Alan J. Weinstein

Professor of Physics
CITHEP High Energy Physics
Caltech PMA Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy
Caltech California Institute of Technology

  • phone: (626) 395-6682
  • Office: 260 Lauritsen
  • Address: 256-48 Caltech, Pasadena CA, 91125
  • fax: (626) 795-3951
  • E-Mail: ajw@caltech.edu

Teaching:

  • Physics 12c, Intro to Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (2009)
  • Physics 199, The Physics of the Large Hadron Collider (2009)
  • Physics 12b, Intro to Quantum Physics (2008)
  • Physics 199, Some Major Unsolved Problems in Fundamental Physics (2006, 2007)
  • Physics 2b, Statistical Physics (2006)
  • Physics 1, Mechanics, E&M, Relativity (2005)
  • Physics 125abc, Quantum Physics (2002-2005)
  • Physics 135a, Particle Physics (2001)
  • Physics 12ab, Physics of Waves, Quantum Mechanics, and Statistical Physics (1997-2000)

    Experimental Particle Physics at Caltech

    Please note that I list several projects below in which I'm no longer active. Currently, I'm all LIGO all the time, and not accepting students for other projects.

    The search for Gravitational Waves with
    LIGO LAB LIGO

  • My LIGO web page

    Particle Physics at the High Energy Frontier with
    The Compact Muon Solenoid at the LHC

    Determining the Nature of Dark Energy

  • Charting the history of the expansion of the universe
    via a Precision Hubble Diagram using Type 1a Supernovae,
    and the study of the evolution of (dark) matter clustering
    using weak gravitational lensing (WGL),
    with the proposed (JDEM) space telescope
    Supernova Acceleration Probe (SNAP)
  • See also The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST)

    CLEOThe CLEO Experiment


    at Cornell's Laboratory of Elementary Particle Physics

    (Not so) recent talks:

  • Talk on B Physics at PIC'96, Mexico City, 6/96.
  • Paper on B Physics at PIC'96, Mexico City, 6/96.
  • Talk on CLEO Phase IV at HEPAP Subpanel meeting, Brookhaven, 9/97
  • Talk on CLEO B Physics at Beauty '97, UCLA, 10/97 (5 MB!)
  • Paper on CLEO B Physics at Beauty '97, UCLA, 10/97
  • Thesis of Mandeepa Chadha on Tau Michel Parameters, Caltech, 9/97.
  • Thesis of J.Stephen Miller on B -> D* l nu, Caltech, 1/98.
  • Talk on CLEO Tau Michel Parameters at Tau '98, Santander, 9/98.
  • Paper on CLEO Tau Michel Parameters at Tau '98, Santander, 9/98.
  • TAU'98 Conference Summary talk at Tau '98, Santander, 9/98.
  • TAU'98 Conference Summary PAPER at Tau '98, Santander, 9/98.
  • Talk at Tau-charm Factory Workshop, SLAC, 3/9/99.
  • Talk at Heavy Flavors 8, Southampton England, 7/28/99 (3.8MB).
  • Writeup of talk given at Heavy Flavors 8, Southampton England, 7/28/99 (3.8MB).
  • CLEO results on Tau semihadronic decays transparencies presented at Tau 2000, Victoria BC, 8/00 (6.3 MB).
  • CLEO results on Tau semihadronic decays paper forTau 2000, Victoria BC, 8/00 (4.7 MB).
  • CP violation and spin correlations in tau pair production and decay, talk at Workshop on Prospects for CESR/CLEO at Ecm = 3-5 GeV, Cornell, 5/6/01.
  • "Status of Tau Physics" Talk and writeup at Heavy Flavors 9, Caltech, Pasadena, USA, 9/13/01 (pdf).
  • "Recent results on B meson decays from CLEO" , Talk (pdf, 2.9 MB) and proceedings writeup (ps, 1.1 MB) at XVI Rencontres de Physique de La Vallee d'Aoste, La Thuile, Italy, March 3-9, 2002 (pdf, 2.8 MB).
  • "CLEO Contributions to Tau Physics", Talk (ps) or pdf and proceedings writeup in ps or pdf at Tau02, 7th Annual Workshop on Tau Lepton Physics, UC Santa Cruz, September 10-13, 2002.

    Last Updated: March 2006
    Alan Weinstein/ajw@caltech.edu