Dr. Conor Henderson
Assistant Professor
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Alabama

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Teaching

Courses taught:

• Spring 2011 - PH 105, Introductory General Physics with Calculus I

Thesis committees:

• MS committee member for Z Burell, 'Radiative Symmetry Breaking in the Supersymmetric Minimal B-L Extended Standard Model', May 2011

UA undergraduate research supervision:

• Summer 2011 - J Murray, 'Search for Exotic Photon Cloud Events with the CMS Detector'
• Fall 2011 - T Groover, in progress
• Fall 2011 - T Keele, in progress

Undergraduate students supervised as part of the CERN Summer Student programme (8-12 weeks each):

• 2010: D Hill, `Search for High-Mass Diphoton resonances with CMS Detector'
• 2010: M Ross-Lonergan, `Search for Technicolor in the Three Photon Final State with the CMS Detector'
• 2009: M Peruzzi, `Search for Randall-Sundrum Gravitons in the Diphoton Final State with the CMS Detector'

Member, American Association of Physics Teachers.

Attended American Association of Physics Teachers Workshop for New Physics Faculty, 27-30 June 2011.

Outreach Activities

Talks with high-school physics students at Lismore Comprehensive School, Craigavon, Northern Ireland (May 2008, September 2009)

Interview with local newspaper (Lurgan Mail, 1 October 2009)

Interviewed for Northern Ireland schools documentary films on CERN, and a career as a physicist (2010)

"Putting the Fizz Back Into Physics", article in Physics World magazine, September 1998.