ACCAPP'20 - Key Persons
Aliz Simon has more than 20 years professional expertise in accelerator science and technology. She got her PhD in Physics. Her research focused on material modification and analysis in the field of semiconductors and thin films. Furthermore, she routinely investigated material composition of heritage objects for provenancing and manufacturing.
Aliz Simon joined the IAEA Physics Section in 2010. Her job is to support international cooperation on the development of accelerator-based techniques and applications thereof, and foster exchange of scientific results and develop collaboration concepts and policy among the stakeholders as Research Institutes, Universities and Government.
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- Registration and Meeting Coordinator
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- Meeting Planner / Logistics
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- Transactions & Proceedings Coordinator
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- Director of Meetings and Exhibits
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- General Chair of the Organizational Committee
Philip Cole received his PhD from Purdue University in 1991. He was a postdoctoral researcher (1991-1994) and an Assistant Research Professor (1995-1997) at George Washington University. Between those two periods at GWU, he was a visiting scientist (1994-1995) at the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (Genoa, Italy) and Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique (Gif sur Yvette, France). Cole held a JLab-Bridged Assistant Professorship at the University of Texas at El Paso (1997-2004) and received the 1999 NSF CAREER Award in Nuclear Physics. In 2002 he was honored as the Society of Physics Students (SPS) Advisor of the Year. In 2014/2015 he was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Bonn.
He has a broad background in nuclear physics. His PhD thesis project concerned the search for a first-order phase transition of the quark-gluon plasma in proton-antiproton collisions at the FNAL Tevatron. And since 1991, he has been involved in the excited baryon research in Hall B (CLAS) of Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Virginia and at BGO-OD at ELSA in Bonn, Germany. He further has interests in the applications of accelerators. He has been the General Chair for three iterations of the International Topical Meeting on the Applications of Accelerators - AccApp'15, AccApp'17, and AccApp'20. While at Idaho State University (2004-2017), he supervised three PhD students on JLab research projects and three Master's students. The projects for the Master's theses were on nuclear applications of accelerators conducted at the Idaho Accelerator Center. He holds one U.S. patent on a nuclear physics accelerator application for remote sensing of high-Z materials concealed in cargo containers. He has over 200 publications. And at age 58 (in 2018) he became a professor emeritus from Idaho State University. He is far from retired, however.
On September 1, 2017, he officially began his new position as Chair of the Physics Department at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, just two days after Tropical Storm Harvey dumped 66 cm of rain in one night in Beaumont (and 154 cm in total). Thus, he has an abiding interest in using photon activation analysis (PAA) for soil assay in hurricane recovery studies.