Session T6: Panel Discussion: Preparation of Graduate Students for Careers in a Globalized World I

3:30 PM–5:18 PM, Monday, May 4, 2009
Room: Governor's Square 16

Sponsoring Units: FGSA FIP
Chair: Kendall Mahn, Columbia University

Abstract ID: BAPS.2009.APR.T6.3

Abstract: T6.00003 : How the LHC has revolutionized collaboration and research

4:18 PM–4:30 PM

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Author:

  Michael Tuts
    (Columbia University)

I will be discussing my experience as a a high energy experimental physicist involved in large international collaborations for many years. As the US ATLAS Operations Program Manager, I manage the US ATLAS Operations Program at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), and am responsible for about a \$35M annual budget to support US technical personnel in the areas of operations, computing and R\&D that participate in the ATLAS experiment. US ATLAS has about 400 US physicists from 43 US institutions around the country that make up about 20\% of the total number of physicists from 35 countries in the International ATLAS collaboration. In this panel discussion I will highlight the unique challenges of large, international collaborations as well as the logistics of such an undertaking.

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