2008 Award Recipients
A number of scientists working at RHIC have been recognized by the American Physical Society for their work, including five new Fellows of the APS:
2009 Robert R. Wilson Prize for Achievement in the Physics of Particle Accelerators Recipient Satoshi Ozaki Brookhaven National Laboratory For his outstanding contribution to the design and construction of accelerators that has led to the realization of major machines for fundamental science on two continents, and his promotion of international collaboration.
Satoshi Ozaki completed his BS and MS at Osaka University, Japan, in 1953 and 1955, respectively, and came to the U.S. in July 1955 as a Fulbright student. After obtaining his PhD in Physics from MIT in 1959, he moved to BNL, pursuing experimental research and development of research facilities, major particle spectrometers and on-line computer systems for real-time data analysis. In 1981, he moved to KEK, Japan, to direct the construction of TRISTAN, a 60 GeV e+e- collider, the first major high energy physics facility (~$500 M) in Japan. After completing TRISTAN on schedule and on budget in 1987, he returned to BNL in 1989 as Head of the RHIC Project (~$600 M), which was completed in 1999, leading to an outstanding physics program. He was also instrumental in bringing polarized proton capability to RHIC with funding support from RIKEN, Japan.
He is the Senior Project Advisor to the NSLS-II Project at BNL, the role he assumed in August 2007 after serving as the Director for the Accelerator Systems Division since its inception in 2005.
He has served on science policy committees of several laboratories, and on technical, project and program reviews and advisories for many laboratories and for DOE.
He is a member of the ILCSC and LCSGA, and is a Fellow of the APS.
2009 Maria Goeppert Mayer Award Recipient Saskia Mioduszewski, Texas A&M Cyclotron Institute. For her pioneering contributions to the observation of jet quenching and her continuing efforts to understand high- p_T phenomena in relativistic heavy- ion collisions.
Saskia Mioduszewski is an experimental nuclear physicist interested in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. She received her B.S. in physics and mathematics in 1994 from North Carolina State University and her Ph.D. in physics from the University of Tennessee. Starting as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in 2000, she worked at Brookhaven National Laboratory on the PHENIX Experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). In 2005, she moved to Texas A&M University as an assistant professor and became a member of the STAR Collaboration at RHIC, where she continues to pursue her interest in high-energy heavy-ion collisions.
Saskia is a member of the American Physical Society. Among her honors, she received the 2004 D.O.E. Presidential Early Career Award and was awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship in 2006.
Paul Sorensen Brookhaven National Laboratory
"For his role in the discovery of quark number scaling in the elliptic flow of hadrons in nucleus-nucleus collisions, and its interpretation showing the relevance of quark degrees of freedom in heavy ion interactions." Background:
Paul Sorensen was born in 1972 in Corbett Oregon and developed an interest in physics while studying art at Mount Hood Community College. Transferring to the University of Nebraska – Lincoln, he earned a B.S. in physics in 1996. Sorensen went on to earn an M.S. and Ph.D. in physics, both from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1999 and 2003, respectively. Sorensen’s thesis was awarded the RHIC and AGS thesis award in 2003. He was a postdoctoral researcher at DOE’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for two years before joining Brookhaven Lab in 2005 as a Goldhaber Distinguished Fellow. Sorensen is the lead author of 16 peer-reviewed publications, accruing more than 800 citations. Sorensen recently became an associate physicist at Brookhaven. His current research within the STAR collaboration focuses on the phase diagram of nuclear matter.
The American Physical Society has recognized five physicists working on RHIC physics as Fellows of the APS:
Thomas W. Ludlam, Brookhaven National Laboratory. For his contribution to the establishment of the scientific program for the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory and for his leadership in the design and construction of the RHIC detectors. Nominated by: Nuclear Physics (DNP)
Triveni Rao, Brookhaven National Laboratory. For pioneering work on metal photo cathodes for high brightness RF injectors. Nominated by: Physics of Beams (DPB)
Werner Vogelsang, Brookhaven National Laboratory. For his outstanding contributions to the development of perturbative QCD and the theoretical methods of analysis of the spin structure of the nucleons. Nominated by: Nuclear Physics (DNP)
Sergei Voloshin, Wayne State University. For numerous seminal contributions to the methods and interpretation of collective flow in relativistic nuclear collisions. Nominated by: Nuclear Physics (DNP)
Soren Sorensen, University of Tennessee. For his important contributions to the field of relativistic heavy ion collisions, in particular for systematic studies of stopping and transverse energy production, and for his early leadership in the PHENIX offline computing framework and in establishing the program of J/psi measurements at RHIC. Nominated by: Nuclear Physics (DNP)
The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National
Laboratory is a world-class scientific research facility primarily
funded by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science. Hundreds
of physicists from around the world use RHIC to study what the
universe may have looked like in the first few moments after its
creation. What physicists learn from these collisions may help us
understand more about why the physical world works the way it does,
from the smallest subatomic particles, to the largest stars.