NAME:
University of Washington

HOME TOWN:
Seattle, Washington

MASCOT:
Husky

SCHOOL COLORS:
Purple and gold

PARTICLE PHYSICS COLLABORATIONS:
DZero and ATLAS

EXPERIMENTS AT FERMILAB:
DZero

SCIENTISTS AND STUDENTS AT FERMILAB:
Three graduate students

COLLABORATING AT FERMILAB SINCE:
1970

MAJOR CONTRIBUTIONS:
Installation of Run 2 forward muon system; design and fabrication of SMT Layer 0, single top evidence, introducing boosted decision trees to DZero, the Level 3 DAQ/Trigger at DZero, b-tagging.

PARTICLE PHYSICS RESEARCH FOCUS:
Low mass Higgs search.

WHAT SETS PARTICLE PHYSICS AT University of Washington APART?
Excellent graduate students.

FUNDING AGENCY:
National Science Foundation

FAVORITE NATIONAL LABORATORY:
Fermilab