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The 2018 CAP Herzberg Medal

is awarded to

Alison Lister

"This award is a great honour not only for me personally but also to recognize the important work done by my postdoc and students as well as the broader ATLAS-Canada community. We strive to use advanced techniques for data analysis through to detector development in order to make the most of the excellent performance delivered by the Large Hadron Collider." winner quote

The Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP) is pleased to announce that the 2018 CAP Herzberg Medal is awarded to Alison Lister, University of British Columbia, in recognition of for her many leadership roles in the ATLAS Collaboration and for the breadth of her contributions in particle physics, including the discovery of the Higgs boson, precision measurements of the top quark, new limits on physics beyond the Standard Model, and innovative efforts in using machine learning in experimental particle physics. announcement

Prof. Alison Lister is an experimental particle physicist, working on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN and searching for evidence of physics beyond the Standard Model. She focuses on the top quark sector, carefully studying its properties and devising methods to search for any new types of particles that might decay to tops. Prof. Lister has led a successful effort to use machine-learning techniques to distinguish top quarks from other particles. She is currently involved in setting up a production site for module assembly of the hardware and electronics for next generation of the ATLAS inner detector. From 2013 to 2016, Prof. Lister was one of two co-convenors of the ATLAS Top Working Group, organizing and managing the physics program of the group and vetting analyses at the first stage of the formal approval process to make ATLAS results public. During her tenure as convener, her Top group produced 35 publications and 16 preliminary results, including the first 13 TeV measurements and combinations of results between ATLAS, its LHC counterpart CMS, and the Tevatron collider at Fermilab. nominator citation

The CAP Herzberg medal recognizes outstanding achievement in any field of research by an early-career Canadian physicist (i.e. successfully defended their doctoral thesis within the 12 years prior to the award). The annual CAP Herzberg Medal was introduced in 1970. Prior to 2011, the medal was awarded for outstanding achievement by a Canadian physicist under the age of 40.

Prof. Lister will be honoured during the Medallists' Recognition Banquet in Halifax on Wednesday, June 13, 2018. The Banquet is one of the featured events of the CAP Congress hosted by Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, from June 10-14. Please refer to the Congress outline (https://www.cap.ca/congressconference/congress-2018/2018-congress-glance/) for the schedule of plenary talks by the CAP medal winners who are attending Congress. medal description

ABOUT the Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP)

The Canadian Association of Physicists, founded in 1945, is a professional association representing over 1600 individual physicists and physics students in Canada, the U.S. and overseas, as well as a number of Corporate, Institutional, and Departmental Members. In addition to its learned activities, the CAP, through its charitable arm - the CAP Foundation, also undertakes a number of activities intended to encourage students to pursue a career in physics. cap description

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For more information, please contact:

Mrs. Francine Ford, Executive Director
Canadian Association of Physicists
Tel: 613-562-5614
E-mail: execdir@cap.ca
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