VITA: / RANDAL C. RUCHTI
(Partial)
Full version at dept website / Department of Physics University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, Indiana 46556
Professor of Physics at Notre Dame since 1977
a. Education: / University of Wisconsin (Madison), 1968, B.S. University of Illinois (Urbana) 1970, M.S. Michigan State University; 1973, Ph.D.
b. Positions Held:
c. Awards: / Research Assistant, Michigan State University, 1970-1973 Research Associate, Northwestern University, 1973-1976 Assistant Professor, Northwestern University, 1976-1977 Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame, 1977-1982 Associate Professor, University of Notre Dame, 1982-1986 Professor, University of Notre Dame, 1986-present

0.  • Madden Teaching Award, Notre Dame, 1990

0.  • Presidential Award, Notre Dame, 2000

0.  • Fellow, American Physical Society, 2001

1.d. Professional Memberships:

2.  • American Physical Society, Division of Particles and Fields, Forum on Education, Forum on Physics and Society

2.  • Sigma Xi

2.  • American Association of Physics Teachers

1.e. Recent Professional Activities:

• Education Coordinator, US CMS Collaboration, elected April 1997, re-elected April 1999, re-elected April 2001-

• Member NSF Education Working Group, 1997-

• Co-editor, Particle Physics Education and Outreach, 1997

• Level 4 Manager, USCMS Hadron Calorimetry Project, 1998-

• Member, Fermilab User’s Executive Committee, 1998-2000

• Co-Founder and Co-Principal Investigator, QuarkNet National Science Education Project, 1998-

• Founder and Physics Director, Notre Dame QuarkNet Center, 1999-

• Member, USCMS Executive Board, 1998-2000

• Member, USCMS Advisory Board, 2000-

• Member, International Advisory Committee, Fifth International Conference on Advanced Technology and Particle Physics, ICATPP-6, Como, Italy, 1998

• Region 4 Secretary, Fermilab Board of Overseer’s, appointed 1999-

• Project Director, Notre Dame Physics RET Program, 2001-

• Placement of Fiber-optic Cosmic Ray Detector into the Gallery on Explore the Universe, National Air and Space Museum, Washington DC, 2001.

• Member, Organizing Committee, Sixth International Conference on Advanced Technology and Particle Physics, ICATPP-7, Como, Italy, 2001.

• Member, NSF Program Review Panels in various Directorates: 2000, 2001, 2002.

• Co-editor, Particle Physics Education and Outreach 2001.

• Member, Organizing Committee, DPF2002, College of William and Mary,
Williamsburg, VA, 2002.

• Member, DPF Subcommittee on Education and Outreach, 2002-

• Member, Organizing Committee, Seventh International Conference on Advanced Technology and Particle Physics, ICATPP-8, Como, Italy, 2003.

f. Recent Invited Addresses:

• QuarkNet, Purdue University, July 2004

• Teacher and Student Research in QuarkNet, DPF2004, Riverside, CA, August 2004

• Invited Talk, APS Spring Meeting, Tampa, FL, April 2005

• Invited Talk, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, LI, NY, June 2005

• Invited Talk, Global Grid Forum (GGF-14), Chicago, IL, June 2005

• Invited Talk, Snowmass Workshop on the Linear Collider, Snowmass, CO, August 2005

• Contributed Talk, International Conference on Advanced Technology in Particle Physics ICATPP-9, Como, Italy, October 2005

• Invited Talk, International Conference on Advanced Technology in Particle Physics ICATPP-9, Como, Italy, October 2005

g. Collaborators: Fermilab DØ Collaboration, CERN/LHC CMS Collaboration, Fermilab E687 Collaboration, QuarkNet, UCLC (University Consortium for a Linear Collider)

h. Doctoral Dissertation Students:

Dr. Richard R. Pemper, Dr. Patrick J. Mooney, Dr. Edward Rojek, Dr. Joseph Godfrey,
Dr. Miguel Sarmiento, Prof. Robert Gardner, Dr. Raymond Mountain, Dr. Christopher Kennedy, Dr. Danilo Puseljic, Dr. Zeyuan Wu, Dr. James Jaques, Dr. Robert Kehoe, Dr. Evgeny Popkov, Dr. Hai Zheng.

Current graduate students: Mr. Yuri Pogorelov, Mr. Peter Svoisky
i. Masters Dissertation Students: Mr. Scott Grenquist (MS in Elect. Engineering)

-1.j. Thesis Advisor:

Prof. M. Abolins, Michigan State University