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James L. HorwitzIn Memoriam
Dr. James L. Horwitz
(1949 - 2009)
Chair of the physics department, Dr. James Leslie Horwitz, 60, passed away Saturday, Jan. 31, 2009, in Arlington.

Memorials: In lieu of flowers, the family asks that those who are interested to make contributions to the James L. Horwitz Physics Scholarship Fund at the University of Texas at Arlington, Box 19047, Arlington, Texas 76019.

  


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Department News - November 10, 2009

Nano-Bio Physics group collaborates with Agiltron Inc. on Radiation Detection For homeland security
Dr. Wei Chen as a collaborator, along with Dr. King Wang (principal investigator and Vice President), Dr. Guiquan Pan and Dr. Jinsong Huang (key investigators) at Agiltron Inc. were awarded a Phase-II SBIR grant of $750,000 from DOD Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) for research on Bulk Composite Materials For Detection of Gamma Radiation. A subcontract of $200,264 is awarded to UTA Nano-Bio Physics group for the design and synthesis of scintillation nanoparticles for radiation detection.

Department News - October 30, 2009

Physics Research Faculty announced as the Deputy Coordinator of U.S. ATLAS Distributed Analysis Operations
Research Assistant Professor Nurcan Ozturk has been announced as the Deputy Coordinator to coordinate U.S. ATLAS Distributed Analysis Operations. ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC Apparatus) is an experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. The first proton beams are expected to circulate in the LHC in approximately mid-November this year after a magnet failure incident in September 2008. As ATLAS physicists quickly approach data taking it becomes a very important task to ensure that each physicists is able to analyze ATLAS data distributed among hundreds of computing sites worldwide. Ozturk has played an active role in distributed analysis operations and user analysis support starting in early 2008 for major activities like FDR (Final Dress Rehearsal), STEP09 (Scale Testing for the Experiment Program 09) and ongoing UAT (User Analysis Test). She has given several tutorials in Analysis Jamborees and organized training sessions to help distributed analysis users to actively participate in LHC physics analysis. She will continue to coordinate Distributed Analysis support shifts, user analysis stress tests, will help users of U.S. ATLAS facilities with analysis operations issues as well as will monitor and validate analysis sites.



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