PIERRICK M. HANLET, Ph.D.





1724B Soloman Road
Charlottesville, VA 22901

(804) 296-1764 (home)
(804) 982-5372 (laboratory)
(804) 982-5372 (alternative)

hanlet@fnalv.fnal.gov
hanlet@uvahee.phys.virginia.edu
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OBJECTIVE

Ultimately, I desire to lead a research and development team so as to take a
product from inception to production.





EDUCATION


Dates                     Degree                    Institution
1994--1995                Ph.D. Physics             University of Virginia
                                                    Charlottesville, Virginia

1987--1994                M.S. Physics              University of Virginia
                                                    Charlottesville, Virginia

1980--1985                B.S. Physics              S.U.N.Y. @ Stony Brook
                                                    Stony Brook, New York





PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT


Dates                     Position                  Institution
May  1995 -- Present      Research Consultant       University of Virginia

Jun. 1986 -- Aug. 1987    Physics Associate IV      Brookhaven National Laboratory

Oct. 1984 -- Jun. 1986    Laboratory Technician     Yale University

Jun. 1984 -- Aug. 1984    Laboratory Consultant     Alpha Omega Development Inc.

Jan. 1984 -- Jun. 1984    Laboratory Assistant      S.U.N.Y. @ Stony Brook





EXPERIENCE
Fermilab Experiment 853 (1995-present)

The primary goal of this experiment is the determination of the feasibility of extracting a primary beam for use in fixed target experiments in manner which is non-perturbative to the simultaneous running of collider experiments. The extraction is performed by inserting a bent silicon crystal in the halo of the circulating stored beam at the Fermilab Tevatron. For this experiment I have been involved in analysis of data taken in the previous runs to determine the extraction efficiency and alignment reproducibility of the crystal.

Fermilab Experiment 771 (1989-present)

My contributions to E771 encompassed almost each aspect of the experiment. I was a central figure in the revitalization of each element of an electromagnetic calorimeter and its electronic readout, and in setting timings and gains. Here I developed, tested, and implemented an electronic correction for the front end of the glass ADCs and modified high impedance pickoff modules to reverse the input polarity and amplify the signal. In test stands which I set up, I wrote programs which interfaced with the hardware controllers and readout modules. I set up the readout logic for the glass ADCs and TDCs, table position monitor, and pulser system. I was also involved in building a silicon micro--vertex detector, setting up triggers, developing online---real time---monitoring code, and building and monitoring the experiment's fast data acquisition system. During the run, I was a contact person for the electromagnetic calorimeter and data acquisition system.

My contributions to the offline data analysis also involved almost each aspect of the experiment, including development of primitive routines for I/O, reading and writing of experiment data parameters, and data decoding routines. My primary task dealt with the reconstruction of electromagnetic showers in the electromagnetic calorimeter. The detector had 1,600 channels of electronics in ten interconnected subsystems. The data analysis involved an offline energy calibration of each element of the detector, a relative alignment of each component, an absolute alignment of the device relative to the spectrometer, resurrection of old shower reconstruction code, and development of new reconstruction code. Here I single-handedly developed algorithms for the pattern recognition and charged track reconstruction; developed algorithms for pattern recognition and reconstruction of tube hodoscope shower energies and positions---including overlapping showers; developed new track--shower matching algorithms; and wrote a complete set of shower analysis routines for particle identification. At each stage of the analysis, I used data fitting and modeling techniques.

I also participated in the computer simulation of the entire E771 detector, and was the sole author of a detailed computer simulation of the E771 electromagnetic calorimeter.

In addition, I participated in the development of a graphics event display package for the spectrometer tracking and developed a graphics event display package for the electromagnetic calorimeter.

MEMBERSHIPS

Brookhaven National Laboratory Users Group

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Users Group

American Physical Society

PERSONAL INFORMATION

U.S. Citizen, born 13-June-1962 in Los Angeles, CA

Married with two children

Fluent in French

Interests