Breese Quinn

Education
B.S. (Honors), Mississippi State University, 1991
Ph.D. University of Chicago, 2000
Positions Held:
Assistant Professor, University of Mississippi, 2003-present
Lederman Fellow, Fermilab, 2000-2003
Laboratory Physicist, University of Mississippi, 1991-1992


Research and Service Activities:

I first worked in HEP on the E791 charm experiment for the University of Mississippi 
primarily building and administering a UNIX computer farm used for the E791 data 
reconstruction.  As a graduate student at Chicago, I worked on the KTeV experiment 
constructing and commissioning the transition radiation detectors and developing the 
muon simulation code.  My dissertation was a measurement of the KL muonic dalitz 
decay and I was involved with all other muonic rare decay analyses at KTeV.

Since 2000 I have been a member of the D0 collaboration.  I have been involved with 
Silicon Microstrip Tracker (SMT) construction, installation, commissioning, and 
operation and served a term as SMT group co-leader.  I also performed R&D for the 
Run IIb Layer 0 upgrade and am working group leader for Layer 0 installation and 
commissioning.  I served as the Top group representative to the Offline Resources 
Board and b-tagging subgroup co-leader, and am currently pursuing top cross section 
measurements with b-tagging.

As a Lederman Fellow, I participated in a multitude of education and outreach programs 
and activities at Fermilab, including the establishment of a public tour area at D0. 
In March, I was pleased to join UEC/SLUO on a successful DC trip to lobby for HEP and 
physical science funding.