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Paul Avery
Professor at large (but I am not a large professor)

My research is in experimental High Energy Physics and I participate in the CMS experiment at CERN, Geneva. My interests include (1) Techniques for measuring new physics processes predicted by SuperSymmetry and other extensions of the Standard Model; (2) decays of heavy quarks; and (3) computing, especially distributed computing and Computational Grids.

I am former Director of two NSF funded Grid projects, GriPhyN and the International Virtual Data Grid Laboratory (iVDGL). Currently, I am co-Principal Investigator on CHEPREO, which is using Grid technology and advanced networking to advance important education and outreach goals, UltraLight and PLaNetS, which together are integrating advanced networking into data intensive computing infrastructures and DISUN (Data Intensive Science University Network), an advanced Grid facility consisting of University of Florida, Caltech, UCSD, UCLA and University of Wisconsin, Madison. I am also co-PI and a founding member of the Open Science Grid consortium that operates a national Grid consisting of dozens of laboratory and university sites. University of Florida is a major site on OSG as well as a Tier-2 site in the worldwide computing infrastructure for the CMS experiment.

My group also participates actively in several High Performance Computing initiatives at the University of Florida, where I am a member of the HPC Committee.

The University of Florida is a Tier-2 computing center for CMS analysis, leads or participates in several national Grid computing initiatives and has one of the largest university CMS groups in the U.S., with members participating in physics analysis, construction, trigger, software and computing, phenomenology and theory.