Steven Goldfarb

Curriculum Vitae
Steven Michael Goldfarb

9 March 2005

PERSONAL DATA

Address: CERN-EP, 1211 Genève 23, Switzerland
Telephone: +41.22.767.1226 Telefax: +41.22.767.8350 E-mail: Steven.Goldfarb@cern.ch
Born: 13 August 1963, USA (Age 41) Nationality: American, French Marital Status: Married

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Physics	University of Michigan, 1991. Dissertation: A Determination of the Number of Neutrino Species from the e⁺e^- --> hadrons Cross Section Measured at the Z Peak. Committee: B. Roe (advisor), M. Brake, H. Gustafson, J. Krisch, M. Veltman.
B.S. Mathematics	University of Michigan, 1985, summa cum laude, Golden Key Honour Society.

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

2001 - present	Assistant Research Scientist, University of Michigan ATLAS Muon Software Coordinator: Coordination of software development, including high-level design, planning, resource management. Member of Software Project, Muon Management Boards. Chair, LCG RTAG on Collaborative Tools: Preparation of report providing recommendations to the LCG Project Execution Board for collaborative tool support for the LHC. On Site Coordinator, CERN REU Program: Coordinate activities at CERN for the REU Summer Student Program, including student selection, project solicitation, oversight. MOORE Software Team: Development and planning for MOORE Reconstruction program. ATLAS Release Coordinator, Interim Librarian: Coordinated one complete release cycle for offline software; stood in as librarian for a six month period 2003-2004. U.S. Atlas Collaborative Tool Support: Coordination of activities at CERN for web lecture recording (WLAP), video conferencing facility R & D.
1998 - 2001	Physics Consultant, Senior Research Fellow, University of Michigan ATLAS Muon Database Task Leader: Offline database software development. U.S. ATLAS Muon Software Project Leader: Coordination of U.S. software activities. Collaborative Tool Research and Development: Creation of WLAP, R & D. REU Summer Student Program at CERN: On-Site management.
1993 - 1998	Chercheur Post-Doctoral, Université de Lausanne B Spectroscopy Group Leader for the L3 Experiment at CERN: First measurements of the spin of the B^* meson and of the individual masses, decay widths and production rates of l=1 B mesons. Electromagnetic Calorimeter Low-Angle Radiation Monitor: Design and installation. System Management: Cluster of Silicon Graphics Unix workstations.
1991 - 1993	Research Consultant, Northeastern University Analysis of b Hadron Events in L3 Data: Inclusive lifetime measurement and feasibility studies for B^* meson spin and fragmentation measurements.
1986 - 1991	Graduate Student, University of Michigan L3 Hadron Calorimeter: Assembly, testing of wire chambers, test beam studies, installation. L3 Scintillator System: Testing and installation of photomultipliers and counters. Software Development: Reconstruction and graphics for the L3 hadron calorimeter. Analysis of First Z Decays at LEP: L3 hadronic event selection and extraction of the lineshape.

TEACHING AND STUDENT SUPERVISION

1999-present	CERN/REU Summer Student Supervisor, Supervised 1 or 2 REU or CERN Summer Students each year during 6-8 week periods. Projects ranged from ATLAS offline software development to collaborative tool R & D, including the WLAP pilot project.
1997-1999	Thesis Committee Member, University of Nijmegen and NIKHEF. Supervised a PhD student's analysis and subsequent dissertation: ``Excited Beauty at L3,'' M. van Hoek, L3-Note-2459 (1999).
1994-1995	Expert Aux Examens Pratiques de Diplôme, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Supervised a fourth-year engineering student in her practical diploma studies.
1985-1986	Teaching Assistant, University of Michigan, Taught eight two-hour freshman mechanics and electromagnetics laboratories.

SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Report of the LHC Computing Grid Project RTAG 12: Collaborative Tools, T. Doyle et. al., To be published as CERN LCG RTAG12 Final Report (2005).
A Step Towards A Computing Grid For The LHC Experiments : ATLAS Data Challenge 1, Sturrock, R et. al., ATLAS Collaboration, CERN-PH-EP-2004-028 (2004).
The Web Lecture Archive Project: Archiving ATLAS Presentations and Tutorials, J. Herr and S. Goldfarb, ATL-ENEWS-2004-014 (2004).
A Hierarchical Software Identifier Scheme for the ATLAS Muon Spectrometer - Version 2.0, A. DiCiaccio et. al., ATLAS Note ATL-MUON-2004-003 (2004).
Muon Identification and Combined Reconstruction for the ATLAS Detector at CERN-LHC, J. Shank et. al., Como 2003, Astroparticle, particles and space physics, detectors and medical physics applications 443-447 (2003).
Opportunities for Use and Development of Collaborative Tools in ATLAS, S. Goldfarb et. al., ATLAS Note ATL-GEN-2003-002 (2003).
Moore as Event Filter in the ATLAS High Level Trigger, D. Adams et. al., ATLAS Notes ATL-SOFT-2003-008 and ATL-DAQ-2003-020 (2003).
Track Reconstruction in the ATLAS Muon Spectrometer with MOORE, D. Adams et. al., ATLAS Note ATL-SOFT-2003-007 (2003).
Report of the LHC Computing Grid Project Detector Geometry & Material Description RTAG, J. Boudreau et. al., CERN LCG RTAG7 Final Report (2002).
Long Precision Drift Tube Production at Michigan, E. Diehl et. al., ATLAS Note ATL-MUON-2002-012 (2002).
Michigan ATLAS MDT Chamber Mass Production, E. Diehl et. al., ATLAS Note ATL-MUON-2002-006 (2002).
ATLAS Muon Spectrometer Detector Description Database Planning Document, S. Goldfarb, ATLAS Note ATL-MUON-2001-015 (2001).
A Hierarchical Software Identifier Scheme for the ATLAS Muon Spectrometer, A. DiCiaccio et. al., ATLAS Note ATL-MUON-2001-014 (2001).
Definition of Off-line Readout Identifiers for the ATLAS Detector, Edited by S. Goldfarb and A. Schaffer, ATLAS Note ATL-SOFT-2001-004 (2001).
WLAP: The Web Lecture Archive Project, N. Bousdira, et. al., University of Michigan Publication UM-ACP-2001-003 (2001), CERN Publication CERN-OPEN-2001-066 (2001).
Lecture Object: An Architecture for Archiving Lectures on the Web, G. Vitaglione et. al., Proceedings of the Second Topical Seminar on Global and Local Networks for Research and Education, Pontignano 2000, CERN-OPEN-2001-020 (2001).

A complete listing of physics publications is available on the world-wide web at: http://cern.ch/goldfarb/Publications.html.

Written and Maintained by Steven.Goldfarb@cern.ch
Last modified: Fri Mar 18 11:00:00 CET 2005