Trinity Communications
The Duke Physics department invites all to a one-day symposium celebrating Professor Tom Mehen's career, collaborations and scientific legacy.
Tom Mehen, who joined Duke in 2002, passed away unexpectedly at his Chapel Hill home on December 29, 2024, at the age of 54. Across his more than two decades at Duke, Mehen made substantial contributions in the field of quantum chromodynamics and the application of effective field theory to problems in hadronic physics. As a scientific and personal tribute to a very dear colleague, the Memorial Symposium will feature physics talks by his colleagues, mentees and collaborators from across the country, as well as a special session where members of the physics community can share brief personal reflections or stories about Tom.
For planning purposes, we ask attendees to please their names and relevant information to this google sheet.
Matthew Baumgart - Arizona State University: Resolving the Ultracollinear paradox with EFT
Eric Braaten - The Ohio State University: Exotic hidden heavy hadrons and where to find them
Adam Falk - Alfred P. Sloan Foundation: Memorial Talk + comments about Sloan
Sean Fleming - The University of Arizona: 30 years of quarkonium physics: A lifetime of collaboration
Jaume Gomis - Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics: TBD
Zhongbo Kang - UCLA: Jet fragmentation function and J/Psi production
Ian Low - Argonne National Laboratory: Entanglement in low energy QCD
Ira Rothstein - Carnegie Mellon University: Analytic predictions at strong couplings for cold atoms.
Mark Wise - Caltech: TBD
Xiaojun Yao - University of Washington: Memorial Talk