Fermilab Director Profiles
Steve Geer
Head, Program Planning Office
I am currently Head of the Program Planning Office within the Fermilab Directorate, which coordinates the experimental physics program carried out at the Laboratory. The office provides a link between ongoing and planned experiments and the Directorate, by:
- Acting as liaison between experimenters and laboratory staff regarding beam conditions during accelerator operation.
- Establishing priorities between accelerator studies and experiments and among experiments, in consultation with the Director, and resolving conflicting requests from experiments.
- Coordinating Division and Section reviews of draft Memoranda of Understanding for approved experiments.
- Coordinating updates to the "Procedures for Researchers" which provides a guide for researchers using Fermilab facilities.
The office also assists the Director in monitoring progress and planning for the future, by:
- Organizing and chairing weekly All Experimenters Meetings.
- Monitoring the progress of the program schedule implementation.
- Assisting in organizing the Physics Advisory Committee Meetings.
- Developing short- and long-range experiment schedules according to guidance from the Director.
I am a high energy experimental physicist and an APS fellow. I received my Ph.D from the University of Liverpool in 1980, and then worked on the UA1 experiment as a CERN fellow and, amongst other things, coordinated the analysis group that discovered the W and Z bosons. My career trajectory brought me to the U.S. as an Assistant Prof., and then Associate Prof., at Harvard, and to Fermilab as a participant of the CDF experiment. I joined the Fermilab Staff in 1990 to lead the CDF Offline activities during the period of the top quark discovery. My adventure at Fermilab has included building, installing and operating detectors for the APEX test (T861) and the APEX (E868) experiments and acting as the experiments' spokesperson. I have also led various accelerator R&D activities, including proposing and promoting the Neutrino Factory concept, being spokesperson for the MUCOOL collaboration, co-spokesperson of the Neutrino Factory and Muon Collider collaboration and co-leader of both the Muon Collider Task Force and the Muon Accelerator Program.