heather gray

personal

i'm a student at the university of cape town working on my msc in the physics department as a member of the uct-cern group. currently, i am working in the relativistic nuclear collisions group at lawrence berkeley national laboratory in berkeley, california

address

2545 hillegass ave
berkeley
ca 94704
usa

telephone

home: 510 590 2865
work: 510 486 4212

email

physics

current

• writing up my masters thesis: jet calibration using γ-jets in the electromagnetic calorimeter of ALICE
• working page at lbl (all of this is work in progress)

reports

• lbl annual report: γ-π0 Discrimination in the Electromagnetic Calorimeter of the ALICE experiment at the LHC
• cern summer student report: the detection of d* decays in pp collisions with ALICE
• honours project: charm in the thermal model

talks

• The γ-jet process as a calibration tool for jet analysis at DNP fall meeting 2004, chicago, illinois

conferences and workshops attended

• DNP Fall 2004 in chicago, illinois
• root users' workshop 2004 at slac, california
• sqm 2004 in cape town, south africa
• qm 2004 in oakland, california
• alice weeks (june, sept 2004)

other interests

• i'm the vice-president at chateau, a co-op, which is part of the university students cooperative association
• i'm involved with the free high school science textbooks project, which is busy writing free maths, science and chemistry textbooks for schools in south africa
• other interests include sailing, travelling, reading and good coffee