Shawn McKee
ORG University of Michigan
Title Assistant Research Scientist, Physics Department
BIO
Shawn McKee (Ph.D., UM 1991) is a high-energy astrophysicist at the
University of Michigan. During the early 1990's he lead the central
tracker simulation group as an SSC Fellow on the GEM experiment. Since
the demise of the SSC, he has been active in a wide range of physics
collaborations: particle astrophysics (HEAT, ACCESS), neutrino
physics(COSMOS), high-energy physics(ATLAS) and observational cosmology
(SNAP). On two of these collaborations, ACCESS and COSMOS, he led the
simulation groups. Common to all these experiments, he has been central
to advancing computing technology to address the simulation and data
analysis requirements of each experiment. ATLAS, with its
multi-Petabyte per year data flow, represents a significant challenge
for even the assumed computing infrastructure of 2006. In 2001, he was
appointed Network Project Manager for US ATLAS to plan for and develop
the necessary network environment to support the US ATLAS computing
model. He is co-chair of the High-Energy and Nuclear Physics (HENP)
Internet2 Working Group, which is addressing similar problems in the
context of all of high-energy and nuclear physics experiments."
Time 10/07/09 08:45AM-10:00AM