CGrADS Site Visit Participant - Harvey Newman

Professional Preparation

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Biography

Harvey Newman is a Professor of Physics at the California Institute of Technology. He received his Sc.D from MIT in 1974 in experimental high energy physics (HEP). He was co-spokesperson of the MARK J experiment at DESY (Hamburg) that discovered the gluon in 1979, and has been involved in high energy particle physics research at CERN (Geneva) on the ISR, LEP and future LHC physics programs, since 1974.

He is currently the Collaboration Board Chair of the US physics groups in the CMS experiment at the LHC. Together with Richard Mount he originated and managed HEP's first international networks, between the US and Europe in 1983-5. Since 1985 he has developed and managed networks, especially the links between the US and CERN (LHCNet), as well as systems for remote collaboration (VRVS) on behalf of HEP and the scientific community.

He has served on the NSFNet Advisory Group (1986), the Internet Task Force on Scientific Computing (1986-9), the ICFA Network Task Force as Chair of the Requirements Group (1997-8), and the ICFA SCIC since 1999.

He co-Chairs the Transatlantic Network WG commissioned by DOE and NSF for the US LHC program, and the Internet2 High Energy and Nuclear Physics (HENP) Working Group.

He is the HENP representative for the Internet2 End-to-end Initiative and a member of the Internet2 Applications Strategy Council.

He co-leads the Particle Physics Data Grid project and is a co-PI on the Grid Physics Network's International Virtual Data Grid Laboratory (iVDGL).

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