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Today I want to talk about some awesome women in my field (high-energy nuclear physics) who don't get nearly the attention that they deserve.
#InternationalDayOfWomenInScience #WomenInScience #WomenInScience #WomenScienceDay #WomenAndGirlsInScience #February11
#InternationalDayOfWomenInScience #WomenInScience #WomenInScience #WomenScienceDay #WomenAndGirlsInScience #February11
4 experimentalists: Megan Connors, Christine Nattrass, Rosi Reed, Sevil Salur wrote a Review of Modern Physics on jet quenching in the Quark Gluon Plasma. Jets can probe microscopic structure in the QGP but are difficult to disentangle from the medium. https://journals.aps.org/rmp/abstract/10.1103/RevModPhys.90.025005
Connors,Reed,Salur,Nattrass put in enormous time/effort to make sure theory/experiments are comparing the same quantities to study the properties of jets modified by the Quark Gluon Plasma. #WomenInScience #WomenInScience #WomenScienceDay #WomenAndGirlsInScience #February11
Claudia Ratti (my former boss) pioneered the PNJL model used to study phases of Quantum Chromodynamics at large baryon densities.
https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.73.014019
#InternationalDayOfWomenInScience #WomenInScience #WomenInScience #WomenScienceDay #WomenAndGirlsInScience #February11
https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.73.014019
#InternationalDayOfWomenInScience #WomenInScience #WomenInScience #WomenScienceDay #WomenAndGirlsInScience #February11
In more recent years, Ratti has been working on Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics to search fort he QCD critical point and map out the phase diagram at larger baryon densities.
Hannah Petersen has worked extensively on hadronic interactions at large baryon densities. She was on the first "hybrid model" paper connecting relativistic hydrodynamics to Boltzmann. She received the Zimanyi Medal for her work in 2018. https://journals.aps.org/prc/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevC.78.044901
Anne Sickles is pretty much building a massive chunk of sPHENIX (an upcoming experiment to study hard probes in the Quark Gluon Plasma). You can find pictures of some of the materials in the link: https://phys.org/news/2016-06-calorimeter-components.html
@MarleneNahrgang is known for her work for searches for the QCD critical point and on heavy flavor probes of the Quark Gluon Plasma. She was the first to make theoretical predictions for heavy flavor triangular flow. https://journals.aps.org/prc/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevC.91.014904
I have many more to add, but will have to return in a bit to continue.
Veronica Dexheimer studies phases of matter in neutron stars (mergers),she's known for the Equation of State
+magnetic fields/strangeness. She was recently award the NSF career award. #WomenInScience #WomenScienceDay #WomenAndGirlsInScience https://www.kent.edu/research/kent-state-astrophysicist-wins-nsf-grant-search-exotic-matter-neutron-stars
+magnetic fields/strangeness. She was recently award the NSF career award. #WomenInScience #WomenScienceDay #WomenAndGirlsInScience https://www.kent.edu/research/kent-state-astrophysicist-wins-nsf-grant-search-exotic-matter-neutron-stars
Huichao Song has extensively studied viscosity in relativistic hydrodynamics and has many well-known papers on the subject. She won the 2011 APS Nuclear physics thesis award for this work.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0370269307013913?via%3Dihub
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0370269307013913?via%3Dihub
Elena Petreska was awarded the Leona Woods Distinguished Postdoctoral Lectureship for her work on mapping out the internal structure of protons and nuclei at high energies. #WomenInScience #WomenInScience #WomenScienceDay #WomenAndGirlsInScience
https://www.nat.vu.nl/en/news-agenda/news_archive/2017/elena-petreska-leona-woods-lectureship-award.aspx
https://www.nat.vu.nl/en/news-agenda/news_archive/2017/elena-petreska-leona-woods-lectureship-award.aspx
I should say these are a handful of women who are contributing enormously to our field. I tried to focus on mid-career scientists, mostly theorists and even then I know names of others who should be mentioned but I'm not as familiar with the details of their work to do it justice
. @MartaVerweij is an experimentalist who has also published a number of theory papers. One very cool thing that she has recently worked on is top quark production in pPb collisions at the LHC. #WomenInScience #WomenInScience #WomenScienceDay
Deepa Thomas is known for her work on heavy flavor probes of the Quark Gluon Plasma. She won the ALICE thesis award for these contributions.
https://www.uu.nl/en/news/alice-thesis-award-for-uu-doctoral-candidate-deepa-thomas
http://alicematters.web.cern.ch/?q=content/node/944
https://www.uu.nl/en/news/alice-thesis-award-for-uu-doctoral-candidate-deepa-thomas
http://alicematters.web.cern.ch/?q=content/node/944
Alice Ohlson has worked on a number of experimental measurements of the Quark Gluon Plasma. In 2011 she was awarded Best Presentation for her talk at QuarK Matter. Recently she has worked on fluctuations of conserved charges
https://physics.yale.edu/news/alice-ohlson-graduate-student-has-won-nuclear-physics-young-scientist-best-presentation-award
http://inspirehep.net/record/1650248
https://physics.yale.edu/news/alice-ohlson-graduate-student-has-won-nuclear-physics-young-scientist-best-presentation-award
http://inspirehep.net/record/1650248
Since there's some question on the how many #WomenWhoLikePhysics I've decided to revisit this thread and add some more names.
When it comes to a long standing puzzle in the field: RAA to v2 @carlota_andres has been working on understanding the initial start time when a jet begins losing energy moving through the dense Quark Gluon Plasma https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.03231
Korinna Zapp is the creator of JEWEL, a Monte Carlo event generator simulating Quantum Chromodynamic jet evolution in heavy-ion collisions.
https://jewel.hepforge.org/documentation.html
https://jewel.hepforge.org/documentation.html
Chiho Nonaka has worked on a wide range of topics so it's hard to pick just one but she has some extremely highly cited work on hadronization/fragmentation: http://inspirehep.net/search?p=author%3AC.Nonaka.1%20AND%20collection%3Aciteable%20AND%20cited%3A500-%3E1000000
If we want to talk about a woman who literally wrote the book (Ultrarelativistic Heavy Ion Collisions) on the field, then we talk about Romona Vogt. She is a leading world-expert on heavy flavor dynamics and an APS fellow.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramona_Vogt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramona_Vogt
Another senior woman, @MoxyAgi , whose career is too interesting to fit into 1 tweet. She’s worked on quarkonia, is an APS fellow, and is currently working on promoting diversity in our field. does very cool stuff at the intersect between physics and art https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81gnes_M%C3%B3csy
Also, here's some of the cool work her students have done with art+physics :
https://www.agnesmocsy.com/student-collaborations
If they were selling, I would totally buy some pieces for my office!
https://www.agnesmocsy.com/student-collaborations
If they were selling, I would totally buy some pieces for my office!
Helen Caines is currently the co-spokesperson for the STAR experiment (more than 600 physicists), which is conducing searches for the Quantum Chromodynamic critical point. She is also an APS fellow. https://news.yale.edu/2017/07/12/yale-s-helen-caines-takes-leadership-role-international-star-experiment
Frederique Grassi is an expert on relativistic hydrodynamics and is the Brazilian group that created SPHERIO the first event-by-event relativistic hydrodynamic code to exist in the field. PS. this paper should have 5x the citations. https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.242301
Why do I say that paper should have 5x the number of citations? This one wouldn't have happened without it: https://journals.aps.org/prc/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevC.81.054905 … and it has over 650 citations and changed the course of our field. They cite SPHERIO papers specifically as motivation for their work.
Jasmine Brewer is a young theorist who has worked on jets/holography, hydrodynamic attractors & the search for the QCD critical point. She was awarded the NSF-GRF and is now a CERN postdoc fellow. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1812.05111.pdf and https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.10215.pdf
APS fellow @jvelkovska is a very active leader in both @RHIC_PHENIX and @CMSExperiment and was a major player in the Nature Physics paper on the smallest droplet of the Quark Gluon Plasma. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-018-0360-0
Leticia F. Palhares was on 30 under 30 for her work on Quantum Chromodynamics:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/lindau-leticia-palhares/
and won the L'Oreal Brazil Women in Science Award:
she's a theorist who has worked on a large number of topics that include large baryon densities.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/lindau-leticia-palhares/
and won the L'Oreal Brazil Women in Science Award:
she's a theorist who has worked on a large number of topics that include large baryon densities.
Lijuan Ruan is the co-spokesperson of @RHIC_STAR, she won the DOE early career award in 2013 and was a Goldhaber fellow. She is well-know for her work on dileptons as a probe of the Quark Gluon Plasma https://www.bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=26478
