Dr. Christopher S. Rogan
Contact
Information
Research Associate
Harvard University
Department of Physics
Education
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
18 Hammond St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
USA
Mobile (US/EU): +1 6172334477
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: scholar.harvard.edu/crogan
Ph.D., Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, February 2013
• Thesis Topic: Search
√ for New Symmetries in pp Collisions with the Razor Kinematic Variables at s = 7 TeV
• Adviser: Professor Maria Spiropulu
M.S., Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, June 2008
• Thesis Topic: Path to discovery: SUSY in missing transverse energy plus multijet
topologies
• Adviser: Professor Maria Spiropulu
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
A.B., Department of Physics, May 2006
• magma cum laude in Physics
• Thesis Topic: A novel technique for gluino and squark mass measurements in
minimal supergravity SUSY
• Adviser: Professor Christopher Tully
Professional
Appointments
Research Associate, Harvard Department of Physics
Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows
Postdoctoral Fellow, Caltech PMA
2016 →
2013-2016
2013
Selected
Fellowships
William F. Milton Fund Grant
HCA Australia-Harvard Research Fellowship
PMA Chair’s Council Research Fellowship
2014-2015
2014
2012
Awards and
Distinctions
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Professional
Activities
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American Physical Society Tanaka Dissertation Award, 2014
PMA Chair’s Council Research Fellowship, Caltech 2012
Forbes Magazines 30 under 30 list in Science and Innovation, 2011
Stemple Award in physics, Caltech 2010
Kusaka Memorial Thesis Prize, Princeton University 2006
Member of GAMBIT Collaboration (Global and Modular BSM Inference Tool)
Convener of the CERN FCC-ee New Physics Working Group
Developer of RestFrames public software package
Organizer of Harvard Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications
Big Data Conference & Workshop, August 12-23, 2016, Cambridge, MA
• Organizer of Harvard Recursive Jigsaw Reconstruction Workshop,
September 21-25, 2015, Cambridge, MA
• Organizer of Kinematic Variables for New Physics at the LHC Workshop, October
4-6, 2013, Pasadena, CA
Selected
Research
Experience
ATLAS experiment, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
Junior Fellow/Research Associate, Harvard University
• Muon New Small Wheel detector upgrade, testing of Micromega
muon chambers, front-end electronics, and hardware-based trigger
processor
• Coordinator for inclusive squark and gluino SUSY searches in zerolepton final states
• Developed Recursive Jigsaw Reconstruction, an analysis technique
for systematically deriving a kinematic basis of variables for final
states with weakly interacting particles for use in Standard Model
measurements and searches for new physics phenomena
• Convener of Recursive Jigsaw Reconstruction Analysis Group
• Independent energy scale calibrations for quark and gluon-initiated
jets based, strategy and implementation
• Editorial Board for SUSY searches in four-lepton final states
CMS experiment, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
Graduate Student, California Institute of Technology
• Installation and commissioning of ECAL detector and crystal radiation laser monitoring system, on-call expert for monitoring
• Test beam studies of hadronic shower profiles for detector simulation
• Jet and missing transverse energy reconstruction algorithm design
and commissioning
• Studies of W/Z Bosons produced in association with jets
• Invented razor kinematic variables to search for supersymmetry and
other new physics, implemented and executed search analyses using
technique
• Studies of spin and CP measurements for new particle production
in the context of the Higgs boson or other new particles
• Editorial Board for W polarization measurement in di-top events
2013 →
2006-2013
Undergraduate Researcher, Princeton University
• Event simulation and analysis studies related to online instantaneous
luminosity measurements for the CMS technical design report
2005
MiniBooNE Research Group, Princeton University
Student Researcher
• Event simulation studies related to neutrino oscillation measurements with Fermilab’s MiniBooNE experiment
2005
Computational Mathematics Research, Florida State University
Computational Science and Information Technologies Researcher
• Research related to neural networks, genetic algorithms, simulated
annealing and various optimization techniques with materials science applications
2004
CAPMAP Research Group, Princeton University
Part and full-time Laboratory Employee
• Constructed and maintained experimental equipment for cosmological research
• Acquired machine-shop and electronics proficiency
2003-2004
FSU Young Scholars Program, Florida State University
Student Researcher
• Research in Florida State’s Nuclear Physics Laboratory with
Argon-ion lasers, optical frequency-based tracking devices and
mosquitoes
2002
Conference
Presentations
Introduction to Naturalness in Collider Physics, invited lectures,
CoSMS Institute Workshop on Naturalness, Chapel Hill, USA
Oct 2016
Sparticles in Motion - Recent Searches for SUSY at the LHC,
A First Glance Beyond the Energy Frontier, ICTP, Trieste, Italy
Sep 2016
Techniques for Probing SUSY at Colliders, invited plenary,
SUSY 16: International Conference for Supersymmetry and Unification
of Fundamental Interactions, Melbourne, Australia
Kinematic Variables for Weakly-interacting Particle Final
State Reconstruction at the LHC, SUSY 14: International Conference for Supersymmetry and Unification of Fundamental Interactions,
Manchester, England
SuperRAZOR and new kinematic variables for weaklyinteracting particle final states at the LHC,
TeraSUSY Workshop, Eugene, USA
Jul 2016
Jul 2014
Mar 2014
Kinematic Variables for New Physics Searches at the LHC,
SUSY at the Near Energy Frontier, Fermilab, USA
Nov 2013
Kinematic Variables and Open Final States at the LHC,
Kinematic Variables for New Physics at the LHC, Pasadena, USA
Oct 2013
Weakly-interacting particle kinematics at the LHC and the
super-razor, Dark Matter at the LHC, Chicago, USA
Sep 2013
High Precision Timing for CMS Phase II,
CMS Upgrade Workshop (DESY), Hamburg, Germany
Jun 2013
Interpretations of CMS SUSY analyses in the simplified
model space (SMS), ICHEP 2012: International Conference on High
Energy Physics, Melbourne, Australia
Summary of CMS searches for SUSY with 5 fb−1 of data at 7
TeV, Implications of LHC: Implications of LHC Results for TeV-scale
Physics, Geneva, Switzerland
Jul 2012
Mar 2012
CMS SUSY searches in Jets+MET final states, LPCC BSM
Jamboree: Status of Higgs and BSM Searches at the LHC,
Geneva, Switzerland
Apr 2011
Kinematical variables towards new dynamics at the LHC,
SUSY 10: International Conference for Supersymmetry and Unification
of Fundamental Interactions, Bonn, Germany
Aug 2010
Searches for SUSY in all-hadronic events and studies of MET,
SUSY 10: International Conference for Supersymmetry and Unification
of Fundamental Interactions, Bonn, Germany
Aug 2010
Kinematical variables towards new dynamics at the LHC,
PLANCK 10: From the Planck scale to the ElectroWeak Scale,
Geneva, Switzerland
May 2010
Higgs Look-alikes at the LHC, invited plenary, Recontres de
Moriond; Electroweak Interactions and Unified Theories,
La Thuile, Italy
Mar 2010
Diatribes and Polemics: A Case Study, POTUS 10: Physics of
the Universe Summit, Pasadena, USA
W +jets and Z+jets studies with the CMS detector at the
CERN LHC, HCP 2009: XXth Hadron Collider Physics Symposium,
Evian-les-Bains, France
Laser Monitoring for the CMS ECAL: Test Beam results and
Operational Experience, TIPP 2009: Technology and Instrumentation in Particle Physics, Tsukuba, Japan
Online Laser Monitoring for the CMS electromagnetic
calorimeter, American Physical Society April Meeting,
Jacksonville, USA
A Computational Approach for Load Relaxation Prediction
in Composites, SIAM Conference in Computational and Applied
Mathematics, Orlando, USA
Invited
Seminars and
Colloquia
Overcoming Kinematic and Combinatoric Ambiguities in
HEP Collisions: Recursive Jigsaw Reconstruction,
Tufts University, Medford, USA
Searching LHC Mountain for New Physics, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
The Large Hadron Collider: Searching for new particles,
forces, and phenomena, colloquium, Harvard Center of Math,
Science, and Applications, Cambridge, USA
Jan 2010
Nov 2009
Mar 2009
Apr 2007
Feb 2005
Oct 2016
Jul 2016
Nov 2015
Recursive Jigsaw Reconstruction in HEP Complex Event
Topologies, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
Oct 2015
The CERN Super-Collider, public lecture, Texas Lutheran University, Seguin, USA
Nov 2014
Kinematics of Weakly-interacting particles at the LHC,
University of California Irvine, Irvine, USA
Nov 2014
LHC Searches for New Forces, Symmetries, and Dark Matter,
colloquium, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Sep 2014
Techniques for Analyzing Weakly-interacting Particles at the
LHC, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Sep 2014
Exploring the Frontier of Size and Energy at the Large
Hadron Collider, public lecture, University of Adelaide,
Adelaide, Australia
Aug 2014
Resolving the Invisible: Searches for new forces, symmetries,
and Dark Matter at the LHC, colloquium, University of Sydney,
Sydney, Australia
Aug 2014
Kinematic Variables for Weakly-interacting Particle Final
State Reconstruction at the LHC, Harvard University,
Cambridge, USA
Apr 2014
Kinematic Variables for Dark Matter at the LHC and Beyond,
University of Chicago, Chicago, USA
Mar 2014
Weakly Interacting Particles at the LHC: Searches for new
forces, symmetries, and Dark Matter, colloquium, Brandeis
University, Waltham, USA
Kinematic Variables for Weakly-interacting Particle Final
State Reconstruction at the LHC, University of Maryland,
College Park, USA
Feb 2014
Feb 2014
Kinematic Variables for Open Final State Reconstruction at
the LHC, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
Nov 2013
New Physics Searches at the LHC with Razor Variables,
SLAC, Palo Alto, USA
Jan 2013
Recent results from the CMS experiment at the CERN
LHC: the Higgs and Beyond, colloquium, University of Adelaide,
Adelaide, Australia
Jul 2012
New Physics Searches at the LHC with Razor Variables,
University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
Jul 2012
Discovery Physics at the LHC, Caltech PMA Chair’s Council
Meeting, Pasadena, USA
May 2012
Razor Variables for Beyond the Standard Model Searches at
the LHC, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
May 2012
Razor for Searches at the LHC, University of Florida,
Gainesville, USA
Feb 2012
Hadronic SUSY Searches with the Razor at CMS, CERN
Collider Cross Talk, Geneva, Switzerland
May 2011
Razor Variables for New Physics Searches at the LHC,
Fermilab, Batavia, USA
Apr 2011
W/Z+jets Standard Model Candles and New Physics at
CMS, California Institute of Technology HEP Seminar,
Pasadena, USA
Apr 2008
CMS ECAL 2006 Test Beams Effort, California Institute of
Technology HEP Seminar, Pasadena, USA
May 2007