 43: Dynamics. F04, F05 Physics 40: Topics in Contemporary Physics. S01 (with K. Jagannathan and R. Hilborn) Physics 34: Waves, Optics and Thermal Physics [with lab]. S01 (lecture only), S02, S03 Physics 33: Electricity and Magnetism [with lab]. F02 Physics 26: Intermediate Lab. S07 (with J. Friedman) Physics 24: Maxwellian Synthesis. S07 Physics 16: Introductory Mechanics [with lab]. F00 (lab only), F01 (with K. Jagannathan), S05, S06, F06 (with K. Jagannathan)

Amherst College Senior Theses Sarang Gopalakrishnan ’06: Self-adjointness and the renormalization of singular potentials David Schaich ’06: Lattice simulations of non-perturbative quantum ﬁeld theories Jessica A. Cabot ’03: Constraints on the Higgs sector beyond the Standard Model Ross C. O’Connell ’02: Understanding quantum carpets Christopher J. Bednarzyk ’01: Monte Carlo studies of some quantum ﬁeld theories Summer Students Supervised Sarang Gopalakrishnan ’06 (2004, 2005)

University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) Teaching Assistantships Quantum Field Theory I, under M. J. G. Veltman (1994) Graduate Mechanics, under K. T. Hecht (1993) Introductory Mechanics for Sciences (Comprehensive Studies Program), under G. Tarle (1991) Introductory Mechanics and EM for Sciences (Keller Program), under D. N. Williams and J. P. Krisch (1990-1993) Introductory Mechanics for Sciences Labs, under M. Longo (1989-1990)

CONFERENCES ATTENDED: Aspen Winter Conference on Particle Physics: Revealing the Nature of Electroweak Symmetry Breaking (January 13-19, 2008), Aspen Center for Physics. Local organizer of Northeast Regional Meeting of the Anacapa Society (January 4-6, 2008), Amherst College. KITP Theorists at Undergraduate Institutions Workshop (July 2007). Gordon Research Conference on Nuclear Physics (July 2007). Mellon-8 Workshop on the Teaching of Introductory Electromagnetism, Smith College (June 25-26, 2007). Gordon Research Conference on Physics Research and Education: Electrodynamics (June 2006). Computation and Modeling–the Undergraduate Arena, Oberlin OH (November 2005). Gordon Research Conference on Physics Research and Education: Classical and Nonlinear Dynamics (June 2004). KITP Theorists at Undergraduate Institutions Workshop (July 2003). Argonne National Lab Theoretical Institute on SUSY and Higgs 2000. PHENO 2000, Madison, Wisconsin. All-Virginia Theory Conference/Franzfest 1997. SLAC Summer Institute 1996: The Strong Interaction, from Hadrons to Partons. Theoretical Advanced Science Institute (TASI) 1994. Hard Problems in Mathematical Physics: P. Federbush 60th Birthday Symposium 1994. Great Lakes Cosmology Workshop 1993. Group Theory and Special Symmetries of Nuclear Physics 1991. Gauge Theories Past and Future: Martinus Veltman 60th Birthday Symposium 1991. Time Reversal: Art Rich Memorial Symposium 1991. International Conference on Atomic Physics (ICAP) 1991.

TALKS PRESENTED: NuSOnGs about New Physics: using neutrinos to illuminate physics beyond the Standard Model. December 4, 2007 University of Massachusetts at Amherst November 30, 2007 University of New Brunswick at Frederickton Elephants all the way down?. April 26, 2006 Amherst College Faculty Colloquium Looking beyond the Standard Model. May 13, 2005 Williams College NuTeV, neutrino mixing, and a heavy Higgs. January 6, 2006 University of Pittsburgh December 2, 2003 University of Massachusetts at Amherst The curse of getting what you wish for: the Standard Model of Elementary Particles and the Search for What’s Behind It. November 20, 2003 Wellesley College September 19, 2003 Trinity College July 23, 2003 KITP Miniconference: Theorists at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions April 25, 2002 Clark University October 25, 2001 Mt. Holyoke College February 3, 2000 Amherst College Precision electroweak vs. New Physics. October 10, 2000 University of Massachusetts at Amherst Precision electroweak vs. R-parity violation. May 4, 2000 Argonne National Lab Theoretical Institute on SUSY and Higgs 2000 (ANL) April 18, 2000 PHENO 2000 (Madison, Wisconsin) Constraints on TopColor-Assisted Technicolor Models from Vertex Corrections. October 20, 1999 Carnegie-Mellon University/University of Pittsburgh October 19, 1999 Michigan State University April 2, 1999 Johns Hopkins University March 2, 1999 University of Virginia (Charlottesville) February 5, 1999 University of Cincinnati Supersymmetry Made Easy: Quantum Mechanics. Fall 1997 (series of talks), Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University Gauge Dependence of Higgs Mass Bounds Derived From Electroweak Vacuum Stability Constraints. October 12, 1997 All-Virginia Theory Conference, College of William & Mary June 14, 1997 Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University February 24, 1997 Argonne National Lab February 11, 1997 Carnegie-Mellon University/University of Pittsburgh Exclusive Heavy-Light Decays Using Perturbative QCD. December 1995 Carnegie-Mellon University/University of Pittsburgh

PUBLICATIONS:

“Neutrissimo models and the U parameter”, Will Loinaz, Tatsu Takeuchi and Rohana Wijewardhana, (in preparation). (A) 4 “An improved lattice measurement of the critical coupling in the φ2 theory”, D. A. Schaich, Will Loinaz, R. S. Willey, (in preparation). (A*) “Self-adjoint extensions and the one-dimensional Coulomb problem”, S. Gopalakrishnan, Will Loinaz, (in preparation). (A*) “Renormalization of singular potentials in quantum mechanics”, S. Gopalakrishnan, Will Loinaz, (in preparation). (A*) “Theory of neutrinos: A white paper”, R. N. Mohapatra et al., hep-ph/0510213. (A) “Theory of neutrinos,” (Part of the APS Neutrino Study), R. N. Mohapatra et al., hep-ph/0412099. (A) “Phenomenology of not-so-heavy neutral leptons: the NuTeV anomaly, lepton universality, and non-universal neutrino-gauge couplings”, Tatsu Takeuchi and Will Loinaz, hep-ph/0410201, Talk given at YITP Work- shop 2004 on Progress in Particle Physics, Kyoto, Japan, 8-11 Jul 2004. (A) “The NuTeV Anomaly, Lepton Universality, and Non-Universal Neutrino-Gauge Couplings”, Will Loinaz, Naotoshi Okamura, Saifuddin Rayyan,Tatsu Takeuchi and L.C.R. Wijewardhana, hep-ph/0403306, Phys. Rev. D 70 113004 (2004). (AU) “Multimode Interference: Identifying Channels and Ridges in Quantum Probability Distributions”, Ross C. O’Connell and Will Loinaz, quant-ph/0403032. (AU*) “Quark-Lepton Unification and Lepton Flavor Non-Conservation from a TeV-scale Seesaw Neutrino Mass Texture”, Will Loinaz, Naotoshi Okamura, Saifuddin Rayyan,Tatsu Takeuchi and L.C.R. Wijewardhana, hep-ph/0304004, Phys. Rev. D 68 073001 (2003). (A) “The W mass and the U parameter”, T. Takeuchi, W. Loinaz, N. Okamura and L. C. R. Wijewardhana, hep-ph/0304203. Talk given at 2002 International Workshop on Strong Coupling Gauge Theories and Effective Field Theories (SCGT 02), Nagoya, Japan, 10-13 Dec 2002. Published in *Nagoya 2002, Strong coupling gauge theories and effective field theories* 380-386. (A) “The NuTeV Anomaly, Neutrino Mixing, and a Heavy Higgs”, Will Loinaz, Naotoshi Okamura, Tatsu Takeuchi and L.C.R. Wijewardhana, hep-ph/0210193, Phys. Rev. D 67, 073012 (2003). (A) “Supersymmetry and electroweak leptonic observables”, Oleg Lebedev and Will Loinaz, hep-ph/0106056, Phys. Rev. D 65 033005 (2002). (A) “Universal torsion-induced interactions from large extra dimensions”, Tatsu Takeuchi, Lay Nam Chang, Oleg Lebedev and Will Loinaz, hep-ph/0012186. Talk given at 5th International Linear Collider Workshop (LCWS 2000), Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, 24-28 Oct 2000. (P)

“Constraints on gauged B − 3Lτ and related theories”, Lay Nam Chang, Oleg Lebedev, Will Loinaz and Tatsu Takeuchi, hep-ph/0010118, Phys. Rev. D 63 074013 (2001). (P) “Critical dimensions of the diffusion equation”, Tim Newman and Will Loinaz, cond-mat/0009365, Phys. Rev. Lett. 86 2712 (2001). (A) “Constraints on R-Parity violation from precision electroweak measurements”, Tatsu Takeuchi, Oleg Lebedev and Will Loinaz, hep-ph/0009180. Talk given at 30th International Conference on High-Energy Physics (ICHEP 2000), Osaka, Japan, 27 Jul - 2 Aug 2000. (P) “Constraining New Physics with Vertex Corrections”, Tatsu Takeuchi, Oleg Lebedev and Will Loinaz, hep- ph/0006031. Talk given at TMU - Yale Symposium on Dynamics of Gauge Fields: An External Activity of APCTP, Tokyo, Japan, 13-15 Dec 1999. (P) “Universal Torsion-Induced Interaction from Large Extra Dimensions”, Lay Nam Chang, Oleg Lebedev, Will Loinaz and Tatsu Takeuchi, hep-ph/0005236, Phys. Rev. Lett. 85 3765 (2000). (P) “Constraints on two-Higgs doublet models at large tan β from W and Z decays”, Oleg Lebedev, Will Loinaz and Tatsu Takeuchi, hep-ph/0002106, Phys. Rev. D 62 055014 (2000). (B) “Constraints on R-parity violating couplings from LEP/SLD hadronic observables”, Oleg Lebedev, Will Loinaz, and Tatsu Takeuchi, hep-ph/9911479, Phys. Rev. D 62 015003 (2000). (B) “Constraints on R-parity violating couplings from lepton universality”, Oleg Lebedev, Will Loinaz, and Tatsu Takeuchi, hep-ph/9910435, Phys. Rev. D 61 115005 (2000). (B) “Precision tests of electroweak physics”, Tatsu Takeuchi, Will Loinaz, and Aaron Grant, hep-ph/9904207. Talk given at 13th Topical Conference on Hadron Collider Physics, Mumbai, India, 14-20 Jan 1999. (B) “Charge assignments in multiple U(1) gauge theories”, Will Loinaz and Tatsu Takeuchi, hep-ph/9903227, Phys. Rev. D 60 115008 (1999). (B) “Quantum carpets and revivals in some exactly solvable systems”, Will Loinaz and T.J. Newman, quant- ph/9902039, J. Phys. A 32 8889 (1999). (B) “Constraints on topcolor-assisted technicolor models from vertex corrections”, Will Loinaz and Tatsu Takeuchi, hep-ph/9812377, Phys. Rev. D 60 015005 (1999). (B) “Higgs boson interactions in supersymmetric theories with large tan beta”, Will Loinaz and James D. Wells, hep-ph/9808287, Phys. Lett. B 445 178 (1998). (B) “Monte Carlo simulation calculation of critical coupling for continuum φ4 in two-dimensions”, Will Loinaz and R.S. Willey, hep-lat/9712008, Phys. Rev. D 58 076003 (1998). (B) “Gauge invariant Higgs mass bounds from the physical effective potential”, D. Boyanovsky, Will Loinaz, and R.S. Willey, hep-ph/9705340, Phys. Rev. D 57 100 (1998). (B) “Gauge invariant effective potentials and Higgs mass bounds”, A. Duncan, Will Loinaz, and R.S. Willey, hep-ph/9704425, Phys. Rev. D 56 3874 (1997). (B) “Gauge dependence of lower bounds on the Higgs mass from electroweak vacuum stability constraints”, Will Loinaz and R.S. Willey, hep-ph/9702321, Phys. Rev. D 56 7416 (1997). (B) “Exclusive semileptonic decays of b-baryons into protons”, Will Loinaz and R. Akhoury, hep-ph/9505378, Phys. Rev. D 53 1416 (1996). (B) “Perturbation theory for the two-impurity Kondo problem – RKKY-induced vanishing of the Kondo tem- perature”, W. Loinaz, J. Rasul and P. Schlottman, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 5 4035 (1993). (B) (B) Based on research performed prior to employment by Amherst College (P) Based on research performed partially at Amherst College, partially at Virginia Tech (AU) Based on research performed partially at Amherst College, partially at University of Massachusetts at Amherst (A) Based on research performed exclusively at Amherst College (*) Co-author is an Amherst College student

Service to Amherst College: College Committees. Health Professions Committee (July 2002-July 2003, July 2004-July 2006) Hughes Committee (July 2006-June 2007) Phoebe and Zephaniah Swift Moore Awards Committee (Spring 2007) Committee on Health and Safety (July 2006-June 2007) Physics Department Activities. Physics weekly colloquium organizer (July 2001-July 2003, July 2004-July 2007) [arranged visits of three Eastman Fund lecturers, obtained for the department three APS Travel Grants for Women Speakers] Member of department committee to reform department curriculum (2002) Organized “Feynman Fridays” in the Physics department (2002-2003) Participated in preparing Jonathan Friedman’s tenure case

Service to the College. Helped arrange for Amherst College to become permanent host of Anacapa Society Local organizer for Northeast Regional meeting of Anacapa Society at Amherst College, Jan 4-6 2008 Advised students and alumni on graduate school in physics and related ﬁelds Advised students on oﬀ-campus summer research opportunities in physics Advised students on engineering careers Coordinated study into the possibility of establishing engineering exchange programs with research univer- sities (2005-2007) Participated in grant to bring Internet 2 to Amherst Participating in construction and development of high-performance computing facilities at Amherst Advised students on computing matters, especially high-performance computing, LaTeX, Linux, and Math- ematica Participated in Diversity Panels (two in fall 2005, one in spring 2006) to recruit students of color Participated in Early Write-o-Rama (spring 2006) to attract early admits Regular participant in Mellon Foundation lunch meetings on teaching Participant in Quantitative Skills working group discussions (2005-2006)