Frontier Physics Group

Tyler Horoho is a winner of this year's Outstanding Graduate Research Award in Physics

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Tyler Horoho's research field is experimental elementary particle physics. He completed his PhD thesis work with Prof. Craig Dukes. Tyler's thesis involved research with three different experiments. First, and perhaps most importantly, he made notable contributions in the search for dark matter with the NOvA experiment at Fermilab. Second, Tyler made seminal performance measurements of the Cosmic Ray Veto detector for another Fermilab experiment: Mu2e. And finally, Tyler led an investigation into using the Light Dark Matter eXperiment (LDMX) at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) to perform a direct search for dark matter. Tyler has been very productive in publishing his research works in high impact journals. To date, Tyler's research has resulted in eleven publications, and several others have been submitted to various journals. His excellence in research has been acknowledged via various awards and fellowships within and outside of UVA. During his PhD, Tyler received a DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research Award to work at Argonne National Lab to complete part of his PhD and was elected as a Mars Foundation Scholar. He also received the prestigious Owen Chamberlain Fellowship from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Currently, he is continuing his search for dark matter as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Michigan.

Kieran Wall Wins NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

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Kieran Wall has won the prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation. Kieran will attend MIT for his graduate studies starting this fall. He conducted research with Prof. Craig Group for over three years to probe a variety of dark matter models in the sub-GeV mass range using a missing momentum technique. In addition, he spent a semester working with UVa Prof. Bob Jones, and spent a summer at SLAC working on a neutrino experiment supported by the Department of Energy's SULI program.