Mary Scott
Mary Scott is the Ted van Duzer Associate Professor in the Materials Science and Engineering department at University of California, Berkeley. She is also a Faculty Staff Scientist at the National Center for Electron Microscopy, part of the Molecular Foundry at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. She received a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering and a B.S. in Physics, followed by an M.S. in Physics, from North Carolina State University. She obtained her Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California, Los Angeles. Prof. Scott’s research program seeks to combine advanced electron microscopy with modern mathematical approaches for data handling and interpretation. Examples of her work include atomic resolution electron tomography studies of nanomaterials, machine learning approaches to interpret imaging and diffraction electron microscopy data, scanning nanodiffraction studies of disordered materials, and multimodal studies of interfaces in battery materials.
Marjorie Shapiro
Marjorie Shapiro received her AB from Harvard in 1976 and her PhD from Berkeley in 1984. She has been a Professor at Berkeley and a faculty senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley Lab since 1990.
Shapiro is an experimental particle physicist whose interests lie in probing the most basic interactions in nature. There now exists a theory of the Strong and Electroweak interactions (“the Standard Model”) that has been tested to high accuracy and that explains almost all existing experimental data. The great success of this theory provides a framework for asking even more basic questions: What is the physics that generates quark and lepton masses? What determines the size of the Fermi constant? What is the mechanism responsible for the CP noninvariance observed in nature? It is such questions that she and her collaborators hope to address.
Many extensions to the Standard Model offer possible answers to these questions. In a large class of theories we expect new phenomena to appear when quarks or leptons collide at center-of-mass energies in the range of 100 GeV to 1 TeV. At the present time, hadron colliders are the only means of reaching these energies.
Shapiro is a member of the ATLAS collaboration at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Her research on ATLAS spans many topics including searches for TeV scale gravity and for Supersymmetry, measurements sensitive to the Higgs boson coupling to top, bottom and charm quarks, measurements of the production properties of the Top quark, studies of charm production in association with W-bosons and measurements of the properties of high pT jets. She is a Fellow of the APS and a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
Gabriel Orebi Gann
Gabriel attended the University of Cambridge in the UK from 2000 to 2004, where she received her BA and MSci in Natural Sciences. She went on to the University of Oxford, and was awarded her DPhil in Particle and Nuclear Physics in 2008. Her post-doctoral research was performed at the University of Pennsylvania, in Professor Klein's research group, working on SNO and its successor, the SNO+ experiment. Gabriel joined the U.C. Berkeley faculty in 2012.