Olga Evdokimov is a Professor of Physics and Co-director of Undergraduate Studies at the University of Illinois – Chicago. She received her PhD in 1999 from Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (Dubna, Russia) and Ivanovo State University (Ivanovo, Russia). Her research is focused on the experimental exploration of phases of nuclear matter. She is involved with two experimental programs with the STAR (Solenoid Tracker at RHIC) detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), studying the properties of Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP). Her research interests span a variety of subjects, and include investigating the collision dynamics, hadronization mechanisms in QGP, statistical jet reconstruction and jet-medium interactions. In 2016 she was elected as a Chair of the STAR Collaboration Council, and is currently serving in this position. She is also serving as a member of the Nuclear Science Advisory Committee to the US Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation.

Phone : (312) 996-3413

Email : evdolga@uic.edu

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Dr. Ye specializes in High Energy Nuclear and Particle Physics. He obtained his BS and MS from University of Science and Technology of China in 2000 and 2003, respectively, and PhD from University of Hamburg at Germany in 2006. He was appointed as a Research Associate by Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois in 2007 to work on the Dzero experiment at the Tevatron collider and silicon detector R&D for future collider experiments. Dr. Ye joined UIC in 2012. Currently he is working on the STAR (Solenoidal Tracker At RHIC) experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) in Upton, New York to study the properties of the matter produced in high energy heavy ion collisions and the nucleon spin structure. His physics interests include heavy flavor quark production mechanism and dynamics, and development of silicon detector technology for future nuclear and particle experiments.

Phone : (312) 996-2198

Email : yezhenyu@uic.edu

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Prof. Hofman’s area of scientific research is experimental high-energy nuclear physics, also often called high-energy “heavy-ion” physics. He is interested in creating and studying a new phase of matter, called the “quark gluon plasma”, which is believed to have existed at the birth of our universe. This research is carried out at two large colliders, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) accelerator at CERN in Switzerland. The experimental nuclear physics group’s research at RHIC is carried out within the STAR collaborations and their research at the LHC is carried out within the CMS collaboration. Professor Hofman was also a member of the PHOBOS collaboration, which measured p p, d Au, Cu Cu, and Au Au collisions at RHIC, and the E917 collaboration, which measured relativistic Au Au collisions at 6, 8 and 10.8 AGeV at the AGS.

Phone : (312) 413-2798

Email : hofman@uic.edu

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