The World According to Me

My life can be categorized into the following areas:

 

Contact Information:

Douglas E. Fields 

Assistant Professor and RBRC Fellow

Department of Physics and Astronomy

800 Yale NE 

Albuquerque, NM 87131

Email: fields@unm.edu

Phone: (505) 277-1466 

Cell: (505) 239-8205

Fax: (505) 277-1520

Teaching

I have taught:

 

This semester I am teaching:

Research

I am an Assistant Professor at the University of New Mexico in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. All of my work related contact information can be found here. Here are a few of the research projects that I am currently involved in:

PHENIX

I am involved in an experiment at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory called PHENIX. Our group has been involved in several areas:

·        Construction of Muon Tracking Station One.

·        Monte Carlo efforts.

·        Analysis Software.

·        Physics analysis.

RHIC Spin

Besides the heavy-ion program at RHIC, I have been involved heavily with the RHIC Spin program, an effort designed to investigate the spin structure of the nucleon. Our efforts here include:

·        We have been involved in an effort to design a polarimeter for the RHIC accelerator beam line.  Determining the proton beam polarization at these high energies is a difficult task, but through a series of test experiments, including a run at my alma mater, (CE75 at IUCF) and a run at the AGS at Brookhaven (E950), we have developed a polarimeter which has been implemented in the RHIC ring.

·        We have been involved in the implementation of the p+C CNI polarimeters in RHIC.

My CV

You can look at my CV in HTML format or you can download my CV in Word format.

PHENIX and RHIC Spin UNM Collaborators

Members

Ø      Bernd Bassalleck - Professor

Ø      Douglas Fields – Assistant Professor

Ø      Tim Thomas – Associate Chair HPC

Ø      Imran Younus – Postdoc

Ø      Michael Malik – Graduate Student

Ø      Aaron Zimmerman – Undergraduate Student

 

Former Members

Ø      Nicki Bruner – Research Staff, now with

Ø      Leslie Chavez – Undergraduate Student, (BS) attended graduate School at UCSD (PhD), now at LANL.

Ø      Jose Diaz – Undergraduate Student (BA), now at Pascua Yaqui Tribe in Tuscon AZ.

Ø      Raquel Fraga – Undergraduate Student, (BS) now in Graduate School at University of Maryland.

Ø      Robert Hobbs – Graduate Student, (PhD) now at Johns Hopkins.

Ø      Daniel Koehler – Undergraduate Student (BS)

Service

Committee Work in the Past:

 

Ø      Long Range Plan Committee

Ø      Regener Hall Committee

Play

The BEAT

As Feynman before me, I am a hand drummer.  I used to be in a "Middle-Eastern Urban Funk and Groove Belly-Dancing Ensemble". The BEAT, which stands for Belly Ensemble and Thunder, is still a great band, and I urge you to come watch and hear them at their next show.

Rock Climbing

When I get a chance, I enjoy rock climbing.

My Motorcycle

I have an '86 Kawasaki Concourse that I love to ride.  Some day I will get it in working condition…

Family

Wife

I am married to a wonderful woman, Gabi Niegelhell.

Family Tree

I have always wanted to set up a family tree online (as it develops).

Thunder

I can't really claim to be into the SCA too much, but the Rolling Thunder Household has treated me like family, and I consider them my local family.