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Our group CMS analysis leader associate professor Yen-Jie was award tenured at MIT. Yen-Jie got his PhD from MIT and joined MIT as the Class of 1958 Career Development Associate Professor of Physics in September 2013. He is a young leader in heavy ion physics and has made great contribution understand QCD under extremely hot and dense conditions. He started the heavy flavor physics research program in heavy-ion physics at MIT and has trained many excellent PhD students and postdocs. He has won many prestigious awards such as the DOE Early Career Award, Alfred P. Sloan Prize, and Presidential Early Career Award. He has also served as the committee member in many international conferences and referee in many renowned journals. Let’s congratulate Yen-Jie for his truly exceptional achievement and tenure at MIT!
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The XXVIIIth International Conference on Ultra-relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions – was held in Wuhan, China, during November 4-9, 2019. The MIT Heavy Ion Group sent a 10-member delegation to the conference and presented 2 plenary talk, 4 parallel talks, and 2 posters. Early in the morning of October 31, all students and postdocs attened the student lecture at the Science Hall of Central China Normal University.
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The renowned jet expert Dr. Yi Chen will be the new CMS Heavy Ion convener starting September 1st, taking over for the exiting convener, Camelia Mironov, the Queen, who did an excellent job over the last four years.
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Dr. Jing Wang received the award for her outstanding performance as a Teaching Assistant in 8.03 “Vibrations and Waves” with Prof. Yen-Jie Lee.
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Professor Yen-Jie Lee received a 2019 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government to science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers. The PECASE Awards are intended to recognize some of the finest scientists and engineers who, while early in their research careers, show exceptional potential for leadership at the frontiers of scientific knowledge during the twenty-first century. The Awards foster innovative and far-reaching developments in science and technology, increase awareness of careers in science and engineering, give recognition to the scientific missions of participating agencies, enhance connections between fundamental research and national goals, and highlight the importance of science and technology for the nation’s future.
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Dr. Jing Wang giving a plenary presentation in IS2019 MITHIG group members participated in the Initial Stages 2019 conference at Columbia University in New York City, which is the fifth installment on the physics of the initial stages of high energy nuclear collisions.
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Anthony Badea at the graduation ceremony Anthony Badea finished his undergraduate thesis and graduated this summer. Due to his outstanding works on reanalysis of the ALEPH archive data (See the recent paper submitted to PRL), he received a 2019 Malcolm Cotton Brown Award from MIT with the following quote:
“This award is presented to a senior in high academic standing in physics and outstanding research in experimental physics. Anthony was selected as the winner for his works using electron-position annihilation data to make a connection to larger collision systems like heavy ion collisions.”
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Professor Gunther Roland The 2019 sPHENIX Co-Spokespersons electron closed on February 1st. Prof. Gunther Roland and Dave Morrison (BNL) were elected to served a second three-year term as sPHENIX cospokespersons with unanimous YES votes. sPHENIX is a new detector planned for the RHIC facility at BNL. sPHENIX will provide state-of-art capabilities for studies of the strongly interacting quark-gluon plasma using jet and heavy-flavor observables. The goal of sPHENIX is to understand the microscopic structure of the plasma and reveal how its strongly interacting nature arises from the underlying interactions of quarks and gluons described by quantum chromodynamics. We look forward to the first data-taking in 2022/23 under Prof. Roland’s leadership.
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The 9th International Conference on Hard and Electromagnetic Probes of High-Energy Heavy-Ion Collisions (Hard Probes 2018) was hosted in Aix-Les-Bains (Savoie, France) from October 1st-5th, 2018, with a student lecture day hosted at CERN on September 30th. Hard Probes focuses on experimental and theoretical developments on perturbative probes of hot and dense QCD matter as studied in high-energy nucleus-nucleus, proton-nucleus and proton-proton collisions. The 6-member delegation from the MIT Heavy Ion Group presented several high-impact results, distributed over many areas of interest.
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