Welcome to the Website of Rainer J. Fries

Associate Professor Cyclotron Insitute and Department of Physics and Astronomy Texas A&M University

Brief Resume:

• PhD, University of Regensburg, 2001.
• Feodor Lynen Fellow, Duke University 2002-2003 (Feodor Lynen Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation).
• Research Associate, University of Minnesota, 2003-2005
• Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota, 2005-2006
• Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University, 2006-2011
• RHIC Fellow, RIKEN/BNL Research Center, 2006-2011
• Associate Professor, Texas A&M University, 2012-
• IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Nuclear Physics 2007 (click here to read the announcement).
• Montague Scholar for Teaching Excellence 2008, TAMU Center for Teaching Excellence
• NSF CAREER Award 2009 from the National Science Foundation
• Invited JSPS Fellowship 2009-2010 from the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science
• Research Interests: Theoretical Particle and Nuclear Physics.
• Current Activities: Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), High Energy Nuclear Collisions and Quark Gluon Plasma. My research is related to the experimental programs at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Lab and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. I am a member of the JETSCAPE Collaboration.

Teaching and Outreach:

Previous course: PHYS 218 Mechanics, Spring 2018. Log on to ecampus to see the course webpage.

Previous course: PHYS 606: Quantum Mechanics, Spring 2017.

Saturday Morning Physics: Stay tuned for the 2019 program. Information can be found on our SMP webpage or on Facebook.

Other Information:

Upcoming Workshops to (co)organized by me:

Second JETSCAPE Winter School and Workshop, Texas A&M University, January 9-13, 2019.

Hard Probes, May 31-June 6 2020, Austin TX. More information will be available shortly.

• Hot Quarks 2016, South Padre Island TX, USA, September 12-17, 2016.
• Hot Quarks 2014, Las Negras, Spain, September 21-28, 2014.
• Towards a Comprehensive Understanding of Thermal Radiation in Elementary and Heavy-Ion Collisions, RIKEN/BNL Research Center, Brookhaven National Laboratory, December 5-7, 2012.
• Hot Quarks 2012, Copamarina, Puerto Rico, October 14-20, 2012.
• RIKEN Workshop on Hyperon-Hyperon Interactions and Searches for Exotic Di-Hyperons in Nuclear Collisions, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton NY, February 29-March 2, 2012
• Hot Quarks 2010, La Londe les Maures, France, June 21-26, 2010
• Workshop on Critical Examination of RHIC Paradigms, Austin TX, April 14-17, 2010

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