Dr. Toback received his B.S. in physics from M.I.T. in 91, and his Ph.D. from 
the University of Chicago in 1997. During his graduate research he worked on the 
Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) a multipurpose experiment studying high 
energy proton anti-proton collisions for evidence of new particles. These 
searches turned up the first evidence and discovery of the top quark. In 
addition, a large number of new and interesting hints in the data provided new 
models of physics to pursue. The single most interesting hint for the future may 
well be a single event with two electrons-two photons and large missing 
transverse energy which Dr. Toback studied and used to guide a search for 
`cousins' of this type of event. This event may well be our first hint of 
Supersymmetry. In 1998, Dr. Toback joined the DZero collaboration with the 
University of Maryland, again searching for new particles at the Fermilab 
Tevatron. As co-author of the 'Sleuth' quasi-model independent search strategy, 
he was able to search for new particles in over 40 different final states. Dr. 
Toback joined the Texas A&M faculty in 2000 and rejoined the CDF collaboration. 
He led the EMTiming effort, to install a timing system on the detector to help with model-independent searches for new physics in photon final states. 
These searches also allow for a new class of searches which follow up on his new 
interests in Cosmology, interactions of fundamental particles in the early 
Universe and the presence of Dark Matter in the galaxy. As a part time 
pseudo-phenomenologist he has also worked on prospects for discovery at the 
Tevatron and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). He recently joined the Compact 
Muon Solenoid (CMS) collaboration at the LHC. <BR><BR>

Dr. Toback is the recipient of numerous awards for teaching and research. At the 
University of Chicago he we won the Nathan Sugarman award for graduate research 
and&nbsp; the Wayne Booth award and the Gregor Wenzel prize for undergraduate 
teaching. At Texas A&M he was the recipient of the Montague Scholarship Award from the Center for Teaching Excellence, 
he was cited by the Texas A&amp;M Corps of Cadets, and has won the Association of 
Former Students Distinguished Teaching Award at both the College Level and, 
separately, at the University-Wide level. <BR><BR>

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<ADDRESS>Created by David Toback (toback@tamu.edu)
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