Mayda M. VELASCO Northwestern University, Dept. of and Astronomy 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208, USA Phone: Work: +1 847 467 7099 Cell: +1 847 571 3461 E-mail: [email protected] Last Updated: May 2016

Research Interest – High Experimental Elementary : Work toward the understanding of fundamental interactions and its important role in: (a) solving the problem of CP violation in the Universe – Why is there more matter than anti- matter?; (b) explaning how is generated – Higgs mechanism and (c) finding the particle nature of Dark-Matter, if any... The required “new” physics phenomena is accessible at the Large (LHC) at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). I am an active member of the Compact (CMS) collaboration already collect- ing data at the LHC, that led to the discovery of the Higgs or “God particle” in 2012.

Education:

• Ph.D. 1995: Northwestern University (NU) Experimental Particle Physics • 1995: Sicily, Italy ERICE: Spin Structure of Nucleon • 1994: Sorento, Italy CERN Summer School • B.S. 1988: University of Puerto Rico (UPR) Physics (Major) and Math (Minor) Rio Piedras Campus

Fellowships and Honors:

• 2015: NU, The Graduate School (TGS) Dean’s Faculty Award for Diversity. • 2008-09: Paid leave of absence sponsored by US Department of Energy (DOE). • 2002-04: Sloan Research Fellow from Sloan Foundation. • 2002-03: Woodrow Wilson Fellow from Mellon Foundation. • 1999: CERN Achievement Award – Post-doctoral. • 1996-98: CERN Fellowship with Experimental Physics Division – Post-doctoral. • 1989-1995: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory(FNAL)/URA Fellow – Doctoral. • 1989: FNAL/URA Fellowship – Summer Intership – undergraduate. • 1984-1988: “Grupo de los 100” in “Ciencias Naturales”, UPR – undergraduate.

Employment:

• 2011 - Present: Full Professor, Northwestern University. • 2014 - Present: Director, COFI:“Instituto de Cosmologia y Fisica de las Americas”. • 2005 - 2011: Associate Professor, Northwestern University. • 1999 - 2005: Assistant Professor, Northwestern University. • 1998 - 1999: Scientific Staff: CERN. • 1996 - 1997: Scientific Fellow: CERN. • 1987 - 1988: Tutor Puerto Rico Junior College, Rio Piedras, P.R. Research Related Responsibilities, Service and Scholarly Recognitions: International • Member of the (CMS) collaboration (since July 2005). • Inivited to the Fundamental Physics Prize Ceremony for Higgs Discovery involvement at CMS (2013). • Proponent of SAPPHIRE: Small Accelerator for γγ Higgs production using Recirculating (2012). • (CLIC) Advisory Board Member (since 2005). • Member of NA48, NA48-1 and NA48-2 CP-violation in Kaon experiments at CERN since 1996, 2002 and 2003, respectively. • NA48-2 analysis coordinator for semileptonic decays (2003-07). • Co-spokesperson of NA59 experiment at CERN (since 1998). • Internatioanl referee: Denmark, Finland, Greece, India, and UK.

National • Selected as a High Energy Physics Advisory Panel (HEPAP) member to advice the federal goverment (since 2015). • Served on DOE Comperative Review Panels for researcher in the “Energy Frontier”. • Proponent of HFiTT: Higgs Factory in Tunnel at Fermi National Lab. (2013). • Co-convener, at the American Physical Society’s Division of Particles and Fields long term planning exercise (SNOWMASS) in 2013, for sub-group: Rare decays. • Co-convener for the γγ collider USA working group of American Linear Collider Physics Group (ALCPG) (since 2002). • Co-convener, at SNOWMASS-2001, for group studying γγ . • Co-convener at FNAL of Physics Study Group (2001-02): Case for a brighter proton booster at FNAL.

Additional CMS and LHC Responsibilities, Service and Scholarly Recognitions:

International • Coordinating the CMS physics group (starting in 2016). • Coordinating the Higgs to Zγ and Dalitz decays γ∗γ → ``γ effort (since 2012). • Hadron Calorimeter (HCAL) Editorial and Conference Committee (2015). • HCAL Internal Review Committee – Readiness for 2015 data taking (2013-14). • Member of more than a dozen different “Analysis Referee Committee” (2010-13). • LHC Wide Minimum Bias and Underlying Event Working Group Member (2010-12). • LHC Wide Higgs Working Group Member (since 2011). • Prompt Feedback Analysis Group co-convener (2010-11). • HCAL Detector Performance Group co-convener (2007-09). • CMS Institutional Board Member (since 2007). • HCAL Institutional Board Member (since 2005). • HCAL calibration co-convener (2006-07). National

• LHC Physics Center at FNAL Guest Program Committee Member (2010-16). • CMS/ATLAS Ph.D. Student Career Study Committee Member (2010). • LHC Adviser to CMS Remote Operation Center at FNAL (2008). • US-CMS Institutional Board Member (since 2007).

Physics and Astronomy Department Related Responsibilities and Service:

• Director of Undergraduate Studies (2014-2015). • Department Executive Committee (2011-14). • Graduate Admissions (many occasions); Current Chair. • Colloquium Committee (2011-13); Chair. • Faculty Search Committee (2011-12 - Chair) Particle Astrophysics Experimental – joint appointment with Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Aurora IL. • Faculty Search Committee (2010-2011, 2011-2012) Particle Physics Experimental. • Faculty Search Committee (2006-2007, 2009-2010 Chair) Particle Physics Theory. – joint appointment with Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL. • Upgrade committee for laboratories used in courses (3 years in early 2000’s).

University Related Responsibilities and Service:

• Chair of Executive Committee of the Faculty Appeals Panel (since 2014). • Member of Faculty Tenure Decision Appeal Committee (2014). • Graduate School Diversity Fellowship Committee (multiple occasions). • Diversity Recruting for TGS (multiple occasions): Spelman College, Morehouse Univ., Howard Univ., University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez and Rio Piedras Campuses. • Committee member for inquiry from the Office for Research Integrity (2012). • Panel member to discuss how to succeed as a young faculty. • Panel member to discuss how to succeed in graduate school and beyond (URM related activities, latest in April 2014). • Freshman Adviser for Weinberg College (multiple occasions).

Developer of an International Scientific Institute: I am the director and founder of an initiative to create a Physics institute in San Juan, Puerto Rico: “Colegio de Fisica Fundamental e interdicplinaria de las Americas” (COFI, icofi.org) is an independent center to be active in theoretical, computational, and experimental disciplines. Members from the scientific and academic community from Latin America, Europe and the United States gathered in San Juan for four days at the beginning of November of 2014 for the inauguration. Two of the events featured the 2011 Physics Nobel Laureate, Prof. Adam Riess. Progress on the COFI initiative: Newsletter: http://diablo.phys.northwestern.edu/∼mvelasco/COFI NewsLetter Fall 2014.pdf The video link for the public lecture is provided below (I speak around minute 52): video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bdLDRDMEYI Work in Progress and Research Experience:

Present: Full Professor, Northwestern University • Participating in the CMS experiment at the at CERN: − Higgs working group: (a) low and high mass Higgs (H → Zγ - Brian Pollack thesis), and (b) Higgs Dalitz decays γ∗γ → 2lγ (Andrey Pozdnyakov thesis) and (c) search for Higgs production in Flavor-Changing-Neutral-Current top decays (Nathaniel Odell thesis). − Top : Flavor-Changing-Neutral-Current in t → Zq (Steve Won thesis). • Beam instrumentation at CMS: − Beam monitoting and protation working group. My students working mostly with with BPTX, BSC, BCM and FSC. • Higgs Factories: − Developing low cost photon-photon colliders and Higgs Factories to study CP violation in the Higgs sector – SAPPHIRE at CERN and HFiTT at FNAL. • Participating in the R&D oCalorimeters based on RPC and : − working on CMS high granularity calorimeters for the high luminosity LHC. − Finished: joined Argonne Nat. Lab. group working on calorimeters for future colliders based on Resistive Pad Chambers and Particle Flow reconstruction techniques, two Ph.D. students involved in this effort.

Summer 2005 - Spring 2011: Associate Professor, Northwestern University • Participating in the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN: − Main responsibilities for calibration and reconstruction of the hadron calorimeter data and determining its performance – offline software/Database, calibration system/test beam/special runs/collision data. Special effort on developing tools to remove instrumen- tation effects that could affect jet and missing energy reconstruction. Work summarized in Ref.1-3. − Analysis efforts in low-PT QCD group: (a) dN/dη determination for non-diffractive events and (b) Double parton scattering • Participating in LHC wide working group: − MBUEWG: Minimun Bias and Underlying Event Working Group for tuning MC physics generator (ATLAS, ALICE, CMS and LHCb). − Luminosity: based on single track events for comparison purposes (ATLAS, ALICE, CMS, LHCb). • CMS-LHC Beam Interface working group: − working on beam instrumentation for CMS using diamond detector, RF-pickup, etc. Upgrade needed, two Ph.D. student involved in this effort. • Participating in the CLIC test facility (CTF3): − focus on instrumentation development: beam loss monitor and pulse length measure- ment with RF-pickup. Nov. 1999 - Spring 2005: Assistant Professor, Northwestern University ± • Participating in NA48-1 and NA48-2 experiments at CERN: CP–Violation in Ks and K : − special focus on semileptonic decays in both kaons and hyperons to extract Vus CKM 0 matrix element, and first observation for Ks → π ll (l = e, µ). • Feasibility studies for a γγ-collider as a Higgs Particle Factory based on CLIC technology, to have a low energy as an intermediate steps toward a multi-TeV collider: − co-leader of American γγ study group. − involved in CLIC machine R&D at the CTF3 facility at CERN. − collaborating with LLNL and CLIC members. • Technological development with Richardson Electronics LTD: − radiation-hard -sealed ionization chambers for high counting rate environments. − detector originally developed for NUMI/MINOS, used at CTF3. • Finalizing the analysis of the data from the NA59 experiment that was taken in the summer of 2000: − crystals as high energy polarizers and polarimeters. • Feasibility studies for new experiments at FNAL using the NUMI-beamline facilities and/or muon storage ring: − next generation of neutrino oscillation experiments (over 100 citations).

Jan. 1998-Oct. 1999: Research Staff: European Center for Particle Research (CERN) • Proposed and ran the NA59 experiment: “Use of crystals to produce linearly/circularly polarized photon beams starting from unpolarized electrons” • The NA48 experiment:CP–Violation in the neutral kaon system: − continue with NA48 responsibilities listed below. − participated in the direct-CP violation measurement, 0/, 1998-data.

Jan. 1996-Dec. 1997: Scientific Fellow: European Center for Particle Research (CERN) • The NA48 experiment:CP–Violation in the neutral kaon system: − trigger processing system – software-programmable 40 MHz pipelined – novel tech- nique. − data Concentrator – Modules with zero suppression in LKr calorimeter readout sys- tem. − develop part of the Level-3 Software-based trigger for rare kaon decays. − participated in the direct-CP violation measurement, 0/, 1997-data (∼300 citations). − proposed and conducted direct search for the supersymmetric R0 hadron.

Author: Velasco has co-authored over 500 peer-reviewed papers (10 Renowned, 29 Famous, 103 Very well-known, 156 Well-known, 236 Known). A complete list can be provided. Academic Related Responsibilities:

• Advising Three Ph.D. Students: − James Bueghly – CMS, since 2015. − Mesut Unal – CMS, since 2015. − Ziheng Chen – Mu2E, since 2015. • Current Research Associates: − Dr. Jia Fu Low– DOE supported, PhD University of Florida 2015 − Dr. Marco Trovato– DOE supported, PhD Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa 2013 • Three Ph.D. and one Master degree granted: − Brian Pollock – CMS, 2009-2015. − Nathaniel Odell – CMS, 2008-2015. − Andrey Pozdnyakov – CMS, 2008-2015. − Steve Won – CMS, 2006-2012. The Boston Consolting Group. − Anne Dabrowski – NA48-2, 2002-07. CERN Fellow now a CERN Scientific Staff. − Teresa Fonseca – NA48-1, 2001-05. CERN Fellow, now College Calvin Geneva, CH. − Silvia Goy-Lopez – NA48, 2001-03, now facluty at CIEMAT, Spain. • Pre-doctoral Fellows: − Robert Grosse and Anne Dabrowski – South Africa, Fall 2001. − Ola Wessley – Sweden, Fall 2001. − Sahal Yacoob – South Africa, Winter - Spring 2002. − Pratrick Motylinski – Denmark, Fall - Spring 2002-03. − Ozlem Yasar – Turkey Spring 2003. − Matthew Wood – USA, Summer 2003-04. • Undergraduate research projects: − Shawn Stevens and Janet Colucci – 2001-02. − Mengkai Shieh – 2001-04, Summer 2003 at CERN. − Mark A. Takagi – Summer 2003. − James Hebden and Grant Simpson – Summer 2004. − Rachel Scheidegger – 2004 - 2005, Summer 2004 at CERN. − Justin Lieber– Summer 2005. − Will Shepherd – Summer 2006. − Yoni Kahn – Summer 2007 at CERN, shared with Michael Schmitt. − Matthew Pevarnik– Summer 2007 at CERN, student from Renseeler. − Julian Jacobson and Eric Dzienkowski– Summer 2008 at CERN. − Kevin Pedro and Annabel Downs – 2009 at CERN, from Renseeler and Imperial. − Rachel Bucci – 2009-2013, working on Higgs searches at CMS. − Sebastian Ellis – Summer 2010 at NWU, 08’ at CERN, from Manchester, UK. − Angus Williams – Summer 2011 at CERN, student from Oxford, UK. − Tyler Rehak and Christian Yenko – 2012 - 2013. − James Bueghly – 2014. − Yao Li, Jose Reyes – 2015. Academic Related Responsibilities (continue): • Previous Post-docs: − Stoyan Stoynev – 2007-14. Now a scientist at Fermi National Accelerator Labora- tory, Batavia IL, USA. − Letizia Lusito – 2012-13. Now at Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Cli- matici. − Radek Ofierzynski – 2007-11. CMS-HCAL Achievement Award 2010. − Armen Apyan – 2002-05. ICAR Supported. On leave at CERN as paid Scientific Associate. − Michal Szleper – 2001-07. Now tenure faculty at Warsaw - CMS. − Thibuat Lefevre– 2003-04. Now a permanent CERN Scientific Staff. − Gokhan Unel – 2000-03. Now at University of California Irvine - ATLAS. − Steve Eichblatt- 2000-01. Now at IBM.

• Minority Student Summer Program Adviser. − Mitaire Ojaruega – 2001. − Giancarlo Jusino, Jovana Andrejevic – 2015.

• One Research Assistant Prof.: − Dr. Anton Anassatov.

• Visitors that participated in academic activities: − Prof. Vladimir Strakovenko, Novosibirsk, Summer 2001. − Prof. Yuri Kononets, Moscow, Winter 2002. − Dr. Sven Heinemeyer, CERN, Summer 2003,2004.

• Undergraduate Level Teaching: − Phyx 110-1: Freshman Seminar: (a) Sources of Energy for the Future (2005, 2008, 2013); (b) Big Science, is it Worth the Price? (2011). − Phyx 330-2: Classical Mechanics (2014, 2015, 2016). − Phyx 339-3: Introduction to Nuclear Physics (2003-05). − Phyx 339-3: Introduction to Particle Physics (2006-07, 2009-12). − Phyx 359-1: Advanced Physics Laboratory - Electronics (2010). − Phyx 359-3: Advanced Physics Laboratory - Modern Physics (2004-08, 2013).

• Graduate Level Teaching: − Phyx 424-1: Nuclear Physics (2001, 2002). − Phyx 424-2: Particle Physics (2000, 2001, 2002, 2012, 2015). − Phyx 442-0: Advanced Topics in Particle Physics – Instrumentation (2012).

Lectures and Public talks (Last few year):

Jan. 2014: CMSDAS School at the LPC, FNAL ⇒ What have we learned at the LHC? Jan. 2014: High School students in Puerto Rico ⇒ Why are so excited about the discovery of the ? Talks at Conferences, Seminars and Colloquia (Last five years):

Jan. 2016: Aspen Winter Conference ⇒ Summary of top quark results Sept. 2014: TMEx: Neutrinos and Cosmos, Warsaw, Poland ⇒ Dark Matters Searches at the LHC Oct. 2013: Couplings-2013, Freiburg, Germany ⇒ Recent results on Higgs decays into at the LHC Sept. 2013: Ohio State ⇒ Colloquia: We found the Higgs: What should come next in our quest to understand the origin of mass? July 2013: ICAN Workshop, CERN ⇒ Photon-Photon Colliders June 2013: Tohoku Workshop on Higgs and Beyond, Sendai, Japan ⇒ Physics at Photon-Photon Colliders May 2013: PHOTON 2013, Paris ⇒ Photon-Photon Colliders April 2013: LPC Seminar, FNAL, Illinois ⇒ Search for Higgs to Zγ and other dilepton plus photon channels at CMS April 2013: BNL SNOWMASS Workshop, New York, USA ⇒ 2 talks on Photon and e-e- colliders related issues Mar. 2013: Grenoble Workshop, France ⇒ Status of Higgs Boson work at CMS Mar. 2013: IIT, Illinois ⇒ Colloquia:i We found the Higgs: What should come next in our quest to understand the origin of mass? Feb. 2013: SAPPHiRE Workshop on Technology, CERN, Switzerland ⇒ Physics at e-e- eg and gg colliders Jan. 2013: ANL Seminar, Illinois ⇒ Higgs Factories Jan. 2013: BNL Seminar, New York ⇒ Higgs Factories Jan. 2013: Snowmass Preparation Higgs Workshop, Princeton ⇒ 2 talks on Photon collider related issues Dec. 2012: Fermilab, Illinois ⇒ Wine and Cheese Seminar: Results in Higgs searches at the LHC Dec. 2012: Kruger Park, South Africa ⇒ Kruger 2012r: Results in Higgs searches at the LHC Nov. 2012: ICFA Meeting on Higgs factories, Fermilab, Illinois ⇒ Physics at Photon-Photon Colliders Oct. 2012: LCWS 2012, Arlington, Texas ⇒ Physics at Photon-Photon Colliders Sep. 2012: Northwestern Univ., Illinois USA ⇒ Colloquia: The Quest for the Origin of Mass: Discovery of the Higgs Boson at CMS Mar. 2012: University of Edinburgh, Scotland UK ⇒ Colloquia: Higgs searches at the LHC May 2011: Heilborn Symposium, USA ⇒ Physics at the LHC Nov. 2010: CTEQ Workshop, FNAL ⇒ Plenary talk: First results from CMS on low-pT QCD: UE and MinBias Oct. 2010: Northwestern University, Evanston ⇒ Colloquia: Results from Early Large Hadron Collider Data: From Dark Matter to Quark-Gluon Plasma and much more... ‘ Sept. 2010: QCD at the LHC Workshop, in Trento, Italy ⇒ Low-pT QCD as input to physics generators Sept. 2010: MBUEWG Workshop, CERN ⇒ Plenary talk: Summary of first results from CMS on low-pT QCD March 2010: University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus ⇒ Colloquia: Dark Matter searches at the LHC Feb. 2010: Northwestern University Seminar, Evanston ⇒ CMS results from 1st data and cosmics

Conferences Organized:

• COFI 2015:“Gravitational Waves” • ICHEP 2016:“38th International Conference on High Energy Physics” • PHOTON 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015: “PHOTON” •ANL/NU Higgs Workshops, May 2012, Downtown Chicago “The Next Stretch of the Higgs Magnificent Mile” • LCWS 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012,2013: “Linear Collider Workshops” • LIE 2007: “Physics and of Laser- Interaction toward the ILC” • KAON 2005 (June 2005): “ International workshop and Kaon Decays held at Northwestern” • CERN-CNGS (March 2002): “3rd International Workshop on Neutrino Beam Instrumentation” • ASPEN CENTER FOR PHYSICS (June 2002): “ Workshop on Underground Science Long Baseline Neutrino Oscillations and Proton Decay” • SNOWMASS (July, 2001): “Summer Study Working Group for High Energy Photon Collider” • FNAL (June, 2001): “Workshop on Physics Potentials at FNAL with Stronger Proton Sources” • FNAL (March, 2001): “ 2nd International Workshop on High Energy Photon Colliders ” • FNAL-NUMI (Sept. 2000): “ 2nd International Workshop on Neutrino Beam Instrumentation” Peer-Review:

(a) Referee for grant proposals in the USA: DOE and NSF; (b) Internatioanl referee: Den- mark, Finland, Greece, India, Switzerland and UK. (c) Referee for several journals (d) In- ternal referee for CMS publications.