Sean Gavin
Associate Professor of Physics 

Office:          320 Physics
Phone:          (313) 577-0156
Fax:              (313) 577-3932

E-mail: sean@physics.wayne.edu
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B.Sc. Physics, SUNY at Stony Brook
M.Sc. Physics, University of Illinois
Ph.D. Physics, University of Illinois


Research Interests theoretical high-energy nuclear physics (RHIC)


Graduate Students Mohamed Abdel-Aziz
David M. Bower
Saumitra Chowdhury
Lonnie Cumberland

Professional Experience Associate Professor, Wayne State University, 2004-
Assistant Professor, Wayne State University, 2000-2004
Assistant Professor (Research) , Wayne State University, 1998-2000
Senior Research Scientist, University of Arizona, 1997-98
Visiting Scientist, Columbia University, 1996-97
Associate Physicist, Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1991-96
Research Associate, Helsinski University, 1989-91
Research Associate, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, 1987-89

Honors and Awards McMinn Distinguished Lecturer, Vanderbilt University, 1997

Selected Publications

"The QCD Mixed Phase: Shaken, Not Stirred", Nucl. Phys. A, (2001).

"Covariance of Antiproton Yield and Source Size in Nuclear Collisions", S. Gavin and C. Pruneau, Phys. Rev. C 61, 044901 (2000).

"Extraordinary Baryon Fluctuations and the QCD Tricritical Point", S Gavin, nucl-th/99087070.

"Baryon Fluctuations in High Energy Nuclear Collisions", S. Gavin and C. Pruneau, nucl-th/9907040.

"The PHENIX Experiment at RHIC", D. Morrison, et al. (PHENIX Collaboration), Nucl. Phys. A 638, 565 (1998).

"Spin Physics with the PHENIX Detector", N. Saito, et al. (PHENIX Collaboration), Nucl. Phys. A 638, 575 (1998).


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