South Bend, Indiana, United States
Mike Hildreth is a Professor of Physics and Astronomy and the Vice President and Associate Provost for Graduate Studies and Dean of the Graduate School at the University of Notre Dame. He was most recently the Senior Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies in the College of Science, where he oversaw and sustained research activities, worked to establish interdisciplinary and inter-college collaborations, and supported graduate programs. He has overseen more than $2.0B in grant submissions, several construction projects, including planning for a new research building, the creation of two new graduate programs, and many strategic initiatives. He served as the Interim Dean of the College of Science in 2021. For more than two decades, he has led particle physics projects focusing on technical upgrades and software infrastructure. He currently serves as the co-coordinator of software and computing R&D for the US operations program of the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. Hildreth is widely recognized for contributions to particle physics, its software infrastructure, and the technology and policies of open data, and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He is very active in service to his profession, including previous membership on the national High Energy Physics Advisory Panel (HEPAP), and the NSF Advisory Committee on Cyber Infrastructure (ACCI). He has co-authored over 1700 publications, and has received numerous awards for his teaching and research, including a DOE Outstanding Junior Investigator and Cottrell Scholar awards.
Experimental High Energy Physics. Projects: the CMS Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, Accelerator instrumentation at KEK, Data and Software Preservation.
LEP Energy calibration, Electroweak measurements
LEP Energy calibration, Electroweak measurements