Website: https://www.umass.edu/physics/people/andrew-toler
Email: atoler@umass.edu
GitHub: https://github.com/ajtoler

Traineeship Dates: 2023-07-01 - 2025-06-30
Status: Current Trainee

Training Modules:

• GPU training module

Biography and Interests

I am a third year graduate student currently progressing towards a PhD at the UMass Amherst on the ATLAS Experiment.

Project

I am contributing to the Level 0 Monitored Drift Tube (L0MDT) effort through simulation and performance studies and support the firmware design, focusing on the impact of inefficiencies in the detectors and studying possible updates to improve robustness. Seperately, I am also beginning to contribute to the displaced Heavy Neutral Lepton (right-handed sterile neutrino) analysis.

Recent Accomplishments

• Passed written component of doctoral qualifying

Mentors

• Davide Cieri (Max Planck Institute for Physics)
• Carlo Dallapiccola (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
• Verena Martinez Outschoorn (University of Massachusetts)
• Stéphane Willocq (University of Massachusetts Amherst)