Haryo Sumowidagdo

a simple person in the complicated universe

Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92951
USA

Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) Experiment
CERN, European Organization for Nuclear Research
Building 510 Room 1-002
CERN CH-1211
Geneva, Switzerland
Phone +41 22 76 79 913
Fax +41 22 76 78 940

http://home.fnal.gov/~haryo
FNAL: haryo@fnal.gov
CERN: Suharyo.Sumowidagdo@cern.ch
Vita

-- ``Jer basuki mawa beya'' --


I am a postdoctoral research associate in experimental high energy physics, working with Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) Collaboration at CERN, The European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva, Switzerland and the experimental high energy physics group at Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Califonia, Riverside, working under the supervision of Bob Clare and Steve Wimpenny. My current work is focused on commissioning and operation of the Cathode Strip Chamber (Endcap Muon) of the CMS detector, physics of the top quark, and search for Higgs boson(s). Within high-energy physics, I am also interested on the issue of precision electroweak measurements, search for new phenomena, cosmology-particle physics interface, and precision neutrino physics.

Outside high-energy physics, I involved in a voluntary work with fellow Indonesian students and scientists to establish ARSIP: Indonesian Mirror Servers for Scientific Data. We succeeded to establish mirrors of PDG Particle Data Group, SLAC SPIRES, and NASA/Harvard-Smithsonian Astrophysics Data System. I am also an active member of, and a moderator in, online forum and mailing lists for physicists and physics enthusiasts in Indonesia

In April 2008, I obtained my Ph.D. with dissertation "First measurement of top quark pair production cross-section in muon plus hadronic tau final states" from Department of Physics, Florida State University, under the supervision of Todd Adams. Before that, I finished my undergraduate at the Department of Physics, University of Indonesia. The University of Indonesia, located in Jakarta and Depok, is the oldest institution of higher education in Indonesia. Its history dates back to 1849 as a training school for medical assistant. It is currently one of top three institution for higher education in Indonesia, as well as one of the most selective. I worked with the research group of Terry Mart and Darmadi Kusno (deceased) on phenomenology in hadronic physics You can see more details about my previous work in the My Work page.

My first name is actually 'Suharyo' but as far as I can remember, I have always been called 'Haryo'. See this page for explanation. I am of ethnic Javanese and come from Java, an island in the country of Indonesia. It is the most populated island in the world. There aren't many people from Indonesia doing experimental high-energy physics. So far there have been only five people. Very small number to represent a country with a population of approximately 200 million. For about five years I was the only person from Indonesia at Fermilab. I am working hard to increase the popularity of experimental high energy physics among Indonesian undergraduate students.


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