#### CURRICULUM VITAE : Alexis A. Aguilar-Arévalo

# *Last Updated: May 2007*

**Place and date of birth:** México City, November 8, 1975

## **Citizenship:** Mexican

**Contact Address**: Mail Stop 309, Wilson Hall 10th Floor,

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Batavia IL, 60510, U.S.A.

Phone: (630) 840-2161

**E-Mail:** <alexis@phys.columbia.edu>

**Permanent Address:** Cto. Diamantes #109, Col. Joyas del Pedregal,

C.P. 04660, Mexico D.F., Mexico

**Current Academic Status:**

Graduate student (6^th^ year) at the Physics Department of Columbia
University (New York)

### Academic background

-   **M. Phil.** **Degree**, Columbia University, Graduate School of and
    Sciences, Feb. 2003

-   **Masters Degree** in Physics, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de
    Mexico, June 2002

-   **Bachelor Degree** (***Licenciatura en Física)***: Facultad de
    Ciencias, UNAM, August, 1999; Undergraduate Thesis: \"*Neutrino
    Oscillations : the DAR experiment in LSND*\"

-   ***High School,*** Physics-Math Area Diploma: Centro Universitario
    México A.C., 1994

### Languages

-   **English:** Reading 100%, Writing 100%, Listening 100%, TOEFL CBT
    253 (607)

-   **French:** Reading 80%, Writing 80%, Listening 70%. Text
    translation exam at CELE-UNAM, May 1998

-   **German:** Reading 30%, Writing 30%, Listening 30% (Autodidact)

-   ***First Language: Spanish*** (Reading 100%, Writing 100%, Listening
    100%)

### Research experience

-   Graduate Research Assistant, *Columbia Neutrino Group*, Physics
    Department, Columbia University, project: "*MiniBooNE Experiment*",
    2002 -- to date.

-   CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, project: "*Large Angle Analysis with the
    Harp RPC's*" (J. Wotschack), Mar - Apr, 2002

-   Los Alamos National Laboratory, LANSCE, project: "*Neutrino
    Oscillations at LSND"* Jun-Jul 1998, and Feb-Mar 1999

-   Instituto de Física UNAM; project: "*Optical Spectroscopy of
    metal-oxide gels with organic and inorganic impurities*", Nov 1997
    -- May 1998

-   Instituto de Investigaciones en Materiales (IIM-UNAM); project:
    "*Magnetic Properties of Materials at low temperatures*", May - June
    1997

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### Conferences, Workshops and Schools

[Presentations in conferences:]{.underline}

1.  "Neutrinos from the NuMI beamline in the MiniBooNE Detector",
    Particles and Nuclei International Conference (PANIC'05), Santa Fe
    NM, 23-30 October, 2005

2.  "BooNE", PANIC'05 Neutrino Satellite Meeting, Santa Fe NM, October
    31, 2005

3.  Poster "The MiniBooNE Experiment"; XXIV Physics In Collision
    Conference; Boston University, Boston MA, June 24-29, 2004

4.  Poster "The MiniBooNE Experiment"; New Perspectives 2004; Fermilab,
    June 2, 2004

5.  "On the Implications of recent SNO results" VIII Mexican Workshop on
    Particles and Fields, Zacatecas Zac., Mexico, November 14-20, 2001

6.  Poster "The DAR Analysis of the LSND Experiment", International
    Workshop on observing Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays; Metepec,
    Puebla, Aug 2000

7.  Poster "An improovement in the data analysis of LSND"; XIX Symposium
    of Nuclear Physics; Oaxtepec, Morelos (Jan 10, 1999)

[Schools:]{.underline}

1.  *School on Instrumentation for Elementary Particle Physics* *ICFA
    2001*,\
    National Accelerator Centre, Cape Town, South Africa. March 26 to
    April 6, 2001.

2.  *SLAC Summer Institute 2004*

### Teaching experience

-   *Teaching Assistant*, Pre-Med Physics Laboratory, Physics
    Department, Columbia University, Sept 2002 through May 2003

-   *Part Time Professor*; Mathematics for Engineering III; Instituto
    Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) (Fall Semester 2001, and
    Summer term 2002)

-   *Subject Professor A*; General Physics (Laboratory), Facultad de
    Ciencias, UNAM, Jan 2000 - Jun 2001

-   *Teaching Assistant A*; *Modern Physics III*, Facultad de Ciencias,
    UNAM, Sep 2000 - Jan 2001

-   *Teaching Assistant A*; *General Physics*, Facultad de Ciencias,
    UNAM (Jan 1998 - Jan 1999).

-   *Teaching Assistant*; General Physics; Central College (Pella, Iowa,
    E.U.A.) Aug - Dec 1995

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##### Scholarships and Fellowships

-   *TELMEX Scholar*; Fundacion TELMEX, Mexico D.F., October 1997 to
    May, 2001.

-   *Complementary Scholarship*, Dirección General de Estudios de
    Posgrado, UNAM, November 2000 to May 2001.

### Honors and Awards

1.  Elected member of the *Graduate Student Association of Fermilab,*
    Sep 2005-Sep 2006.

2.  *Teaching Fellow*, Physics Department Columbia University, Sep 2002
    -- May 2003.

3.  *Gabino Barreda Medal* recipient, for obtaining the highest GPA of
    the undergraduate class of 1996, Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM,
    November 2001

4.  Admission to the Direct Doctorate program in the Graduate School of
    Physical Sciences due to high skills and academic background,
    Posgrado en Ciencias Fisicas PCF-UNAM

5.  *TELMEX Scholar*, for high academic achievements, October 1997 to
    May, 2001.

6.  *Honorable Mention* in Professional Examination, undergraduate
    thesis defense, August 20, 1999.

7.  *Leon M. Lederman Award in Physics*, HERTEL Foundation, April 1998

8.  *Member of the Dean´s List,* for obtaining a GPA of 4.0 during the
    fall term; Central College, Pella Iowa, December 8, 1995

9.  Diploma *"For Obtaining the Highest GPA of the class of 91-94 in the
    High Schools incorporated to the UNAM*", DGIRE- UNAM October 1994.

10. Honor Plaque in the three years of Preparatory School (High School),
    for being among the top three students in each class, and graduation
    diploma with *Honorable Mentio*n and *Golden Seal* and form Centro
    Universitario México, México City.

**Publications**

1.  "A Search for Electron Neutrino Appearance at the \\Delta m\^2 \~1
    eV\^2 Scale",\
    A.A. Aguilar-Arevalo et al. \[MiniBooNE Collaboration\],
    arXiv:0704.1500 \[hep-ex\],2007

2.  "Leptonic CP violation studies at MiniBooNE in the (3+2) sterile
    neutrino oscillation hypothesis", G. Karagiorgi, A. Aguilar-Arevalo,
    J.M. Conrad, M.H. Shaevitz (Columbia U.) , K. Whisnant (Iowa State
    U.) , M. Sorel (Valencia U., IFIC) , V. Barger (Wisconsin U.,
    Madison)\
    Phys.Rev.D75:013011,2007

3.  "Active Neutrino Oscillations and the SNO NC measurement", Alexis A.
    Aguilar-Arevalo, J.C. D\'Olivo (Mexico U., ICN); Phys. Rev. D66
    113009,2002

4.  "Evidence for neutrino oscillations from the observation of
    anti-neutrino(electron) appearance in a anti-neutrino(muon)
    beam", A. Aguilar et al. \[LSND Collaboration\],
    Phys.Rev.D64:112007,2001

[Conference Proceedings]{.underline}

1.  "Neutrinos from the NuMI beamline in the MiniBooNE detector",
    Alexis A. Aguilar-Arevalo; Prepared for Particles and Nuclei
    International Conference (PANIC 05), Santa Fe, New Mexico, 24-28
    Oct 2005. Published in AIP Conf.Proc.842:834-836,2006

2.  "The MiniBooNE Experiment", Alexis A. Aguilar-Arevalo \[for the
    MiniBooNE Collaboration\]; Proceedings of 24th International
    Conference on Physics in Collision (PIC 2004), Boston,
    Massachusetts, 27-29 Jun 2004, pp MONP01.

3.  "On the Implications of Recent SNO Results", Aguilar, Alexis A.;
    D\'Olivo, J. C, AIP Conference Proceedings, vol. 623, iss. no. 1, p.
    337-340, PARTICLES AND FIELDS: Eight Mexican Workshop

4.  *"*Magnus Expansion and Three-Neutrino Oscillations in Matter*"*,\
    Alexis A. Aguilar-Arevalo, L.G. Cabral-Rosetti, J.C. D\'Olivo
    (Mexico U., ICN); proceedings of Mexican School of Astrophysics
    2002, Guanajuato, Mexico, 31 Jul - 7 Aug 2002;
    J.Phys.Conf.Ser.37:161,2006(received 2002)

### Event Organization experience

I.  Poster Session of the 2006 Fermilab Users\' Meeting, May 31, 2006

II. New Perspectives 2006, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, June
    2-3, 2006

III. Staff member, NUFACT\'03, 5th International Workshop on Neutrino
     Factories & Superbeams. Columbia University, New York. 5-11 June
     2003

### Personal References

-   Dr. Michael H. Shaevitz, Professor of Physics, Department of
    Physics, Columbia University, 538 West 120^th^ Street, New York,
    NY,10027; e-mail: <shaevitz@nevis.columbia.edu>

-   Dr. Janet M. Conrad, Le-Croy Professor of Physics, Department of
    Physics, Columbia University, 538 West 120^th^ Street, New York,
    NY,10027; e-mail: <conrad@nevis.columbia.edu>

-   Dr. Geoffrey B. Mills; *Los Alamos Neutron Science Center*, Los
    Alamos National laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, U.S.A.; e-mail:
    <mills@lanl.gov>

-   Dr. William. C. Louis III; *Los Alamos Neutron Science Center*, Los
    Alamos National laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, U.S.A.; e-mail:
    <louis@lanl.gov>

-   Dr. Juan Carlos D\'Olivo Sanz; Investigador Titular C, Tiempo
    Completo, Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, UNAM; e-mail:
    <dolivo@nucleares.unam.mx>

-   Dr. Jorge Gustavo Hirsch Ganievich, Investigador Titular C, Tiempo
    Completo, Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, UNAM; e-mail:
    <hirsch@nucleares.unam.mx>

-   Dr. Hywel D. White; *Los Alamos Neutron Science Center*, Los Alamos
    National Laboratory; Los Alamos, New Mexico, e-mail:
    <Hywel.White@mciworld.com>

-   Dr. Eugenio Ley-Koo, Investigador Titular C, Tiempo completo,
    Instituto de Física; email: <eleykoo@.fisica.unam.mx>