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CMS

CMS An epic scientific exploration is now underway, using the largest, most complicated research facility ever devised. Its goal is as ambitious as it is urgent: to fill troubling gaps in our understanding of the fundamental nature of physical reality. It seeks to identify the full range of particles, fields and forces that act on all scales from the submicroscopic to the cosmic, and that shape the familiar luminous matter of galaxies, the enigmatic, invisible "dark matter" that surrounds them, and a previously undetected, parallel world of "supersymmetric" objects.

The explorers are an elite worldwide collaboration that includes five physicists from the University of Maryland. Their laboratory is a 27-kilometer undergroundring on the Swiss-French border, called the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), where super-accelerated clusters of protons slam into each other at 99.99% the speed of light. Their tools are ultra-sensitive detectors, some as large as five-story office buildings, that record the results of those collisions—including the creation of heretofore unseen particles predicted by theory.

The energy produced in LHC collisions is unprecedented and almost unimaginably intense. It is equivalent to conditions at 10-15 second (a millionth of a billionth of a second) after the Big Bang that occurred about 14 billion years ago, and will reveal the kind of primordial miasma that eventually cooled and expanded into the universe we see today.

For more detailed information, see the public-information websites of CERN, home of the LHC, FermiLab, and the CMS collaboration.

LHCB AND BABAR

The research group on Flavor Physics and CP violation at University of Maryland is engaged in experimental studies of particles containing the bottom and charm quarks, including the breaking of the CP invariance in the decays of these particles. Precise measurements of these decay processes may help reveal important information on the energy scale and the structure of new physics beyond the Standard Model.

The group has had a long history of research in this areas since 1981, with the CLEO experiment at Cornell , the OPAL experiment at the LEP collider at CERN, the BaBar experiment at SLAC (1993-present) and the LHCb experiment at the LHC collider at CERN (2012-present).

We are also heavily engaged in the design and development of the tracking system for the upgrade of the LHCb detector.

More information on the group can be found at our website.

PTK Promotion Guidelines

Details: Category: Uncategorised; Published: Tuesday, November 24 2015 15:39

(The Department is currently developing guidelines that will comply with the college regulations cited below.)

CMNS Protocols for Faculty Searches, Appointments, Promotions, and Reviews

Research Scientists, Professors, Engineers, and Clinical Professors

{Note that there are three faculty ranks for each of these titles and each should be parallel to the tenure-track ranks but do not carry tenure. They do require evidence of independent scholarly activity.}

The unit submits a dossier in PDF format to the Faculty Affairs website for review by the ADFA and the Dean.

Normally the dossier will contain:

PTK Transmittal Form (with vote of eligible faculty)
CV (need not be in UMD format)*
personal statement*
unit promotion criteria*
documentation of duties and responsibilities*
letter from the unit head assessing the research of the candidate
report by an AEP Committee summarizing the candidate's credentials and providing rationale for the appointment
letters assessing the research of the candidate
- at least three (with at least one external) for assistant-level candidates
- at least four (with at least one external) for associate-level candidates
- at least six (with at least three external) for the highest rank

*signed and dated by candidate to verify his/her review

If approved by the ADFA and the Dean:

If the position is grant-funded, then the unit sends a pre-approved offer letter and contract to the candidate and informs the Dean, the ADFA, the ADFP and the EXAA by email if the offer is accepted.
If the position is State-funded, then the unit head obtains the Dean’s approval for the terms of the offer and the funding sources, and proceeds as above.
The unit copies the signed letter and contract to the ADFP and the EXAA.
Assistant Research Scientists/Professors are limited to three years, but are renewable.
Associate Research Scientists/Professors and Research Scientists/Professors are limited to five years, but are also renewable

Retiring Professors Appointed as Research Professors

The unit head sends the CV and a letter of justification to the EXAA for review by the Dean. No committee review is required given that such review occurred for tenure.
To justify this appointment the faculty member is expected to be engaged in grant-funded research.
The decision is then made by the Dean, who informs the ADFA, the ADFP, and the EXAA, the candidate and the unit head.

Faculty Specialists

{Note that this faculty rank requires a BS degree and is intended for people who provide technical support in support of faculty research activities. It does not represent a promotion for anyone who is in a postdoctoral position.}
The unit uploads a dossier in PDF format to the Faculty Affairs website for review by the ADFA, ADFP, and the Dean.

The dossier should contain:

Supporting letter from the unit head providing rationale for appointment to this rank
CV (need not be in UMD format)*
brief description of duties and responsibilities*
unit promotion criteria or link to information on the web*

*signed and dated by candidate to verify his/her review

If approved by the ADFA and the Dean:
If the position is grant funded, then the unit sends a pre-approved offer letter and contract to the candidate and informs the Dean, the ADFA, the ADFP and the EXAA by email if the offer is accepted.
If the position is State funded, then the unit head obtains the Dean’s approval for the terms of the offer and the funding sources, and proceeds as above.
The unit copies the signed letter and contract to the ADFP and the EXAA.

Senior Faculty Specialists, Principal Faculty Specialists
The unit uploads a dossier in PDF format to the Faculty Affairs website () for review by the ADFA, ADFP, and the Dean.

The dossier should contain:

PTK Transmittal Form (for second and highest ranks a positive vote from the unit AEP committee or eligible faculty)
CV (need not be in UMD format)*
personal statement*
unit promotion criteria or link to information on the web*
brief description of duties and responsibilities*
supporting letter from the unit head
report by the unit AEP Committee summarizing the candidate's qualifications and providing rationale for the appointment.
And if for Principal Specialist, two letters assessing the qualifications of the candidate

*signed and dated by candidate to verify his/her review

If approved by the ADFA and the Dean:

Senior Lecturers, Principal Lecturers

The unit uploads a dossier in PDF format to the Faculty Affairs website (faculty.umd.edu/apa) for review by the ADUE, ADFP, and the Dean.

The dossier should contain:

PTK Transmittal Form (with vote of eligible faculty)
CV*
personal statement*
unit promotion criteria*
description of duties and responsibilities*
letter from the unit head
report by the unit AEP Committee
at least two letters from faculty assessing the instructional abilities of the candidate
summary of student teaching evaluations*
peer evaluations*
Teaching portfolio, which is uploaded as a separate PDF document

*signed and dated by candidate to verify his/her review

If approved by the ADUE and the Dean, then the unit head obtains the Dean’s approval for the terms of the offer and the funding sources, and proceeds as above.
The unit copies the signed letter and contract to the ADFP and the EXAA.

Other faculty positions (e.g. Lecturer, Faculty Assistant, Postdoctoral Scholar):

The process for these positions is internal to the unit, but should still follow campus policies and guidelines

Promotion Timelines:

https://cmns.umd.edu/faculty-staff/chairs-handbook/cmns-protocols-faculty-searches-appointments-promotions-and-reviews#ResearchScientists

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