Kam-Biu Luk

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Kam-Biu Luk
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Kam-Biu Luk
Fields Physics
Particle Physics
Institutions UC Berkeley
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Fermilab
Alma mater University of Hong Kong
Rutgers University
Known for Particle Physics
Neutrinos
Daya Bay Nuclear Power Plant
Notable awards Sloan Fellowship (1990-94)
Panofsky Prize (2014)
Fellow of the American Physical Society
Breakthrough Prize (2016)

Kam-Biu Luk (Chinese: 陸錦標, born 1953) is a professor of physics, with a focus on particle physics, at UC Berkeley and a senior faculty member in the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's physics division.[1] Luk has conducted research on neutrino oscillation and CP violations. Luk and his collaborator Yifang Wang were awarded the 2014 Panofsky Prize “for their leadership of the Daya Bay experiment, which produced the first definitive measurement of θ13 angle of the neutrino mixing matrix.”[1][2] Luk is a fellow of the American Physical Society.[1]

Education and career

Luk graduated from the University of Hong Kong in 1976 with a B.Sc in physics.[3] Shortly there after, Luk joined Rutgers University's physics Ph.D. program, completing his Ph.D. in 1983.

Luk continued his work in physics by conducting his postdoctoral research at the University of Washington in Seattle until 1986. In 1986, Luk became an R.R. Wilson Fellow at Fermilab, where he worked as an associate scientist until 1989. In 1989, Luk received a joint appointment as a faculty scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and UC Berkeley. During his first two years working at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Luk received the "Department of Energy outstanding junior investigator award", which is designed to "identify exceptionally talented new high energy physicists early in their careers, and to assist and facilitate the development of their research programs."[3][4] Luk was awarded a Sloan Fellowship between 1990–94, which is awarded to "those who show the most outstanding promise of making fundamental contributions to new knowledge."[3][5]

Luk became a Miller Professor at UC Berkeley in the fall of 2001.[3] Luk is currently a physics professor at UC Berkeley and a senior faculty member in the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory' physics division.[3]

Research area

Luk conducts research in particle physics both as a professor at UC Berkeley and as a scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Luk has published numerous papers on neutrino oscillation (see selected publications), including his Panofsky Prize winning research at the Daya Bay Nuclear Plant.[1][6] Luk is also known for his work on the HyperCP (E871) project conducted by Fermilab, where he and a team of scientists conducted an experiment "designed to search for direct CP Violation in strange-baryon decays with the best precision in the world." [7][8]

Selected publications

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References

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