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CURRICULM VITAE: DEC 2016
JULIA VELKOVSKA
EDUCATION
Ph.D. 1997 SUNY Stony Brook Stony Brook, NY
M.S. 1988 Sofia University Sofia, Bulgaria
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN
Professor 2012-
Associate Professor 2008-2012
Assistant Professor 2003-2008
Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY
Assistant Physicist 2001-2003
SUNY Stony Brook Stony Brook, NY
Post-doc 1997-2000
Institute of Electronics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Sofia, Bulgaria
Research Scientist 1989-1991
HONORS AND AWARDS
o Vanderbilt Chancellor’s award for research 2016
o Littlejohn Faculty Fellow 2015
o APS Fellow 2014
o Kavli Frontiers Fellow 2010
o Alfred P. Sloan Fellow 2007
o Outstanding Junior Investigator (OJI) U.S. Department of Energy 2004
SCIENTIFIC LEADERSHIP ACTIVITIES
o PHENIX experiment deputy spokesperson, 2016 –
o Physical Review Letters, Divisional editor for Nuclear physics 2015- 2017
o Nuclear Science Long Range Plan working group, 2014-2015
The group was charged by the Office of Science in the Department of Energy and prepared a long range
plan for the next decade of basic nuclear science in the USA.
o Nuclear Science Advisory Committee, 2011-2014
The committee advises the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation on the priorities
in nuclear science research in the USA.
o Nuclear and Particle Physics Program Advisory Committee BNL, 2014-2017
The committee advises the Associate Laboratory Director of Brookhaven National Lab on the scientific
priorities in nuclear and particle physics at the lab.
o CMS heavy-ion publication committee, 2014 –
The CMS collaboration at CERN, Geneva has more than 3000 scientists from 193 institutes in 43
countries. The publication committee reviews, edits and approves all journal publications from the
collaboration in a specific area (in this case – heavy-ion physics).
o Co-convener CMS Heavy Ion physics group, 2012 – 2013
The physics working group conveners define the scientific program of the collaboration, review and
approve all physics analyses that are performed in the specific working group.
o Convenor CMS Correlations and Flow Physics Interest Group, 2009 – 2011
o Co-convenor PHENIX Hard-Scattering physics group, 2009- 2011
o Co-convenor PHENIX Hadron physics group 2002-2004
o PHENIX detector council, 2004 – present
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
o Hot results from PHENIX, RHIC/AGS User Meeting, 2016, Upton NY
o Geometry and Collective Behavior in Small Systems, Rencontres de Moriond QCD and High
Energy Interactions, La Thuile (Italy), March 21-28, 2015
o Proton (deuteron) nucleus collisions at RHIC and LHC in the context of the EIC, Electron Ion
Collider Users Meeting, June 24-27, 2014 at Stony Brook University
o Lessons learned about saturation physics from RHIC and LHC, Joint Meeting of the Nuclear
Physics Divisions of the American Physical Society and The Physical Society of Japan, Hawaii, October
7-11, 2014
o Overview of the CMS experimental results and insights about the initial states of heavy-ion
collisions, Plenary talk Initial Stages 2014 conference, Napa Valley, CA, Dec 4-8 2014
o Overview of the CMS Heavy Ion Program, plenary talk at the USCMS meeting, May 20th, 2013,
Vanderbilt, Nashville
o Ridge and multiparticle correlations in pPb collisions in CMS, plenary talk at IS2013: International
Conference on the Initial Stages in High-Energy Nuclear Collisions, 8-14 Sep 2013, University of
Santiago de Compostela, Illa Da Toxa (Spain)
o What Have Hard Probes Taught Us about the Quark-Gluon Plasma as Measured in CMS? Hard
Probes 2013: 6th International Conference on Hard and Electromagnetic Probes of High-Energy
Nuclear Collisions, 4-8 Nov 2013, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies, Stellenbosch, Western
Cape (South Africa)
o The "perfectly" fluid Quark-Gluon Plasma: from RHIC to LHC, Colloquium at the National
Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, East Lansing, Michigan, January 11, 2012
Travel and local support provided by host.
o The Quark-Gluon Plasma at the Large Hadron Collider, Colloquium at Ohio University, Athens,
Ohio, April 13, 2012
Travel and local support provided by host.
o Flow measurements from the CMS experiment, plenary talk at QM2011: Quark Matter 2011,
Annecy (France), 23-28 May 2011
o First Results from Heavy Ion Collisions at the LHC, invited talk at GHP2011: The 4th Workshop of
the APS Topical Group on Hadronic Physics, Anaheim, California, April 27-29, 2011
o Early results from CMS, invited talk at WWND-2011: 27th Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics,
Winter Park, CO, 6-13 Feb 2011
o First Results from the CMS Heavy Ion Program, Workshop on Heavy Ions at the Energy Frontier:
First results from the LHC, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 26-29 Oct 2011
o CMS Results on soft physics in heavy ion collisions, VII Workshop on Particle Correlations and
Femtoscopy, 20-24 Sep 2011, Tokyo (Japan)
Local support provided by the organizers.
o First Results from the CMS Heavy Ion Program, Symposium on Properties of the QGP explored by
new results of heavy-ion collisions at LHC and RHIC, 16-19 Sep 2011, Hirosaki U. (Japan)
Local support provided by the organizers.
o The Big Bang Machine and the Quest for Understanding Matter, A popular lecture presented to
the Nashville Lion's club, Nashville, Tennessee, May 1, 2010
o Nuclear Effects on phi-meson Production, Invited talk at the Workshop on Hydrodynamics and
Initial Conditions, RHIC/AGS User Meeting, Brookhaven National Laboratory, June 7, 2010,
o Probing the QCD medium at RHIC: collective behavior and the quenching of jets, Lectures
presented at "Trends in Particle Physics" Summer School, Primorsko, Bulgaria, June 21-26, 2010
Local support provided by the school organizers.
o The perfect Fluid Properties of Nuclear Matter in Extreme Conditions
Invited flash talk and poster at the 22nd Annual Kavli Frontiers of Science Symposium, National
Academy of Sciences, Irvine, California, Nov 8, 2010
Travel and local support provided by the National Academy of Sciences.
o LHC Heavy Ion Perspectives, invited talk at MPI@LHC'08, First International Workshop on
Multiple Partonic Interactions at the LHC, Perugia, Italy, 27- 31 October, 2008
o RHIC Overview, Plenary talk at the Physics at the LHC conference, Split, Croatia, 29 Sept - 4 Oct,
2008
o Recent Result from PHENIX at RHIC, Joint Experimental-Theoretical Seminar at Fermi National
Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois, December 21, 2007
Travel and local support was provided by the seminar organizers.
o Collective Phenomena in the Quark-Gluon Plasma produced at RHIC, Invited Nuclear Physics
session at the 74th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society
(SESAPS), Nashville, Tennessee, November 8-10, 2007
o Flow and Wake in the Quark-Gluon Liquid Produced at RHIC, Physics and Astronomy
Department Colloquium, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, September 27, 2007
o The Physics of TOF-West, PHENIX Focus seminar, Brookhaven National Laboratory, March 6, 2007
o Global Observables in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions, Lecture series presented at the 3rd
International School of Quark-Gluon Plasma and Heavy Ion Collisions in Villa Gualino, Torino, Italy,
1-8 February 2007.
Travel and local support provided by the school organizers.
o Systematics of High-pT Hadron Spectra, Plenary talk at the 19th International Conference on Ultra-
Relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions (Quark Matter 2006) Shanghai, China , November 14-20,
2006.
o Identified Hadron Production Measured by PHENIX: What have we learned about the
hadronization mechanism? Invited talk at the workshop on Hadronization. RHIC-AGS User
meeting, Brookhaven National Laboratory, June 6, 2006
o Equation of State physics with RHIC II, Presentation to the Nuclear and Particle Physics Program
Advisory Committee at BNL, Brookhaven National Laboratory, November 4, 2005
o The First Three Years at RHIC and the Quest for Quark-Gluon Plasma: An Experimentalist’s
View, Invited Nuclear Physics Session at the 71st Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Section of the
American Physical Society, Oak Ridge, TN, Nov 11-13, 2004
o Jet Quenching and the Baryon Puzzle at RHIC, Nuclear Physics Division Colloquium, Oakridge
National Lab, Aug 19, 2004
o Creation and Flow of identified hadrons at RHIC, XXXIV International Symposium on Multi-
particle Dynamics, Sonoma County, California, USA, 26 July – 1 August, 2004
Local support provided by conference organizers
o Baryon Dynamics at RHIC: System size and centrality dependence, Workshop on Creation and
Flow of Baryons in Hadronic and Nuclear Collisions, ECT (Trento), 3-7 May, 2004.
Local support provided by ECT: European Center for Theoretical Studies in Nuclear Physics and Related
Areas
o Scaling Properties of Identified hadron Production in dAu and AuAu collisions at RHIC, XX
Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics, Trelawny Beach, Jamaica, March 2004.
o Identified Particle Spectra from pp, dA and AA collisions, Plenary talk at The Seventeenth
International Conference on Ultra-Relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions (Quark Matter 2004),
Oakland Jan 10-17, 2004
o Jet Quenching at RHIC, invited talk at XXXVIIIth Rencontres De Moriond, QCD and High Energy
Hadronic Interactions, Les Arcs, Savoie, France, March 22--29, 2003
o How ``Strange'' is High-pT Physics at RHIC? , Plenary talk at the 7th International Conference on
Strangeness in Quark Matter, Atlantic Beach, North Carolina , March 12-17, 2003
o PHENIX and the Quest for Quark-gluon Plasma Ashes, Physics Department Colloquium given at
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, Feb 27,2003
o Hadron Spectra and Yields: Experimental Overview, Invited talk at INT/RHIC Winter Workshop
on First Two Years of RHIC: Theory versus Experiment, Institute for Nuclear Theory, Seatle,
Washington, Dec. 13-15, 2002
o Hadron Production at RHIC: Where is the Soft to Hard Transition?, Plenary talk at the Fall DNP
meeting, East Lansing, Michigan, Oct.9-12, 2002
o High pt Hadrons from sqrt(s_{NN}) = 130 GeV Au-Au collisions measured in PHENIX, Invited
talk at the Topical Workshop on High-pt phenomena at RHIC, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Nov
1-3, 2001
CONTRIBUTED PRESENTA TIONS AT CONFERENCES AND OTHER VENUES
o PHENIX results on elliptic and triangular flow at mid-rapidity in d+Au collisions from 19.6 to
200 GeV, Quark Matter 2017, XXVI International Conference on Ultra-Relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus
Collisions, Chicago, IL, February 6-11, 2017
o Collective Behavior in Small Systems, 26th International Nuclear Physics Conference (INPC2016),
2016, Adelaide (Australia)
o CMS heavy ion physics accomplishments, May 2016, Nashville, TN, Department of Energy
computing review of CMS
o Multiparticle methods for studies of collective phenomena in small systems, DNP meeting, Santa
Fe, NM, October 28-31, 2015
o Status and future plans for the heavy ion program in CMS, CMS week, CERN, Dec 12, 2013
o CMS heavy ion accomplishments, Sept 16, 2013, Washington, DC, at "LHC strategic review"
conducted by the Department of Energy
o Status and Prospects in Hard Scattering and Photon Physics with PHENIX, PHENIX annual
collaboration meeting, Ames, Iowa, July 10, 2010
o Data Quality Monitoring in Heavy Ion Collisions at the CMS Experiment at the LHC, CMS
detector readiness workshop, CERN, Switzerland, June 21,2010
o Soft physics in heavy-ion collisions at LHC, parallel talk at CIPANP 2009: 10th Conference on the
Intersections of Particle and Nuclear Physics, San Diego, CA, 26-31 May 2009
o Monthly status reports of the correlations and flow physics interest group to the CMS heavy ion
meetings (July 2009 - 2012)
o Status and Physics opportunities with the TOF-West detector, PHENIX annual collaboration
meeting, University of Colorado at Boulder, July 11-13, 2007
o Equation of State: What we know and what is still missing, EoS working group report at the RHIC
II Science Workshop. Brookhaven National Laboratory, November 11-12, 2005
o Time of Flight System for the PHENIX high-pt Detector Upgrade, PANIC05: Particles and Nuclei
International Conference, Santa Fe, NM, October 24-28, 2005
o Conceptual Design Report for the TOF –West detector, Presented to the PHENIX Detector Council
and Executive Council, Brookhaven National Laboratory, June 2005
o Monthly status reports on the TOF-West detector status to the PHENIX detector council (2004 –
2006)
o Can φ- mesons Give an Answer to the Baryon Puzzle at RHIC? Hard Probes 2004, Ericeira,
Portugal, Nov 4-10, 2004
o The Baryon Anomaly at RHIC, Nuclear and Particle Physics Seminar, Vanderbilt University, Sep
20, 2004
o Intent to build a MRPC based Time-of-Flight detector for the PHENIX West arm, presentation of
a Letter of Intent to the PHENIX Detector Council and Executive Council, Brookhaven National
Laboratory, August 2004
o Identified hadron production in sqrt(s_NN) = 130 GeV Au Au collisions at RHIC, parallel talk at
the International Conference on Physics and Astrophysics of Quark - Gluon Plasma (ICPAQGP 2001),
Jaipur, India, 26-30 Nov 2001.
o Baryon excess in sqrt(s_NN) = 130 GeV Au Au collisions at RHIC, parallel talk at the First Joint
APS/DNP and JPS Meeting, Maui, Hawaii, 17-20 October, 2001
o Pt spectra of identified hadrons measured with the PHENIX experiment at RHIC, parallel talk at
Quark Matter 2001: The Fifteenth International Conference on Ultra-Relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus
Collisions, Stony Brook, New York on January 15-20, 2001
o Tracking chambers at RHIC, parallel talk at the 16th International Conference on the Application of
Accelerators in Research and Industry (CAARI 2000), Denton, Texas, 1-4 Nov 2000.
o Drift chamber Front End Electronics, parallel talk at the APS April meeting, Columbus, OH, April
18-21, 1998
SERVICE TO THE NUCLEAR PHYSICS COMMUNITY: CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION
o International Advisory Committee Initial Stages Conference 2017 (Krakow, Poland)
o International Committee Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics: 2017 (Snowbird, UT)
o International Advisory Committee Quark Matter 2017 (Chicago, IL)
o Organizing Committee for Small Systems workshop 2016, Brookhaven National Lab (Upton, NY)
o International Advisory Committee Initial Stages Conference 2016 (Lisbon, Portugal)
o International Committee Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics: 2016 (Guadeloupe, France)
o International Committee Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics: 2015 (Keystone, CO)
o International Advisory Committee Initial Stages Conference 2014 (Napa, CA)
o International Committee Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics: 2014 (Galveston, TX)
o International Committee Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics: 2013 (Squaw Valley, CA)
o International Advisory Committee Initial Stages Conference 2013 (Illa da Toxa, Spain)
o Local Organizing Committee, US-CMS collaboration meeting 2013 (Nashville, TN)
o Local Organizing Committee Quark Matter 2012 (Washington D.C.)
o International Committee Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics: 2012 (Dorado del Mar, Puerto Rico)
o International Advisory Committee Quark Matter 2011 (Annecy, France)
o International Advisory Committee Quark Matter 2009 (Knoxville, TN)
o Local Organizing Committee Quark Matter 2009 (Knoxville, TN)
o Organizing Committee Hot Quarks Workshop 2008 (Estes park, Co)
o Organizing Committee Hot Quarks Workshop 2006 (Sardinia, Italy)
o Local Organizing committee for The Annual Meeting of the Division of Nuclear Physics of the
American Physical Society, Oct. 25-28, 2006, Nashville, TN
o Co-Organizer for 2 workshops held on Oct 24, 2005, in Nashville, TN in conjunction with the DNP
meeting
o Properties and signatures of sQGP
o Spin Structure of the Nucleon
o Founding organizer Hot Quarks Workshop 2004 (Taos, NM)
o Organizing Committee for Strangeness and Exotica workshop 2004, Brookhaven National Lab (Upton,
NY)
o Chair: “Mini-symposium on Jet Quenching at RHIC and the Partonic Equation of State”, 2004, Fall
meeting of the APS Division of Nuclear Physics, Chicago, IL
o Local Organizing committee, 8th International Wigner Symposium, 2003 (New York, NY)
o Physics Department Seminar Committee, Brookhaven National Laboratory, 2002-2003.
SERVICE TO THE NUCLEAR PHYSICS COMMUNITY
o CMS Collaboration board: 2010 –
o US-CMS Collaboration board: 2010 –
o Public Access to Research Results NSAC sub-committee: 2011 –2012
o RHIC/AGS User Executive Committee, 2005 – 2007
o PHENIX collaboration Speakers’ Bureau, 2004 – 2005, and 2011-2013
o Ex Officio Member of:
o PHENIX collaboration Executive Council, 2015 –
o PHENIX collaboration Speakers’ Bureau, 2015 –
o Grant Reviewer for NSF
o Grant Reviewer for NSF: Career proposals
o Grant Reviewer for DOE
o Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab) Director’s Review Committee, 2014
o Department of Energy Panel on Nuclear Physics Competitive Review, 2014
o Panel reviewer for DOE on the STAR Muon Trigger MRPC detector project, 2010
o Panel member of the NSF Nuclear Physics Program, 2009
o Panel member reviewing grants proposed to the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office of the Department
of Homeland Security, 2007
o Reviewer for the Department of Energy FY 2006 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and
Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program Funding Opportunity
o Spokesperson selection task force for the PHENIX experiment at RHIC: May – June 2006
o Spokesperson nominating committee for the PHENIX collaboration: August – October 2006
o Referee for the following journals:
o IoP: Journal of Physics G
o European Physical Journal C
o Physical Review C
o Physical Review Letters
o Physics Letters B
o Journal of High Energy Physics
o Nuclear Physics A
SERVICE TO THE DEPAR TMENT OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY AT VANDERBILT
o Graduate program committee: chair – Summer 2010-present
o Graduate program committee: member - Spring 2010
o Colloquium committee: member - 2007 - 2008
o Undergraduate Program Committee: member - 2003 – 2008
o Nuclear and Particle Physics Seminar: convenor 2004-2007
SERVICE TO VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY
o Senior Advisory Review Committee (SARC): 2014-2015
o Ad hoc Grievance Committee 2013-2014
o Junior Advisory Review Committee (JARC): 2009- 2010
o Interdisciplinary Graduate Program and Chemical and Physical Biology (IGP and CPB) steering
committee: Spring 2011- 2014
o Vanderbilt internal reviewer for the 2009 NSF MRI Program under the Recovery and Reinvestment
Act: 2009
STUDENTS AND POSTDOCS SUPERVISED
o Graduate students (primary advisor)
o Lihan Liu (entered program in 2016)
o Sylvia Morrow (entered program in 2015)
o Weizhuang Peng (qualifying exam passed 2016)
o Qiao Xu (qualifying exam passed 2014)
o Hong Ni (qualifying exam passed 2014)
o Brennan Schaefer (Ph.D. 2016)
o Shengquan Tuo (Ph.D. 2015)
o Eric Appelt (Ph.D. 2014), Department of Energy Fellow 2010-2014
o Ronald Belmont (Ph.D. 2012)
o Hugo Valle (Ph.D. 2008)
o Brian Love (M.S. 2008)
o Graduate students (committee member)
o Andres Delannoy (Ph.D. 2016)
o Desmond Campbell (Ph.D. 2014)
o Benjamin Snook (Ph. D. 2014)
o Lingjun Fu
o Undergraduate students
o Independent and directed study, including summer research:
Brian Love, Judson Wallace, Robel Bekele, William Brown, Evan Leitner, Jeff Garcia,
Theodore Brasoveanu) during Spring 05, 06, Fall 04, 05, 06: The projects involved
building and testing of a Time-of-Flight (TOF) detector based on Multi-gap Resistive
Plate Chambers (MRPC) for the PHENIX experiment at RHIC and data analysis of
cosmic-ray and test-beam data obtained with the new detector.
Joshua Palmer: Fall 14, Spring 15, Summer 2015 – Littlejohn Fellow, Spring 16. Mr.
Palmer also received the Department of Physics and Astronomy Jones Award
(outstanding first or second year student in PHYS). Joshua worked on computer
simulations and data analysis of CMS data
o Research Experience for Undergraduates, and other summer programs
Petar Petrov (2013)
Joseph Weygand (2011)
Jeliazko Jeliazkov (2010)
Michael Mendenhall (2005)
Rei Tanabe (2005)
Takafumi Niida (2005)
Alexander Khasumski (2004)
o Honor thesis
Theodor Brasoveanu (Spring 06), successfully prepared and defended an honor thesis
on “Elliptic flow studies for the Lambda baryons in Au+Au collisions at the Relativistic
Heavy Ion Collider”. Theodor was awarded high honors in physics. He also received
the 2005 - 2006 Underwood Memorial Award which is given to the most outstanding
graduating student in physics.
o High School Students
o Vanderbilt Research Experience for High school students
Liuben Ivanov (2009)
Mark Arildsen (2010)
o Post-docs
o Dr. Shengquan Tuo (2015 – present)
o Dr. Eric Appelt (2014-2015), presently at IBM
o Dr. Yaxian Mao (2011-2015), presently a faculty member at Wuhan, China
o Dr. Pelin Kurt (2010-2012), presently in a tech company
o Dr. Michael Issah (2010-2012)
o Dr. Ivan Danchev (August 2006 – Sept 2008), presently a faculty member at Mount Olive
College, Mount Olive, NC
o Dr. Shengli Huang (2006 – present)
o Dr. Tatsuya Chujo (2004-2005), presently a faculty member at Tsukuba University, Japan
TEACHING
o Courses at Vanderbilt
o PHYS 117B: General Physics – Spring 05, Spring 06, Spring 07, Spring 08. Introductory
electricity, magnetism, atomic physics, nuclear physics.
o PHYS 225A: Lab: Intro Quantum Phys and applications - Fall 04, Fall 05, Fall 06, Fall 07 -
This is an advanced undergraduate laboratory class. I taught modern experimental techniques,
data analysis, error analysis, scientific writing. In Fall 05, I introduced a web-based electronic
logbook for recording the data during the experiments.
o PHYS 225W: Lab: Intro Quantum Phys and applications - Fall 09, Fall 10, Fall 11, Fall 12,
Fall 14. In 2009, I reformed the advanced undergraduate laboratory class to include extended
training in scientific writing. The college approved the course as a high-level writing class and
the course number was changed to 225W to reflect that.
o PHYS 223: Thermal and Statistical Physics – Fall 2003 - A course which is part of the
required curriculum for physics majors.
o PHYS 255: Particle Physics – Spring 04 – Introduction to the Standard model of particle
physics, some rudimentary field theory, Feynman diagrams, basic calculations. The course was
attended by advanced undergraduate students and beginning graduate students.
o PHYS 300 (now PHYS 8000): Graduate Seminar – Fall 10, Fall 11, Spring 13, Fall 14, Spring
16, Spring 2017. The class introduced the students to oral presentation of scientific results.
After several meetings discussing general strategies for successful oral presentations, each
student researches a topic from a research area in the department and prepares a 20-min
presentation. The presentation is then discussed and critiqued by the class.
o PHYS 340 (now PHYS 8142): Nuclear and Heavy Ion Theory – Fall 2016, Fall 2013, Fall
2007, Spring 2010, – A graduate level course on the foundations of nuclear physics and
relativistic heavy ion physics.
o International School Lectures
o Global Observables in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions: 3 lectures presented at the 3rd
International School of Quark-Gluon Plasma and Heavy Ion Collisions in Villa Gualino,
Torino, Italy, 1-8 February 2007
o Probing the QCD medium at RHIC: collective behavior and the quenching of jets, Lectures
presented at "Trends in Particle Physics" Summer School, Primorsko, Bulgaria, June 21-26,
2010
FUNDING HISTORY
o $1,200,000 Relativistic Heavy Ion Experiments, DOE (2017-2019), Co-PI – to be awarded
o $600,000 Relativistic Heavy Ion Experiments, DOE (2016-2017), Co-PI
o $1,716,000 Relativistic Heavy Ion Experiments, DOE (2013-2016), Co-PI
o $1,736,000 Relativistic Heavy Ion Experiments, DOE (2010- 2013), Co-PI
o $244,943 Vanderbilt IDEAS award (2010-2012), Co-PI
o $1,445,000 Relativistic Heavy Ion Experiments, DOE (2007- 2010), Co-PI
o $45,000 Alfred P. Sloan award, 2007
o $150,000 DOE OJI award continuation, (2007-2009)
o $180,000 Multi-Gap Resistive Plate Chambers as a Time-of-Flight System for PHENIX, DOE (2004-
2007) Outstanding Junior Investigator award
o $1,420,000 Relativistic Heavy Ion Experiments, DOE (2004- 2007), Co-PI
o $ 293,172 Time-of-Flight West detector for PHENIX, DOE (2005-2006)
o $24,500 Time-of-Flight prototype for Run 5 of PHENIX, DOE (2004-2005)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
The complete publication list includes more than 700 published items, available from the inSpire database.
Out of these (Dec 2016) there are:
o Renowned papers (500+ cites): 16
o Famous papers (250-499 cites) : 39
o Very well-known papers (100-249) : 140
o Well-known papers (50-99) : 199
o Measurements of Elliptic and Triangular Flow in High-Multiplicity 3He+Au Collisions at √sNN =
200 GeV, PHENIX Collaboration, Phys. Rev. Lett. 115 (2015), 142301
o Evidence for Collective Multiparticle Correlations in p-Pb Collisions, CMS Collaboration, Phys.
Rev. Lett. 115 (2015), 012301
o Measurement of Long-Range Angular Correlation and Quadrupole Anisotropy of Pions and
(Anti)Protons in Central d+Au Collisions at √sNN = 200 GeV, PHENIX Collaboration, Phys. Rev.
Lett. 114 (2015), 192301
o Multiplicity and transverse momentum dependence of two- and four-particle correlations in pPb
and PbPb collisions, CMS Collaboration (Serguei Chatrchyan et al.) Phys. Lett. B 724 (2013) 213-
240
o Modification of jet shapes in PbPb collisions at √sNN =2.76 TeV, CMS Collaboration (Chatrchyan et
al.), Phys.Lett. B730 (2014) 243-263
o Measurement of higher-order harmonic azimuthal anisotropy in PbPb collisions at a nucleon-
nucleon center-of-mass energy of 2.76 TeV, CMS Collaboration (Chatrchyan et al.), Phys. Rev. C 89
(2014) 044906
o Measurement of the elliptic anisotropy of charged particles produced in PbPb collisions at
nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energy = 2.76 TeV, CMS collaboration, Phys. Rev. C 87 (2013)
014902
o Spectra and ratios of identified particles in Au+Au and d+Au collisions at √sNN = 200 GeV,
PHENIX Collaboration (A. Adare et al.) Phys. Rev. C 88 (2013) 024906
o Formation of dense partonic matter in relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions at RHIC:
Experimental evaluation by the PHENIX collaboration, PHENIX Collaboration (K. Adcox et al.)
Nucl. Phys. A757 (2005) 184-283
o Deviation from quark-number scaling of the anisotropy parameter v2 of pions, kaons, and
protons in Au+Au collisions at √sNN = 200 GeV, PHENIX collaboration, Phys. Rev. C 85, 064914
(2012)
o Shape, transverse size, and charged hadron multiplicity of jets in pp collisions at 7 TeV, CMS
Collaboration (Chatrchyan et al.), JHEP 1206 160 (2012)
o Modification of jet shapes in PbPb collisions at √sNN =2.76 TeV, CMS Collaboration (Chatrchyan et
al.), Phys. Lett. B730 (2014) 243-263
o Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC, CMS
Collaboration, Phys. Lett. B716 (2012) 30-61
o Elliptic flow of identified hadrons in Au+Au collisions at √sNN = 200 GeV, PHENIX Collaboration
(S.S. Adler et al.) Phys. Rev. Lett. 91 (2003) 182301
o Identified charged particle spectra and yields in Au+Au collisions at √sNN = 200 GeV, PHENIX
Collaboration, Phys. Rev. C69 (2004) 034909
o Absence of suppression in particle production at large transverse momentum in √sNN = 200 GeV
d + Au collisions, PHENIX Collaboration, (S.S. Adler et al.), Phys. Rev. Lett. 91 (2003) 072303
o Scaling properties of proton and anti-proton production √sNN = 200 GeV Au+Au collisions,
PHENIX Collaboration, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91 (2003) 172301
o Centrality dependence of π±, K±, p and anti-p production from √sNN = 130 GeV GeV Au+Au
collisions at RHIC, PHENIX Collaboration, Phys. Rev. Lett. 88 (2002) 242301
