Dr Kevin Barends

Field: Particle Physics

Type: Experimental

Group/ Collaboration: CERN - ATLAS Experiment

Roles:

  • Physics Department Website Manager
  • ATLAS Alignment Subgroup Convener

Research:

  • Search for rare tWZ process making use of machine learning using data collected by the ATLAS detector
  • Develop CREST integration framework for ATLAS Alignment
  • Using tiered formative assessment to diagnose and respond to ability heterogeneity in undergraduate physics

Publications:

  • Click on the "id" circle on the left to view my ORCID profile and get a better view of my publications.

Industry Experience:

  • Junior Data Engineer
  • Intermediate Data Engineer
  • Cloud Data Engineer
  • Click on the "in" circle on the left to view my LinkedIn profile and get a better view of my industry experience.

Skills:

  • Hard Skills:
    • Programming: Python | SQL | PySpark | C++ | ROOT
    • Cloud Certified: Microsoft Azure
    • Machine Learning
    • Data Specialist
  • Top 5 Soft Skills:
    • Transparent
    • Communication
    • Team work
    • Problem-solving
    • Self Development

Roger Fearick

Honorary Research Associate

Research Areas

Nuclear Physics

Teaching 2015

I teach and do research at UCT

Classical Mechanics in the Physics Honours course.

Research

I do research on nuclear physics at iThembs LABS.

Some recent publications:

  • List of publications.

  • Precision measurement of the 9.641 MeV, 3− state in 12C.

    Tz. Kokalova, M. Freer, Z. Buthelezi, J. Carter, R. W. Fearick, S. V. F¨ortsch, H. Fujita, R. Neveling, P. Papka, F. D. Smit, J. A. Swartz, and I. Usman.

    Phys. Rev. C 87 057307 (2013)

  • Cluster Structure of 12C and 11B.

    M. Freer, H. Fujita, Z. Buthelezi, J. Carter, R.W. Fearick, S.V. Fortsch, R. Neveling, S.M. Perez, P. Papka, F.D. Smit, J.A. Swartz, I. Usman, P.J. Haigh, N.I. Ashwood, T. Bloxham, N. Curtis, P. McEwan, H.G. Bohlen, T. Dorsch, Tz. Kokalova, Ch. Schulz, C. Wheldon.

    Nucl. Phys. A. 834 621c (2010).

  • Global investigation of the fine structure of the isoscalar giant quadrupole resonance.

    A. Shevchenko, O. Burda, J. Carter, G. R. J. Cooper, R. W. Fearick, S. V. Foertsch, H. Fujita, Y. Fujita, Y. Kalmykov, D. Lacroix, J. J. Lawrie, P. von Neumann-Cosel, R. Neveling, V. Yu. Ponomarev, A. Richter, E. Sideras-Haddad, F. D. Smit, and J. Wambach.

    Phys Rev C Vol. 79, 044305, (2009).

  • A model-based view of physics for computational activities in the introductory physics course.

    Andy Buffler, Seshini Pillay, Fred Lubben, and Roger Fearick.

    American Journal of Physics, 76, 431-437, (2008).

  • Real Time Global Tests of the ALICE High Level Trigger Data Transport Framework.

    Becker, B ., Chattopadhyay, S ., Cicalo, C ., Cleymans, J ., de Vaux, G ., Fearick, R. W ., Lindenstruth, V ., Richter, M ., Rohrich, D ., Staley, F.

    IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science 0018-9499 55 703, (2008)

  • Analysis of fine structure in the nuclear continuum.

    A. Shevchenko, J. Carter, G.R.J. Cooper, R.W.Fearick, Y. Kalmykov, P. von Neumann-Cosel, V.Yu. Ponomarev, A. Richter, I. Usman and J. Wambach.

    Phys. Rev. C, 77, 024302 (2008).

  • Magnetic dipole strength and the $T=0$ proton-neutron residual interaction.

    R. W. Fearick, P. von Neumann-Cosel, A. Richter, S.J.Q. Robinson and L. Zamick.

    J. Phys Soc. Japan 75 094201 (2006)

  • Shell-model test of the rotational-model relation between static quadrupole moments Q($2_{1+}$),B(E2)s, and orbital M1 transitions.

    S.J.Q. Robinson, A. Escuderos, L. Zamick, P. von Neumann-Cosel, A. Richter, R.W. Fearick.

    Phys. Rev C. 73 037306 (2006)

Mawande Lushozi

Lecturer

Research areas

High-Energy Physics

 

Steve Peterson

Associate Professor and Head of Department

Research areas

Nuclear Physics

Education:

MA PhD Wisconsin

Curriculum vitae

Research Areas:

Applied Physics

I am a member of the Applied Physics Research Group in the Department of Physics at the University of Cape Town. My research interests include investigation of the prompt gamma detection during proton therapy treatments and Monte Carlo simulations to improve and further develop the current methods in radiation therapy.

Heribert Weigert

Associate Professor - Director CTMP

Education

Dipl Phys Dr rer nat habil Regensburg

Research areas

High Energy Physics

Interests

Myself - a short introduction

I am interested in QCD at high energies and densities as encountered in virtually all modern collider experiments, be it in the search for the Higgs particle or the Quark Gluon Plasma. My own field of research has centered on the Color Glass Condensate (CGC), a highly correlated state of predominantly gluons. Field theory and the JIMWLK equation are the main tools to describe the energy dependence of the CGC dominated contribution to experiments as conducted at BNL and CERN.

I am director of CTMP, a NITheP affiliate as well as a member of SA-CERN and UCT-CERN.

Projects

Student vacation projects:

Feynman diagrams for Ø4-theory using Mathematica and asymptote.
Diffusion on curved manifold: From Fokker Planck to Langevin via path integrals.

Honors, masters, and PhD projects:

The JIMWLK at NLO - cancellation patterns
Non equilibrium field theory: 2PI equilibration
Field theory in different vacua: Bogoljubov transformations

Activities

Conferences and workshops:

Hard Probes 2013: The 6th International Conference on Hard and Electromagnetic Probes of High-Energy Nuclear Collisions
(Nov 4-8, 2013)

Exploring QCD frontiers: from RHIC and LHC to EIC
(Jan 30 - Feb 03, 2012)

Jack de Wet Student Competition 2013:

 

The Centre of Theoretical and Mathematical Physics at the University of Cape Town announces the Jack de Wet Student Competition 2013. The competition is open to all science students currently enrolled at a South African University. The Department of Physics and the Department of Mathematics at the University of Cape Town sponsor the competition with R2000 to be awarded for the best and most elegant solution to a problem set by the prize committee (poster, details).The winner will be invited to UCT for a presentation and and award ceremony.

 

 

Teaching

4000nW Relativistic Quantum Mechanics:

Course outline(2011), lecture notes available to local students upon request.

1032S General physics - modern physics:

Lecture notes (2011) available to local students upon request.