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Current Classes

PHYS2559: Physics at the Terascale
PHYS254: Fundamentals of Comp. Physics
PHYS572: Subatomic Physics

Research

The CMS Experiment

High energy experimental particle physics seeks to understand the most basic forces and constituent particles of matter responsible for the evolution of the universe that surrounds us. My research activities focus on studies of the Standard Model of particle physics on the D-Zero Experiment at Femi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), this research will soon include work with the CMS experiment at CERN as well.

Selected ResearchTalks

QCD at the Tevatron,
Physics at the LHC Conference, Oct 2008

Informal research talk,
for Grad. Students, Oct 2007

From the Tevatron, to the LHC,
SESAPS Invited Talk, Nov 2006

Jet Energy Scale at CDF and D-Zero,
Hadron Collider Physics Symposium, May 2006

Informal research talk,
for Grad. Students, Feb 2006

Recent News from the D-Zero Experiment,
Physics Colloquium, 2005

Hard QCD at Colliders (slides) (note)
21st International Symposium on Lepton and Photon Interactions at High Energies, 2003

Collider Physics Lectures,
Xth Vietnam School of Phyics, Hue Vietnam 2003

Graduate Physics Studies at UVa

UVa Physics Graduate Brochure
and application information

HEP links for the general public

The Particle Adventure from the the Particle Data Group
Inquiring Minds from Fermilab
The Quantum Universe from interactions.org
Quarks Unbound from the APS

The D-Zero's plain English research summaries RunII / Run I
The Standard Model from The Guide to Life, the Universe and Everything
What is the Higgs Boson? from Frank Wilczek
How does a particle accelerator work? from the Straight Dope