Scholars@Duke
Ashutosh V. Kotwal

Ashutosh V. Kotwal

Fritz London Distinguished Professor of Physics
Physics
ashutosh.kotwal@duke.edu
Box 90305, Duke Physics, Science Drive, Durham, NC 27708-0305
281 Physics Building, Duke University, Science Drive, Durham, NC 27708-0305

Selected Presentations & Appearances

The Heavyweight W boson · February 12, 2024 Invited Talk Michigan Technological University, Center for Physics of Living Organisms
High-precision measurement of the W boson mass with the CDF II detector - Annual Topical Seminar · December 13, 2022 Keynote/Named Lecture University of Roma Tre, Rome
The heavyweight W boson - Colloquium · December 8, 2022 Keynote/Named Lecture Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
The heavyweight W boson - Colloquium · November 10, 2022 Keynote/Named Lecture Pennsylvania State University, State College
The heavyweight W boson - Colloquium · November 3, 2022 Keynote/Named Lecture University of Oregon, Eugene
The heavyweight W boson - Colloquium · November 2, 2022 Keynote/Named Lecture Oregon State University, Corvallis
The heavyweight W boson - Colloquium · October 31, 2022 Keynote/Named Lecture University of Washington, Seattle
The heavyweight W boson - Colloquium · October 28, 2022 Keynote/Named Lecture Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada
The heavyweight W boson - Colloquium · October 27, 2022 Keynote/Named Lecture Tri-University Meson Facility and University of British Columbia, Vancouver
The heavyweight W boson - Colloquium · October 21, 2022 Keynote/Named Lecture University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
The heavyweight W boson - Colloquium · October 19, 2022 Keynote/Named Lecture University of Cape Town, South Africa
The heavyweight W boson - Colloquium · October 14, 2022 Keynote/Named Lecture University of Virginia, Charlottesville
High-precision measurement of the W boson mass with the CDF II detector · October 13, 2022 Keynote/Named Lecture University of Virginia, Charlottesville
The heavyweight W boson - Colloquium · October 5, 2022 Keynote/Named Lecture ETH Zurich and University of Zurich,
The heavyweight W boson - Colloquium · September 30, 2022 Keynote/Named Lecture University of Kentucky, Lexington
High-precision measurement of the W boson mass with the CDF II detector · September 29, 2022 Keynote/Named Lecture Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN
The heavyweight W boson - Colloquium · September 23, 2022 Keynote/Named Lecture University of Montreal,
The heavyweight W boson - Colloquium · September 16, 2022 Keynote/Named Lecture University of Arizona, Tucson
High-precision measurement of the W boson mass with the CDF II detector · September 8, 2022 Keynote/Named Lecture INFN Pisa, Italy,
High-precision measurement of the W boson mass with the CDF II detector · September 5, 2022 Keynote/Named Lecture University of Milan, Italy,
High-precision measurement of the W boson mass with the CDF II detector - Workshop on the Standard Model and Beyond · September 2, 2022 Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium Corfu, Greece
High-precision measurement of the W boson mass with the CDF II detector - Conference on the Intersections of Particle and Nuclear Physics · August 30, 2022 Invited Talk Invited plenary talk, Orlando
The heavyweight W boson - Colloquium · August 26, 2022 Keynote/Named Lecture University of New Mexico,
Session chair - International Multi-Boson Interactions Workshop · August 22, 2022 International Meeting or Conference Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai
High-precision measurement of the W boson mass with the CDF II detector - Science Society · August 15, 2022 Broadcast Appearance Clubhouse,
High-precision measurement of the W boson mass with the CDF II detector - SLAC Summer Institute · August 10, 2022 Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium
High-precision measurement of the W boson mass with the CDF II detector - Invited plenary talk · August 2, 2022 International Meeting or Conference XVth Quark Confinement and Hadron Spectrum Conference, University of Stavanger, Norway
High-precision measurement of the W boson mass with the CDF II detector - QCD 2022 Conference · July 5, 2022 International Meeting or Conference Montpellier, France
The heavyweight W boson - NSF & ASET Colloquium · July 5, 2022 Keynote/Named Lecture Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
The heavyweight W boson · July 4, 2022 Keynote/Named Lecture Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Mumbai
The heavyweight W boson · June 23, 2022 Keynote/Named Lecture National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi
The heavyweight W boson · June 22, 2022 Keynote/Named Lecture Inter-University Accelerator Center, Jawaharlal Nehru University and University of Delhi, New Delhi
High-precision measurement of the W boson mass with the CDF II detector - Annual Users Meeting · June 14, 2022 Keynote/Named Lecture Jefferson Laboratory,
The heavyweight W boson - Public lecture · June 10, 2022 Keynote/Named Lecture Fergusson College, Pune,
The heavyweight W boson · June 9, 2022 Keynote/Named Lecture Inter-University Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune,
High-precision measurement of the W boson mass with the CDF II detector · May 31, 2022 Keynote/Named Lecture Korea Institute of Advanced Study,
High-precision measurement of the W boson mass with the CDF II detector - IPNS Seminar · May 30, 2022 Keynote/Named Lecture KEK, Japan
High-precision measurement of the W boson mass with the CDF II detector - Rapid Response Workshop on the W Mass Anomaly · May 27, 2022 Keynote/Named Lecture National Taiwan University,
High-precision measurement of the W boson mass with the CDF II detector - Flavor Physics & CP Violation 2022 Conference · May 24, 2022 International Meeting or Conference University of Mississippi,
High-precision measurement of the W boson mass with the CDF II detector · May 23, 2022 Keynote/Named Lecture Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel,
High-precision measurement of the W boson mass with the CDF II detector · May 16, 2022 Keynote/Named Lecture Northwestern University,
High-precision measurement of the W boson mass with the CDF II detector · May 5, 2022 Keynote/Named Lecture Brookhaven National Laboratory,
High-precision measurement of the W boson mass with the CDF II detector · May 3, 2022 Keynote/Named Lecture Technical University, Dresden,
High-precision measurement of the W boson mass with the CDF II detector · April 26, 2022 Keynote/Named Lecture Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing,
High-precision measurement of the W boson mass with the CDF II detector · April 25, 2022 Keynote/Named Lecture University of Kentucky,
High-precision measurement of the W boson mass with the CDF II detector - Experimental Physics Seminar · April 21, 2022 Keynote/Named Lecture CERN,
High-precision measurement of the W boson mass with the CDF II detector · April 21, 2022 Keynote/Named Lecture Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai,
High-precision measurement of the W boson mass with the CDF II detector · April 12, 2022 Keynote/Named Lecture SLAC,
High-precision measurement of the W boson mass with the CDF II detector · April 11, 2022 Keynote/Named Lecture LBNL,
High-precision measurement of the W boson mass with the CDF II detector - Joint Experimental-Theoretical Physics Seminar · April 8, 2022 Keynote/Named Lecture Fermilab,
Track Triggering at Collider Experiments - International Conference on Technology and Instrumentation in Particle Physics · May 24, 2021 - May 28, 2021 International Meeting or Conference TRIUMF (Canadian National Laboratory for Particle Physics), Vancouver, Canada
Beyond the Higgs Boson - AntiMatter and Dark Matter - International Lecture Series · November 27, 2020 Lecture Yashwantrao Chavan Pratisthan, Mumbai, India
DiHiggs Physics at Future Colliders - International Workshop on Di-Higgs Physics · November 20, 2020 International Meeting or Conference Shanghai JiaoTong University , T. D. Lee Institute, Shanghai
Triggering on disappearing particles - Trigger and Data Acquisition Workshop · August 2020 International Meeting or Conference HEP Community Planning ,
Higgs Physics at ATLAS - SouthEastern Section of APS · November 7, 2019 National Scientific Meeting Invited Plenary , Wilmington, NC
Study of HH and ZZ production to probe Goldstone Higgs and Baryogenesis at pp colliders - Multibosons at the Energy Frontier Workshop · July 26, 2019 International Meeting or Conference Fermilab,
Physics of Future Circular Colliders - Annual Meeting · 2016 Invited Talk APS DPF, Salt Lake City
Electroweak Measurements and the Scale of New Physics · July 16, 2014 Lecture Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing
The Higgs boson, Dark Matter and Black Holes at the LHC · July 15, 2014 Lecture Colloquium at Tsinghua University, Beijing
CTEQ Summer School Lectures · July 1, 2014 Lecture Peking University, Beijing
New Physics Scale from Electroweak Measurements · November 1, 2013 Lecture Pittsburgh
Beyond-Standard Model Higgs searches at ATLAS · November 1, 2013 Lecture PASCOS2013, Taipei
Electroweak Physics at Future Colliders · August 1, 2013 Lecture Minneapolis Snowmass Workshop
High-Luminosity LHC Physics Potential · July 1, 2013 Lecture Argonne National Laboratory
Collider Physics · July 1, 2013 Lecture TRISEP Summer School on Particle Physics, TRIUMF, Vancouver
W Mass Measurement at the Tevatron · May 1, 2013 Lecture Plenary talk at the Large Hadron Collider Physics Conference, Barcelona
Higgs Boson and Dark Matter · December 11, 2012 Lecture Broad Street Cafe, Durham
Precision Measurement of the W Boson Mass · November 6, 2012 Lecture University of Wisconsin, Madison
Precision Measurement of the W Boson Mass · July 16, 2012 Lecture Joint CERN-Fermilab Hadron Collider Physics Summer School
Precision Measurement of the W Boson Mass · April 30, 2012 Lecture University of Chicago
Precision Measurement of the W Boson Mass · March 8, 2012 Lecture University of California, Berkeley
Precision Measurement of the W Boson Mass at CDF · February 23, 2012 Lecture Joint Theoretical-Experimental Seminar, Fermilab
The Higgs boson, Dark Matter and Black Holes: Revolutionizing the Laws of the Universe with the LHC · July 7, 2011 Lecture Sathey College, Mumbai
Precision Measurements and the Higgs Boson · June 30, 2011 Lecture Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune
Precision Measurements and the Higgs Boson · June 23, 2011 Lecture Inter University Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune
The Higgs boson, Dark Matter and Black Holes: Revolutionizing the Laws of the Universe with the LHC · June 21, 2011 Lecture Garware College, Pune
Precision Electroweak Physics at CDF · December 16, 2010 Lecture Workshop on Precision LHC Physics at LPNHE, Universités Paris VI et Paris VII, France
Precision Tests of the Standard Model · July 17, 2010 Lecture Invited Plenary Talk at the 22nd Rencontres de Blois, France
Measurement of the W boson mass at CDF · June 24, 2010 Lecture Brookhaven National Laboratory
Precision Measurements in High Energy Physics and the Higgs Boson · January 29, 2010 Lecture UNC Wilmington

Lecture; A. V. Kotwal
Measurement of the W boson mass at the Tevatron and the LHC · December 2, 2009 Lecture University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins University,

Lecture; A. V. Kotwal
Measurement of the W boson mass at the Tevatron · July 1, 2009 Lecture DESY Hamburg and Zeuthen

Lecture; A. V. Kotwal
Standard Model Physics and Higgs Boson Searches at the Tevatron - Pheno 2009 Symposium · May 1, 2009 Lecture University of Wisconsin

Lecture; A. V. Kotwal
Search for the Higgs boson · December 24, 2008 Lecture Inter-University Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, India

Lecture; Ashutosh Kotwal
Search for high-mass dimuon resonances · December 19, 2008 Lecture Tata Institute for Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India

Lecture; Ashutosh Kotwal
Status and Prospects of Standard Model Electroweak Physics · December 18, 2008 Lecture Department of Atomic Energy Symposium on High Energy Physics, India

Lecture; concluding plenary talk on experimental high energy physics at the biggest high energy physics conference in India
The First Run II Measurement of the W boson mass by CDF · May 1, 2008 Lecture University of California, Santa Barbara

Lecture; Ashutosh Kotwal

Outreach & Engaged Scholarship

Physics Advisor - US ATLAS Organization · July 19, 2013 - 2015 Other Other Service to the Community
External Evaluator - Academy of Finland · December 16, 2012 Other Other Service to the Community
Co-convener of High Energy Frontier Group on Precision Electroweak Measurements - DPF Community Planning Exercise · September 29, 2012 - July 1, 2013 Other Other Service to the Community
Reviewer - Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology · September 29, 2012 Other Other Service to the Community
Reviewer - ATLAS Forward Physics Upgrade · September 29, 2012 Other Other Service to the Community
Unknown - US-ATLAS Upgrade Review Committee · 2011 - 2013 Other Other Service to the Community
Vice-Chair of Nominating Committee - Division of Particles and Fields · December 17, 2010 Other Other Service to the Community

Service to the Profession

External Reviewer · December 2020 - January 2021 Editorial Activities Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada,
Member of Nominating Committee · 2020 - 2021 Committee Service Division of Particles and Fields of the American Physical Society,

two years of service

Organizer : Snowmass Workshop at Seattle · May 2013 Event/Organization Administration Seattle
Organizer : Snowmass Workshop at Brookhaven · April 2013 Event/Organization Administration Brookhaven
Organizer : Snowmass Workshop at Duke · February 2013 Event/Organization Administration Duke University
Reviewer : Physical Review Letters · September 29, 2012 Editorial Activities
Reviewer for DOE Grant Proposals · December 17, 2011 Committee Service
Higgs and New Physics session convener : European Physical Society · July 2011 Event/Organization Administration Grenoble, France
USATLAS Upgrade Review Committee · April 20, 2011 Committee Service
organizer : W Mass Workshop at Fermilab · December 21, 2010 Event/Organization Administration Fermilab
reviewer : Physics Letters B · December 21, 2010 Editorial Activities
reviewer : Proposals to the Department of Energy (Particle Physics) · December 21, 2010 Committee Service
Chair - Nominations Committee · 2010 - 2011 Committee Service Division of Particles and Fields, American Physical Society,
Co-convener of Electroweak Physics session : Division of Particles and Fields Conference · July 2009 Event/Organization Administration Detroit, Michigan
Chair, Program Committee and Organizing Committee : Fermilab Annual Users Conference · June 2009 Event/Organization Administration Fermilab
referee : Physics Letters B · December 13, 2008 Editorial Activities
Department of Energy Selection Committee for Outstanding Junior Investigator Award · April 2008 Editorial Activities Washington, DC
Chairperson : Fermilab Users Executive Committee · 2008 - 2009 Editorial Activities

Service to Duke

Recruitment of Travis Nicholson (Department) · November 2022 - November 2023 Committee Service Department of Physics,
Graduate Curriculum Committee (Department) · 2022 - 2023 Committee Service Physics Department, Duke University
Introductory Physics Committee (Department) · 2022 - 2023 Committee Service Physics Department, Duke University
Reappointment of Robert Brown (Department) · 2022 - 2023 Committee Service Physics Department,
Conflict of interest Committee (University) · 2022 - 2024 Committee Service Duke University,
Standing Committee for Misconduct in Research (University) · September 2019 - September 2025 Committee Service Duke University,
Member, Information Technology Advisory Committee (University) · 2011 - 2013 Committee Service Duke University,