R. Michael Barnett

R. Michael Barnett is a particle physicist at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab in California, where he heads the international Particle Data Group and has written many papers on the possible new physics discoveries at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN (where he is working during 2008-09).

He is currently or has led many national and international educational projects including the QuarkNet program, the Contemporary Physics Education Project, the Outreach Program of the ATLAS Experiment at CERN (http://atlas.ch), the N. Calif. Amer. Assoc. of Physics Teachers, etc. He produced the award-winning website The Particle Adventure at http://ParticleAdventure.org . He has chaired the United States LHC Users Organization and the Calif. Section of the American Physical Society.