Yakovenko, Victor

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Victor Yakovenko is a Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and was a recipient of the prestigious David and Lucile Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering and the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship. He is a theoretical physicist with more than 35 years of research experience in studying electronic properties of various materials. In addition, he joined the emergent econophysics movement around year 2000 by publishing his first econophysics paper. Over the next twenty years, his ideas became increasingly popular and initiated an expanding wave of follow-up papers by many researchers around the world. The work of Yakovenko has also been covered in popular media, such as the New York Times Magazine, American Scientist, New Scientist, Australian Financial Review, Science magazine and the UK Engineering and Technology Magazine. Yakovenko has given about 150 invited talks on this subject. He received his M.S. in Physics and Engineering from the Moscow Physical-Technical Institute in 1984 and his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Moscow in 1987, where he was also employed as Research Scientist. In 1991 he began a Postdoc at the Department of Physics, Rutgers University. In 1993 he joined the University of Marlyland, College Park as Assistant Professor and became Associate Professor in 1999 and Full Professor in 2004.

 

Franco Sevilla, Manuel

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Manuel Franco Sevilla did his undergraduate studies at the Universidad Pontificia Comillas de Madrid and earned his PhD from Stanford University. During his PhD he worked on the BaBar experiment at SLAC where he found evidence for an excess of B→D(*)τν decays that challenges the Standard Model’s fundamental principle of lepton universality. As a postdoc at UC Santa Barbara with the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC, he performed searches for Supersymmetry and worked on the upgrade of the Cathode Strip Chambers in the CMS muon system. Currently at LHCb, his research focuses on flavor physics, particularly searches for lepton universality violation, as well as the development of the readout electronics for the Upstream Tracker detector.

 

Hamilton, Phoebe

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Phoebe received her BS in physics from Youngstown State University in 2007, and her PhD in experimental particle physics from the University of Maryland in 2013 working on the BaBar experiment at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. She stayed on at Maryland to work as a postdoc and later a faculty specialist on the Large Hadron Collider Beauty (LHCb) experiment, taking a major role in the development of the off-detector electronics for the Upstream Tracker in LHCb’s first major upgrade. In that time she played a leading role in pioneering the first measurement at a hadron collider of semileptonic b-hadron decays to third generation leptons, opening up new opportunities to test lepton flavor universality that system. In addition, she proposed and helped develop tools for reconstruction of decays without a reconstructible b-hadron decay point, allowing for new CP violation measurements previously impossible at LHCb, and has an ongoing interest in finding ways to further expand the kinds of measurements considered possible in challenging hadron collider environments.

 

Waks, Edo

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Edo Waks received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University while working with Professor Yoshihisa Yamamoto in the area of quantum optics and quantum information. After graduating, he became a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford, working with Professor Jelena Vuckovic in the Ginzton Laboratory on nanophotonic implementations of quantum information processing, before joining the ECE Department as assistant professor for the Fall 2006 semester. He received his B.S. and M.S. from the Electrical Engineering Department at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md.

Waks is a National Science Foundation (NSF) Fellow and was a member of Tau Beta Pi, the engineering honor society, at Stanford. He won the Department of Central Intelligence Postdoctoral Fellowship Award sponsored by the Army Research and Development Activity, which funded his postdoctoral research. He received a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship (1996-1999), and the William Huggins Award for Outstanding Achievement in Computer and Electrical Engineering, from Johns Hopkins University (1995). He holds appointments in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Institute for Reasearch in Electronics and Applied Physics

Upadhyaya, Arpita

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Arpita Upadhyaya received her Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame, and then worked at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT before being awarded an MIT Pappalardo Fellowship in the Department of Physics. She spent a year in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at UNC Chapel Hill before joining the UMD faculty in 2006. She received a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2008, and was promoted to associate professor in 2014. Her research uses quantitative imaging, biophysical measurements and computational analysis to study cellular mechanics and the physical forces that enable a cell to sense and respond to its physical environment, in particular cells of the immune system and cancer cells.

 

 

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