Mark Adams
Mark Adams received his Ph.D. in High Energy Physics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1981. After 4 years of postdoctoral work with another Stony Brook group at Fermilab, he joined the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1985. He has worked with developing the central fiber tracker, central preshower, and silicon tracker detectors for the upgraded D0 experiment. In addition, he has constructed optical connectors, readout path, and trigger electronics for the hadron calorimeters in the CMS collaboration at CERN. Mark also joined a dozen high school physics teachers for two summers, building cosmic ray detectors for use in their classrooms, measured the rate of cosmic rays from exploding stars, measured the muon's lifetime and even did an experiment on the roof of the Sears Tower to demonstrate that time is relative. Check out their ongoing muon lifetime experiment.
