Michelson Postdoctoral Prize Lectureship

The Michelson Postdoctoral Prize is awarded annually by the Physics Department at Case Western Reserve University to an outstanding junior scholar active in any field of Physics. The prize, established by Profs. Lawrence Krauss and Glenn Starkman in 1997, has become one of the premier awards for young Ph.D.s in physics in the country. The prize-winner spends one week in residence at Case, and presents a colloquium and three seminars to the department of Physics.

The Michelson Postdoctoral Prize this year was awarded to Johan Alwall of SLAC. Dr Alwall received his Ph D in High Energy Physics in 2005 at Uppsala University. Johan Alwall is an expert on the new physics that will be studied at the Large Hadron Collider. He has made important contributions to understanding standard model backgrounds and simulating the new physics that the collider aims to uncover. Alwall obtained his Ph.D. at Uppsala University in 2005 and is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.

Dr Alwall will be in residence at CWRU the week of April 13 - 17 at which time he will give his Michelson Postdoctoral Prize Lectures on his research.

Lecture series title: Physics of the Large Hadron Collider