Dr. David C. Moore
Lee Grodzins Postdoctoral Award Winner, 2015-2016

Dr. David Moore delivered his colloquium "Searching for new short range forces using optically levitated microspheres" on September 14, 2015.

Dr. Moore received his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology and currently works at Stanford University.

To learn more about Dr. Moore's work, a Quanta Magazine article describing his tabletop experiments can be found here.

 

 

Dr. Dennis Perepelitsa
Lee Grodzins Postdoctoral Award Winner, 2016-2017

MIT’s Laboratory for Nuclear Science (LNS) has awarded its 2016 Lee Grodzins Postdoctoral Fellows Lecture Award to Heavy Ion researcher Dennis Perepelitsa. At the time of the competition, Perepelitsa was a Goldhaber Fellow at Brookhaven National Laboratory. As he presents the Grodzins Prize Lecture, he has begun a faculty position at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

His prize lecture was entitled “Novel probes of the proton wavefunction through collisions with nuclei” and discussed how collisions with nuclei have provided unexpected insight into the correlations between the longitudinal momentum and transverse spatial configurations in the proton wavefunction, drawing a connection between heavy ion and hadron structure physics. This lecture will discuss data taken in heavy ion running at LHC and at RHIC.

We were pleased to honor Lee Grodzins’ 90th birthday at this lecture.

 

 

Dr. Tatsuya Kikawa
Lee Grodzins Postdoctoral Award Winner, 2017-2018

Tatsuya Kikawa delivered his colloquium "Quest for new CP violation by neutrino oscillation and neutron EDM measurement" on October 2, 2017.

Dr. Kikawa received his Ph.D. from Kyoto University and currently works at TRIUMF in Vancouver, Canada

To learn more about Dr. Kikawa's work, you may view selected publications on his Research Gate profile. His Ph.D. thesis, "Measurement of Neutrino Interactions and Three Flavor Neutrino Oscillations in the T2K Experiment" is available from Springer Publications.

 

 

Dr. Jie Zhao
Lee Grodzins Postdoctoral Award Winner, 2018-2019

Jie Zhao of Purdue University delivered his colloquium "Search for the Chiral Magnetic Effect in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions" on September 10, 2018. He discussed the current state of the experimental search for the CME with a particular focus on recent progresses in the understanding of the background issues

Further work by Dr. Zhao may be found here.