Current Members

Ken Read

Joint Faculty Professor

At ORNL and UT since 1991

email: kfread@utk.edu

Soren Sorensen

Professor and Head

At UT since 1985

email: sorensen@utk.edu

Christine Nattrass

Post-doctoral Research Associate from August 2009

email: christine.nattrass@utk.edu

Irakli Garishvili

Graduate Student

Joined RHIP in 2003. Scheduled to graduate in 2009.

email: irakli@utk.edu

Irakli Martashvili

Graduate Student

Joined RHIP in 2008.

email: imartash@utk.edu

Archil Garishvili

Graduate Student

Joined RHIP in 2009.

email: agarishv@utk.edu

Former Members

Josh Hamblen

Post-doctoral Research Associate from 2006 to 2009

Current position: Assistant Professor at University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (from August 2009)

email: joshua-hamblen@utc.edu

Dwayne John

Graduate Student. Graduated with a M.Sc.  in April 2009.

Thesis: "Nuclear Modification Factor (R_AA) in sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV Cu-Cu Collisions at Forward Rapidity"

Email: djohn@utk.edu

Current position: Position at Oak Ridge National Laboratory related to user support for high performance computing.

Donald Hornback

Graduate Student. Graduated with a Ph.D. in May 2008.

Thesis: "A measurement of open charm using single muons at forward angles for p+p collisions at center of mass energy 200 GeV"

Current Position: Post-Doc in the Global Nuclear Security Technology Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Youngil Kwon

Research Assistant Professor

Joined RHIP in October 2004. He is particular interested in issues related to open charm production at RHIC energies.

Current position: Professor at Yonsei University in Korea

Andrew Glenn

Graduate Student. Graduated with a Ph.D. on October 1, 2004.

Thesis: "Single Muon Production and Implications for Charm in sqrt(sNN)=200 GeV  Au+Au Collisions".

Current Position: Research Staff at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Jason Newby

Graduate Student. Graduated with a Ph.D. in September 2003.

Thesis:  "J/Psi Production in Au-Au Collisions at sqrt(s) = 200 A GeV"

Current position: Research Staff at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Vasily Dzhordzhadze  

Research Associate

RHIP member from 2002 to 2004. Responsible for the RHIP group's onsite activities at the PHENIX MuID detector at RHIC.

email: wasiko@bnl.gov

Current position: Researcher at Brookhaven National Laboratory

Laurence Villatte

Post-doctoral Research Associate from 2001 to 2002

Current position: Staff position in the French Nuclear Industry

Commissioning of MuId detector. Analysis of first data from Muon Arm detector in PHENIX.

George Gogiberidze

Post-doctoral Research Associate from 2001 to 2002

Current position: Medical imaging staff position at Sloan-Kettering.

Commissioning of MuId detector. Responsible for PHENIX on-site activities.

Kyle Pope

Post-doctoral Research Associate from 1997 to 2000

Design and implementation of the off-line computing system for the PHENIX experiment and development of analysis algorithms for the muon arm system within this experiment

Saskia Mioduszeski
 

Graduate Student. Graduated with a Ph.D. in 1999.

Thesis:  "Centrality Dependence of Antiproton Production in p+A Collisions at 17.5 GeV/c and 12.3 GeV/c", Nov. 1999

Current position: Faculty member in the Physics Department at Texas A&M

Sam Held
 

Graduate Student. Graduated with a MS in 1999.

Thesis:  "J/Psi Production and Absorption in High Energy Nuclear Collisions", July 1999

Current position: Project Manager at Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education.

Ted Corcovilos
 

Undergraduate Student. Graduated with a BS in Physics in 1999.

Current position: Graduate student at Caltech.

Mark Pollack

Post-doctoral Research Associate from 1997 to 1998

Current position: Software developer at Sipco, New York

Design and implementation of the off-line computing system for the PHENIX experiment with special emphasis on data retrieval.

Victor Perevotchikov

Research Associate from 1995 to 1998

Current position: Research Scientist with STAR at Brookhaven National Laboratory

Design and implementation of the off-line computing system for the PHENIX experiment.

David Morrison

Post-doctoral Research Associate from 1994 to 1997

Current position: Staff Scientist with PHENIX at Brookhaven National Laboratory

Analysis and operation of hadronic calorimeter data from the WA98 collaboration at CERN. Design and implementation of the PHENIX off-line computing system.