Harvey Newman
ORG California Institute of Technology
Title Professor of Physics
BIO
Harvey Newman (Sc. D, MIT 1974) is Professor of Physics at the
California
Institute of Technology, and a Caltech faculty member since 1982. He
co-led
the MARK J Collaboration that discovered the gluon, the carrier of the
strong force, at the DESY laboratory in Hamburg in 1979. He has had a
leading role in the development, operation and management of
international
networks and collaborative systems serving the High Energy and Nuclear
Physics communities since 1982, and served on the Technical Advisory
Group
for the NSFNet in 1986. He originated the Data Grid Hierarchy concept
and
the globally distributed Computing Model adopted by the four LHC high
energy
physics collaborations in 1998-2000. He is the PI of the LHCNet project,
linking the US and CERN in support of the LHC physics program, a PI of
the
DOE-funded Particle Physics Data Grid Project (PPDG) and a Co-PI of the
NSF-funded International Virtual Data Grid Laboratory. He co-founded and
chairs the Internet2 High Energy and Nuclear Physics Working Group, is a
member of the Internet2 Applications Strategy Council, and he chairs the
Standing Committee on Inter-Regional Connectivity of ICFA (the
International
Committee on Future Accelerators). He is Chairman of the Board and
Co-Founder of VRVS Global Corporation (2001 -), and has led the US part
of
the CMS Collaboration (390 physicists at 38 US Institutions) as US CMS
Collaboration Board Chair since 1998.
Time 11/03/10 01:15PM-02:30PM