CURRICULUM VITAE - Duke Physics - Duke University

CURRICULUM VITAE
Mark Charles Kruse
Fuchsberg-Levine Family Associate Professor of Physics
Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0305
Web: http://www.phy.duke.edu/~mkruse/
Nationality: New Zealand (U.S. permanent resident)
Professional
2012 - present, Distinguished Professor, Duke University
Fuchsberg-Levine Family Associate Professor of Physics.
2007 - 2012, Associate Professor of Physics (with tenure), Duke University.
2001 - 2007, Assistant Professor of Physics, Duke University.
1996 - 2000, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Rochester (New York).
1990 - 1996, Research Assistant, Purdue University (Indiana, USA).
1989 - 1990, Scientist, National Radiation Laboratory, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Education
Ph.D., Purdue University, 1996 (Physics). Thesis: “Observation of tt Production in the Dilepton + Jets
Decay Channel from Proton-Antiproton Collisions at √ s = 1.8TeV”
M. Sc., Auckland University (New Zealand), 1988 (Physics, 1 st -class honours)
B. Sc., Auckland University (New Zealand), 1986 (Physics)
Selected Professional Activities
• Partner Investigator at the Australian Research Council “Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at
the Terascale”, University of Melbourne (2010 - present).
• Faculty mentor for the Duke chapter of the Society of Physics Students (SPS) (2009 - present).
• Convener, CDF Higgs Discovery Group (2007 - 2009).
• Member, ATLAS collaboration, Large Hadron Collider (2006 - present).
• Convener, CDF Top-Quark Physics Group (1999 - 2001).
• Member, CDF collaboration, Fermilab (1992 - present).
• Other professional and outreach activities listed at http://www.phy.duke.edu/~mkruse/
Ph.D. Students (Duke) Mentored and Theses Advised
Chen Zhou (2010 - present), Novel searches for new physics at ATLAS
Kevin Finelli (2009 - present), Global searches for new physics at ATLAS using dilepton events
Dean Hidas (2003 - 2009) [now a postdoc at Rutgers]
“Search for H → WW in the dilepton final state using multivariate techniques at CDF”
Sebastian Carron Montero (2001 - 2007) [now a staff scientist at SLAC]
“A new global technique for new physics searches using dileptons”
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Undergraduate Students Mentored
Francesco Agosti (2012 - present) ATLAS, anomalously charged particle searches
Ryan Stribley (2012 - present) ATLAS, effect of pile-up on TRT particle identification
Alejandro Cortese (2010 - 2012) [grad student, Cornell] ATLAS, anomalously charged particle searches
Ariana Minot (2008 - 2010) [grad student in applied math at Harvard, 2010 Fulbright Scholar]
ATLAS, global tests of the Standard Model using dileptons
John Phillips (2008 - 2010) [grad student at UC Irvine] ATLAS, measuring the t¯t cross-section
Stephen M. Smith (2007 - 2009) [grad student at UC San Diego] CDF, global searches for new physics
Richard Wall (2006-2008) [grad student at Yale] ATLAS, TRT performance
Selected Invited Talks/Interviews (last 3 years)
(for list of all conference talks see: http://www.phy.duke.edu/~mkruse/talks/talks_new.html )
October 28, 2012, Invited by the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing to give TED-like lecture
at the “New Horizons in Science” symposium, Raleigh, NC
July 12, 2012, Public lecture: “Why we care about the Large Hadron Collider”, Auckland, New Zealand
March 25,2012, Radio New Zealand Interview with Chris Laidlaw,
www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/sunday/audio/2513683/mark-kruse-creation-of-the-universe
November 15, 2011, Invited presentation at the “Rutherford Centennial Colloquium”, CERN
indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=1474209
April 26, 2011, Public lecture: “Duke and the Large Hadron Collider”, Duke University
March 26, 2011, “How the Large Hadron Collider probes the very early Universe”, Invited plenary talk
(non-technical) at the Spring Meeting of the North Carolina Section of the Association of American Physics
Teachers, Wake Technical Institute, Raleigh, NC
December 29, 2010, “The Large Hadron Collider and how it will change our view of the Universe”, Invited
plenary talk at Symposium on Horizons in Astronomy and Physics Education, University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
November 2010, Official release of the on-line series “Physics for the 21st century” produced by Harvard-
Smithsonian and funded by the Annenberg Foundation, in which I am featured in “Unit 1” talking about
Higgs boson searches. The interviewing and filming for this program took place over the previous year at
Fermilab. www.learner.org/courses/physics/
March 5, 2010, “Particle Physics at the Energy Frontier”, Colloquium at the U. of Kentucky, Lexington.
July 28, 2009, “Searches for the Higgs Boson”, Invited plenary talk at The Division of Particles and Fields
(DPF) American Physical Society (APS) meeting, Detroit, MI.
Publications
For list of publications in which I am either a primary or contributing author see:
http://www.phy.duke.edu/~mkruse/pubs_kruse.pdf
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