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University of Pittsburgh

June 25, 2009



NAME:
University of Pittsburgh

HOME TOWN:
Pittsburgh, Pa.

MASCOT:
Panther

SCHOOL COLORS:
Blue and gold

PARTICLE PHYSICS COLLABORATIONS:
CDF, ATLAS, MINOS, MINERvA

EXPERIMENTS AT FERMILAB:
CDF, MINOS, MINERvA

SCIENTISTS AND STUDENTS AT FERMILAB:
There are four faculty working at Fermilab, two postdocs and four students.

COLLABORATING AT FERMILAB SINCE:
1992

MAJOR CONTRIBUTIONS:
CP violation in Bs->J/psi phi

RESEARCH FOCUS:
B physics, neutrinos

WHAT SETS PARTICLE PHYSICS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH APART?
The strong flavor physics program at CDF, as well as significant contributions to ATLAS simulation/computing.

FUNDING AGENCY:
Department of Energy

FAVORITE NATIONAL LABORATORY:
Fermilab


University of Pittsburgh postdoc Istvan Danko (left) and grad student Zeynep Isvan (right) stand in front of the Minerva electronic test stand.










University of Pittsburgh graduate student Brandon Eberly (right) at work on the Minerva prototype.