Research Biography Ian Shipsey Ian Shipsey joined CMS in 2001. As a Level-4 CMS Forward Pixel manager he coordinated the development of the assembly and verification techniques and then the production and testing of all of the forward silicon sensor pixel detector modules (plaquettes) for CMS at Purdue by 14 undergraduate and graduate students. In 2010 he served as the Quarkonia Working Group co-Convener with Fabrizio Palla (Pisa). The QWG produced the first measurement of the Upsilon production cross section at the LHC and, as a byproduct, an eye- catching plot that simultaneously shows many standard model particles, from the eta to the Z, a spectroscopist’s delight! In 2011 the team, with Heavy Ion colleagues, found an indication of sequential Upsilon suppression in heavy ion collisions, regarded by many as a smoking gun for the Quark Gluon Plasma. The paper was Editor’s Choice in PRL in July last year. Updates to both the pp Upsilon cross section and Upsilon production in heavy ion collisions are currently proceeding through the approval process. Recently the group has joined the RAL-Princeton team to search for new physics through the detection of displaced vertices. In 2008 Ian became chair of the Advisory Board to the LHC Physics Center (LPC) at Fermilab. The LPC is a regional CMS center that facilitates participation in CMS for those that cannot travel to CERN. In late 2009 Ian became the co-coordinator the LPC for a two-year term, and was subsequently reappointed in September 2011. In 2009 he co-developed and led a successful hands-on CMS data analysis school for sixty students taught by sixty facilitators, which has since been repeated annually at the LPC, and in 2012 for the first time in Pisa. Ian co- developed the CMS Fellows program. In the past year he has chaired the CMS ARCs for the observation of left- hand polarized W production at the LHC, and Higgs searches to the four lepton final state, and the two leptons and two tau decays final state. He is a member of the CB Advisory Group. Ian received a B.Sc. from Queen Mary, London in 1982 and a Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh in 1986 for studies of CP violation in the kaon system with the NA31 experiment at CERN. He was a post doc and then research professor at Syracuse University before joining Purdue University in 1989 as an assistant professor. He is currently Julian Schwinger Distinguished Professor of Physics at Purdue. He joined the CLEO experiment in 1986. He helped to design and lead the fabrication of the CLEO II muon detection system, searched for rare B-meson decays and made precision measurements of V cb and V ub . After joining Purdue he received a NSF National Young Investigator Award (one of two in elementary particle physics in the U.S. in 1992) that provided the funding to establish a MicroStrip Gas Chamber (MSGC) lab. To his surprise, Ian became the first person in the U.S. to successfully design and build by hand a working MSGC. This included mask manufacture using e-beam lithography, and all steps in the subsequent U.V. lithographic process, including vacuum vapor deposition of the metal film and spin-on and development of the photo resists. He joined the SDC Collaboration to apply the MSGC technology to forward tracking. In 1993 he received an SSC National Fellowship (one of 12 awarded annually). Shortly before the SSC was terminated he was part of the team that made the decision to abandon MSGC technology in favor of silicon microstrip detectors. Ian subsequently continued a modest program in Micro Pattern Gas Detectors building the first 2-D readout ion-implanted kapton MSGC, and with Juan Collar of Chicago and 3M Corporation the first mass-produced GEM and with 3M the first mass-produced MicroMEGAS. In 1995 he co- founded with Daniela Bortoletto, the 300 m 2 class 100,000 Purdue Particle Physics Microstructure Detector Laboratories (P3MD), which have been described by reviewers as a national treasure. From 1994-2000 Ian lead the assembly team for the CLEO III silicon vertex detector. The detector was assembled in P3MD with the help of 17 undergraduates. In a dedicated CESR run Ian and his students made the first observation of the production of the strange B meson at the Y(5S), this is important input to the B physics program of super B factories, and he conducted a comprehensive study of charm baryon semileptonic decays reported in a sequence of five papers. In 2000 Ian was one of the intellectual leaders of a group who proposed and designed a new experiment, CLEO-c, to test Lattice Gauge Theory calculations and search for new physics in the charm sector. He played the leading role in generating community support for the CLEO-c proposal. The project was approved by the U.S. NSF and U.S. DOE. in 2002. Ian recruited new university groups to the project and established the CLEO-c Collaboration. He served as the elected co-Spokesperson of CLEO III and then CLEO-c for three consecutive terms between 2001 and 2004. He became an APS Fellow in 2002 for contributions to heavy quark flavor physics. CLEO-c took data until 2008 opening a new frontier in our understanding of the weak and strong interactions. Precision measurements have provided critical tests of Lattice QCD and validated the approach at the several percent level. Ian, with his students and post docs and together with the Cornell group of Ritchie Patterson and Lawrence Gibbons performed the CLEO- c flagship charm semileptonic decay analyses including the first observation of five new charm semileptonic decays