General CMS/MIT News

BIG congrats to our Rising Star and Lightning Round Winner: Zeynep Demiragli!!

But MIT is all over the USLUA Landscape

Zeynep Demiragli (MIT postdoc) and Javier Duarte (was MIT UROP with our group) are winners of the Lightning Round competition.

Phil Ilten (MIT postdoc and UROP with our group) and Ian Moult (Jesse Thalers PhD student) gave great talks.

The official message!

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Subject: USLUA Lightning Round winners announcement
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2016 16:18:46 -0600
From: Jessica Metcalfe <jessica.metcalfe@gmail.com>
To: usluo@fnal.gov
CC: Harvey Newman <newman@hep.caltech.edu> =====================

Dear US LHC Users Association members,

Last week we had an engaging meeting of the USLUA in Berkeley. The Lightning Round competition for students and postdocs was fast paced and of excellent quality. We would like to take this moment to thank all of those who participated!

The top 6 winners were announced at the end of the meeting, they are:

Demiragli, Zeynep        Massachusetts Inst. of Technology 
 Duarte, Javier Mauricio  Fermi National Accelerator Lab. 
 Hyneman, Rachel Jordan   University of Michigan
 Ravaioli, Emmanuele      LBNL
 Shuve, Brian             SLAC
 Swiatlowski, Maximilian  University of Chicago

In addition, we would like to announce the following people, who also gave excellent talks, to join us on the annual USLUA DC trip:

Gleyzer, Sergei             University of Florida
 Grogan, Dayton Parker       Duke University
 Iten, Phil                  MIT
 Khader, Mazin Woodrow       Univ. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
 McCormack, William Patrick  LBNL
 Meehan, Samuel Ross         University of Washington
 Moult, Ian                  Berkeley/LBL
 Zeng, Qi                    SLAC National Accelerator  Laboratory

Thanks for all those who helped host, organize, and attended. We hope to see you again next year!

Best Regards,
USLUA executive committee