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RHIP People - Past and
Present
RHIP
Students: Jason, Irakli, Andy, and Donny

Soren and
Ken parading their red ties at the Christmas dinner 2003
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Current Members
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Ken Read
Associate Professor
email:
kfread@utk.edu
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Soren Sorensen
Professor and Head
email: sorensen@utk.edu |
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Youngil
Kwon
Research Assistant Professor
Joined RHIP in October 2004. He is particular interested in issues related
to open charm production at RHIC energies.
email: @utk.edu
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Donald
Hornback
Graduate Student
Joined RHIP in 2002. Thesis topic likely to be related to the RHIC Spin
Physics.
email: dhornbac@utk.edu
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Irakli
Garishvili
Graduate Student
Joined RHIP in 2003.
email: irakli@utk.edu
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Former Members
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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".
email:
aglenn2@utk.edu
Current Position:
Post-Doc at University of Colorado |
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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",
Sept. 2003
Current position: Post-Doc at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. |
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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 UC Riverside. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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: Staff Scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Recipient of DOE's prestigious
Presidential Early Career Award for
Scientists and Engineers in 2004. |
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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: Information Technology staff member at Regal Cinemas in
Knoxville. |
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Ted
Corcovilos
Undergraduate Student. Graduated with a BS in Physics in 1999.
Current position: Graduate student at Caltech.
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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