Heeger Group

Karsten M. Heeger

Associate Professor of Physics

Address

Physics Department
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1150 University Avenue
Madison, WI 53706, USA

phone: +1.608.263.2264
fax: +1.608.263.0800
heeger(at)wisc.edu

Recent Awards

2009 Sloan Research Fellowship
2008 DOE HEP Outstanding Junior Investigator Award
"Precision Studies of the Reactor Antineutrino Spectrum and the Search for theta13 at Daya Bay"
2008 DOE Nuclear Physics Outstanding Junior Investigator Award
"Measurement of Neutrino Properties with Bolometric Detectors"
2004 Michelson Postdoctoral Prize Lectureship
2003 APS Division of Nuclear Physics Dissertation Award

Biographical Sketch

Karsten Heeger received his undergraduate degree in physics from Oxford University and his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in Seattle where he worked with Prof. Hamish Robertson on a model-independent measurement of the solar 8B neutrino flux in the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO). For his thesis work he was awarded the 2003 APS Dissertation Award in Nuclear Physics. Before joining the faculty at the University of Wisconsin he was a Chamberlain Fellow and scientist in the Physics Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He currently works on precision studies of neutrino oscillation with reactor antineutrinos in the Daya Bay and KamLAND reactor neutrino experiments and the search for neutrinoless double beta decay with the CUORE experiment. In 2008 he received Outstanding Junior Investigator awards from DOE High Energy Physics for the search for the last unknown neutrino mixing angle theta13 at Daya Bay and from DOE Nuclear Physics for the investigation of neutrino properties with bolometric detectors. Karsten was awarded an Alfread P. Sloan Research Fellowship in 2009.

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curriculum vitae

Teaching

Fall 2009 - Physics in the Arts
Spring 2009 - research semester
Fall 2008 - Experimental Nuclear Physics
Spring 2008 - Physics in the Arts
Fall 2007 - Physics in the Arts
Spring 2007 - Physics in the Arts
Fall 2006 - research semester

Recent Professional Activities

2009-2011 - APS Committee on International Scientific Affairs

Selected Recent Presentations

"Antineutrino Detectors for a High-Precision Measurement of theta13", TIPP09, March 2009
"Probing New Physics with Neutrino Experiments", Columbia University, February 2009
"A Low-Temperature Energy Calibration System for the CUORE Bolometric Double Beta Decay Experiment", APS DNP, October 2008

Publications

Book Contributions

"Neutrino Oscillations: Present Status and Future Plans"