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Christmas on the beach Associate Professor
Department of Physics
University of Florida
P.O. Box 118440
Gainesville, FL 32611-8440
USA

Office: 2055 New Physics Building
Tel: (352) 392-5709
Fax: (352) 392-8743
Web: www.phys.ufl.edu/~matchev
E-mail: matchev@phys.ufl.edu

Awards and Distinctions
    2005: CLAS Travel Award
    2004: Outstanding Junior Investigator, Department of Energy

Teaching
    Fall 2008: MET 1010 Introduction to Weather
    Spring 2008: MET 1010 Introduction to Weather
    Fall 2007: MET 1010 Introduction to Weather
    Summer 2007: Cosmology/DM, PiTP summer school, IAS, Princeton
    Spring 2007: MET 1010 Introduction to Weather
    Fall 2006: MET 1010 Introduction to Weather
    Spring 2006: PHY 2054 Physics 2 w/o Calculus
    Fall 2005: PHY 6648 Quantum Field Theory I
    Summer 2005: Practicum on Simulations, PiTP summer school, IAS, Princeton
    Spring 2005: PHY 7669 Quantum Field Theory II
    Fall 2004: PHY 6648 Quantum Field Theory I (evaluation)
    Summer 2004: SSI summer school, SLAC
    Spring 2004: P646 High Energy Particle Physics
Physics Department, Cornell University;
Visiting the Cornell Institute of High Energy Phenomenology
    Fall 2003: Visiting LEPP, Cornell University
    Spring 2003: PHY 4222 - Mechanics II (evaluation)
    Fall 2002: Semester off teaching
    Summer 2002: TASI summer school, Boulder.
    Spring 2002: PHY 2048 - Physics with Calculus 1 (discussion leader) (evaluation)

Departmental Service
    Member, Graduate Recruitment and Admissions Committee (Aug. 2004 - present).
    Member, Computing Committee (Apr. 2005 - present).
    Organiser of the high energy physics seminars (Fall 2006).
    Organiser of the LHC CMS Journal Club (Aug. 2005 - present).
    Member, IFT Workshop Organizing Committee (April 2003 - present).
    Member, Biophysics Faculty Search Committee (Aug. 2004 - Apr. 2005).
    Member, IFT Postdoc Search Committee (Spring 2005).
    Member, Preliminary Exam Committee (Nov. 2002 - Aug. 2003).
    Member, Graduate Recruitment and Admissions Committee (Jan. 2002 - Aug. 2003).
    Member, Computing Committee (Jan. 2002 - Aug. 2003).
    Member, IFT Postdoc Search Committee (Spring 2003).
    Member, Experimental Astroparticle Search Committee (Spring 2003).
    Organizer of the high energy physics seminars (Spring 2003).
    Member, PierreFest Organizing Committee (Jan. 2002 - Feb. 2003).

Community Service
    Organizer, Third MC4BSM Workshop, CERN, 2008.
    Convener, ALCPG07, Fermilab, 2007.
    Organizer, Second MC4BSM Workshop, Princeton, 2007.
    Convener, SUSY 2006 conference, UC Irvine, 2006.
    Organizer, MC4BSM Workshop, Fermilab, 2006.
    Convener, Linear Collider Workshop, India, 2006.
    Member, Large Hadron Collider-Linear Collider HEPAP Subpanel, 2005.
    Convener, SUSY 2005 conference, Durham UK, 2005.
    Organizer, New Approaches to EWSB workshop, Aspen, 2005.
    Organizer, UF-FSU Pheno symposium, Tallahassee, December 1 2004.
    Convener, Cornell Study Group of the LC/Astro Working Group
    Convener, Indirect Investigations of SUSY Working Group, Snowmass 2001
    Convener, Higgs+SUSY Working Group, Snowmass 2001
    Convener, Beyond the Standard Model Working Group, Les Houches 2001

Current Research
    Physics Beyond the Standard Model at the energy frontier and below
  -supersymmetry   -extra dimensions   -Higgs physics
    Astroparticle physics: direct and indirect dark matter searches
    SUPERSIM: high-energy physics simulations for dummies

Press Clippings
    Popular Science (January 07): The answer machine arrives
    Science & Vie (Fall 05): Boson de Higgs: Et s'il n'existait pas
    Florida Physics News (Fall 03): Extra Dimensions May Shed Light On Dark Matter
    SpaceDaily (May 19): Florida physicist says dark matter, extra dimensions related and possibly detectable
    UF news release (May 03): UF physicist: Dark matter, extra dimensions tied, possibly detectable
    "Discover" magazine (Feb 03): Astronomers Search for Dimension X
      "New Scientist" (Nov 02): Antarctic neutrino trap comes with superstrings attached
      Physical Review Focus (Nov 02): Detecting Dark Dimensions


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