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Austin presenting an exciting new result at 5 TeV. Many members of the MITHIG group attended the Initial Stages 2016 conference in Lisbon, Portugal. There were two plenary talks and two parallel talks given by the MITHIG group members. Between enjoying the Portuguese seafood and Fado music, they presented exciting new results coming from the data that was gathered in the fall of 2015.
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Sloan Fellow Yen-Jie Lee. Yen-Jie Lee has been named a 2016 Sloan Research Fellow! Since 1955, the Sloan Research Fellowships are given to early-career scientists and scholars whose achievements and potential identify them as rising stars among the next generation of scientific leaders. Yen-Jie is one of the 126 researchers to earn this prestigious two-year fellowship, which will allow him to make even more contributions to our field, particularly in the study of jet quenching and heavy flavor dependence of parton energy loss. Congratulations Yen-Jie!
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(Upper Pannel) Chris, Krisztian, Kaya
(Lower Pannel) Gian Michele, AustinMITHIG made a strong showing in the 2016 LHCC poster session!
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Ivan Cali, MITHIG Research Scientist Congratulations to Ivan Cali for receiving a 2016 Infinite Kilometer Award of the MIT School of Science for his outstanding work in MIT community and CMS experiment!
Ivan Cali led the L1 trigger upgrade efforts in CMS and played a very important role in the 2015 heavy ion data-taking period. Together with friends in the CMS collaboration, we had a very successful heavy ion run and collected high statistics pp and PbPb samples at 5 TeV.
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With preparations for the upcoming LHC heavy ion Run 2 in full swing, the heavy ion community took a brief break to review exciting new results from Run 1 data at Quark Matter XXV. This year’s conference was held on Rokk? Island in Kobe, Japan, from September 27 to October 3.
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Doga giving a presentation in the plenary session on jets (chaired by Gunther on the right). The 7th edition of the Hard Probes conference was hosted in the beautiful Montreal, Quebec, Canada (June 27-July 3). In one of the most important heavy ion physics conferences, many new experimental and theoretical developments were presented and discussed. Among the presentations were talks by Yue-Shi Lai, Yen-Jie Lee, Ta-Wei Wang and Dragos Velicanu on CMS data, and overview talks by Doga Gulhan on jets and the strongly interacting medium and Camelia Mironov on quarkonium production in pp, pA and AA collisions.
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Before joining CMS, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Group was a member of the PHOBOS collaboration at the RHIC accelerator, a part of Brookhaven National Lab on Long Island, NY. Working with current group member George Stephans, Corey Reed (one of the group’s former graduate students now an Associate Project Scientist at the university of California at Irvine) has just completed a new publication using PHOBOS data. The analysis used forward calorimeters to “tag” the subset of deuteron+gold collisions in which only the proton or neutron in the deuteron interacted with the gold nucleus. This is currently the only way to study proton+gold collisions at RHIC energies and the only way to study neutron+gold collisions at any highly relativistic energy. The arXiv version of the paper can be found here.
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Bolek Wyslouch From the MIT News office: Boleslaw “Bolek” Wyslouch, professor of physics, has been named the new director of the Laboratory of Nuclear Science (LNS), effective July 1.
“Bolek is a superb physicist who has a clear vision for the future of LNS and the strong support of its members,” Michael Sipser, dean of the School of Science, says. “I am delighted that he has agreed to be the next LNS director, and I look forward to working with him.”
Congratulations, Bolek!!
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Yen-Jie giving a plenary talk at Quark Matter 2014. Congratulations to Yen-Jie Lee for receiving a 2015 DOE Early Career Award for his proposal “Study of Heavy Flavor Mesons and Flavor?Tagged Jets with the CMS Detector”!
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Our new convener, Camelia Mironov. The renowned Camelia Mironov will be the new CMS Heavy Ion convener starting September 1st, taking over for the exiting convener, Yen-Jie Lee. The self-styled ‘royal highness’ is looking forward to guiding the CMS heavy ion group towards new beautiful results in the years to come. Congratulations Camelia!
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