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Alec Habig

Graduate Faculty (Physics UMD)

UMD Tate, email ahabig @ umn.edu

National Merit Scholarship, 1985-89. Sigma Pi Sigma, 1985. INFN Graduate Research Fellowship, Laboratori Nazionale del Gran Sasso, 1992-3. Asahi prize, 1998 (with the Super-Kamiokande collaboration). Cottrell College Science Award (Research Corporation), 2001-02. McKnight Land Grant Professor, 2004-06. Member of the American
Astronomical Society, High Energy Astrophysics Division. Member of the American Physical Society, Divisions of Particles and Fields; Astrophysics

MINOS Far Detector Operations Manager, Soudan Mine Underground Lab 2003-7; MINOS Non-Oscillation Non-Accelerator working group co-convener 2006-; MINOS Executive Committee 2005-8; MINOS Run Coordinator 2007-8; Review panel for IVDGL project, NSF, February 2004; Committee of Visitors to the Physics Division,NSF, January, 2006; Regional Chair, Intel Science Fair Scientific Review Committee, 2006-; UMD Representative to NASA's Minnesota Space Grant Consortium, 2004-; Visiting fellow at the Workshop on Underground Science,
Inst. For Nuclear Theory, U-Washington, June 2005; .Affiliate Graduate Faculty appointment in Physics at the University of Washington, 2007- ; member of MINOS Outreach Coordination Committee, 2000-.

Research Areas
Experimental particle astrophysics and neutrino oscillation physics. Member of the MINOS,Nova, and Super-Kamiokande collaborations, specializing in the analysis of cosmic rays, supernova neutrinos, and high energy neutrino-induced upward-going muons. Co-c

Selected Publications

P. Adamson et al (the MINOS Collaboration), “Measurement of neutrino velocity with the MINOS detectors and NuMI neutrino beam,”, Phys. Rev. (2007)

P. Adamson et al (the MINOS Collaboration), “Measurement of the atmospheric muon charge ration at TeV energies with MINOS,”, Phys. Rev. (2007)

P. Adamson et al (the MINOS Collaboration), “Charge-separated atmospheric neutrino-induced muons in the MINOS Far Detector,”, Phys. Rev. (2007)

Y. Takenaga et al (the Super-K Collaboration), “Search for neutral Q-balls in Super-Kamiokande-II,”, Phys. Lett. (2007)

D.G. Michael et al (the MINOS Collaboration), “Observation of muon neutrino disappearance with the MINOS detectors and the NuMI neutrino beam,”, Phys. Rev. Lett (2006)

Education

BS (physics), Wright State University, 1989
MA (astronomy), Indiana University, 1992
Ph.D. (astrophysics), Indiana University, 1996