Dr. Carl J. Anderson received his B.S. in physics from the University of Missouri in 1974 and his Ph.D. in Physics from the University Wisconsin–Madison in 1979. A lifelong employee of IBM Corporation, Carl is now at IBM in Austin, TX and in 2000 became an IBM Fellow.

Hassan earned his Ph.D. in particle physics phenomenology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1995 and later completed an M.S. in Mathematical Finance. He has worked in quantitative finance at Merrill Lynch, Société Générale, Millennium Partners Hedge Fund, and the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia. His background includes derivatives and factor risk modeling, and alternative-assets risk management. He also founded an advisory practice serving Gulf financial institutions. He developed an early passion for physics and later an interest in financial markets; he now serves as Head of Investment Risk at the State of Wisconsin Investment Board.

William earned his PhD in theoretical physics at the University of Madison-Wisconsin in 2017 with research touching upon various topics in gauge-gravity duality.  After post-docs at the University of Amsterdam and Stanford, he went on to a career in finance as a quantitative researcher at Jump Trading where he applies machine-learning techniques to construct mid-frequency portfolios.  He also teaches a course on crypto currencies at the University of Chicago.

Tom’s ties to the University of Wisconsin-Madison are many and varied. He received a BS-AMEP degree in 1977 (Phi Beta Kappa), and an MS-EE degree in 1978. He was an Adjunct Professor in the ECE Department in 1982-3, introducing a new course in Applied Microelectronics. He has served as a member of the ECE Department’s Industry Advisory Committee. His father was Joe Dillinger, Professor in the Physics Department from 1946 until 1975. After many years at AMD, Tom joined Oracle Corporation working in the former SPARC division of Oracle acquisition Sun Microsystems.

Dr. Lloyd Hackel works in high power lasers and materials science. He is VP, Advanced Technologies of Curtiss-Wright’s Metal Improvement Company. This followed a 28-years at LLNL where he became head the Program for Laser Science and Technology directing development of high power lasers and applications. Lloyd received a BS degree in Applied Mathematics and Engineering Physics from the University of Wisconsin in 1971 and from MIT a Masters of Science in 1973 and Doctor of Science in 1974.

Zig completed his PhD in physics at UW-Madison in 2017, having previously received his BS in Chemical Physics from Rice University and conducted astrophysics research in Argentina. After his doctoral work, he finished a postdoc in Brussels at ULB and spent a few years machine learning in the Bay Area at InQTel. Zig currently is a staff scientist on the Spectral and Geospatial Remote Sensing team (ISR-6) at Los Alamos National Laboratory, with main research interests in applying deep learning to hyperspectral imaging and reinforcement learning to astrodynamical systems. You can frequently find Zig somewhere in the mountains on bike or skis.

Craig received his BS in Applied Mathematics, Engineering, and Physics (AMEP) from the University of Wisconsin – Madison, his MS in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University, and his MBA from Duke University. Craig worked in aerospace, engineering consulting, and medical technology. He now consults to high technology companies.

Tom earned his Ph.D. with Chun Lin at University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1982. After nearly 28 years in petroleum exploration research at Shell Oil Co. in Houston involving the acquisition, processing, and interpretation of seismic data, Tom retired early to establishing the new Petroleum Engineering Department at the University of Houston. He retired again back to Wisconsin in 2016, teaching introductory physics and astronomy part-time for one year at UW – Washington County before retiring for the final(?) time.

Jeremiah Holzbauer graduated from UW–Madison with an AMEP degree before attending Michigan State for his Ph.D. At MSU, he discovered particle accelerators and has been working on them ever since. His postdoc at Argonne National Laboratory and 10+ years at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have been layering on experience in this deeply applied field, including cryogenic engineering, high power and precision RF engineering. He is currently a Senior Scientist and Project Manager for about a quarter of the PIP-II Project at FNAL, responsible for delivering ~10 different systems for this major upgrade to the accelerator complex. He is also the lab’s lead expert on delicate equipment transport, hazardous material transport, and lead for the ASPIRE internship. He is a regular instructor at the US Particle Accelerator School.

Dr. Rock Mackie, a professor emeritus of medical physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Mackie’s career has been focused on planning and delivery of radiation therapy to cancer patients. His group developed the 3-D treatment planning system that became the Philips Pinnacle treatment planning system, the most widely used radiation therapy treatment planning system in the world. His group was also the developer of tomotherapy, which is the marriage of a linac and a CT scanner.