Ayana Holloway Arce
Arce in 2017
Alma materHarvard University
Princeton University
Scientific career
InstitutionsDuke University
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Ayana Holloway Arce is a professor of physics at Duke University. She works on particle physics, using data from the Large Hadron Collider to understand phenomena beyond the Standard Model.

Early life and education

Arce was born in Lansing, Michigan.[1] She studied physics at Princeton University, graduating with honors and a bachelor's degree in 1998.[2] She moved on to Harvard University for her PhD, working as the Collider Detector at the Fermilab (CDF) detector at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.[1][2] She completed her PhD in 2006.[3]

Family

"Her mother, Karla F.C. Holloway, is a James B. Duke Professor of English and Law with special interests in African American culture. Her father, Russell Holloway, is a computer scientist who is now the Pratt School of Engineering's Associate Dean for Corporate and Industrial Relations."[4] She took after both of her parents due to her mother sharing her love for both books and reading, while her father brought her into the world of academics.

Research

"So my curiosity has been directed towards the kind of questions you answer with huge colliders and precise detectors of the particles made in those collisions."[4]

After her Ph.D., Arce completed a Chamberlain post-doctoral fellowship at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where she worked on experimental techniques to measure the properties of heavy unstable particles.[5] Arce joined Duke University in 2010 and was made a Woodrow Wilson Foundation Fellow in 2012.[6] Arce is working on the calorimeter detector at the ATLAS experiment.[7][8] She is working on jet substructure reconstruction, and the use of jet tagging in diboson resonances.[9][10][11][12]

In 2017 Arce and her mother, Karla F.C. Holloway, were involved in Duke University's commemorations of 50 years of Black faculty scholarship.[13] She was excited by the film Hidden Figures and has taken part in national discussions looking at how to engage more people of colour in scientific careers.[6][14][15] She is part of the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory research consortium, which supports undergraduate students to complete summer research projects in nuclear and particle physics.[16]

References

  1. 1 2 Basgall, Monte (January 6, 2010). "Tracing Family Threads Toward Superstrings". Duke Today.
  2. 1 2 "Ayana T. Arce | Department of Physics". phy.duke.edu. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
  3. ↑ "Ayana Holloway-Arce – AAWIP". aawip.com. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
  4. 1 2 "Tracing Family Threads Toward Superstrings". Duke Today. 2010-01-06. Retrieved 2024-01-12.
  5. ↑ "Ayana Arce: HEP's Newest Faculty Member | Department of Physics". phy.duke.edu. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
  6. 1 2 "Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation | Arce, Ayana". woodrow.org. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
  7. ↑ "Interview - Ayana Arce". www.learner.org. Archived from the original on 2019-03-06. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
  8. ↑ "Something goes bump in the data". symmetry magazine. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
  9. ↑ "Nuclear Particle Astrophysics (NPA) Seminar: Ayana Arce, Duke University, "Hidden structure and high-mass diboson resonance searches at ATLAS" | Department of Physics". physics.yale.edu. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
  10. ↑ "Dirty dibosons and hidden structure at the Large Hadron Collider | Physics Department | UMass Amherst". Physics Department at UMass Amherst. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
  11. ↑ "Hidden structure and high-mass diboson resonance searches at ATLAS" (PDF). Yale University. Retrieved 2018-05-11.
  12. ↑ "Diboson Resonance Searches at ATLAS | Theoretical Physics Department". theory.fnal.gov. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
  13. ↑ Trinity College Duke (2017-12-05), Generations: A Conversation with Karla Holloway, Ph.D. & Ayana Arce, Ph.D., retrieved 2018-05-12
  14. ↑ "Hidden Figures into the light | CERN". home.cern. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
  15. ↑ Duke University (2017-02-23), Duke Physicist Reflects on Success of "Hidden Figures", retrieved 2018-05-12
  16. ↑ "NSF Award Search: Award#1757783 - REU Site: Undergraduate Research in Nuclear and Particle Physics at TUNL/Duke University". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
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