Juan Pedro Ochoa-Ricoux Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 1 Cyclotron Road MS 50R5008 Berkeley, CA 94920 Phone: (510) 486-5750 E-mail: jpochoa@lbl.gov Current Position:

• Chamberlain Fellow, Physics Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Education:

• Ph.D Physics: California Institute of Technology Defended on October 21 2009

Cumulative GPA=4.20 Advisor: Dr. Harvey Newman

Thesis: A Search for Muon Neutrino to Electron Neutrino Oscillations in MINOS

• M.S. Physics: California Institute of Technology, Conferred in June 2007 Research topic: “Anti-neutrinos in MINOS”

• B.S. Physics: Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey - ITESM Conferred in June 2003

Cumulative Average: 98.9% (+1 year at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; GPA=4.0/4.0)

Academic Honors: • 2012: Selected to participate in the 62nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting (Siemens Corporation

and Scientific Review Panel of the Council for the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, Germany).

• 2010: “Springer Thesis Award” (Springer Publishing, Germany)

• 2009: “National Prize of Youth”, in the “Academic Achievement Distinction” (President of Mexico Felipe de Jesús Calderón Hinojosa, Mexico)

• 2009: “Chamberlain Fellowship” (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA) • 2007: “Best Student Award” (Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture,

Italy). Also obtained a “New Talent Award” and the “Bruno Pontecorvo Diploma”. • 2006: “John Stager Stemple Memorial Prize in Physics 2005-2006” (Caltech Physics

Department, USA) for ‘outstanding progress in research as demonstrated by an excellent performance on the oral Ph.D. candidacy examination’.

• 2003: “Best Graduate in Physics of the year 2003” (National Association of Schools and

Faculties of Engineering - ANFEI, Mexico).

• 2003: “Honors Mention of Excellence” (Monterrey Tech - ITESM, Mexico) • 2002: Summer Internship at the European Centre for Nuclear Research - CERN (two places

awarded each year by the Mexican Association of Physics, Mexico).

• 1998: Mention “Très bien” (very good) in French Baccalaureate type « Scientific » (National

Ministry of Education, Research and Technology, France). Research Experience: • Chamberlain Fellow: Physics Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, November

2009-present, under the supervision of Dr. Kam-Biu Luk (k_luk@lbl.gov):

- Potting, assembling and testing the PMTs of the water veto system. - Co-responsible for anti-neutrino detector installation and testing in Daya Bay. - Co-responsible for the experiment’s calibration. - Physics analysis of anti-neutrino oscillations

• Ph.D. Graduate Research Assistant, Dept. of Physics, Caltech, September 2003-October 2009,

under the supervision of Dr. Harvey Newman (newman@hep.caltech.edu):

- Modeled and calibrated the MINOS veto shield and studied its impact in the atmospheric neutrino analyses.

- Studied antineutrinos and their physics potential. Crafted proposal for anti-neutrino running in the MINOS experiment.

- Measured beam eν background using anti-neutrinos.

- Developed a nearest neighbor selection for electron neutrinos; used it to search for a non-zero θ13 mixing angle.

• Research Assistant, Dept. of Physics, Monterrey Tech (ITESM), January 2001-August 2003:

- Studied behavior of solitonic waves using numerical methods, under the supervision of Dr. Julio Gutierrez (juliocesar@itesm.mx).

- Studied some of the chemical properties and combustion emissions of biodiesel, under the supervision of Dr. Oliver Probst (oprobst@itesm.mx).

• Research Assistant, Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, August 2002-December 2002, under the supervision of Dr. Walter Robinson (robison@atmos.uiuc.edu) :

- Studied atmospheric jets using numerical models.

• Summer Student, European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN), June-August 2002, under the supervision of Dr. Arno Straessner (Arno.Straessner@cern.ch):

- Developed an optimal pairing algorithm for 4 and 5 Jet Events at the Large Electron-

Positron Collider LEP (L3 internal note #2786).

Invited Talks - 2012: “Electron Antineutrino Appearance at Daya Bay,” Physics Seminar (State University of

Campinas, Brazil). - 2012: “Electron Antineutrino Appearance at Daya Bay,” Physics Seminar (State University of Rio

de Janeiro, Brazil). - 2012: “Results from the Daya Bay Experiment”, VIII International Workshop on the Dark Side

of the Universe, (Buzios, Brasil). - 2012: “Results from the Daya Bay Experiment”, LPPC Seminar, Harvard University

(Cambridge, MA). - 2012: “Results from the Daya Bay Experiment”, HEP Seminar, Tufts University (Medford, MA). - 2011: “The Daya Bay Neutrino Experiment.” Research Progress Meeting, Berkeley Lab

(Berkeley, CA). - 2011: “Neutrino Oscillations and the Daya Bay Neutrino Experiment.” XXV Annual Reunion of

the Division of Particles and Fields, Mexican Physical Society (Mexico city, Mexico). - 2011: “Bridging the Socio-Cultural Gap: An International Physicist’s Experience.” Meeting of the

American Physical Society (Dallas, TX). - 2010: “Experimental Neutrino Physics: Past, Present and Near Future.” VIII Latin-American

Symposium of High-Energy Physics (Valparaiso, Chile). - 2010: “The Daya Bay Neutrino Oscillation Experiment”, Neutrino Oscillation Workshop (Conca

Spechiulla, Italy). - 2009: “Identifying Electron Neutrino Charged-Current Events in MINOS”, Meeting of the

Division of Particles and Fields of the American Physical Society (Detroit – MI, USA). - 2009: “Initial Results of the Search for Electron Neutrino Appearance in MINOS”, Informal

High Energy Physics Seminar (Caltech, USA). - 2009: “Recent Results from the MINOS Neutrino Experiment”, Press Conference at the

American Physical Society Meeting (Denver – CO, USA) - 2009: “A Nearest Neighbors for Electron Neutrino Event Selection in MINOS”, American

Physical Society Meeting (Denver – CO, USA) - 2008: “Electron Neutrino Appearance at MINOS”, RPM Seminar (Lawrence Berkeley National

Laboratory, USA). - 2008: “Electron Neutrino Background Analysis with the MINOS Near Detector”, Short talk at

Neutrino 2008 (Christchurch, New Zealand) - 2007: “Electron Neutrino Appearance in MINOS”, Caltech Kellogg Seminar (Caltech, USA) - 2007: “MINOS Results and Prospects”, 13th Lomonosov Conference on Elementary Particle

Physics (Moscow State University, Russia). - 2007: “Exploring the Physics Frontier with antineutrinos and electron neutrinos in MINOS”,

International School of Subnuclear Physics (Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture, Italy).

- 2006: “Antineutrinos in MINOS”, New Perspectives Conference (Fermilab, USA). - 2006: “Electron Neutrino Appearance at MINOS”, Informal High Energy Physics Seminar

(Caltech, USA). - 2006: “Latest Atmospheric Neutrino Results from MINOS”, American Physical Society Meeting

(Dallas - TX, USA). - 2005: “Physics with the MINOS Experiment”, International School of Nuclear Physics (Ettore

Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture, Italy). Publications

• Conference Proceedings: - “The Daya Bay Neutrino Oscillation Experiment,” J.P. Ochoa-Ricoux for the Daya Bay

Collaboration, Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl.217:140-142 (2011).

- “Incorporating Engineering Design and Analytic Research into a Physics and Engineering Summer Course”, published by the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), AC 2009-1696

- “Electron Neutrino Background Analysis with the MINOS Near Detector”, J.P. Ochoa-Ricoux and M. Sanchez 2008 J. Phys. : Conf. Ser. 136 042031

- “Physics Fundamentals, Engineering Design, and Research: an integrated approach to the development of a three-week short course”, published by the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), AC 2008-2378.

- “MINOS Results and Prospects”, J.P. Ochoa-Ricoux for the MINOS Collaboration, published in the Proceedings of the XIIIth Lomonosov Conference on Elementary Particle Physics, edited by A. Studenikin.

- “Exploring the Physics Frontier with anti-neutrinos and electron neutrinos in MINOS”, J.P. Ochoa-Ricoux for the MINOS Collaboration, published in the Proceedings of the 45th International School of Subnuclear Physics, edited by A. Zichichi, published by World Scientific.

- “Physics with the MINOS Experiment”, J.P. Ochoa-Ricoux for the MINOS Collaboration, Prog. Part. Nucl. Phys. 57 1, 147-149 (2006)

• Refereed Publications: - “Observation of electron anti-neutrino disappearance at Daya Bay,” F.P. An et al. (Daya Bay

Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Lett. 108:171803 (2012). - “A side-by-side comparison of Daya Bay antineutrino detectors,” F.P. An et al. (Daya Bay

Collaboration), Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A685:78-97 (2012). - “Search for the disappearance of muon antineutrinos in the NuMI neutrino beam”, P.

Adamson et al. (MINOS Collaboration), Phys. Rev. D84 :071103 (2011). - “Improved search for muon-neutrino to electron-neutrino oscillations in MINOS,” P.

Adamson et al. (MINOS Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Lett. 107 181802 (2011). - “First direct observation of muon antineutrino disappearance,” P. Adamson et al. (MINOS

Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Lett. 107:021801 (2011). - “New constraints on muon-neutrino to electron-neutrino transitions in MINOS,” P.

Adamson et al. (MINOS Collaboration), Phys. Rev. D82:051102 (2010). - “Search for sterile neutrino mixing in the MINOS long baseline experiment”, P. Adamson et

al. (MINOS Collaboration), Phys. Rev. D81:052004 (2010). - “Neutrino and Antineutrino Inclusive Charged-current Cross Section Measurements with

the MINOS Near Detector”, P. Adamson et al. (MINOS Collaboration), Phys. Rev. D81:072002 (2010).

- “Observation of intensity variations by season with the MINOS far detector”, Phys. Rev. D 81 012001 (2010)

- “Search for muon-neutrino to electron-neutrino transitions in MINOS”, P. Adamson et al (MINOS Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Lett. 103 261802 (2009)

- “Sudden stratospheric warmings seen in MINOS deep underground muon data”, P. Adamson et al. (MINOS Collaboration), Geophys. Res. Lett. 36 L05809 (2009)

- “Search for active neutrino disappearance using neutral-current interactions in the MINOS long-baseline experiment”, P. Adamson et al. (MINOS Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 221804 (2008).

- “Measurement of Neutrino Oscillations with the MINOS Detectors in the NuMI Beam”, P. Adamson et al. (MINOS Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Let. 101, 131802 (2008)

- “The magnetized steel and scintillator calorimeters of the MINOS experiment”, D.G. Michael et al. (MINOS Collaboration), Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A596:190-228 (2008)

- “Testing Lorentz Invariance and CPT Conservation with NuMI Neutrinos in the MINOS Near Detector”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 151601 (2008)

- “A Study of Muon Neutrino Disappearance Using the Fermilab Main Injector Neutrino Beam”, P. Adamson et al. (MINOS Collaboration), Phys. Rev. D 77, 072002 (2008)

- “Measurement of neutrino velocity with the MINOS detectors and NuMI neutrino beam”, P. Adamson et al. (MINOS Collaboration), Phys. Rev. D 76, 072005 (2007)

- “Measurement of the atmospheric muon charge ratio at TeV energies with MINOS”, P. Adamson et al. (MINOS Collaboration), Phys. Rev. D 76, 052003 (2007)

- “Charge separated atmospheric neutrino-induced muons in the MINOS far detector”, P. Adamson et al (MINOS Collaboration), Phys. Rev. D 75, 092003 (2007)

- “Observation of muon neutrino disappearance with the MINOS detectors in the NuMI neutrino beam”, D.G. Michael et al (MINOS Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 191801 (2006)

- “First observation of separated atmospheric nu(mu) and anti-nu(mu) events in the MINOS detector”, P. Adamson et al (MINOS Collaboration), Phys. Rev. D 73, 072002 (2006)

- “Exploring the behavior of solitons on a desktop personal computer”, S. Lopez-Aguayo, J.P. Ochoa-Ricoux and J.C. Gutierrez-Vega, Rev. Mex. Fis. E 52 (1), 28-36 (2006)

Teaching Experience:

• 2009: Physics curriculum coordinator of the Caltech Young Engineering and Science Scholars (YESS) Program (http://www.yess.caltech.edu). YESS is a residential program for high school sophomores and juniors with outstanding academic records taught by Caltech graduate students. In addition to having the responsibilities of a physics instructor (mentioned below), the curriculum coordinator is responsible for leading the other instructors and for organizing the physics course in general.

• 2007-2008: Physics instructor at the Caltech Young Engineering and Science Scholars Program. Activities performed include:

- Development of curriculum for the Physics course. - Class lecturing and lab instruction. - Supervision of students in their research and engineering projects. - Writing students evaluations and letters of recommendation for their college

applications.

• 2000-2001: Physics and Mathematics tutor at Monterrey Tech. Other Information: • Languages: very fluent in Spanish, French and English. Currently learning Chinese.

• Citizenship: Mexico and France; also a United States Permanent Resident. • Very interested in teaching and public speaking:

- Served as the treasurer of the Caltech Toastmasters Club for two years (2007-2008) - Obtained 2nd place in oratory contest while in college (ITESM, 2000).