Gates, Sylvester

Curriculum Vitae (complete publication list, professional activities, etc. ppg135)

Gravitation Wave Detection
2014 Gravitational Wave Talk (a.) (b.)

Biography

Sylvester James Gates Jr. holds the Clark Leadership Chair in Science. During his decades with the UMD Department of Physics, he was named a Distinguished University Professor, University System of Maryland Regents Professor and John S. Toll Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland. Known for his pioneering work in supersymmetry and supergravity, areas closely related to string theory, Gates was also an affiliate mathematics professor. Gates earned two Bachelor of Science degrees (in physics and mathematics) and his Ph.D. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1984, Gates co-authored Superspace: One Thousand and One Lessons in Supersymmetry, the first comprehensive book on supersymmetry, and joined the UMD faculty as an associate professor. Four years later, he became the first African American to hold an endowed chair in physics at a major U.S. research university.

The author of more than 200 research papers and a member of the National Academy of Sciences, Gates has been featured in dozens of video documentaries, including five in 2015. For his contribution to science and research, he received the National Medal of Science from President Obama in 2013. Gates has served on the U.S. President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, the National Commission on Forensic Science, and the Maryland State Board of Education. He is a strong advocate for science, technology, engineering and mathematics education. He has  served as president of both the National Society of Black Physicists and the American Physical Society.

Recipient of: Election to the:
National Medal of Science (a.), (b.), (c.)
Mendel Medal (a.)(b.)		 American Academy of Arts & Sciences
American Philosophical Society
National Academy of Sciences

PCAST Appointment by President Obama
Regents Professor Appointment by Chancellor Kirwan

 

Goodman, Jordan

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Biography

Jordan Goodman is a Distinguished University Professor and the former Chair of Physics Department at the University of Maryland. His area of research, Particle Astrophysics, studies cosmic radiation to better understand the properties of elementary particles and the processes in space that produce these particles. This field blends elements of high energy physics and astrophysics. Starting with his Ph.D. work, which showed evidence for an abundance of heavy elements such as iron in high energy cosmic rays, he has worked to understand the nature of cosmic rays which hit the earth. Previously, his work has concentrated on two experimental efforts-- Milagro and IceCube. He is now the Principal Investigator and US Spokesperson of the HAWC Gamma Ray Observatory. He is a UMD Distinguished Scholar-Teacher and Distinguished University Professor.

 

Cohen, Thomas

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Biography

Tom Cohen is a Professor and Associate Chair in Physics. He received his A.B. in 1980 from Harvard College and his Ph.D. in 1985 from the University of Pennsylvania. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and was an NSF Presidential Young Investigator from 1990-1995. His exceptional teaching ability has been recognized through several awards including the Celebrating Teaching Award, the Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Award.

 

Chacko, Zackaria

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Biography

Professor Chacko is a theoretical physicist, and a founding member of the Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics (MCFP). His research interests lie in elementary particle physics, the field that studies the fundamental constituents of matter and their interactions. The primary focus of Professor Chacko's research is the study of new theories that can explain some of the puzzles of the current Standard Model of particle physics, and that can be tested by current or upcoming experiments. He has made contributions to our understanding of weak scale supersymmetry, extra dimensions, grand unification, composite Higgs models, dark matter, baryogenesis and neutrino physics. Professor Chacko's work has connections to many different types of experiments, including the Large Hadron Collider, the direct and indirect detection of dark matter, precision observations of the cosmic microwave background, neutrino oscillation studies, searches for rare processes and short range tests of Newton's law of gravitation.

Buonanno, Alessandra

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Biography

Alessandra Buonanno received her Ph.D. from the University of Pisa, followed by a postdoctoral work at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques in France and a Richard C. Tolman Postdoctoral Prize fellowship at Caltech. Returning to France, she worked for CNRS at the Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris and Laboratoire Astroparticule et Cosmologie in Paris before accepting a faculty position at UMD in 2005. She received a Sloan Fellowship in 2006 and she was the William and Flora Hewlett Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study in 2011-2012. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the International Society of General Relativity and Gravitation, and a Distinguished Visiting Research Chair at the Perimeter Institute. In 2014, she accepted the position of Director at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) in Potsdam; she remains a Research Professor at UMD. Her work spans several topics in gravitational physics, in particular theoretical and phenomenological aspects of gravitational-wave physics and astrophysics.

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