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Jan 2017 CURRICULUM VITAE Pierre Sokolsky Born: January 15, 1946 Paris, France Nationality: USA, French Home Address: 1755 Laurelhurst Drive Salt Lake City, UT 84108 Business Address: Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Utah 115 S. 1400 E. Rm 201 Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 Education: B.A. University of Chicago (Physics), 1967 M.Sc. University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana (Physics), 1969 Ph.D. University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana(Physics), 1973 Positions: 1973 Research Associate, University of Illinois 1973 Research Associate, Columbia University 1975 Assistant Professor, Columbia University 1981 Associate Professor, University of Utah 1988 Professor, University of Utah 1994 Distinguished Visitor, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia 1996 JSPS Fellow, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan 2002 Scientific Visitor, NASA-Goddard Spaceflight Center 2003 Scientific Visitor, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center 2003 Chair, Department of Physics, University of Utah 2007 Dean, College of Science, University of Utah 2011 Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of Utah 2014 Dean Emeritus, College of Science, University of Utah 2015 Visiting Professor, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo 2017 Visiting Research Associate, Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics Professional Societies: American Physical Society Division of Particles and Fields Division of Astrophysics Academic Awards: 1963 National Merit Scholar 1977 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow 1992 College of Science Faculty Development Grant 1994 Distinguished Visitor, University of Adelaide 1994 Student Advisory Committee Teaching Award 1996 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Invitational Fellowship 1996 University Teaching Committee Grant 1999 Distinguished Research Award, University of Utah 2002 Guggenheim Foundation Fellow 2002 Fellow, American Physical Society 2006 Governor’s Medal for Science and Technology, State of Utah 2008 American Physical Society Wolfgang Panofsky Prize for Experimental High Energy Physics 2011 Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of Utah Professional Committees, Service, etc.: Past Member HEPAP (High Energy Physics Advisory Panel to DOE) subcommittee on non-accelerator physics (SNAP) Past Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of Modern Physics, D. Member, Organizing Committee, Tokyo Workshop on Cosmic Ray Physics, Tokyo, Japan 1993. Convenor, UHE Cosmic Ray Session, "Astrophysics in the Next Millennium" Division of Particles & Fields Meeting, Snowmass, Colorado, 1994. Member, International Advisory Committee, "Six Month Working Group for the Design of Giant Airshower Detectors", 1995. Member, Organizing Committee, International Symposium on Extremely High Energy Cosmic Rays, University of Tokyo, September 1996. Member, Scientific Organizing Committee, Workshop on Observing Giant Cosmic Ray Airshowers for E>1020 eV Particles from Space, U. of Maryland, November 1997. Member, HEPAP - High Energy Advisory Panel to the Department of Energy, 1995-98. External Consultant, U. S. Department of Energy, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Yearly Review Panel, 1998. Member, National Academy of Sciences Astronomy and Astrophysics Survey Committee, Decadal Review of Particle Astrophysics and Gravitational Waves, 1998-1999. Member, National Organizing Committee for 1999 International Cosmic Ray Conference, Salt Lake City, UT. Member, Cosmogenesis Group, Aspen Meeting, Jan. 2000. Member, Organizing Committee, Workshop on UHE Cosmic Rays, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, March, 2001. Convener, Snowmass Meeting on the Future of Particle Physics, July 2001. Member, NASA Red Team Review Panel, U.S. EUSO MIDX Proposal, Oct 2001. Member, Organizing Committee, Workshop on Laboratory Astrophysics, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Nov. 2001. Co-Spokesman, The High Resolution Fly’s Eye Collaboration 1994 – Co-Spokesman, The Telescope Array Collaboration, 2002 – Co-Spokesman, Stanford Linear Accelerator Experiment 605 FLASH, 2002 Member, Executive Committee, The HiRes Collaboration – 1994- Member, Executive Committee, Orbiting Wide-Angle Optical Laboratory 1998 – Co-chair, International Organizing Committee, Workshop on the End of the Galactic Cosmic Ray Spectrum, Aspen, March, 2005. Co-Spokesman, Telescope Array Low Energy Extension (TALE) Experiment , 2005 – Member, NSF Review Panel for Earthscope Baseline Review, Boulder CO., 2005. Member, International Organizing Committee, International UHE Tau Neutrino Workshop, IHEP, Beijing, China, 2006. Member, International Advisory Committee, 14th International Symposium on Very High Energy Cosmic Ray Interactions, Weihai, China. Member, International Advisory Committee, Symposium on the UHE Universe, a Vision for the Next Century, University of Rome, Frascati, Italy, 2006 Organizer, Aspen Workshop on High Energy Cosmic Ray Physics, Aspen, Co. April, 2007. Member, International Advisory Committee, International Workshop on Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Ray Physics, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, 2008 Member, American Physical Society Panofsky Prize Selection Committee Member, International Organizing Committee, International Symposium on Very High Energy Cosmic Ray Interactions, Fermilab, Batavia 2010. Chair, Consortium on Science and Math Education, Board of Regents, State of Utah, 2008- 2013. Member, Local Organizing Committee, UHECR2014, Springdale, Utah Member, International Scientific Advisory Committee, International Cosmic Ray Conference, The Hague, 2015. Committee of Visitors, National Science Foundation, 2015. Member, International Advisory Committee, UHECR2016 meeting, Kyoto, Japan. Member, International Scientific Program Committee, International Cosmic Ray Conference 2017, Busan, S. Korea. Member, National Science Foundation Research Panel, 2016. Books, book chapters, and reviews: Introduction To Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Ray Physics, Frontiers in Physics Series, Addison- Wesley, (1988). "Extremely High Energy Cosmic Rays" (with B. Dawson and P. Sommers) Physics Reports, 217 (1992) "Cosmic Ray Observations at Extreme Energies" in High Energy Particle Astrophysics, J. Matthews (ed.) World Scientific (1993). "The Physics of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays" (with T. O'Halloran and S. Yoshida) Physics Today, (Jan. 1998). Introduction To Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Ray Physics, Frontiers in Physics Series, Second Printing, Perseus-Westview Press, (2004). “Highest Energy Cosmic Rays and Results from the HiRes Experiment” ( with G. Thomson) J. Physics G Vol. 34, No. 4 (2007) p. R401. “Past, Present and Future of UHECR Observations” ( with B. Dawson and M. Fukushima) Prog. Thero. Exp. Physics, Oxford University Press, 2017, to be published. Publications In Refereed Journals: "Design and Development of a 1.5 Meter Streamer Chamber" (with A. Abashian, N. Beamer, B. Eisenstein, J.D. Hansen, W. Mollett, G.R. Morris, T. O'Halloran, J.R. Orr, D. Rhines, P. Schultz, S.J. Prunster, J. Watson and M. Buttram), Nucl. Inst. and Meth. 115, 455 (1974). "Search for A1 and A2 Production in pi- proton interactions at 8 GeV/c" (with A. Abashian et al.), Phys. Rev. Lett. 34, 691(1975). "Backward Production in pi- proton interactions at 8 GeV/c"(with A. Abashian, et al.), Phys. Rev. D13, 5 (1976). "Observation of the Reaction ν + p -> ν + p" (with W. Lee et al.), Phys. Rev. Lett. 37, 186 (1976). "Single Pion Production in Neutrino and Antineutrino Reactions" (with W. Lee et al.), Phys. Rev. Lett. 38, 202 (1977). "Search for New Particles at the Alternating-Gradient-Synchrotron Beam Dump" (with P. Coteus et al.), Phys. Rev. Lett. 42, 1438 (1979). "Measurement of Elastic Neutrino and Antineutrino Scattering on Protons" (with P. Coteus et al.), Phys. Rev. D., Rapid Communications, 24, 1420 (1981). "Limits on Astrophysical Neutrino Flux at E > 10 17 eV" (with Baltrusaitis et al.), Ap. J. 281 L9- L12, (1984). "The Total Proton-Proton Cross Section at S = 30 TeV" (with Baltrusaitis et al.), Phys. Rev. Lett. 52, 1380 (1984). "Search for 10 14 eV Gamma rays from the Crab Pulsar and Surrounding Regions" (with Boone et al.), Ap. J. 285, (1984). "The Utah Fly's Eye," The Physics Teacher, 23, 207, (1985). "Upper Limits for Northern Hemisphere 1014 eV Gamma-Ray Sources" (with R.M. Baltrusaitis et al.), Ap. J. 297, 145 (1985). "Limits On Deeply Penetrating Particles in the > 1017 eV Cosmic Ray Flux" (with Baltrusaitis et al.), Phys. Rev. D 31, 2129 (1985). "The Utah Fly's Eye Detector" (with Baltrusaitis et al.) Nuclear Inst. and Methods, A240, 410 (1985). "Evidence for 500 TeV Gamma-Ray Emission from Hercules X-1" (with Baltrusaitis et al.), Ap. J. Vol. 293, L69, (1985). "Evidence for a High-Energy Cosmic Ray Spectrum Cutoff" (with Baltrusaitis et al.), Phys. Rev. Lett. 55, 1875, (1985). "Arrival Direction of Cosmic Rays of E>.4 EeV" (with Baltrusaitis, et al.), Ap. J. 303, 333 (1986). "Measurement of the Angular Distribution of Cherenkov Light in Ultra High Energy Extensive Air Showers" (with Baltrusaitis et al.), Journal of Physics G., 13, p115, (1987). "Sporadic and Periodic 10-1000 TeV Gamma-Rays from Cygnus X-3" (with Baltrusaitis et al.), Ap. J. 323, p685, (1987) "Evidence for 10 17 eV Neutral Particles From the Direction of Cygnus X-3" Phys. Rev. Lett. 62, p.383, (1989). "Search for Gamma Rays Above 10 14 eV from Cygnus X-3 During the June and July 1989 Radio Outburst" (with G. Cassiday et al.) Phys. Rev. Lett. 63, 232, (1989). "Search for >200 TeV Photons from Cygnus X-3 in 1988 and 1989" (with D. Ciampa
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