Breese Quinn
Profess of Physics and Astronomy and Director of the Center for Multimessenger Astrophysics
Professor Breese Quinn is a professor of Physics and Astronomy, and Director of the University of Mississippi Center for Multimessenger Astrophysics (UMCMA). He has an award-winning career in high energy physics research, and has served in multiple top-level leadership roles for strategic planning and execution of the U.S. High energy Physics program.
Research Interests
- High energy physics
- Precision studies of fundamental parameters and symmetries
- CPT and Lorentz Violation, Dark Matter and other new physics with muons and neutrinos (Muon g-2, DUNE experiments)
- Quark flavor and Electroweak sectors (KTeV and D0 experiments)
- Multimessenger astrophysics
- Supernova neutrinos
- Spacetime structure of the universe
- Workforce training for the high energy physics community, including analysis toolkits and data management software
Biography
Breese Quinn, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy in College of Liberal Arts and Director of the University of Mississippi Center for Multimessenger Astrophysics. His major research interests are precision high energy physics studies of fundamental parameters and symmetries, and multimessenger astrophysics using neutrinos and muons. He has over 475 publications (including 34 PRL feature articles, 3 PRL cover articles, over 250 TOPCITE=50+ papers, and over XX,000 total citations). He is a co-recipient of the 2019 European Physical Society High Energy and Particle Physics Prize for top quark measurements, and over the last decade, he and his team of students and postdocs have been awarded more URA Visiting Scholar and Intensity Frontier Fellowships for research at Fermilab than all but 6 entire institutions. He is a member of the American Physical Society (APS), past Chair of the Southeastern Section of the APS, and selected as one of the founding APS Advocacy Champions. He has served many leading roles for strategic planning and execution of the U.S. High Energy Physics program including election to the Fermilab Users Executive Committee, appointment as a frontier Convener for the 2021 Snowmass decadal planning process, and is currently serving on the DOE/NSF High Energy Physics Advisory Panel (HEPAP).
Courses Taught
- Phys 107 Conceptual Physics I
- Phys 108 Conceptual Physics II
- Phys 211 Physics for Science and Engineering I
- Phys 317 Intro to Modern Physics I
- Phys 318 Intro to Modern Physics II
Education
B.S. Physics, Mississippi State University (1991)
M.S. Physics, University of Chicago (1995)
Ph.D. Physics, University of Chicago (2000)