Maxwell Chertok
Graduate Student
-- received a Ph.D. in 1997
Website: http://www.physics.ucdavis.edu/~chertok/
Professor Maxwell Chertok has performed experiments at several high energy physics laboratories around the world. Before graduate school, he worked on the OPAL experiment at CERN as a technical student with the Weizmann Institute. As a graduate student at Boston University, he helped build prototypes of a scintillating fiber electron calorimeter for the muon g-2 experiment at Brookhaven. At TRIUMF in Vancouver, he participated in the analysis of a fixed target experiment studying radiative decays. He wrote his thesis on the CPLEAR experiment at CERN on a measurement of CP violation parameters in semileptonic kaon decays.
Upon obtaining his Ph.D. in 1997, Chertok joined the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) experiment as a postdoctoral researcher with Texas A&M University. He participated in the design and construction of the silicon vertex detector, performed searches for new physics using like-sign dileptons, and served as co-convener of the CDF exotics physics analysis group.
Chertok joined the physics department faculty at UC Davis in 2000, and is now associate professor. He will spend a year at CERN assembling and commissioning the CMS forward silicon pixel detector in 2007-08. He is involved in physics preparations for the LHC era and is outgoing chair of the LHC Physics Center advisory board.
