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star news items from 2008
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October 29
Congratulations to Monika Sharma from Panjab University,
Chandigrah, India for successfully defending her Ph.D
thesis based on photon
multiplicity measurements and net charge fluctuations in
STAR.
Monika is currently a post doctoral fellow at
Wayne State University.
October 3
Congratulations Saskia Mioduszewski of the
Cyclotron Institute for being awarded the
2009 Maria Goeppert Mayer Award by the American
Physical Society "for her pioneering contributions
to the observation of jet quenching and her continuing
efforts to understand high- p_T
phenomena in relativistic heavy- ion collisions."
The award was established in 1985 to recognize
and enhance outstanding achievement by a woman
physicist in the early years of her career, and
to provide opportunities for her to present these
achievements to others through public lectures
in the spirit of Maria Goeppert Mayer.
More information can be found at
http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/awards/goeppert-mayer.cfm.
September 25
Congratulations to Paul Sorensen for receiving the APS 2008
George E. Valley, Jr. Prize. The award
recognizes Paul's contributions "in the discovery
of quark number scaling in the elliptic flow
of hadrons in nucleus-nucleus collisions, and its
interpretation showing the relevance of quark
degrees of freedom in heavy ion interactions."
Valley prize is presented biennially to recognize
one individual in the early stages of his or
her career for an outstanding scientific
contribution to physics that is deemed to have
significant potential for a dramatic impact on
the field. The prize, which carries an award of
$20,000, will be presented at the APS April 2009
meeting in Denver, at a special Ceremonial
Session.
September 20
Congratulations to Michael Daugherity from University of
Texas at Austin, on successfully defending his Ph.D thesis
on Two particle correlations in ultra relativistic heavy
ion
collisions. He is now assistant professor
at the Abilene Christian University, Abilene, TX.
September 18
Congratulations to Federica Benedosso, from Utrecht
University, on successfully defending her thesis,
titled - Two-particle azimuthal correlation in d+Au and p+p
collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV in STAR.
September 17
Congratulations to Weihong He, from Indiana University, on
successfully defending his thesis
titled - The Double Spin Asymmetry in Inclusive pi0
Production for Longitudinally Polarized pp Collisions at
root(s) = 200 GeV at the Endcap Electromagnetic Calorimeter
at STAR.
This is the first Ph.D thesis based fully on data
from the Endcap Electromagnetic Calorimeter
September 5
Congratulations to Oana Catu from Yale University, on
successfully defending her Ph.D thesis on di-hadron
correlations. She will be taking up
post doctoral position at the UC Santa Barbara in
Mathematical Finance.
August 25
Sevil Salur from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
received the Klaus Kinder-Geiger award for the best talk at
Hot Quarks 2008 for her talk titled "Review on Jet Physics."
Congratulations, Sevil!
August 12
Congratulations to Fei Du from Yale University, on
successfully defending his Ph.D thesis titled
"Studies of strong parity violation and
correlations using hyperons in Au-Au collisions
measured with the STAR detector."
Fei has joined a semiconductor mask manufacturer
company where he will work on mask designs to
achieve sub wavelength resolution lithography.
June 30
Congratulations to Hanna Zbroszczyk from the Warsaw
University of Technology for successfully defending her PhD
thesis entitled: Studies of baryon-baryon correlations in
relativistic nuclear collisions registered at the STAR
experiment.
June 26
Congratulations to Steve Guertin from the University of
California - Los Angeles for successfully defending his PhD
thesis entitled: Mid-Rapidity pi0 Production in d+Au
Collisions at (sNN)1/2 = 200 GeV
June 19
Martin Codrington from Texas A&M, received the Poster Award
at this year's Gordon Research Conference on Nuclear
Chemistry for his poster "Gamma+Jet Analysis in 200 GeV
Au+Au collisions with STAR." Congratulations, Martin!
June 10
Congratulations to Aoqi Feng from the
Institute of
Particle Physics at Huazhong Normal University for
successfully defending her PhD thesis entitled: Di-Hadron
Azimuthal Correlations Relative to Reaction Plane in Au+Au
Collisions at sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200 GeV
Congratulations to Jin-Hui Chen from
the Shanghai
Institue of Applied Physics for successfully defending his
PhD thesis entitled: Measurement of phi-meson Production
and Strange Quark Properties in Au+Au Collisions at
sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200 GeV
Congratulations to Xiangming Sun from
Lawrence Berkeley
National Laboratory for successfully defending his PhD
thesis entitled: Statistical Model in Heavy Ion Collisions
and Readout Electronics for Heavy Flavor Tracker
June 9
Congratulations to Anthony Timmins
from University of
Birmingham for successfully defending
his PhD thesis entitled:
Neutral Strange Particle Production in Relativistic Cu+Cu
Collisions at sqrt_sNN = 200 GeV
June 8
Congratulations to Jana Bielcikova
from Nuclear Physics Inst.,
Academy of Sciences for becoming
the recipient of Otto Wichterle medal for 2008.
The Otto Wichterle Award is an honour given
by the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
to stimulate and encourage selected, exceptionally
outstanding, promising young scientists at the
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic for
their remarkable contributions to the advancement
of scientific knowledge in a given area of science.
June 3
Sarah Blyth was
one of the three winners of the 2008 RHIC &
AGS Thesis Competition. Sarah wrote her thesis with
Professor Jean Cleymans of the University of Capetown with
research carried out under the supervision of Drs. Nu Xu
and Grazyna Odyniec of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.
Congratulations, Sarah!
Shusu Shi (IPP)
and Tai Sakuma
(MIT) won the 2008 RHIC &
AGS Poster Competition. Congratulations, Shusu and Tai!
May 24
Congratulations to Julie Millane from
Massachusetts Institute
of Technology for her success in
defending her Ph.D thesis on " Longitudinal
Double Spin Asymmetry for Inclusive Jet Production
in Polarized Proton-Proton Collisions at
sqrt(s) = 200 GeV".
April 17
Congratulations to Martijn Russcher
from NIKHEF and
Utrecht University for his success
in defending his Ph.D thesis on "Direct Photon
Measurements in Proton-Proton and Deuteron-Gold
Collisions".
April 16
Congratulations to Terry Tarnowsky
from Purdue University for
his success
in defending his Ph.D thesis on "Long-Range
Multiplicity Correlations in Relativistic
Heavy-Ion Collisions and the Signal for Dense
Partonic Matter".
March 31
Congratulations to Christine Nattrass
from Yale University,for
being awarded the Gertrude Goldhaber
prize from BNL. This is given annually by BNL
Women in Science for a promising young woman
scientist.
February 10
Monika Sharma
and
Andre Mischke
won two out of the
four Young Scientist Awards at Quark Matter 2008
Conference in Jaipur, India.
Congratulations!
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