Professor David J. Miller

JOBS (until I partially retired in September 2005)

• chair of the ECFA Study on Physics and Detectors for a Linear Collider ,
• andco-chair of the corresponding World-Wide Study. .
• Development of beam monitoring and detector techniques for the International Linear Collider .
• Teaching
• Analysis of results from the OPAL experiment at CERN.

Primary Research Interests

• The Future Linear Collider
• Gamma-Gamma collisions
• Particle Detectors - in science, industry and medicine.

Alternative sites with something about me

UCL Physics and Astronomy index.

Talks and Lectures

• Talk at British Association Festival of Science, Dublin 6 September 2005."Living with special relativity: how particle physicists inhabit Einstein's world" ( (pdf) (ppt)
• Plenary Talk on "Linear Collider Physics" at ICHEP 2004, Beijing, 22/08/2004 (ppt) , proceedings paper (pdf)
• Talk to Astronomy and Physics Society of the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, "Where Particle Physics is now" (pdf) (ppt)
• "Overview of the structure of matter"; Lecture to 1st year UCL medical students ( pdf).
• "What we're here to do"; Charge to the Montpellier ECFA Linear Collider workshop ( pdf).
• "The Legacy of LEP"; London intercollegiate postgrad lectures given December 2003. [ ppt file (18MB). Version with big bitmaps left out (pdf)]
• "The Future Linear Collider"; London intercollegiate postgrad lectures given December 2003 [shortened and updated from SLAC S.I. lectures, below ( pdf)]
• Electromagnetic Theory for 2nd year Physics and Astronomy undergraduates at UCL
• Lectures (ppt) (part 1) (part 2) (part 3) on "Electroweak Symmetry Breaking a Linear Collider", given at the SLAC Summer Institute, 20/21 August 2001.
• "Questions about measuring the luminosity spectrum at a Linear Collider" (ppt); machine related ; detector related , given at LCWS2002 August 2002.
• Report on the Worldwide Linear Collider Study to the ICFA seminar, 9 October 2002 (pdf)

Other Interests

• Science popularisation (including a quasi-political explanation of the Higgs boson)
• Singing
• Both the above at the same time

C.V. and publications

• A July 2004 C.V.(pdf)
• Publication list (needs update) , and OPAL publications .

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Updated 9 July 2006