Tim M.P. Tait

Education:

University of California, San Diego, BS (Physics), 1993
Michigan State University, MSc (Physics) 1995
Michigan State University, PhD 1999


Positions Held:

Research Associate, Argonne National Lab (HEP division theory group), 1999-2002
Research Associate, Fermilab (theory group), 2002-2004
Assistant Physicist, Argonne National Lab, 2004-present
Assistant Professor, Northwestern University, 2007-present
(joint with Argonne National Lab)


Research Activities:

My research is focused on physics beyond the standard model.  In the past this
has varied from collider implications of models, precision electroweak tests,
connections with cosmology, and model-building to understand fundamental
questions and features of nature.  At the moment and in the near future, I will
be more focused on questions related to the Tevatron and LHC, and I am 
currently exploring scenarios which lead to unusual experimental signatures,
in the hopes of motivating new and unconventional analysis of data.

I have a particular interest in the top quark, whose large mass may be a clue
that it plays a special role in electroweak symmetry-breaking and the
generation of mass.

I enjoy interacting with experimentalists, and I do so regularly with members
of CDF, D0, CMS, ATLAS, GLAST, and other experiments.