Homer Neal Ph.D.

Expertise: High-energy particle physics

Academic Discipline: physics

Appointments: Samuel A. Goudsmit Professor of Physics, Physics, Director, UM-ATLAS Collaboratory Project, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Phone: 734-764-4375 Other phone: 734-764-4437

E-mail: haneal@umich.edu

· Research expertise includes design of particle detectors, particle event reconstruction and analysis, and particle physics phenomenology
· Has led experiments to elucidate the nature of spin effects in high energy particle interactions, including proton-proton elastic scattering and electron-positron scattering
· Developing the computing infrastructure for ATLAS, including high-speed networking between CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics and the US
· Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
· Chairs the External Advisory Council of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications

Additional interests: Science education, young people in science