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Mayda M. VELASCO Northwestern University, Dept. of Physics And Mayda M. VELASCO Northwestern University, Dept. of Physics 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 Energy Experimental Elementary Particle Physics: 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 mass 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 Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). I am an active member of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) collaboration already collect- ing data at the LHC, that led to the discovery of the Higgs boson 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 Compact Muon Solenoid (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 Electrons (2012). • Compact Linear Collider (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, Switzerland 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 Tevatron 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 top quark 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 colliders. • 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 standard model 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 Large Hadron Collider 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 technology and silicon: − 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: Measurement 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 -
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