Maxwell Chertok

Education:

Ph.D., Boston University, 1997
B.S., Duke University, 1988


Positions Held:

    * Associate Professor, University of California, Davis, 2004-present
    * Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis, 2000-2004
    * Assistant Research Scientist, Texas A&M University, 1996-2000


Research Activities and Service work:


I have worked on CDF since 1996, first helping build the Silicon vertex detector 
for the Run II upgrade, and searching for Supersymmetry with the Run I data. I 
was co-convener of the CDF Exotics group in 1999 and 2000. More recently I have 
been interested in tau lepton triggering and identification, and am supervising 
two graduate students in searches for new phenomena with taus in the CDF Run II 
data. I was a CDF contact person to the Tevatron New Phenomena working group, 
with the goal of combining physics results with our colleagues at DZero in Run II. 


Before joining CDF, I worked on a wide variety of experiments: OPAL as an 
undergraduate, muon g-2 at BNL as an early graduate student, radiative decay 
experiments at TRIUMF, and my Ph.D. thesis project measured CP violation in 
semi-leptonic Kaon decays at the CPLEAR experiment at CERN. 


While I remain active on CDF, I have ramped up my efforts on CMS as well. This 
summer I am directing two undergraduate students in SUSY studies and endcap 
muon test beam reconstruction with ORCA. Moreover, I am a member of the Advisory 
Board of the LHC Physics Center (LPC) at Fermilab.