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Doug is the electronics and mechanical design wizard behind many drift chamber detectors which the UBC subatomic physics group has been involved in - design and construction for large and small detectors at: TRIUMF , Brookhaven , SLAC , KEK , ... and others

BaBar RA, drift chamber construction and quality assurance. Now Staff Research Physicist with the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

Kenji Abe, BaBar RA, drift chamber gas system expert, based at SLAC, 1999-2002. Now in industry in Japan.

BaBar RA, now RA with ATLAS group at University of Toronto

MScThesis, "Studies of Helium-Based Gas Mixtures Using a Small Cell Drift Chamber". Completed PhD with the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) experiment at UBC, presently an NSERC PDF at Los Alamos National Lab, continuing with SNO.

MSc Thesis, "Background Studies for BaBar". Fall 96-98, Process Engineer with OPAL Technologies, which was bought out by Applied Materials. In 1998-2000, she worked at Cypress Semiconductor, a silicon chip processor and manufacturer. In 2000, she moved to Los Alamos, New Mexico, working as an engineer at Energy Related Devices, (startup alternative energy sources company), then in 2003 she joined the Technical Staff at Los Alamos National Lab.

MSc Thesis , "A Monte Carlo Study of the Momentum Dependence on the Results of Tracking Unknown Particle Species in the BaBar Detector". Worked at MacDonald Dettwiler, in Richmond BC for 1.5 years, and is now a software manager at AvantGo in San Mateo California.

MSc Thesis, "Evaluation of the Photonic Conversion Finder for the BaBar Experiment". Just finishing a journalism degree here at UBC, and recently received an APS internship for science writing with Newsday in New York. Won an APS best student presentation prize for his thesis work presentation at the APS Northwest Section meeting in Seattle, Washington, 2001.

PhD Thesis, "Measurement of the Branching Fraction of the Semileptonic Decay B0-> D* l nu in the BaBar Experiment". Worked on online controls and database system for BaBar. Now a Research Associate in Photomedicine and Optics with the Cancer Imagining group at BC Cancer Research Center in Vancouver. Won an APS best student presentation prize for his thesis work presentation at the APS Northwest Section meeting in Eugene, Oregon, 2000.

MSc Thesis "Track Impact Parameter Resolution in the BaBar Detector" - A Quantum Electrodynamics Study. Now continuing as a PhD student in the UBC BaBar Group, using his MSc thesis resolution studies for B mixing analysis.

MSc Thesis "A Study of BaBar Behaviours Using the e+ e- --> phi gamma Control Samples" Detector response studies of extra energy deposited in calorimeter (alongside charged tracks) and a study of BaBar's kaon identification system. Now teaching university-level physics in Iran.

MSc Thesis "Monte Carlo Studies for Parameterization of B-Mixing with Dilepton Events" Feasibility study for a global fit technique to simultaneously extract B mixing and lifetimes using dilepton events. (Applying this methodology to data, instead of Monte Carlo, is a PhD thesis waiting to happen.) Now a PhD candidate in Economics/Finance at UBC.