1 00:00:05,200 --> 00:00:07,600 MARKUS KLUTE: Welcome to this short recording 2 00:00:07,600 --> 00:00:10,630 of our 8.701 lecture. 3 00:00:10,630 --> 00:00:12,820 With this short discussion, I want 4 00:00:12,820 --> 00:00:16,460 to introduce the teaching staff to this course, the instructor, 5 00:00:16,460 --> 00:00:23,230 which is myself, Markus Klute, and our TA Justin. 6 00:00:23,230 --> 00:00:26,710 So I am faculty in the physics department since 2009. 7 00:00:26,710 --> 00:00:30,430 I received my diploma, which is my undergraduate study, 8 00:00:30,430 --> 00:00:35,740 in Germany and also my PhD from the University in Bonn. 9 00:00:35,740 --> 00:00:38,590 I-- with research on the OPAL experiment, which 10 00:00:38,590 --> 00:00:42,040 is an experiment on the large electron positron collider 11 00:00:42,040 --> 00:00:45,000 at CERN, on the ATLAS experiment, which 12 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:47,860 is in the Large Hadron Collider, also at CERN, and also 13 00:00:47,860 --> 00:00:51,130 on the D0 experiment, which was one of the experiments 14 00:00:51,130 --> 00:00:55,630 at the Tevatron in Chicago at Fermilab. 15 00:00:55,630 --> 00:00:59,950 So after my PhD, I joined MIT as a postdoc, and later 16 00:00:59,950 --> 00:01:01,180 as a research scientist. 17 00:01:01,180 --> 00:01:04,060 And I worked on the CDF experiment 18 00:01:04,060 --> 00:01:06,460 at the Tevatron and the CMS experiment 19 00:01:06,460 --> 00:01:08,770 at the Large Hadron Collider. 20 00:01:08,770 --> 00:01:14,110 In 2007, I accepted a faculty position in Germany, 21 00:01:14,110 --> 00:01:18,850 where I spent about a year, before coming back to MIT. 22 00:01:18,850 --> 00:01:21,250 It's not a surprise-- this is CV-- 23 00:01:21,250 --> 00:01:23,830 that I-- my interest is in particle physics 24 00:01:23,830 --> 00:01:26,200 at the energy frontier. 25 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:28,210 I work on design, the construction, 26 00:01:28,210 --> 00:01:30,610 the commissioning of detectors. 27 00:01:30,610 --> 00:01:33,230 We made major contribution to the hydronic calorimeter 28 00:01:33,230 --> 00:01:37,780 in CMS and also the data acquisition system. 29 00:01:37,780 --> 00:01:43,960 Most recently, I was leading the software and computing project 30 00:01:43,960 --> 00:01:45,700 within the CMS experiment. 31 00:01:48,220 --> 00:01:50,530 Most exciting-- the physics. 32 00:01:50,530 --> 00:01:54,640 And in 2012, we were able to discover the Higgs 33 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:56,800 boson with the CMS experiment. 34 00:01:56,800 --> 00:02:00,640 And so ATLAS had a similar experience. 35 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:05,290 And since then, we were able to look more deeply, more closely 36 00:02:05,290 --> 00:02:06,910 into how the Higgs boson-- 37 00:02:06,910 --> 00:02:07,430 case. 38 00:02:07,430 --> 00:02:10,900 We were able to show couplings to W and Z bosons, 39 00:02:10,900 --> 00:02:15,790 to photons via loops of top quarks and W bosons. 40 00:02:15,790 --> 00:02:19,030 But then we looked into whether or not 41 00:02:19,030 --> 00:02:21,790 Higgs bosons couple of fermions like electrons. 42 00:02:21,790 --> 00:02:24,880 So we were able to show couplings to taus-- 43 00:02:24,880 --> 00:02:28,090 those are the heaviest brothers of the electrons-- 44 00:02:28,090 --> 00:02:30,375 and most recently, couplings of Higgs 45 00:02:30,375 --> 00:02:34,340 bosons to muons, which are second-generation particles. 46 00:02:34,340 --> 00:02:38,110 So this exploitation and exploration of the Higgs boson 47 00:02:38,110 --> 00:02:42,560 is really at the center of my research portfolio. 48 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:45,670 We don't just spend our time analyzing the data 49 00:02:45,670 --> 00:02:48,100 from the LHC, but we also look whether or not 50 00:02:48,100 --> 00:02:52,360 new machines can teach us important information 51 00:02:52,360 --> 00:02:54,520 about the Higgs boson. 52 00:02:54,520 --> 00:02:57,820 When I'm not doing research, I have a little family 53 00:02:57,820 --> 00:02:59,810 who I like to spend time with. 54 00:02:59,810 --> 00:03:04,300 I used to play soccer quite a bit, and also tennis. 55 00:03:04,300 --> 00:03:07,750 But when you get older, those kind of contact interactions 56 00:03:07,750 --> 00:03:09,580 are not very useful for you anymore. 57 00:03:09,580 --> 00:03:10,850 You get injured quite a bit. 58 00:03:10,850 --> 00:03:15,370 So I left it to the running part of those activities. 59 00:03:15,370 --> 00:03:18,550 And I picked up running quite a bit. 60 00:03:18,550 --> 00:03:20,410 In a couple of weeks into the semester, 61 00:03:20,410 --> 00:03:25,510 everyone, my and the first virtual Boston Marathon-- 62 00:03:25,510 --> 00:03:30,160 so some of those videos might have a little bit of a fighting 63 00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:31,930 face in front of you. 64 00:03:31,930 --> 00:03:34,510 But I hope everything is going well. 65 00:03:34,510 --> 00:03:37,210 Our teaching TA is Justin. 66 00:03:37,210 --> 00:03:39,085 Justin is a graduate student in my group. 67 00:03:39,085 --> 00:03:40,570 He's in the second year. 68 00:03:40,570 --> 00:03:44,140 He took this very class with Mike Williams last fall. 69 00:03:44,140 --> 00:03:47,260 So he should be well-prepared to guide you and answer 70 00:03:47,260 --> 00:03:50,230 your questions. 71 00:03:50,230 --> 00:03:53,830 He received his undergraduate degree 72 00:03:53,830 --> 00:03:56,770 from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, 73 00:03:56,770 --> 00:04:00,010 where he was working on the g-2 experiment. 74 00:04:00,010 --> 00:04:02,470 We'll probably talk about those kind of experiments 75 00:04:02,470 --> 00:04:04,510 later in the class as well. 76 00:04:04,510 --> 00:04:08,270 Recently, he has been taking up running as well. 77 00:04:08,270 --> 00:04:11,050 But he spends, also, time on rowing and hiking. 78 00:04:11,050 --> 00:04:13,240 So we, both of us, look forward to meeting you 79 00:04:13,240 --> 00:04:17,260 in this first class on Tuesday and hope 80 00:04:17,260 --> 00:04:21,540 that we have a good time together with 8.701.