Dr. Steven M. Ritz

steve.ritz@nasa.gov

301-286-0941

PRESENT POSITION:

Astrophysicist

Astroparticle Physics Laboratory, Code 661, Astrophysics Science Division

NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center


DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH:

31 July 1959, New York, N.Y., USA


EDUCATION:


EXPERIENCE:

1998-present

Astrophysicist, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

2005-present

Adjunct Professor of Physics, University of MD College Park

1996-1998

Associate Professor of Physics, Columbia University, New York, NY

1990-1996

Assistant Professor of Physics, Columbia University, New York, NY

1988-1990

Post Doctoral Research Scientist, Columbia University, Nevis Labs


HONORS AND AWARDS:



Fellow, American Physical Society

1993-1997

Sloan Foundation Fellow in Physics

1981

Bertman Prize in Physics, Wesleyan University


CLASSES TAUGHT:


GSFC PROJECTS:

2003-present

GLAST Project Scientist

2000-2003

GLAST Deputy Project Scientist

1998-present

GLAST Large Area Telescope (LAT) Instrument Scientist

2004-present

GLAST Large Area Telescope (LAT) Deputy PI


CO-I (or collaboration member) EXPERIMENTS:

1996-present

GLAST, LAT

1988-98

ZEUS (at DESY)

1986-88

ALEPH (at CERN)

1984-88

TASSO (at DESY)



RECENT UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND Ph.D. STUDENTS:

David Wren, graduated summer 2005, currently working in aerospace industry

Luis Reyes, graduated spring 2007, currently a Kavli Fellow, University of Chicago

Tyrel Johnson, current Ph.D. student


COMMUNITY SERVICE and COMMITTEES (recent list):


2008-

2008-2012

2007-

MentorNet (Network for Diversity in Engineering and Science) Mentor

Fermilab Physics Advisory Committee (PAC)

Advanced LIGO Project Advisory Panel

2007



2006-

First International GLAST Symposium Organizer; proceedings editor (with P. Michelson and C. Meegan).


IceCube Scientific Advisory Committee

2005-present

Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel (P5)

2004-2007

DOE-NSF High Energy Physics Advisory Panel (HEPAP)

2004

Committee member, Director's Annual Review of the Physics Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

2003-2006

IUPAP Particle and Nuclear Astrophysics and Gravitation International Committee (PaNAGIC)

2003-2005

NASA Astronomy and Physics Working Group (APWG), Universe Working Group (UWG)

1999-2004

DOE-NSF Scientific Assessment Group for Experiments in Non-Accelerator Physics (SAGENAP); Report Coordinator (Chair) 2002.

2001-2005

Editorial Committee, Annual Reviews of Nuclear and Particle Science

2001

Snowmass P4 Physics working group convener on Astro/Cosmo/Particle Physics (with Akerib, Carroll, and Kamionkowski)

2001

Gamma2001 Organizer (with N. Gehrels and C. Shrader); proceedings editor

2001

Vanderbilt series Frontiers in Contemporary Physics, Astrophysics program organizer

1999-2000

Connections: Quarks to the Cosmos Group; 1999 Cosmic Genesis (Sonoma) meeting Topical Group Organizer 

2000

VERITAS project science, technical, cost, schedule and management DOE/NSF review (chair)


RECENT SELECTED TALKS AT MAJOR CONFERENCES:


2008 April, St. Louis APS meeting, invited talk on GLAST.

2008 March, Los Angeles High Energy Astrophysics Division of the AAS, invited talk on GLAST.

2006 April, Dallas APS meeting, invited talk on GLAST and the Future of High-energy Gamma-ray Astrophysics.

2003 Physics in Collision, Zeuthen, Germany, Invited Talk on Gamma-ray Astrophysics.

2002 Starry Messages special FNAL lecture series.

2001 Snowmass opening plenary talk on Status and Future of Astro/Cosmo/Particle Physics.

1999 Inner Space/Outerspace II Conference at Fermilab Invited talk.


plus frequent university and national lab colloquia and seminars


Selected Recent Public Lectures and Interviews

2007 Science Links, local Washington area science cable TV show

2006 Benjamin Dean Public Lecture, California Academy of Sciences: Seeing the Sky with Gamma-ray Eyes

2006 Static Limit Radio Show Interview, San Francisco

2006 PBS Nova appearance in "Monster of the Milky Way"


REFEREED and OTHER SIGNIFICANT PUBLICATIONS




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