Speaker: Frank Wuerthwein (UCSD Physics Department)

Title: Particle Physics - A Techie's Dream
Science, Fiction, and Technology

Abstract:

After a brief introduction to the Science & Fiction of Particle Physics I will spend the bulk of the seminar on some of the enabling technologies. In particular, I will focus on issues in computing that we need to address in order to turn fiction into science.

Some personal data:

1991 Master Thesis Cornell on Silicon Device R&D

1995 Ph.D. Cornell on Charmless Hadronic Decays of Beauty

1995-1999 Post-doc Caltech, worked on trigger & data aquisition electronics, physics analysis coordinator of 200 physicist collaboration.

1999-2003 Assistant Professor MIT
working on data aquisition & user analysis computing infrastructure (R&D & deployment of "proto-grid")

July 2003 Associate Professor UCSD
user analysis computing: interactive & batch grid computing infrastructures.