Michael Schmitt

Michael works on CMS and Mu2e.

Sapta works entirely on CMS. She works in three main area: the study of the VVV final state, the timing capabilities of the High-Granularity Calorimeter Upgrade, and the Generator Group. The VVV final state is sensitive to anomalous quartic couplings and is best addressed with boosted object analysis ("fat jets").

Thoth works on CMS and is a primary author for a paper on the measurement of the WW cross section recently published in Physical Review D. For this measurement, he used a random forest classifier. He also worked with the Pixel Luminosity Telescope (PLT) at CERN.

Cole is a member of the Mu2e Collaboration. He is playing a key role in the calibration of Hall probes for mapping the Mu2e magnet field. He continues the work done by Brian Pollack (see below) and has expanded our studies of the magnetic field in new directions. He also is carrying out a thorough investigation of statistical methods to be used in obtaining the final results of the experiment.

Darren works closely with Cole on understanding the magnetic field map for the Mu2e experiment.

This group explored a number of topics in advanced statistical techniques.

Lacey worked on a precise measurement of the branching fraction for Z boson decays to four leptons. Previously, she worked on separating WW and ttbar events using a random forest classifier, and she wrote a paper about how Minimal Spanning Trees might be used in particle physics, when she was an undergraduate at Northwestern. She is now a graduate student at the University of Chicago.

Brian worked on Mu2e. His main project was to provide an accurate map of the magnetic field based on Hall probe measurements. He also has studied the background rate for pions that scatter through wide angles in the stopping target. He authored a paper on the use of Bayesian Blocks in high energy physics. He is now working on data analytics at the University of Pittsburgh.

Nick got his Ph.D. with CMS data, in 2016 on the Search for flavor-violating decays of the Z boson. He is currently the lead Data Scientist for CVS Health.

Giancarlo helped develop the mathematical basis for the magnetic field maps that we will provide for Mu2e. He is now a graduate student in the Physics PhD program, planning to study particle physics theory.

Andy got his Ph.D. thesis with CMS data, in 2015: A Study of Final-State Radiation in Z Decays.
He is now a post-doc at Texas A&M working with Rupak Mahapatra on Super-CDMS.

Stoyan worked on the CMS CSC detector writing much of the reconstruction code. He also played a central role in measuring the differential Drell-Yan cross sections and in the search for rare decays of the Higgs boson (under Prof. Mayda Velasco). He is currently at staff scientist at Fermilab.

Victoria worked on CDF and CMS as well as studies of a future gamma-gamma collider. She is a full professor at the University of Edinburgh.

Yoni produced a number of interesting results while an undergraduate at Northwestern. He also produced the well-known review book for the Physics GRE. He is now an assistant professor.

Dale got his Ph.D. thesis with CDF data, in 2011 on the measurement of jet multiplicities for events with W and Z bosons. He was also a research associate for one year (2011-2012). He was one of CDF's true muon detector experts especially for the CMX muon detector system.

Abraham worked mainly on the CDF muon systems. He was an expert for the CMX subsystem. He is currently a scientist at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela in Spain.

Muge got her Ph.D. thesis with CDF data, in 2006 on the search for Z' resonances decaying to muon pairs. Muge is currently a research associate on the ATLAS Collaboration.

Tommaso was a postdoc on the CDF experiment where he was excellent at both hardware and physics analysis. He is currently a professor at the University of Padova.

Enrique is fitting supernova light curves. We want to check for anisotropies in the distribution of supernovae across the sky.

Nick learned how to write programs to combine precision electroweak cross section measurements. We hope to extend his work to producing a combined Drell-Yan differential cross section measurement.

Samantha carried out Monte Carlo studies of the timing estimators for the hadronic calorimeter (HGCAL).

Noah carried out some original calculations relating to Tabetha's Star. He wanted to see whether stray planets might possibly explain the origin of the strange dips seen in the star's luminosity.

Raymond was the lead person on a project to use artifical neural netowrks to accurately describe supernova light curves.

Claire was a member of a small group of students who began to learn about machine learning and how it might be applied to problems in collider physics.

Violet studied certain problems in tracking for a collider experiment as part of an effort to apply machine learning techniques to collider physics.