04 March 2008
University of Toronto detailed ATLAS budget activity notes
Faculty
David Bailey
ATLAS FTE: 1.0
Attends group meetings. Discussions on analysis.
Travel: None
Peter Krieger
ATLAS FTE: 1.0
Supervises: Gabe Rosenbaum (PhD), Peter Thompson (PhD), Neil Knecht (Post Doc)
Activities: Calorimeter commissioning, FCAL operations, Test Beam analysis, SUSY, Jet
Calibrations.
Travel: CERN : 1x2 months, 1x3 weeks, 2x2 weeks, 3x1 week; 2x CDN Physics, 1xTRIUMF,
1xIPP, Conference 1 abroad
Robert Orr
ATLAS FTE: 1.0
Supervises: S. Dhaliwal (PhD), B. Fatholahzedah (PhD), R. Rezvani (PhD), Rachid Mazini (Post
Doc)
Activities: FCAL operations, Tier II, Test Beam Analysis, Tau Reconstruction, Missing Et.
Travel: CERN: 1x1 months, 2x2 weeks, 3x1 week; 2x CDN Physics, 1xTRIUMF, 1xIPP,
Conference 1 abroad
Pierre Savard
ATLAS FTE: 0.9 (other project: CDF II)
Supervises: Pier-Olivier Deviveiros (PhD), Sing Leung Cheung (PhD), Pawan Sandhu (PhD as of
Sept. 08)
Activities: physics studies (dijet + Etmiss (SUSY, leptoquarks, LED) dijet resonances), Jet and
etmiss validation, fast simulation
Travel: CERN: 1x2 weeks, 4x1 week; 2x CDN Physics, 1xTRIUMF, 1xIPP, Conference 1
abroad
Pekka Sinervo
ATLAS FTE: 0.9 (other project: CDF II)
Supervises: Bin Guo (PhD), Trisha Farooque (PhD), Sebastian Carron (Postdoc), Lianlaing Ma
(Postdoc)
Activities: physics studies (ttH, top production), 2004 testbeam analysis, calorimeter
commissioning
Travel: CERN: 2x1 week; 1x CDN Physics.
Richard Teuscher:
ATLAS FTE: 1.0, based at CERN
Supervises: Travis Bain (MSc), summer student ‘08 (N. Ilic), A. Gibson (Post Doc), C. LeManer
(Post Doc)
Activities: Phase 3 commissioning coordinator (TileCal), calorimeter data preparation, cosmic
data tests on grid T1/T2, physics (etmiss, susy), radiation hardness coordinator, visitors at CERN
Travel: CERN: COLA, 1 week Toronto, 2xCDN Physics
William Trischuk:
ATLAS FTE: 1.0
Supervises: Brian Beare (PhD), Dominque Tardif (PhD)
Activities: BCM commissioning, Pixel detector upgrades, physics
Travel: CERN: 1x1 month, 1x2 weeks, 3x1 week; 1x CDN Physics, Conference 1 abroad
Postdocs
Sebastian Carron:
ATLAS: 1.0 (starting at 0.5 FTE April 2008 and 1.0 FTE August 2008; other project CDF II) ,
paid by Sinervo
Activities: calorimetry commissioning, physics (Higgs search),
Travel: CERN : 2x1 week, 1xCDN Physics.
Adam Gibson:
ATLAS FTE: 1.0, based at CERN.
Activities: LAr commissioning, physics (etmiss, susy)
Travel: Toronto 1 week, 1xCDN Physics, 1xCAP
Leslie Groer:
ATLAS FTE: 1.0, based at Toronto, Paid from MFA
Activities: Tier II Operations
Travel: 4xComputing Meetings
Neil Knecht
ATLAS FTE: 1.0, based at Toronto (Paid by Krieger until 1stJuly)
Activities: Tier II, Physics- (etmiss, susy)
Travel: CERN: 1x2 weeks; 1x CDN Physics, 1xCAP.
Christophe LeManer
ATLAS FTE: 1.0, based at CERN ( Replaced 1st July by Knecht @ Toronto)
Activities: LAr commissioning, Data Monitoring, Higgs studies.
Travel: CERN : Remaining COLA
Lianliang Ma:
ATLAS FTE: 1.0 (till July 2008) Paid by Sinervo
Activities: physics (ttH) and 2004 testbeam analysis
Travel CERN: 1x2 weeks ; 2x CDN Physics.
Rachid Mazini
ATLAS FTE: 1.0, based at CERN (Replaced @ Toronto 1st October)
Activities: Higgs Monte Carlo Convenor, Tau reconstruction.
Travel: Unica at CERN
Replacement for Rachid Mazini
ATLAS FTE: 1.0, based at Toronto from 1st October
Activities: Tier II, Jet Calibration
Travel: CERN: 3x1 week; 1x CDN Physics.
New TBA RA
ATLAS FTE: 1.0, based at Toronto from 1st October
Activities: Tier II, Data Quality Monitoring.
Travel: CERN: 1x1 week; 1x CDN Physics.
Engineer
Mircea Cadabesh
Activities: Calorimeter upgrade
Travel: CERN: 1x2week
Students
Travis Bain:
MSc (Teuscher), Started Sep 07.
Activities: will start commissioning summer ’07, physics studies (etmiss, susy)
Travel: CERN: 2x1week
Brian Beare:
PhD (Trischuk). Started Sep 07
Activities: Tier II tools support, physics (t' search), W jet mass reconstruction.
Travel: CERN: 2x 1week.
Sing Leung Cheung:
PhD (Savard). Started Sep 05.
Activities: Fast Simulation, physics (dijet mass resonances),
Travel: CERN: 1x1 month, 2x1 week; 1x CDN Physics.
Saminder Dhaliwal:
PhD (Orr). Started Sep 06.
Activities: FCAL Operations, Tau reconstruction, Z-> mu mu, -> tau tau
Travel: CERN: 1x1 month, 2x1 week; 1x CDN Physics.
Pier-Olivier Deviveiros:
PhD (Savard). Started Sep 06.
Activities: Software jets and etmiss validation, physics (SUSY, leptoquarks in dijet + etmiss
channel).
Travel: CERN 2x1 week.
Trisha Farooque:
PhD (Sinervo). Started Sep 07.
Activities: Calorimetry commissioning in FY08, physics (top).
Travel: CERN: 2x1 week; 1x CDN Physics.
Behi Fatholahzadeh:
PhD (Orr). Started Sep 07.
Activities: FCAL Operation, Jet Calibration, Standard Model Electroweak.
Travel: CERN 1x1 month, 1x1 week.
Bin Guo:
PhD (Sinervo). Started Sep 06.
Activities: physics (ttH in lepton+jets mode and btagging), calorimetry commissioning, cosmic ray
studies
Travel: CERN 6 months, 1x1week, 1xCAP.
Patrick Joannis:
PhD. Starts Sep 08.
Activities: TBA
Travel: CERN 1x1 week.
G. Laskaris:
M.Sc. Sept 2008
Activities: TBA
Travel: 1x1 week
Reyhaneh Rezvani:
PhD (Orr). Started Sep 07.
Activities: FCAL Operations, Jet Calibration, Missing Et processes.
Travel: CERN 1x1 month, 1x1week
Gabe Rosenbaum:
PhD (Krieger). Started Sep 05.
Activities: Calorimetry Commissioning, cosmic ray studies, physics (ttH in lepton+jets mode and
btagging).
Travel: CERN: 6 months, 2x1 weeks, 1xCAP.
Pawan Sandhu:
PhD. Starts Sep 08.
Activities:TBA
Travel: CERN 1x1 week
Stephen Swedish:
PhD (Krieger). Starts Sep 08.
Activities: TBA.
Travel: CERN 1x1 week
Dominique Tardif:
PhD (Trischuk). Started Sep 06
Activities: BCM beam loss simulations, beam abort algo, physics (single t, di-leptons)
Travel: CERN 6 months, 1x1 week
Peter Thompson:
PhD (Krieger). Started Sep 06
Activities: Forward Jet Calibration, Higgs
Travel: CERN 1x1 month, 1x1 week
Undergraduate Students
Nikolina Ilic:
Summer student May-Aug ’08 (supported by Teuscher startup up to 2 months @ CERN), will
work on cosmic ray commissioning.
Patrick Joannis:
TBA
Andrew Fox:
TBA