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PROF GEOFFREY TAYLOR



Contact Details

Organization: Physics
Position: AUSTRALIAN PROFESSORIAL FELLOW
Email:
Homepage: http://epp.ph.unimelb.edu.au/twiki/bin/view/EPP/WebHome
Work: 8344 5456
Mobile: 0419 533 080
Fax: 9347 4783
Room: 704
Level: 07
Building: Physics Building
Campus: Parkville

Biography

Leads the Australian High Energy Program.

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
High Energy Physics Experimental particle physics, dark matter, cosmology, ATLAS experiment, CERN laboratory, Higgs boson, structure of the universe United States of America, Japan
Instrumentation Positron Emmission Topography (PET), X-ray detector systems, Syncrotron detector ssystems, Wirebonder Silicon Strip Detectors Australia, United States of America
High Energy Physics (Data Analysis) Grid Computing, B physics, Computational Data Analysis, Data Acquisition Systems, Terabyte datasets United States of America, Japan

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
United Kingdom University of Oxford Exchange, Research, Technical Assistance/Training
Australia University of Wollongong Exchange, Research, Technical Assistance/Training
Germany Max Planck Institut Exchange, Research, Technical Assistance/Training
Germany University of Freiburg Exchange, Research, Technical Assistance/Training
Japan Tokyo University Exchange, Research, Technical Assistance/Training
Slovenia University of Ljubljana Exchange, Research, Technical Assistance/Training
United States Syracuse University Exchange, Research, Technical Assistance/Training
United States Brookhaven College Exchange, Research, Technical Assistance/Training
United States University of California - Santa Cruz Exchange, Research, Technical Assistance/Training
United Kingdom University of Liverpool Exchange, Research, Technical Assistance/Training
United Kingdom University of Manchester, Institute of Science and Technology Exchange, Research, Technical Assistance/Training
United Kingdom University of Cambridge Exchange, Research, Technical Assistance/Training
Switzerland University of Geneva Exchange, Research, Technical Assistance/Training
Australia University of Sydney Exchange, Research, Technical Assistance/Training
United States Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Exchange, Research, Technical Assistance/Training
Japan High Energy Accelerator Research Organization Exchange, Research, Technical Assistance/Training
Switzerland Organisation Europeenne pour la Recherche Nucleaire Exchange, Research, Technical Assistance/Training
Germany Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron Exchange, Research, Technical Assistance/Training
Poland Jagiellonian University Exchange, Research, Technical Assistance/Training
Czech Republic Charles University in Prague Exchange, Research, Technical Assistance/Training
United States University of California - Berkeley Exchange, Research, Technical Assistance/Training
United Kingdom Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Exchange, Research, Technical Assistance/Training
Switzerland Paul Scherrer Institut Exchange, Research, Technical Assistance/Training

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Science (Honours) The University of Western Australia 30-Apr-1977
Master of Science The University of Western Australia 31-Dec-1979
Doctor of Philosophy University of Hawaii 31-Dec-1981

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Registered Australian Institute of Physics Full Member 10-Aug-1987
Registered American Physics Society Full Member 31-Dec-1979
Unspecified International Union of Pure and Applied Physics Full Member 15-Nov-2005

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Frontier Experiments in High Energy Physics Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2003
Support for the Australian experimental high energy physics program Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Linkage Infrastructure (Equipment and Facilities) 01/01/2005
High precision silicon pixel detectors for high energy physics, synchrotron and medical imaging applications Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2005
Support for the Australian experimental high energy physics program Chief Investigator UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG,
AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL
Linkage Infrastructure (Equipment and Facilities) (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2006
Frontier Experiments in High Energy Physics Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2007
Support for the Australian Experimental High Energy Physics Program Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Linkage Infrastructure (Equipment and Facilities) 01/01/2007
Leading the Australian High Energy Physics Program into an Era of Discovery and Beyond Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2008

Contracts

Title Role Funding Source Award Date
DEVELOP BUSINESS CASE FOR VICTORIAN PEAK COMPUTING FACILITIES AND PROGRAM Chief Investigator MULTIMEDIA VICTORIA 01/02/2008
THE VICTORIAN LIFE SCIENCES COMPUTATION INITIATIVE (VLSCI) Chief Investigator DEPT OF INNOVATION INDUSTRY & REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT 10/06/2008

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Journal Articles

Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

Reports

  • Expected performance of the ATLAS experiement: Detector, Trigger and Physics
    Year: 2008
    Customer: CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research
    Report No:: 1
    Publisher: CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research(Geneva)
    Authors:

Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

Publications in 2006

Journal Articles