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Research opportunities for postdoctoral fellows
The JHU Physics and Astronomy Department has several prestigious named Fellowships
(William H. Miller Fellowships and Sweeney Fellowships) open to applicants in any area of physics annually.
The deadline is typically in the fall, but you can inquire about the opportunities at any time.
Applicants will also be considered for other appropriate postdoctoral positions in the Department.
Therefore, if you are interested to work on any of the projects with Prof. Gritsan,
you are encouraged to apply for the above Fellowships through the
AcademicJobsOnline web page. You are also encouraged to contact Prof. Gritsan for further details.
For more details about Fellowship opportunities in experimental particle physics group, please check
here.
Research opportunities for undergraduate students
Information about the
JHU Undergraduate School in Physics and Astronomy.
There are exciting opportunities for undergraduate students of all levels to
participate in Experimental Particle Physics research. Contact Prof. Gritsan
for further details. There is an option of conducting research for academic credit.
Provost's Undergraduate Research Award
or ASPIRE Grant
are excellent opportunities to conduct research projects.
Several undergraduate students who worked with Prof. Gritsan received the awards:
Manisha Narayanan, an undergraduate student at JHU, was awarded the Provost's Undergraduate
Research Award in the 2010-2011 academic years (see the article
"
Hadron collisions reach out to people in Washington"
in CMS Times);
Heshy Roskes, an undergraduate student at JHU, was awarded the Dean's Undergraduate
Research Award (now ASPIRE) in the 2013-2014 academic years (see the article
"
Heshy Roskes: Smashing Particles"
in JHU Arts and Sciences magazine);
Jered McInerney, an undergraduate student at JHU, was awarded the Provost's Undergraduate
Research Award in the 2016-2017 academic year,
and Lucas S. Mandacaru Guerra, an undergraduate student at JHU, was awarded the Provost's Undergraduate
Research Award in the 2021-2022 academic year.
The projects are to learn and apply data analysis techniques on the
CMS
high-energy physics experiment on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) or/and to develop
outreach projects
which communicate LHC results to the public.
Technical aspects of the data analysis work involve
modern computer applications in high energy physics. Some experience with
modern computer languages and operating systems (e.g. UNIX/C++) is desired
but not required.
See discussion of the projects for the graduate students.
Research opportunities for graduate students
Information about the
JHU Graduate School in Physics and Astronomy.
An overview of research activities is given
here.
Learn physics analysis techniques in frontier particle physics and
work with silicon tracking detectors.
Get involved in analysis of the CMS data studying the properties of
a new discovered Higgs boson and/or search for new related phenomena.
Perform Monte Carlo modeling and LHC data analysis
in search for new fundamental particles and interactions.
Also learn both hardware and software requirements
on alignment of the silicon tracking detectors on
the CMS experiment.
Technical aspects of the work involve
modern computer applications in high energy physics:
- C/C++/Python
programming languages
- ROOT Data Analysis Framework, based on C++
-
CMS Reconstruction software
Some experience with some of the above items (UNIX/C++) is desired.
Course in Elementary Particle Physics
(171.408 / 171.625)
is recommended but not required.
You can read more about the
CMS experiment.
Ph.D. JHU graduates who worked with Prof. Gritsan, and their thesis links:
Yanyan Gao (Ph.D. 2009, current as of 2022: Chancellor Fellow at the University of Edinburgh,
equivalent to a tenure-track assistant professor in the US)
Study of rare gluonic penguin decays B to phi K pi (pi) at BABAR
Nhan Tran (Ph.D. 2011, current as of 2022: tenure-track Wilson Fellow at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory,
see also
awards)
Angles and Daemons: Spin Correlations at the LHC
Andrew Whitbeck (Ph.D. 2013, current as of 2022: tenure-track Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University)
Discovery and Characterization of a Higgs-like Resonance Using the Matrix Element Likelihood Approach
Ian Anderson (Ph.D. 2015, current as of 2022: research in industry)
A Tale of Two Vertices: Production and Decay of the Higgs VV Vertex at the LHC
Chris Martin (Ph.D. 2015, current as of 2019: postdoctoral fellow at Ohio State University)
Discovery and Characterization of a Higgs boson using four-lepton events from the CMS experiment
Candice You (Ph.D. 2017, current as of 2019: research in industry)
Higgs boson properties and search for additional resonances
Ulascan Sarica (Springer Ph.D. Thesis Award, Ph.D. 2018;
current as of 2022: postdoctoral fellow at UCSB)
Measurements of Higgs boson properties in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s)=7, 8 and 13 TeV at the CERN Large Hadron Collider
Yaofu Zhou (Ph.D. 2019, current as of 2020: visiting scholar at Missouri University of Science and Technology)
Probing Anomalous Couplings of the Higgs Boson to Weak Bosons and Fermions with Precision Calculations
Jeffrey (Heshy) Roskes (Springer Ph.D. Thesis Award, Ph.D. 2019;
current as of 2022: Assistant Research Scientist at the Johns Hopkins University)
A boson learned from its context, and a boson learned from its end
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