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Department of Physics & Astronomy

Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics

 

RHIP People - Past and Present

 

RHIP Students: Jason, Irakli, Andy, and Donny

 

Soren and Ken parading their red ties at the Christmas dinner 2003

 

Current Members

 

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Ken Read

Associate Professor


email: kfread@utk.edu

 

Soren Sorensen

Professor and Head


email: sorensen@utk.edu

 

 

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

 

Donald Hornback

Graduate Student

Joined RHIP in 2002. Thesis topic likely to be related to the RHIC Spin Physics.

email: dhornbac@utk.edu

 

Irakli Garishvili

Graduate Student

Joined RHIP in 2003.

email: irakli@utk.edu

 

 

Former Members

 

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.

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.

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.

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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

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.

 

 

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.