F ACULTY B IOGRAPHIES & RESEARCH I NTERESTS

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1 F ACULTY B IOGRAPHIES & RESEARCH I NTERESTS Tom Abel Associate Professor Cosmology and Theoretical Astrophysics Ph.D., 2000, Ludwig Maxemillian University Munich; M.A. 1998, Univ. of Regensburg; Assistant Professor, Pennsylvania State University, ; Associate Professor, Pennsylvania State University, 2004;Associate Professor, Stanford University and SLAC, 2004-present. Research Areas: Cosmology and theoretical astrophysics; primordial star formation, cosmological structure formation and reionization,astrophysical fluid dynamics and radiative transfer. James Daniel Bjorken Professor (Emeritus) Theoretical Physics Ph.D., 1959, Stanford University; B.S., 1956, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Associate, Assistant Professor, Stanford University, ; Associate Professor, Professor, SLAC, ; Theoretical Physicist, Associate Director for Physics, Fermi Lab, ; Theoretical Physicist, SLAC, ; Professor Emeritus, Stanford University, 1998 present. Roger Blandford Professor Theoretical Astrophysics Ph.D., 1974, Magdalene College, Cambridge; M.A.,1974, University of Cambridge; B.A., 1970, Magdalene College, Cambridge. Research Fellow, St. John s College, Cambridge, ; Assistant Professor, California Institute of Technology, ; Professor, California Institute of Technology, ; Richard Chace Tolman Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology, ; Executive Officer for Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, ; Pehong and Adele Chen Professor of Physics and Stanford University and SLAC, and Director, Kavli Institute of Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2003-present. Research Areas: Cosmology; black hole astrophysics, gravitational lensing; galaxies; cosmic rays; neutron stars; and white dwarfs. 29

2 Richard Blankenbecler Professor (Emeritus) Theoretical Physics Ph.D., 1958, Physics, Stanford University. SLAC, Stanford; B.A. 1954, Physics, Miami University. Associate Professor, Princeton University, ; Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, ; Professor, SLAC, Stanford , Professor Emeritus, SLAC, Stanford, 2003-present. not pictured Elliott D. Bloom Professor Experimental Particle Astrophysics Ph.D., 1967, California Institute of Technology; B.A., 1962, Pomona College. Research Associate, SLAC, Stanford, ; Assistant Professor, SLAC, Stanford, ; Visiting Assistant Professor, Physics, California Institute of Technology, ; Associate Professor, SLAC, Stanford, ; Professor, SLAC, Stanford, 1980-present. Research Areas: experimental particle astrophysics; space satellite observations of celestial sources of x-ray and gamma-ray radiation as a probe of relativistic gravity, dark matter, and the early universe. Martin Breidenbach Professor Ph.D., 1970, Physics, MIT; B.S., 1965, Physics; Research Assistant, MIT, Research Associate, MIT, ; Junior Visiting Scientist, CERN, ; Postdoctoral Research Associate, SLAC, Stanford, ; Permanent Staff, SLAC, Stanford, ; Professor, SLAC, Stanford, 1989-present. Research Areas: e + e Colliding beam physics: R&D for a new detector for NLC, with a particular interest in complete detector optimization and Si-W electromagnetic calorimeters. Also interested in some particular areas of the actual collider, such as polarized e guns, e + targets, and instrumentation strategy. Neutrinoless double beta decay: R&D for an experiment with Xe 136 with the goal of measuring the effective mass of the neutrino. 30

3 Stanley J. Brodsky Professor Theoretical Particle Physics Ph.D., 1964, University of Minnesota; B.S., 1961, Physics. Research Associate, Columbia University, ; Research Associate, SLAC, Stanford, ; Permanent Staff, Theoretical Physics, SLAC, Stanford, ; Associate Professor, SLAC, Stanford, ; Professor, SLAC, Stanford, 1976-present; Head Theoretical Physics Group, SLAC, ; Visiting Professor, Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University, 1982; AVCO Visiting Professor, Cornell University, 1985; Foreign Scientific Member and External Scientific Director, Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, 1989-present. Distinguished Fellow and Visiting Professor, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility and the College of William and Mary, Research Areas: High-energy theoretical physics, especially the quark- gluon structure of hadrons and novel effects in quantum chromodynamics; fundamental problems in atomic, nuclear, and high energy physics; precision tests of quantum electrodynamics, light-front quantization; nonperturbative and perturbative methods in quantum field theory. Applications of the AdS/CFT correspondence to quantum chromodynamics. David L. Burke Professor Ph.D., 1978, Physics, University of Michigan; B.S., 1971, Physics, Purdue University. Postdoctoral Research Associate, SLAC, Stanford, ; Assistant Professor, Physics, SLAC, Stanford, ; Associate Professor, Physics, SLAC, Stanford, ; Professor, Physics, SLAC 1994-present. Research Areas: Experimental particle physics and accelerator physics. Research and development of the physics and technologies of the next-generation electronpositron linear collider (ILC). Alexander Wu Chao Professor Ph.D., 1974, Physics, State University of New York at Stony Brook; B.S., 1970, Physics, National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan. Research Associate, SLAC, ; Experimental Physicist, SLAC, ; Senior Scientist, SSC, Central Design Group, ; Senior Scientist, SSC Laboratory, ; Professor, SLAC, Stanford, 1994-present. Research Areas: Accelerator physics; nonlinear beam dynamics; collective instabilities of high intensity beams; polarization effects beam-beam interaction in storage rings; advanced acceleration schemes. 31

4 Stanley J. Brodsky Professor Theoretical Particle Physics Ph.D., 1964, University of Minnesota; B.S., 1961, Physics. Research Associate, Columbia University, ; Research Associate, SLAC, Stanford, ; Permanent Staff, Theoretical Physics, SLAC, Stanford, ; Associate Professor, SLAC, Stanford, ; Professor, SLAC, Stanford, 1976-present; Head Theoretical Physics Group, SLAC, ; Visiting Professor, Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University, 1982; AVCO Visiting Professor, Cornell University, 1985; Foreign Scientific Member and External Scientific Director, Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, 1989-present. Distinguished Fellow and Visiting Professor, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility and the College of William and Mary, Research Areas: High-energy theoretical physics, especially the quark- gluon structure of hadrons and novel effects in quantum chromodynamics; fundamental problems in atomic, nuclear, and high energy physics; precision tests of quantum electrodynamics, light-front quantization; nonperturbative and perturbative methods in quantum field theory. Applications of the AdS/CFT correspondence to quantum chromodynamics. David L. Burke Professor Ph.D., 1978, Physics, University of Michigan; B.S., 1971, Physics, Purdue University. Postdoctoral Research Associate, SLAC, Stanford, ; Assistant Professor, Physics, SLAC, Stanford, ; Associate Professor, Physics, SLAC, Stanford, ; Professor, Physics, SLAC 1994-present. Research Areas: Experimental particle physics and accelerator physics. Research and development of the physics and technologies of the next-generation electronpositron linear collider (ILC). Alexander Wu Chao Professor Ph.D., 1974, Physics, State University of New York at Stony Brook; B.S., 1970, Physics, National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan. Research Associate, SLAC, ; Experimental Physicist, SLAC, ; Senior Scientist, SSC, Central Design Group, ; Senior Scientist, SSC Laboratory, ; Professor, SLAC, Stanford, 1994-present. Research Areas: Accelerator physics; nonlinear beam dynamics; collective instabilities of high intensity beams; polarization effects beam-beam interaction in storage rings; advanced acceleration schemes. 31

5 Herbert DeStaebler Professor (Emeritus) Ph.D., 1954, MIT; B.S., Research Associate, MIT, Research Associate, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, ; Research Associate, Physics Department, Stanford, ; Acting Assistant Professor, Physics Department, Stanford, ; Permanent Staff, SLAC, Stanford, ; Senior Research Associate, SLAC, Stanford, ; Adjunct Professor, SLAC, Stanford, ; Professor, SLAC, Stanford, , Professor Emeritus, SLAC, Stanford, 1996-present. Lance J. Dixon Professor Theoretical Particle Physics Ph.D., 1986, Physics, Princeton University; M.A., 1983, Physics, California Institute of Technology, B.S., 1982, Physics and Applied Mathematics, California Institute of Technology. Postdoctoral Fellow, SLAC, Stanford, ; Assistant Professor, Princeton University, ; Visiting Professor, Stanford, ; Panofsky Fellow, SLAC, Stanford, ; Associate Professor, SLAC, Stanford, ; Professor, SLAC, Stanford, 1998-present. Research Areas: Theoretical particle physics, primarily perturbative QCD and collider physics. Jonathan M. Dorfan Professor Ph.D., 1976, University of California, Irvine; B.S., 1969, Physics and Applied Mathematics, University of Cape Town, South Africa. Research Associate, University of California, ; Postdoctoral Fellow, SLAC, Stanford, ; Research Physicist, SLAC, Stanford, ; Associate Professor, SLAC, Stanford, ; Professor, SLAC, Stanford, 1989-present; Laboratory Director, SLAC, Stanford, 1999-present. Research Areas: Experimental particle physics and accelerator design. 32

6 Persis S. Drell Professor Experimental Particle and Astrophysics Ph. D. Physics, University of California Berkeley, 1983; A.B. Math/Physics, Wellesley College, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, ; Assistant Professor of Physics, Cornell University, ; Associate Professor of Physics, Cornell University, ; Professor of Physics, Cornell University, ; Professor, SLAC, Stanford, 2002-present. Research Areas: Particle astrophysics and studies of weak and strong interactions at e + e colliders. Sidney D. Drell Professor (Emeritus) Theoretical Physics Ph.D., 1949 University of Illinois; M.A., 1947, University of Illinois; A.B., 1946, Princeton University. Professor of Physics at Stanford ; Professor, SLAC, Stanford, , and Deputy Director ; Professor Emeritus, SLAC, Stanford, present. Edward L. Garwin Professor Physical Electronics Ph.D., 1958, Physics, University of Chicago; M.S., 1955, Physics, Case Institute of Technology; B.S., 1954, Physics, Case Institute of Technology. Research Assistant, University of Chicago, ; Research Associate, University of Chicago, ; Assistant Professor, University of Illinois, ; Senior Scientist, Clauser/General Technology Corporation, ; Permanent Staff, SLAC, Stanford, ; Adjunct Professor, SLAC, Stanford, ; Professor, SLAC, Stanford, 1983-present. 33

7 JoAnne L. Hewett Associate Professor Theoretical Particle Physics Ph.D., 1988, Iowa State University; B.S., 1982, Physics and Mathematics, Iowa State University. Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison, ; Assistant Physicist, Argonne National Laboratory, ; Assistant Professor, SLAC, Stanford, ; Associate Professor, SLAC, Stanford, 2002-present. Research Areas: Theoretical particle physics; phenomenology of electroweak interactions within and beyond the Standard Model, collider signatures and effects in rare processes. Heavy flavor physics. Signature of extra spacetime dimensions. Thomas M. Himel Professor Accelerator Physics Ph.D., 1979, Physics, Stanford; B.S., 1976, Physics, California Institute of Technology. Scientific Associate and Staff, CERN, ; Assistant Professor, SLAC, Stanford, ; Associate Professor, SLAC, Stanford, ; Professor, SLAC, Stanford, 1995-present. Research Areas: Experimental particle physics, accelerator and control systems for linear colliders; SLC controls and feedback systems, controls and commissioning of the PEP-II, B-factory accelerator; advanced accelerator R&D aimed towards a 1 TeV linear collider. John A. Jaros Professor Ph.D., 1975, Physics, University of California, Berkeley; B.S., 1968, Physics, MIT. Research Associate, SLAC, Stanford, ; Assistant Professor, SLAC, Stanford, ; Associate Professor, SLAC, Stanford, ; Professor, SLAC, Stanford, 1990-present. Research Areas: Experimental particle physics: precision vertex detection, heavy quark and lepton lifetimes and mixing; searches for millicharged particles; physics studies, detector R&D, and design studies for the Linear Collider Detector. 34

8 Shamit Kachru Associate Professor Theoretical Particle Physics Ph.D., 1994, Princeton University; A.B., 1990, Harvard University. Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows, ; Research Associate, Rutgers University, ; Assistant Professor, UC, Berkeley, ; Associate Professor, Stanford University and SLAC, 1999-present. Research Areas: The physics of string theory and M-theory. Recent work has been at the interface between cosmology and string theory. Also interested in string compactification, supersymmetry breaking, and duality and exact results in string theory. Steven Kahn Professor Experimental Astrophysics Ph.D., 1980, University of California, Berkeley; A.B., Physics, 1975, Columbia University. Assistant Professor of Physics, Columbia University, ; Assistant Professor of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, ; Associate Professor of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, ; Associate Professor of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, ; Professor of Physics and Astronomy, , University of California, Berkeley; Professor of Physics, Columbia University, ; I.I. Rabi Professor of Physics, Columbia University, ; Professor, Stanford University and SLAC, and Deputy Director, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2003-present. Research Area: Engaged in a diverse program of research in high energy astrophysics, including experimental, observational, and theoretical components. Research interests include work in high resolution X-ray spectroscopy, and experimental cosmology. Tsuneyoshi (Tune) Kamae Professor Experimental Particle Astrophysics Ph.D., 1968, Princeton University; M.S., 1964, University of Tokyo; B.A., 1962, University of Tokyo. Instructor, Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, ; Visiting scientist, CERN, ; Lecturer and Associate Professor, Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, ; Visiting scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ; Associate Professor and Professor, Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, ; Professor, Department of Physics, Hiroshima University, ; Staff Scientist and Professor, SLAC, Stanford 2000-present. Research Areas: Astrophysics and High Energy Physics. 35

9 Kaye D. Lathrop Professor (Emeritus) Ph.D., 1962, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, California Institute of Technology; M.S., 1959, Mechanical Engineering (nuclear); B.S., 1955, Engineering, United States Military Academy, West Point. Los Alamos National Laboratory, : Assistant Division Leader, Theoretical Division, ; Associate Division Leader, Reactor Division, ; Alternate Division Leader, Energy Division, ; Division Leader, Computer Science and Services Division, ; Associate Director for Engineering Sciences, Associate Director, Technical Division, SLAC, Stanford, ; Professor, SLAC, Stanford, , Professor Emeritus, SLAC, Stanford present. David W.G.S. Leith Professor Ph.D., 1962, Natural Philosophy, University of Glasgow, Scotland; B.S. (Honors, First Class), 1959, Natural Philosophy. Research Fellow, University of Glasgow, ; Staff Physicist, CERN, ; Associate Professor, SLAC, Stanford, ; Professor, SLAC, Stanford, present. Research Areas: Strong interaction dynamics; light quark spectroscopy; Z 0 boson properties; QCD; B physics; CP violation; new detection devices and instrumentation. Gregory A. Loew Professor Ph.D., 1958, Electrical Engineering, Stanford; M.S., 1954, Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology; Licence-ès-Sciences, Faculté des Sciences, 1952, University of Paris, France. Research Associate, SLAC, Stanford, ; Senior Staff, SLAC, Stanford, ; Senior Research Associate, SLAC, Stanford, ; Head of Accelerator Physics Division, SLAC, Stanford, ; Adjunct Professor, SLAC, Stanford, ; Professor, SLAC, Stanford, 1982-present; Deputy Director, Technical Division, SLAC, Stanford, ; SLAC Deputy Director, SLAC, Stanford 2001-present. Research Areas: Linear accelerators and colliders; design of accelerator structures and overall linac systems; experimentation with extremely high-gradient electric fields. 36

10 Vera Lüth Professor D.Sc. 1974, Particle Physics, Heidelberg; M.Sc. 1969, Physics, Heidelberg. Visiting Scientist, CERN ; Research Associate, Heidelberg, ; Research Associate, SLAC, ; Scientific Associate, CERN ; Permanent Staff, SLAC, ; Deputy to the Associate Director of Research, SSC Laboratory, ; Professor, SLAC, Stanford, 2004-present. Research Areas: Experimental particle physics: fundamental symmetries, weak decays of heavy flavor particles, development of silicon vertex detectors, and precision tracking. Roger H. Miller Professor (Emeritus) Ph.D., 1965, Physics, Stanford; B.A., 1953, Physics, Princeton University. Damage Control Officer, then Engineering Officer on destroyer, US Navy, ; NSF Fellowship, ; Research Assistant, Microwave Laboratory, Stanford, ; Senior Research Associate, SLAC, Stanford; Adjunct Professor, SLAC, Stanford, ; Professor, SLAC, Stanford, ; Professor Emeritus, SLAC, Stanford, 1997-present. H. Pierre Noyes Professor (Emeritus) Theoretical Physics Ph.D., 1950, Theoretical Physics, University of California, Berkeley; B.A., 1943, Physics, Harvard College. Assistant Professor, University of Rochester, ; Group Leader, General Research, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, ; Consultant, Project Orion, ; AVCO Visiting Professor, Cornell University, 1961; Associate Professor, SLAC, Stanford, ; Professor, SLAC, Stanford, , Professor Emeritus, SLAC, Stanford, 2000-present. 37

11 Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky Professor (Emeritus) Ph.D., 1942, California Institute of Technology; B.A., 1938, Princeton University. Physicist, Radiation Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, ; Assistant Professor of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, ; Associate Professor of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, ; Professor, Physics, Stanford, ; Director, Stanford High-Energy Physics Laboratory, Stanford, ; Professor and Director, SLAC, Stanford, ; Professor, SLAC, Stanford, , Professor Emeritus and Director Emeritus, SLAC, Stanford, 1990-present. James McEwan Paterson Professor Ph.D., 1962, Physics, University of Glasgow, Scotland; B.S., 1959, Natural Philosophy. Research Fellow, University of Glasgow, ; Research Fellow, Harvard University, ; Senior Research Associate, Harvard University, ; Senior Research Associate, SLAC, Stanford, ; Adjunct Professor and Assistant Director of PEP and SPEAR, SLAC, Stanford, ; Professor, SLAC, Stanford, 1983-present. Research Areas: Accelerator R&D with particular emphasis on electron-positron linear colliders. Martin L. Perl Professor Nobel Prize in Physics 1995 Ph.D., 1955, Physics, Columbia University; B.S., 1948, Chemical Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. Chemical Engineer, General Electric Co., ; Graduate Research Assistant in Atomic Physics, Columbia University, ; Instructor, Assistant Professor, and Associate Professor in Physics Department, University of Michigan, ; Professor, SLAC, Stanford, 1963-present. Research Areas: Experimental elementary particle physics: electron-positron annihilation physics, tau lepton physics, searches for new elementary particles and phenomena, small liquid drop technology and applications, interaction of science with government and society. 38

12 Michael E. Peskin Professor Theoretical Particle Physics Ph.D., 1978, Physics, Cornell University; B.A., 1973, Chemistry and Physics, Harvard University. Junior Fellow, Society of Fellows, Harvard University, ; Visiting Scientist, DPhT, Centre D'Études Nucléaires, France, ; Visiting Assistant Professor, Physics, Cornell University, ; Associate Professor, SLAC, Stanford, ; Professor, SLAC, Stanford, 1986-present. Research Areas: Theoretical high-energy physics. Models of symmetry-breaking in the electroweak interactions, including models with supersymmetry, new dimensions of space, and other properties of superstring theory. Methods for experimental tests of these models, especially at future e + e - colliders. Charles Y. Prescott Professor Ph.D., 1966, California Institute of Technology; B.A., 1961, Physics, Rice University. Research Associate, Synchrotron Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, ; Assistant Professor, Physics Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, ; Research Associate, SLAC, Stanford, ; Permanent Staff, SLAC, Stanford, ; Associate Professor, SLAC, Stanford, ; Professor, SLAC, Stanford, 1984-present. Research Areas: Experimental particle physics; parity violation in electron scattering experiments in End Station A; nucleon spin structure experiments with polarized electron beams and polarized solid targets; e + e Z 0 studies with the SLD detector using the polarized electron beams of the SLC; Linear Collider Detector studies; neutrinoless double beta decay in Xenon. Helen Quinn Professor Theoretical Particle Physics Ph.D., 1967, Physics, Stanford University; B.S., 1963, Physics, Stanford University; M.S., 1964, Physics, Stanford University. Research Associate, SLAC, ; Guest Scientist, DESY, ; Honorary Research Fellow, Harvard University, ; Assistant Professor, Harvard University, ; Associate Professor, Harvard University, ; Visiting Scientist, SLAC, ; Research Associate, SLAC ; Permanent Scientific Staff, ; Professor, SLAC, Stanford, 2003-present. Research Areas: Theoretical particle physics with a focus on phenomenology of the weak interactions, particularly CP violation. 39

13 Tor Raubenheimer Associate Professor Ph.D., 1992, Applied Physics, Stanford; B.S., 1985, Physics/Computer Science, Dartmouth College. Research Associate, SLAC, ; Panofsky Fellow, SLAC, ; Visiting associate scientist, CERN, ; Assistant Professor, SLAC, Stanford, ; Associate Professor, SLAC, Stanford, 2001-present. Research Areas: Accelerator physics; design issues in next generation linear colliders; participation in SLC operation; ion/beam-plasma instabilities in rings and linacs; effects during bunch length compression. John R. Rees Professor (Emeritus) Ph.D., 1956, Indiana University; B.A., 1951; M.S., Research Fellow, Harvard University, ; Lecturer in Physics, Harvard University, ; Instructor in Physics, Northeastern University, ; Staff Physicist, SLAC, Stanford, ; Senior Research Associate, SLAC, Stanford, ; Adjunct Professor, SLAC, Stanford, ; Professor, SLAC, Stanford, ; Professor Emeritus, SLAC, Stanford, present. Burton Richter Professor Nobel Prize in Physics, 1976 Ph.D., 1956, MIT; B.S., 1952, MIT. Research Associate, Stanford, ; Assistant Professor, Physics Department, Stanford, ; Associate Professor, SLAC, ; Professor, SLAC, Stanford, ; Professor and Director, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, ; Professor, SLAC, Stanford, 1999-present. Research Areas: Experimental elementary particle physics; advanced accelerator systems; storage rings; linear colliders; energy. 40

14 Aaron J. Roodman Assistant Professor Ph.D., 1991, University of Chicago; B.S., 1985, California Institute of Technology. Research Associate, University of Chicago, ; Research Scientist, University of Chicago, ; Assistant Professor, SLAC, Stanford, 1998-present. Research Areas: Experimental elementary particle physics; Fundamental symmetries; CP violation in the B meson. Ronald D. Ruth Professor Ph.D., 1981, Physics, State University of New York; M.A., 1978, Physics, University of Iowa; B.A., 1973, Mathematics and Physics, University of Iowa. Instructor, Department of Physics, Southern Connecticut State College, ; Staff Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, ; Scientific Associate, CERN, ; Staff Physicist, SLAC, Stanford, ; Associate Professor, SLAC, Stanford, ; Professor, SLAC, Stanford, 1997-present. Research Areas: Accelerator and particle beam physics; nonlinear effects; collective instabilities in storage rings and linacs; high- gradient linear acceleration; next-generation linear colliders; novel x-ray sources; laser acceleration. Rafe H. Schindler Professor Ph.D., 1979, Physics, Stanford; M.A., 1975, Physics, Stanford; B.A., 1974, Physics and Applied Mathematics, University of Rochester. Research Associate, SLAC, Stanford, ; Research Associate, CERN, ; Senior Research Fellow, California Institute of Technology, ; Assistant Professor, SLAC, Stanford, ; Associate Professor, SLAC, Stanford, ; Professor, SLAC, Stanford, present. Research Areas: Research carried out at BABAR: beauty and charm physics, including production and spectroscopy with special interest in pure leptonic decays, rare baryonic decays and rare decays of charm and beauty mesons. Instrumentation, R&D, and technology interests include the muon system upgrade for BABAR. Applications of highgain Si avalanche photodiodes and inorganic scintillators (CsI, and newer crystals) for calorimetry targeted for high energy/luminosity, high radiation environments of e + e storage ring, and linear collider detectors. 41

15 Robert H. Siemann Professor Ph.D., 1969, Cornell University; B.S., 1964, Brown University. Research Associate, SLAC, Stanford, ; Associate Physicist, Brookhaven National Laboratory, ; Assistant Professor of Physics, Cornell University, ; Associate Professor, Physics, Cornell University, ; Professor, Physics, Cornell University, ; Professor, SLAC, Stanford, 1991-present; Professor, Applied Physics (by Courtesy), Stanford, 2000-present. Research Areas: Experimental study of advanced accelerator concepts. Eva Silverstein Associate Professor Theoretical Particle Physics Ph.D., Physics, Princeton University, 1996; A.B., Physics, Harvard University, Postdoctoral Associate, Rutgers University, ; Assistant Professor, SLAC, Stanford, ; Associate Professor, SLAC and Stanford Physics Department, Stanford, 2001-present. Research Areas: String theory, gravity, and particle physics: including moduli stabilization, supersymmetry breaking, and the microphysics of dark energy in string theory; dynamics of interacting scalar fields in cosmology and particle physics; unification of string vacua, singularity resolution, and dualities. Dong Su Associate Professor Ph.D., 1987, Physics, Imperial College, London University; B.S., 1983, Physics, Imperial College, London University. Research Associate, High Energy Physics Institute, Beijing, China, ; Research Associate, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, ; Research Associate, SLAC, Stanford, ; Assistant Professor, SLAC, Stanford, ; Associate Professor 2004-present. Research Areas: Experimental particle physics at BaBar and SLD, with emphasis on heavy flavor and electroweak physics. Experimental instrumentation interests include CCD pixel vertex detectors, tracking systems, and trigger systems. 42

16 Sami G. Tantawi Associate Professor Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, 1992; M.Sc. Electrical Engineering, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt, 1987; B.Sc. Electrical Engineering, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt, Research Staff Member, SLAC, Stanford, ; Assistant Professor, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt, ; Associate Professor, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt, ; Associate Professor, SLAC, Stanford, 2002-present. Research Areas: High power rf systems and components for advanced particle accelerators, in particular high gradient accelerator for future linear colliders. Richard Taylor Professor (Emeritus) Nobel Prize in Physics, 1990 Ph.D., 1962, Stanford University; B.Sc., 1950; M.Sc., 1952, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. Boursier, Laboratoire de l'accélérateur Linéare, Orsay, France, ; Physicist, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, California, ; Experimental Physicist, SLAC, Stanford, ; Associate Professor, SLAC, Stanford, ; Professor, SLAC, Stanford, , Professor Emeritus, SLAC, Stanford, 2003-present. Perry Wilson Professor (Emeritus) Ph.D., 1958, Physics, Stanford University; M.S., 1952, Physics, Washington State University; B.S., 1950, Physics, Washington State University. Research Associate, Stanford, ; Staff Physicist, Linfield Research Institute, McMinnville, Oregon, ; Research Associate, High-Energy Physics Laboratory, Stanford, ; Associate Director of Operations, High-Energy Physics Laboratory, Stanford, and Senior Research Associate, ; Senior Research Associate, SLAC, Stanford, ; Adjunct Professor, SLAC, Stanford, ; Professor, SLAC, Stanford, ; Professor Emeritus, SLAC, Stanford, present. 43