Tom Ferbel
Professor of Physics at University of Rochester
(Photo is vintage 1999 - still a charmer!)
ADDRESS
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
University of Rochester
Box 270171
Rochester, New York 14627-0171
PHONE
Univ. Rochester Phone:(585)275-4396
Univ. Rochester FAX:(585)275-8527
FNAL Phone:(630)840-5267/3111
FNAL FAX: (630)840-8886
EDUCATION AND RESEARCH
History:
I received my B.A. in Chemistry (1959) from Queens College, CUNY, and my
M.S. (1960) and Ph.D. in Physics (1963) from Yale University. After a postdoctoral
position at Yale, I joined the University of Rochester as an Assistant
Professor of Physics in 1965. I was promoted to Associate Professor in
1969 and to Full Professor in 1973. I have also served as Associate Dean
for Graduate Studies at the College of Arts and Science (1989-91). I have
held visiting appointments at Fermilab (1971-72), CERN (1980-81), Supercollider
Design Group - LBL (1989-90), LAL Orsay (1995), and the Max Planck Institute
at Munich (1995-6).
I am a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and have served as Secretary
Treasurer of the Division of Particles and Fields, Chair of the APS Committee
on the International Freedom of Scientists, and am a member of the APS
Committee on International Scientific Affairs. I have served on program
advisory committees of Brookhaven Laboratory and of the Stanford Linear
Accelerator Center, and have been a member of the Executive Committee of
the Users' Organization of Brookhaven Laboratory, and Chair of the Fermi
National Accelerator Laboratory's Users' Organization. I have also served
as Chair of the Institutional Board of the DØ Collaboration at the
Fermilab Tevatron, and on advisory committees associated with the siting
of the Supercollider, the ZEUS program in Canada, several DOE and NSF Panels
evaluating university research programs and the selection of outstanding
junior investigators. I am a regional secretary of the Universities Research
Association that manages Fermilab. I was awarded a Judge Charles Colden
Prize (Queens College), was an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow and a John S. Guggenheim
Fellow, and a recipient of an Alexander von Humboldt Prize.
Research Interests:
My research has been in experimental particle physics, with past interests
in phenomenology, experimental investigations of hadron dynamics and inclusive
hadron production, meson spectroscopy, particle production in the nuclear
Coulomb field, studies of perturbative QCD, and, currently, collider physics.
I have co-authored with Ashok Das an undergraduate text "Introduction to
Nuclear and Particle Physics" (Wiley), and edited a popular collection
of articles on "Experimental Techniques in High Energy Nuclear and Particle
Physics" (World Scientific). I have also edited proceedings of conferences
on "Silicon Detectors for High Energy Physics" (Fermilab), and a series
on "Techniques and Concepts of High Energy Physics" (Plenum/Kluwer), based
on an Advanced Study Institute on Particle Physics that I founded and have
directed since 1980. I have served on editorial boards of Physical Review,
Zeitschrift fur Physik, and am on the the board of the International Journal
of Modern Physics. I have lectured widely, authored many review articles
and scientific papers, have been scientific spokesmen for several experiments
in particle physics, and have been a member of numerous organizing committees
for workshops and conferences in particle physics. My recent work has focused
on issues pertaining to the top quark, as observed in the DØ
collider experiment at Fermilab .
CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
FNAL E-706 - Direct Photons
FNAL E-740 - DØ Collider
Experiment - Issues in Top Physics (TOP
GROUP)
CURRENT RESPONSIBILITIES ON DØ
Run-1 Analysis, co-convener for Top and New Phenomena analyses
Top
Working Group, co-convener
ADVANCED STUDY INSTITUTE AT ST. CROIX
Director of the biennial institute on particle physics (even years) - ASI
Web Page. Will surrender the baton to Mikhail Danilov and Harrison
Prosper for the 21st century.
Send comments or suggestions to: ferbel@fnal.gov
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modified: Friday December 25, 1998