Curriculum Vitae Et Studiorum
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CURRICULUM VITAE ET STUDIORUM Paolo Desiati December 2008 Personal Information Citizenship: Italian (born in Firenze on July 7th, 1969) US Permanent Resident Work Addresses: IceCube, 222 W Washington Ave, Rm 5409, Madison, WI 53703 or University of Wisconsin, Department of Physics 1150 University Ave, Rm 4616, Madison WI 53706 Telephone: +1 608-890-0546 Fax: +1 608-262-2309 E-mail: [email protected] URL: http://icecube.wisc.edu/ ~desiat i Education 1996-99 Ph.D. Physics, University of Rome La Sapienza , Roma, Italy. 1994-95 Compulsory military service in the italian army 1989-94 University Study in Physics at the University of Florence, Firenze, Italy. 1 Positions, Fellowships and Grants 2006 Associate Researcher, University of Wisconsin – Madison. Actively involved in experimental data analyses, in tutoring undergraduate and graduate students, and postdoc fellows, in presenting physics results at conferences and in writing physics publications. Coordinator of a physics analysis working group. Coordinator of the simulation data production and its filtering/processing and involved in the overall simulation management work breakout system. Member of a Collaboration advisory committee for detector operations. 2003 Assistant Researcher, University of Wisconsin – Madison. 2001 Research Associate, University of Wisconsin – Madison. 2001 2-year applied fellowship sponsored by CERN for postdoctoral research in the LHCb experiment. Declined for the research associate position at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. 1999 2-year Reimar Lüst Stipendium granted by Körber Stiftung of Hamburg, Germany, for postdoctoral research at the Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron (DESY) in Zeuthen, Germany. I actively participated on experimental data analysis and on service tasks in the AMANDA Collaboration and presented results at conferences. 1999 9-months grant sponsored by the Fondazione Angelo della Riccia for graduate scientific research at the NESTOR neutrino telescope site (Pylos, Greece). Declined for postdoc position at DESY. 1993 1-year grant sponsored by INFN (Italian Nuclear Physics National Institute) for undergraduate research at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory, Italy. I actively participated on experimental data analysis in the LVD Collaboration. 2 Coordination Activity 2006-... Member of the IceCube Trigger, Filter and Transmission Board. The TFT board is the advisory board for IceCube detector operations, specifically for determining DAQ software and trigger settings, online filter settings and satellite transmissions resources. The TFT board is meant to be the interface between the IceCube Collaboration, specifically the analysis working groups (and analysis coordinator), and the construction and operations portions of the project. My specific function is to make sure that simulation requirements are accomplished within the Collaboration activities. 2006-2008 Coordinator of the Atmospheric Neutrino Physics Analysis Working Group in the IceCube Collaboration. 2003-... Coordination of the IceCube Collaboration simulation production and offline simulation data processing activity. This involves the organization and usage of the computing resource power throughout the Collaboration and of existing grid distributed resources. 2001-2003 Coordination of the AMANDA Collaboration simulation production activity. 3 Tutoring Experience I have mentored and/or worked with : ● Bradley Madajczyk : undergraduate student ● Kristin Rosenau : 2008 Summer REU Undergraduate Student (from Minnesota State University Moorhead, MN) ● Patrick Berghaus : IceCube UW Post Doc. ● You-Ren Wang : AMANDA UW Graduate Student. Search for steady point sources with data collected in 2000-2002. ● Mike Stamatikos : AMANDA Graduate Student from Buffalo University. Search for neutrinos from Gamma Ray Bursts. ● Karen Bland : 2002 Summer REU Undergraduate Student (from James Madison University in Harrisonburg, VA). Measurement of the de- convoluted cosmic muon angular and depth intensity distributions. Presented project to the American Astronomical Society Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. ● Kimberly Moody-Chappelle 2003 Summer REU Student (from University of Arizona, AZ). Cosmic muon angular distribution and signatures for prompt component from charmed particles decay. Presently I supervise : ● Juan Carlos Díaz-Vélez : Associate Programmer ○ design, development and implementation of simulation production tools for distributed computing systems. Juan Carlos has built up a very powerful and flexible system for running and monitoring simulation data, but also filtering and processing experimental and simulation data, on a wide variety of clusters, distributed computing resources and grid systems around the world. The complexity of the implemented tools makes it possible to manage the submission and data file collection and monitor a large amount of jobs across distributed heterogeneous clusters. ● Rasha Abbasi : Research Associate ○ measurement of large scale anisotropy of the Cosmic Rays using the huge statistics of the cosmic muon events recorded by IceCube. The particular location of the IceCube Observatory allows us to provide a detailed and solid measurement of the large scale anisotropy of cosmic rays on the Southern Sky. The detailed and proper 2D sky map of the southern hemisphere will provide, for the first time, a probe into the large scale structure of the galactic magnetic field. Since the anisotropy is of the order of 10-3, this analysis requires the collection of all the events that trigger IceCube (for instance ~550 events per second in 2007, i.e. ~50 4 million events per day). In order to achieve this goal and to prevent the South Pole online data filtering to cut out the down- going events, we have proposed (with Juan Carlos), designed and implemented a dedicated online processing module that collects a small number of observables for all the events in a compact form. This compact data format allows us to transfer the files through the bandwidth limited satellite connection. ● Ian Rei : Graduate Student in Computer Science and 50% in IceCube ○ design and implementation of simulation production web portal and optimization of production efficiency on grid computing systems. Ian has worked as undergraduate student on the implementation of the simulation production web portal, that displays the production status in real time, along with statistical summary from each running cluster. Presently Ian is a Graduate Student at the UW- Madison Computer Science Department and his 50% research work is dedicated to optimize the production of IceCube simulation data through the large grids we can access, such as Open Science Grid (OSG), the Louisiana Optical Network Initiative (LONI) and the LHC grid system in Europe. Particular care needs to be taken to stage the relatively complex simulation runtime configurations and their dependencies when jobs are being shipped to clusters across the grid. The massive usage of a local UW-Madison grid, Grid Laboratory Of Wisconsin (GLOW) is being an important testbed for this purpose. ● Ryan Birdsall : Undergraduate student in Physics ○ benchmark of high energy hadronic interaction models using atmospheric muon and neutrinos experimental data. Ryan is working on the important task of benchmarking high energy hadronic interaction models with various experimental results on cosmic muon intensity measurements at the surface of the Earth and with the AMANDA and IceCube measurements of muon and neutrino intensity and energy spectrum. With the huge statistics of cosmic muon events collected by IceCube we'll be able to test the hadronic models to high precision and to assess the detector systematic uncertainties. Part of this work has already been presented at the APS Meeting in April 2008. ● Dominick Rocco : Undergraduate student in Physics ○ study of the atmospheric seasonal temperature effects on the IceCube muon intensity. The polar regions have the most dramatic atmospheric temperature excursion ever recorded on Earth. The seasonal temperature variations across the atmospheric layers has a very strong effect on the muon intensity (about 20% from mid- summer to mid-winter) and subtle effects on the shape of the 5 experimental observables we use in physics data analyses. There are also shorter time scale (~days) muon rate variations that can be explained as the effect of atmospheric temperature variation, thus giving us confidence of the absolute stability of the IceCube data taking. Research Activity 6/05 to present – Associate Researcher at UW–Madison; IceCube Active member of the IceCube Collaboration (http://icecube.wisc.edu), I participate in experimental data analyses and I coordinate the activities and the resources related to simulation data production and their offline filtering and processing. I mentor undergraduate and graduate students and postdoc fellows. With Rasha Abbasi and Juan Carlos Díaz-Vélez, I coordinate the analysis of IceCube down-going cosmic muon events to measure the large scale anisotropy of the arrival direction of the cosmic rays with median energy of 10 TeV. This is a ~0.1% effect that IceCube is able to measure. The origin of the large scale anisotropy is still not well understood and it could be to a local feature of the interstellar magnetic field and/or to nearby young supernova remnants that have produced and accelerated cosmic rays up to at least 1-10 TeV energy range. The recent observation of the anomaly in the positron fractional spectrum by PAMELA and in the electron spectrum by ATIC, are