• Contact Info
Publications in VIVO
 

Ulmer, Keith A

Associate Professor

Positions

Research Areas research areas

Research

research overview

  • Keith Ulmer pursues research in experimental elementary particle physics, which explores the fundamental constituents of matter and their interactions. He works on the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the CERN laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. The CMS detector records the results of very high energy proton-proton collisions provided by the LHC, which are analyzed to study fundamental interactions. His current effort is focused on searches for evidence of physics beyond the standard model of particle physics motivated by a potential new symmetry of nature known as supersymmetry, which may help explain such fundamental questions as the nature of dark matter and the origin of electroweak symmetry breaking. He is a former leader of the CMS supersymmetry group, and currently co-leads the US-CMS upgrade project for the data acquisition (Trigger) system.

keywords

  • particle physics, high energy physics, supersymmetry, SUSY, dark matter, Higgs boson, CERN, CMS, trigger, high-speed electronics, data, data mining, machine learning, artificial intelligence, data science, high performance computing

Publications

selected publications

Teaching

courses taught

  • PHYS 2130 - General Physics 3
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2021 / Spring 2023
    Covers special relativity, quantum theory, atomic physics, solid state and nuclear physics. Third semester of introductory sequence for science and engineering students. Physics majors should take PHYS 2170 instead of this course. Normally taken with PHYS 2150. Degree credit not granted for this course and PHYS 2170.
  • PHYS 2150 - Experimental Physics 2
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2019 / Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 / Spring 2022
    One lect., one 2-hour lab per week. Includes many experiments of modern physics, including atomic physics, solid state physics, electron diffraction, radioactivity and quantum effects. Normally taken concurrently with PHYS 2130 or PHYS 2170, this course may be taken after PHYS 2130 or PHYS 2170.
  • PHYS 2210 - Classical Mechanics and Mathematical Methods 1
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2018 / Fall 2018 / Fall 2022
    Theoretical Newtonian mechanics, including position and velocity dependent forces, oscillation, stability, non-inertial frames and gravitation from extended bodies. Ordinary differential equations, vector algebra, curvilinear coordinates, complex numbers, and Fourier series will be introduced in the context of the mechanics.
  • PHYS 4420 - Nuclear and Particle Physics
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2019 / Spring 2020
    Introduces structure of the atomic nucleus, spectroscopy of subnuclear particles, scattering, reactions, radioactive decay, fundamental interactions of quarks and leptons.

Background

International Activities

Other Profiles