General Colloquium
October 5 - 4:00pm Phys 223
(Coffee at 3:30p.m. in room 242)
October 5 - 4:00pm Phys 223
(Coffee at 3:30p.m. in room 242)
Daniela Bortoletto
Associate Professor of Physics
Purdue University
Title: "The frontier of particle physics"
The Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) is an experiment collecting data at the Tevatron, the world's most powerful accelerator. By using particle accelerators high energy physicists aim at re-creating the conditions of the early universe which could lead to an understanding of the origin of mass, the matter anti-matter asymmetry that is manifest in today's universe, and the ultimate fate of the universe. Recent results obtained by CDF on top and bottom quarks, W bosons, the search for the Higgs and new particles predicted in extensions of the standard model will be presented. The energy frontier probed by the Large Hadron Collider will also be presented.
Brief Bio:
Education
Ph. D., Physics, Syracuse University 1989 Advisors: S. Stone and G. Moneti
M.S., Syracuse University 1986
Laurea in Physics, Universita' di Pavia 1982 Advisor: S. Ratti
Employment
Associate Professor Purdue University 1997-present
Assistant Professor Purdue University 1992-1997
Postdoctoral Research Associate Purdue University 1989-1992
Research Assistant Syracuse University 1984-1989
Awards and Honors
Purdue University Scholar 1999-2005
National Science Foundation Early Career Award 1997-2002
Alfred P. Sloan Fellow 1994-1996
National Science Foundation Career Advancement Award 1994
Elected member of the Fermilab User Executive Committee 1994-1996
Professional Activities
Member of the DOE review of Brookhaven National Laboratory, 2000
Chair of the NSF Career Panel, 2000
Invited to the 6th Annual Symposium on German-American Frontiers of Science sponsored by the German-American Academic Council in cooperation with the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and the Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation, Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center, Irvine, California, June 8 - 10, 2000.
Chair of the International Advisory Committee of the Vertex workshop series 2000
Member of the NSF Career Panel, 1999
Member of the NSF Panel for the POWRE Program, 1997-1998
Member of the International Advisory Committee of the Vertex workshop series 1997-present
Member American Physical Society
Member Division of Particles and Fields of the APS
Member American Association for the Advancement of Science
Other Information
http://www.physics.purdue.edu/vertex
http://www.physics.purdue.edu/cdf/
http://www-cdf.fnal.gov/
http://cmsinfo.cern.ch/Welcome.html