1978 Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
1975 M.S., State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
1973 B.S. with Distinction, University of Washington, Seattle
Research Positions
1996-Present, Professor of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
1994-1995, Alexander von Humboldt, Senior Prize, University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany.
1989-1995,Staff Senior Scientist, Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA.
1986-1987, Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany and European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland.
1984-1989, Divisional Fellow, Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA.
1980-1984, Senior Guest Scientist, Gesellschaft fur Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany.
1978-1979, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA.
1973-1978, Graduate Research Assistant, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY.
Research Activities
National Coordinator for ALICE-USA Collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider
Member of Advisory Committee to Brookhaven Director for a QCD Laboratory, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Collaborator in STAR Experiment at BNL, 1991 - present
Spokesman of the STAR Experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton NY, 1991-2002
Collaborator in NA49 Experiment at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, 1991-1998
Deputy Program Head of Relativistic Nuclear Collisions Program, LBL, 1990-1996
RHIC Project Leader in Nuclear Science Division at LBL, 1990-1996
Acting Project Manager of STAR Collaboration, 1991-1992
CERN NA35 Project Leader in Nuclear Science Division at LBL, 1990-1991
Spokesman of Bevalac CCD-Streamer Chamber Experiments at LBL, 1986-1990
Collaborator in NA35 Experiments at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, 1985-1991
Honors and Awards
Fellow of the American Physical Society, 1996-present.
Top 40 Distinguished Alumni, on the occasion of the 40th Anniversary of Stony Brook University, 2002.
Alexander von Humboldt Senior Research Award, 1994 – 1995.
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Performance Achievement Award, 1993.
Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, Federal Republic of Germany, 1986 – 1987.
Nuclear Science Divisional Fellowship, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, U.C. Berkeley, 1984 –1989.
Professional Activities
Organizing Committee of 22nd Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics, La Jolla CA, March 2006.
Organizing Committee of 21st Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics, Breckenridge CO, February 2005.
Organizing Committee of 20th Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics, Trelawny Beach Jamaica, March 2004.
Co-Organizer of 19th Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics, Breckenridge, Colorado, February 2003.
Co-Organizer of 18th Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics, Nassau, Bahamas, January 2002.
Organizing Committee of 17th Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics, Park City, Utah, March, 2001.
Organizing Committee, 16th Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics, Park City, Utah, March, 2000.
Organizing Committee, 15th Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics, Park City, Utah, January, 1999.
International Advisory Committee, 2nd Catania Relativistic Ion Study, Acicastello, Italy, June 1998
International Advisory Committee, Meson '98 Workshop, Jagellonian U., Cracow, Poland, May 30 - June 2, 1998
Planning Committee, Quark Matter 2000, Long Island, New York, July 2000.
Session Organizer, International Conference on High Energy Physics 2000, Osaka, Japan, July 27 – August 2, 2000.
International Advisory Committee, Nucleus-Nucleus 2000, Strasbourg, France, 3 – 7 July 2000.
International Advisory Committee, Catania Relativistic Ion Study 2000, Acicastello, Italy, May 2000
International Advisory Committee, Cracow Epiphang Conference on “Quarks and Gluons in Extreme Conditions,” Cracow, Poland, January 2002.
Institute for Nuclear Theory, RHIC Workshop Panel, December 2002.
International Board of Advisors, Pan American Study Institute on “New States of Matter in Hadronic Interactions,” Sao Paulo, Brazil, January 2002.
International Advisory Committee, Topics in Heavy Ion Collisions, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June 25 – 28, 2003.
Program Committee, International Conference on Physics and Detectors, Fermi National Laboratory, Batavia IL, May 1 – 3, 2003.
International Advisory Committee, 7th International Conference on Strangeness in Quark Matter, Atlantic Beach NC, March 12 -17, 2003.
International Advisory Committee, Hard Probes 2006, Second International Conference on Hard and Electromagnetic Probes of High Energy Nuclear Collisions, Asilomar, Pacific Grove, California, June 2006.
International Advisory Committee, Nineteenth International Conference on Ultra-Relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions (Quark Matter 2006), Shanghai China, November 2006.
International Advisory Committee, Eighteenth International Conference on Ultra-Relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions (Quark Matter 2005), Budapest Hungary, August 2005.
International Advisory Committee, Seventeenth International Conference on Ultra-Relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions (Quark Matter 2004), Oakland CA, January 2004.
International Advisory Committee, Sixteenth International Conference on Ultra-Relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions (Quark Matter 2002), Nantes, France, July 2002.
International Advisory Committee, Fifteenth International Conference on Ultra-Relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions (Quark Matter 2001), Stony Brook, New York, January 2001.
International Advisory Committee, Fourteenth International Conference on Ultra-Relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions (Quark Matter 1999), Turin, Italy, May 1999.
International Advisory Committee, International Workshop on QCD: Theory and Experiment (QCD@Work) 2005, Bari, Italy, June 2005.
International Advisory Committee, International Conference on Physics and Astrophysics of the Quark Gluon Plasma, Calcutta, India, February 2005.
International Advisory Committee, International Conference on Physics and Astrophysics of the Quark Gluon Plasma, Jaipur, India, November 2001.
International Advisory Committee, 8th International Conference on Strangeness in Quark Matter, Capetown, South Africa, September 2004.
RHIC Panel Review, Department of Energy, Brookhaven National Laboratory, June 30 - July 1, 2004.
Distinguished Alumni Advisory Board to the President of Stony Brook University (2003 – present).
Sports Editor, Springer Publishing– New York (2000 – 2002).
National Advisory Committee, Institute of Nuclear Theory, University of Washington, Seattle WA (1999-2002).
Associate Editor of Nuclear Physics (1994 – 2002)
Founding Spokesperson, STAR Experiment and Scientific Collaboration, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY (1991 – 2002)
Yale University Committees
Science Council (2005 - present)
Physical Sciences Advisory Committee and Tenure Appointments Committee for the Physical Sciences (2000 – 2004)
Committee on Yale College Education (2001 – 2003)
Subcommittee on Science for Non-Scientists of the Committee on Yale College Education (2001 – 2003)
Director of Graduate Studies in Physics Department (1998 - 1999)
University Graduate School Degree Committee on Education (1999 – 2002)
Physics Department Graduate Committee (1997 – 2004, 2005 - present)
Physics Department Qualifying Examination Committee (2004)
Physics Department Physics Club Co-Chair (Fall 2004)
Physics Department Long Range Plan Committee (2002-2003)
Physics Department Web Committee (2004)
Physics Department Junior Faculty Search Committee in Exp. Nuclear Physics, Chair (2003-2004)
Physics Department Junior Faculty Search Committee in Exp. Nuclear Structure (2004)
Physics Department Senior Faculty Search Committee in Exp. High Energy Physics (2004-2005, 2005 - 2006)
Physics Department Junior Faculty Search Committee in Theoretical Nuclear Physics (1998-1999))
Physics Department Junior Faculty Search Committee in Theoretical Particle Physics (1997-1998)
Physics Department Junior Faculty Search Committee in Theoretical Nuclear Physics (1998-1999)
Student Advising and Committees (Yale University, unless otherwise specified)
Ph.D. Thesis Research Advisor, UC Berkeley, Physics: L. Teitelbaum, (Ph.D. 2002)
Ph.D. Thesis Research Advisor, UC Berkeley, Physics: S. Chase, 1987 – 1994
Ph. D. Thesis Advisor – Manuel Calderon, Physics Department (Ph.D. 2001)
Ph. D. Thesis Advisor – Matthew Horsley, Physics Department (Ph.D. 2002)
Ph. D. Thesis Advisor – Michael Miller, Physics Department (Ph.D. 2003)
Ph. D. Thesis Advisor – Jonathan Gans, Physics Department (Ph.D. 2004)
Ph. D. Thesis Advisor – Sevil Salur, Physics Department (Ph.D. 2006)
Ph. D. Thesis Advisor – Betty Bezverkhny, Physics Department (since 2002)
Ph. D. Thesis Advisor – Oana Catu, Physics Department (since 2004)
Ph. D. Thesis Advisor – Christine Nattrass, Physics Department (since 2004)
Ph. D. Thesis Advisor – Anders Knospe, Physics Department (since 2005)
Ph. D. Thesis Advisor – Stephen Baumgart, Physics Department (since 2005)
Ph. D. Examination Committee – Ke Han, Physics Department (2005, 2006)
Ph. D. Examination Committee – Mark Heinz, University of Bern, Switzerland, Physics Department (2005)
Ph. D. Examination Committee – Magdalena Djordjevic, Columbia University Physics Department (2005)
Ph. D. Examination Committee – Haibin Zhang, Physics Department (2003)
Ph. D. Examination Committee – Jonathan Lenaghen, Physics Department (2000)
Ph. D. Examination Committee – Zhangbu Xu, Physics Department (1999)
Ph. D. Examination Committee - Nigel George, Physics Department (1998)
Ph. D. Examination Committee – Jamie Nagle, Physics Department (1997)
Oral Examination Committee - Zhangbu Xu, Physics Department (1998)
Oral Examination Committee – Manuel Calderon, Physics Department (2000)
Oral Examination Committee – Mathew Horsley, Physics Department (2001)
Oral Examination Committee – Michael Miller, Physics Department (2002)
Oral Examination Committee – Jonathan Gans, Physics Department (2003)
Oral Examination Committee – Sevil Salur, Physics Department (2004)
Oral Examination Committee - Quian Wan, Physics Department (2004)
Oral Examination Committee – Betty Bezverknhy, Physics Department (2005)
Oral Examination Committee – Ke Li, Physics Department (2006)
Ove Scaveneus (visiting graduate student from University of Copenhagen, August 1998 – August 1999)
Christof Struck (visiting graduate student from University of Frankfurt, April 1998 – August 1999)
William Leight (physics senior project) (2004)
Teaching
2006, Fall Semester, Physics 110, “Developments in Modern Physics,” and Physics 515, “Topics in Modern Physics Research”, Yale University, New Haven, CT (enrollment: 33, 32)
2006, Spring Semester, Physics 110b, “Developments in Modern Physics,” Yale University, New Haven, CT (enrollment: 67)
2005, Fall Semester, Physics 205a/206a, “Modern Physical Measurement,” Yale University, New Haven, CT and Physics 515, “Topics in Modern Physics Research,” Yale University, New Haven, CT (enrollment: 12, 11)
2005, Spring Semester, Physics 110b, “Themes in Modern Physics,” Yale University, New Haven, CT (enrollment: 56)
2004, Fall Semester, Physics 205a/206a, “Modern Physical Measurement,” Yale University, New Haven, CT (enrollment: 22)
2004, Spring Semester, Physics 110b, “Themes in Modern Physics,” Yale University, New Haven, CT (enrollment: 47)
2003, Spring Semester, Physics 110b, “Themes in Modern Physics,” Yale University, New Haven, CT (enrollment: 127)
2002, Spring Semester, Physics 110b, “Themes in Modern Physics,” Yale University, New Haven, CT (enrollment: 73)
2001, Fall Semester, Physics 505a, “Topics in Modern Physics Research” and Physics 671a, “Advanced Topics in Experimental Nuclear Physics,” Yale University, New Haven, CT (enrollment: 17, 7)
2001, Spring Semester, Physics 110b, “Themes in Modern Physics,” Yale University, New Haven, CT (enrollment: 42)
2000, Fall Semester, Physics 505a, “Topics in Modern Physics Research,” Yale University, New Haven, CT (enrollment: 18)
2000, Spring Semester, Physics 672b, “Special Topics in Physics - Experimental Techniques in Nuclear and Particle Physics,” Yale University, New Haven, CT (enrollment: 5)
1999, Fall Semester, Physics 505a, “Topics in Modern Physics Research,” Yale University, New Haven, CT (enrollment: 25)
1999, Spring Semester, Physics 472b, “Independent Projects in Physics,” Yale University, New Haven, CT (enrollment: 12)
1998, Fall Semester, Physics 110a, “Themes in Modern Physics,” Yale University, New Haven, CT (enrollment: 62)
1975-1976, Graduate Teaching Assistant, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
1972-1973, Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, University of Washington, Seattle
International Joint Research Grants
Maria Sklodowska-Curie Joint Fund, 1992 – 1995, Co-Investigator with Prof. M. Gazdzicki
US - Yugoslav Joint Board for Science & Technology, 1989 – 1992, Co-Investigator with Prof. G. Paic, R. Boskovic Inst., Zagreb, Croatia.
