User:Marx

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Michael Marx, a Professor of Physics and Associate Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at Stony Brook, has worked on large-scale detectors for high energy and relativistic heavy ion physics. These include the D0 experiment that found the top quark at Fermilab; the EMPACT concept for the ill-fated Superconducting SuperCollider; and the PHENIX experiment at the RHIC facility at BNL, which has found a new form of matter last seen microseconds after the Big Bang. He initiated the popular outreach course "The Mystery of Matter" also known as "Atom Smashing for Gym Teachers".

Marx is interested in developing MARIACHI as a scientific tool that holds promise for discovering and studying ultra high energy neutrinos, and as a vehicle for providing high school teachers with an exciting research goal to motivate a new generation of physicists, engineers, computer scientists, and scientifically literate public. He just introduced a new course, Hands-On Science with Cosmic Rays (PHY315), that he is teaching with Dima Vavilov for teachers and undergraduates providing a hands on, inquiry approach to science research. The course utilizes MARIACHI detectors and data acquisition systems, that students can configure in ways to measure properties of cosmic rays (i.e velocity, direction, penetrating power, decays, . . . ). An article about the course has been published in the November issue of Physics World.

In his free time Marx enjoys spending time with his family, cooking and/or eating good food, and playing Scrabble (7-letter words preferred!)

Contact Michael Marx at Michael.Marx at stonybrook.edu