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Steven VigdorAssociate Laboratory Director for Nuclear and Particle Physics
Steven Vigdor is the Associate Laboratory Director for Nuclear and Particle Physics. In this position, Vigdor is responsible for overseeing a $180-million annual budget and about 600 employees. The directorate includes Brookhaven's Collider-Accelerator Department, the Physics Department, the Instrumentation Division, and the Superconducting Magnet Division. Vigdor received his B.S. from City College of New York and his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, earning both degrees in physics. He has 34 years of experience in experimental nuclear physics, conducting research at several DOE national laboratories, including Los Alamos, Argonne, and Lawrence Berkeley. He also worked at Brookhaven Lab's STAR experiment. STAR, which stands for Solenoidal Tracker at RHIC, is one of four detectors at the Laboratory's collider that tracks and analyzes thousands of particles that may be produced in each heavy-ion collision. Also, Vigdor served as deputy spokesperson for the 500-member STAR collaboration from 2002-2005. He was the principal author of STAR's white paper, the extensive report on the first three years of RHIC's heavy-ion research results, which lays out the discovery of the "perfect" liquid. A physics professor at Indiana University for 31 years, Vigdor has served as chair of the university's Physics Department from 2000-2001. Most recently, he has served as interim director of the Indiana University Cyclotron Facility. From 1979 to the present, Vigdor has acted as a consultant or served as a member on all six of the Nuclear Science Advisory Committee Long Range Plan Working Groups - meetings established by DOE and the National Science Foundation in which leading physicists help determine the future course of physics research in the U.S. He has been a member of numerous national advisory and review committees in nuclear science, including the nuclear physics panel for the National Academy of Sciences Physics Surveys, the Nuclear Science Advisory Committee, and the Tribble Panel on Implementation of the Long Range Plan. He has co-authored 130 published research papers and has presented more than 60 talks at national and international conferences and workshops. Vigdor is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) and has served on the APS Division of Nuclear Physics Executive Committee.
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