The Conrad Research Group

We are supported by NSF and MIT

• Research Program
• People
• Recent Awards

Photos from 2012: Graduate students Ben Jones, Christina Ignarra, and Kazu Terao

Research Program

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People

Postdocs:

• Teppei Katori -- primarily MicroBooNE
• Josh Spitz -- primarily Double Chooz
• Matt Toups -- DAEdALUS and MicroBooNE

Grad Students:

• Gabriel Collin -- MicroBooNE (light detection system and analysis)
• Christina Ignarra -- MicroBooNE (Wavelength shifter development) and MiniBooNE (analysis)
• Ben Jones -- MicroBooNE (PMT testing) and decoherence studies (phenomenology)
• Kazuhiro Terao -- Double Chooz (DCTPC and the Hydrogen Capture Analysis)

UROP Undergrads:

• Christie Chiu -- MicroBooNE/Lightguides
• Ami Greene -- MicroBooNE Michel Electron Calibration
• Xavier Hubbard -- DCTPC

Others:

• Retired high school teacher and mechanical engineer: Len Bugel-- all of the above!
• High school teacher: Bryan Musolf -- MicroBooNE
• Accelerator physicist: Jose Alonso -- DAEdALUS

Those who left at the end of academic year 2011/12...Congrats and best of luck always!

• Lindley Winslow began her faculty position at UCLA
• Chris Jones received his Ph.D. on the Double Chooz Flux analysis
• Tess Smidt has graduated from MIT and will attend Berkeley for graduate school

Recent Awards and Fellowships

• Ben Jones -- URA Visiting Scholar Award, 2011-12
• Georgia Karagiorgi (graduated from our group in 2010) -- The Tanaka Thesis Prize, 2012
• Teppei Katori -- IUPAP Young Scientist Prize, 2012; American Physical Society Henry Primakoff Award, 2013
• Josh Spitz -- Pappalardo Fellow 2011-2014

This page was updated January 2013.