Jordi Burguet-Castell

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Degrees

• PhD in High Energy Physics, 2008
  Advisors: J.J. Gómez-Cadenas, Pilar Hernández
  Universidad de Valencia and IFIC, Valencia, Spain

• DEA (“Diploma de Estudios Avanzados”), 2003
  Universidad de Valencia, Valencia, Spain

• Ingenieur de l'Ecole Polytechnique (MS in Physics), 2000
  Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France

Work and Research Experience

• Research Associate, July 2011 – present.
  Relativity & Gravitation Group, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain

  Research in gravitational waves within the LIGO collaboration.

• Research Associate, July 2008 – June 2011.
  Center for Gravitation and Cosmology, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, USA

  Research in gravitational waves within the LIGO collaboration. Data analysis and pipeline development for counterparts of gamma ray bursts. Detector calibration, time-domain reconstruction of the gravitational wave signal. Software infrastructure for online analysis, data quality and monitorization.

• Head of Infrastructure and IT Support, April 2005 – September 2007
  Bioinformatics Department, Prince Felipe Research Center, Valencia, Spain

  Computer Scientist and System Administrator of GNU/Linux systems, including the normal operation and improvement of several computer clusters, extensive programming in C, C++ and Python both for system administration and research. Collaboration in research programs.

• PhD Student and Research Assistant, September 2000 – April 2005
  Universidad de Valencia, Valencia, Spain

  Simulation of future long baseline neutrino experiments. Comparison of the physics reach and relative performances of Neutrino Factories, Beta-Beams, e-capture Beams and Super-Beams, including full neutrino oscillations, detector responses and statistical analysis of the resulting data. Study of the correlations and degeneracies that appear in any single experiment and implementation of different strategies to solve them. Also, data analysis of hadronic cross-sections within the HARP collaboration.

• Research Assistant, April – June 2003
  University of California at Irvine, USA
  Collaboration with Dave Casper to study the performance of the intermediate detector at T2K.

• Research Assistant, September 2002 – March 2003
  Université de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland.

Scientific Stages

• Shifts in the LIGO experiment, January and October 2010
  LIGO Hanford Observatory (WA, USA) and LIGO Livingston Observatory (LA, USA).

• Shifts in the K2K experiment, June 2003 and February 2004
  KEK, Tsukuba, Japan

• Data-analysis software development, March 2002
  Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (USC), Santiago de Compostela, Spain
  Collaboration with Paul F. Kunz (from SLAC) and Jose Hernando-Morata (from USC and CERN) in software development for HippoDraw, a data analysis environment.

• Visiting researcher, Nov. 2000 – Feb. 2002, Oct. 2002 – March 2004
  CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
  Study of the crosstalk in the TPC of the HARP detector.

• Scientific internship, April – September 2000
  CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
  Analysis of the forward-backward asymmetry in quark production at LEP, with the group “Beyond Electroweak” in the ALEPH collaboration.

Further Education

• Undergraduate studies in Physics, 1995 – 1998
  Universidad de Valencia, Valencia, Spain

• Undergraduate courses in Electronics and Computer Science, 1996 – 1998
  Universidad de Valencia, Valencia, Spain

• Course in Statistical Methods and Game Theory, 1996
  Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Segovia, Spain

Teaching and Monographs

• Basic programming with Python, April 2008
  Course given at CREA formacion S.L., Madrid, Spain

• Course on Numerical Methods, 2004
  Monograph with J.J. Gomez-Cadenas for a course at the University of Valencia, Spain

Other Accomplishments

• Development of Multidimensional Array and Tensor extensions for the GNU Scientific Library. 2004

• Member of the Robotic Team, October 1998 – May 1999
  Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France
  Programming of the Artificial Intelligence of the robot presented by the Ecole Polytechnique in the competition “Coupe de France de Robotique”.

• Silver medal (6th place) in the VI Spanish Physics Olympiad, Santander, Spain, 1995

• Member of the Spanish Team in the XXVI International Physics Olympiad, Canberra, Australia, 1995

Computing Skills

• Advanced Level
  Programming Languages: Python, C, C++, Lisp, Unix Shell.
  MarkUp Languages: LaTeX, HTML, XML.
  Administration and programming in GNU/Linux systems.
  Development with Qt and Gtk+ (Graphical Interfaces), GSL, CERNLIB, GEANT and ROOT (scientific computation tools), MySQL (databases).
  Internet and its protocols: TCP/IP internals, network architectures, network services.

• Intermediate Level
  Programming Languages: R, Java, Perl, PHP, Fortran, Prolog, x86 assembler, Pascal.
  Development with MPI (parallel computing).
  Design of analog and digital electronic devices.

Languages

Personal Information

Outreach

• Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, 2008
  Colloquium at the Astronomy Club, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, Milwaukee, USA

• The origin of the Universe, 2006
  Colloquium given at the Juan de Garay High School, Valencia, Spain

Conferences and Workshops

• Iberian Gravitational Waves Meeting 2011
  Universitat de les Illes Balears, Mallorca, Spain, 2 – 4 February 2011.

• Gravitational-Wave Physics and Astronomy Workshop
  University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, 26 – 29 January 2011.

• LSC-Virgo March 2010 Meeting
  California Institute of Technology, California, USA, 15 – 18 March 2010.

• LSC-Virgo September 2009 Meeting
  Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary, 19 – 24 September 2009.

• LSC-Virgo March 2009 Meeting
  California Institute of Technology, California, USA, 16 – 19 March 2009.

• 13th General Meeting of the European Physical Society “Beyond Einstein, Physics for the 21st Century” (EPS13)
  University of Bern, Germany, 11 – 15 July 2005.

• 7th International Workshop on Neutrino Factories & Superbeams (NuFACT'05)
  Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy, 21 – 26 June 2005.

• International Workshop on Exploring the Impact of New Neutrino Beams
  European Center for Theoretical Studies in Nuclear Physics (ECT*), Trento, Italy, 18 – 22 October 2004.

• Terrestrial and Cosmic Neutrinos, Leptogenesis and Cosmology
  Benasque Center for Science, Benasque, Spain, 5 – 22 July 2004.

• 5th International Workshop on Neutrino Factories & Superbeams (NuFACT'03)
  Columbia University, New York, USA, 5 – 11 June 2003.

• 3rd International Workshop on Neutrino Factory based on Muon Storage Rings (NuFACT'01)
  Tsukuba, Japan, 24 – 30 May 2001.

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• Gravitational Waves with GStreamer Workshop
  Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, Toronto, 8 – 11 November 2010.

• 20^th Annual Midwest Relativity Meeting
  University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, 5 – 6 November 2010.

• LSC-Virgo September 2010 Meeting
  Cracow, Poland, 20 – 24 September 2010.

• Advanced Python Training Workshop
  University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, 3 – 5 August 2010.

• LSC-Virgo December 2009 Meeting
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, 14 – 17 December 2009.

• 13^th Gravitational Wave Data Analysis Workshop (GWDAW - 13)
  San Juan, Puerto Rico, 19 – 22 January 2009.

• LSC-Virgo December 2008 Meeting
  University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA, 15 – 18 December 2008.

• 10^th International Workshop on Neutrino Factories, Super beams and Beta beams (NuFact '08)
  Universidad de Valencia and IFIC, Valencia, 30 June – 5 July 2008.

• International Conference on Quantum Gravity (LOOPS '07)
  Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in Morelia, Mexico, 25 – 30 June 2007.

• International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM 2006)
  Palacio Municipal de Congresos, Madrid, 22 – 30 August 2006.

• 4th European Conferences on Computational Biology (ECCB 2005)
  Palacio Municipal de Congresos, Madrid, 28 September – 1 October 2005.

Publications

• Calibration of the LIGO Gravitational Wave Detectors in the Fifth Science Run
  Abadie, J. and others
  2010, Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A624 [1007.3973]

• First search for gravitational waves from the youngest known neutron star
  Abadie, J. and others
  2010, Astrophys. J. 722 [1006.2535]

• Measurements of forward proton production with incident protons and charged pions on nuclear targets at the CERN Proton Synchroton
  Apollonio, M. and others
  2010, Phys. Rev. C82 [1006.1223]

• Search for Gravitational Waves from Compact Binary Coalescence in LIGO and Virgo Data from S5 and VSR1
  Abadie, J. and others
  2010, Phys. Rev. D82 [1005.4655]

• Predictions for the Rates of Compact Binary CoalescencesObservable by Ground-based Gravitational-wave Detectors
  Abadie, J. and others
  2010, Class. Quant. Grav. 27 [1003.2480]

• Search for gravitational-wave inspiral signals associated with short Gamma-Ray Bursts during LIGO's fifth and Virgo's first science run
  Abadie, J. and others
  2010, Astrophys. J. 715 [1001.0165]

• Comparison of large-angle production of charged pions with incident protons on cylindrical long and short targets
  Apollonio, M. and others
  2009, Phys. Rev. C80 [0909.0337]

• Forward production of charged pions with incident protons on nuclear targets at the CERN PS
  Apollonio, M. and others
  2009, Phys. Rev. C80 [0907.3857]

• Large-angle production of charged pions with incident pion beams on nuclear targets
  Apollonio, M. and others
  2009, Phys. Rev. C80 [0907.1428]

• Forward production of charged pions with incident π^± on nuclear targets measured at the CERN PS
  Apollonio, M. and others
  2009, Nucl. Phys. A821 [0902.2105]

• Forward π^± production in p-O₂ and p-N₂ interactions at 12 GeV/c
  Catanesi, M. G. and others
  2008, Astropart. Phys. 30 [0807.1025]

• Measurement of the production cross-sections of π^± in p-C and π^±-C interactions at 12-GeV/c
  Catanesi, M. G. and others
  2008, Astropart. Phys. 29

• Absolute momentum calibration of the HARP TPC
  Catanesi, M. G. and others
  2008, JINST 3

• Large-angle production of charged pions with 3–12.9 GeV/c incident protons on nuclear targets
  Catanesi, M. G. and others
  2008, Phys. Rev. C77 [0805.2871]

• Measurement of single charged pion production in the charged-current interactions of neutrinos in a 1.3 GeV wideband beam
  Rodriguez, A. and others
  2008, Phys. Rev. D78 [0805.0186]

• Experimental study of the atmospheric neutrino backgrounds for proton decay to positron and neutral pion searches in water Cherenkov detectors
  Mine, S. and others
  2008, Phys. Rev. D77 [0801.0182]

• Large-angle production of charged pions by 3 GeV/c – 12 GeV/c protons on carbon, copper and tin targets
  Catanesi, M. G. and others
  2008, Eur. Phys. J. C53 [0709.3464]

• Large-angle production of charged pions by 3 GeV/c – 12.9 GeV/c protons on beryllium, aluminium and lead targets
  Catanesi, M. G. and others
  2008, Eur. Phys. J. C54 [0709.3458]

• Momentum scale in the HARP TPC
  Catanesi, M. G. and others
  2007, [0709.2806]

• Measurement of the production of charged pions by protons on a tantalum target
  Catanesi, M. G. and others
  2007, Eur. Phys. J. C51 [0706.1600]

• A monochromatic neutrino beam to obtain U(e3) and the CP phase
  Espinoza, C. and Bernabeu, J. and Burguet-Castell, J. and Lindroos, M.
  2007, AIP Conf. Proc. 885

• Particle identification algorithms for the HARP forward spectrometer
  Catanesi, M. G. and others
  2007, Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A572

• The HARP detector at the CERN PS
  Catanesi, M. G. and others
  2007, Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A571

• Measurement of the production cross-section of positive pions in the collision of 8.9 GeV/c protons on beryllium
  Catanesi, M. G. and others
  2007, Eur. Phys. J. C52 [hep-ex/0702024]

• Measurement of Neutrino Oscillation by the K2K Experiment
  Ahn, M. H. and others
  2006, Phys. Rev. D74 [hep-ex/0606032]

• A monochromatic electron neutrino beam
  Lindroos, M. and Bernabeu, J. and Burguet-Castell, J. and Espinoza, C.
  2006, PoS HEP2005

• Measurement of the quasi-elastic axial vector mass in neutrino oxygen interactions
  Gran, R. and others
  2006, Phys. Rev. D74 [hep-ex/0603034]

• An improved search for ν_μ→ν_e oscillation in a long-baseline accelerator experiment
  Yamamoto, S. and others
  2006, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96 [hep-ex/0603004]

• Perspectives in neutrino physics: Monochromatic neutrinobeams
  Bernabeu, J. and Burguet-Castell, J. and Espinoza, C. and Lindroos, M.
  2005 [hep-ph/0512299]

• Physics reach with a monochromatic neutrino beam fromelectron capture
  Bernabeu, J. and Burguet-Castell, J. and Espinoza, C.
  2006, Pos HEP2005 [hep-ph/0512297]

• Physics reach of electron-capture neutrino beams
  Bernabeu, J. and Burguet-Castell, J. and Espinoza, C. and Lindroos, M.
  2006, Nucl. Phys. Proc. Suppl. 155 [hep-ph/0510278]

• Measurement of the production cross-section of positive pions in p-Al collisions at 12.9-GeV/c
  Catanesi, M. G. and others
  2006, Nucl. Phys. B732 [hep-ex/0510039]

• Search for coherent charged pion production in neutrino carbon interactions
  Hasegawa, M. and others
  2005, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95 [hep-ex/0506008]

• Monochromatic neutrino beams
  Bernabeu, J. and Burguet-Castell, J. and Espinoza, C. and Lindroos, M.
  2005, JHEP 12 [hep-ph/0505054]

• Optimal beta-beam at the CERN-SPS
  Burguet-Castell and Casper, D. and Couce, E. and Gomez-Cadenas, J.J. and Hernandez, P.
  2005, Nucl. Phys. B725 [hep-ph/0503021]

• JHF sensitivity and the 2-km intermediate detector
  Burguet-Castell, J. and Casper, D.
  2004, AIP Conf. Proc. 721

• Evidence for muon neutrino oscillation in an accelerator-based experiment
  Aliu, E. and others
  2005, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94 [hep-ex/0411038]

• Neutrino oscillation physics with a higher gamma beta-beam
  Burguet-Castell, J. and Casper, D. and Gomez-Cadenas, J.J. and Hernandez, P. and Sanchez, F.
  2004, Nucl. Phys. B695 [hep-ph/0312068]

• Leptonic CP violation measurement at the neutrino factory
  Burguet Castell, J. and Mena, Olga
  2003, Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A503

• Oscillation physics with a neutrino factory
  Apollonio, M. and others
  2002 [hep-ph/0210192]

• Superbeams plus neutrino factory: The golden path to leptonic CP violation
  Burguet-Castell, J. and Gavela, M. B. and Gomez-Cadenas, J.J. and Hernandez, P. and Mena, Olga
  2002, Nucl. Phys. B646 [hep-ph/0207080]

• Superbeam studies at CERN
  Blondel, A. and others
  2001, Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A503

• Leptonic CP violation at the neutrino factory
  Burguet-Castell, J. and Mena, Olga
  2001 [hep-ph/0108109]

• Physics potential of very intense conventional neutrino beams
  Gomez-Cadenas, Juan Jose and others
  2001 [hep-ph/0105297]

• On the measurement of leptonic CP violation
  Burguet-Castell, J. and Gavela, M. B. and Gomez-Cadenas, J.J. and Hernandez, P. and Mena, Olga
  2001, Nucl. Phys. B608 [hep-ph/0103258]

• Functional profiling and gene expression analysis of chromosomal copy number alterations
  L. Conde et al.
  2007, Bioinformation

• ISACGH: a web-based environment for the analysis of Array CGH and gene expression which includes functional profiling
  L. Conde et al.
  2007, Nucleic Acids Research

• Selective pressures at a codon-level predict deleterious mutations in human disease genes
  L. Arbiza et al.
  2006, Journal of Molecular Biology

• Next station in microarray data analysis: GEPAS
  D. Montaner et al.
  2006, Nucleic Acids Research