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Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 Eighth Street, Troy, New York 12180-3590 USA

Telephone:
(518) 276-6310
Fax: (518) 276-6680
E-mail: physics@rpi.edu

Research Assistant Professor

Education:
Ph.D. in Physics, Rice University (1995)
M.A. in Physics, University of Massachusetts (1989)
B.A. in Physics, Johns Hopkins University (1986)

Career Highlights:
Post-Doctoral Research Associate: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1997-2001)
Post-Doctoral Research Associate: University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth (1995-1997)

Research Interests:
Cummings is a member of the CLEO collaboration, a group of high-energy physicists studying fundamental interactions using a electron-positron collider. He is developing a new detector simulation tool for this experiment that will allow study of the detectors response at the new energies at which the accelerator runs.

Selected Publications:
CLEO Collaboration, The Search for in Two-Photon Fusion at CLEO. Phys Rev. D71 (2005) 072001

CLEO Collaboration, Limits on Neutral D Mixing in Semileptonic Decays. Phys Rev. D71 (2005) 012004

CLEO Collaboration, Search for near threshold. Phys Rev. D71 (2005) 012004

CLEO Collaboration, Photon Transitions inand Decays. Phys Rev. Lett. 94 (2005) 032001

CLEO Collaboration, Measuring and the Pseudoscalar Decay Constant . Phys Rev. D70 (2004) 112004

Contact:
(518) 276-2542
cummij@rpi.edu