Harvey B. Newman

Harvey Newman (Sc. D, MIT 1974) has been a Caltech faculty member in physics since 1982. He was one of the founders of the US LHC Users Organization in 2007. He currently chairs the Executive Committee of the US LHC Users Association that he founded in 2013, which is hosted by the Universities Research Association based in Washington DC. In 1973-74, he co-led the team at the Cambridge Electron Accelerator that discovered the large hadron cross section in electron-positron collisions due to color and the fourth quark flavor charm. He co-led the MARK J Collaboration at the DESY laboratory in Hamburg that discovered the gluon, the carrier of the strong force, in 1979. Since 1994 he has been a member of the CMS Collaboration that discovered the Higgs boson in 2012, while co-leading the Caltech CMS high energy physics group. He led the MINOS and NOvA teams at Caltech studying neutrino oscillations in 2004-11.

Newman, a Fellow of the American Physical Society, received the Order of Merit "Jose Bonifacio" Medal from the State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2009, and Doctor Honoris Causa degrees from the Politechnica University in Bucharest Romania and from the Pavel Josef Safarik University in Kosice, Slovakia in 2007. Newman has had a leading role in originating, developing and operating state of the art international networks and collaborative systems serving the high energy physics community since 1982. He served on the IETF and the Technical Advisory Group that led to the NSFNet in 1985-6. He was an originator of the worldwide LHC Computing Model in 1996. Between 1985 and 2015 he and his team developed and operated the US LHCNet transatlantic network serving the high energy physics community. He and his network science and engineering team designed the first concepts of the LHCONE open network environment in 2010-12. He has led science and network engineering teams that have developed state of the art long distance data transfer applications, and as chair of the ICFA Standing Committee on Regional Connectivity, he has worked on digital divide issues in many countries since 2002.

He is currently a member in charge of networking on the ICFA Data Lifecycle panel. In 2019-25, Newman served on the Global Network Advancement Group Leadership Team, and since 2020, he has chaired the GNA-G Data Intensive Sciences Working Group. He and the Caltech HEP and campus network teams are currently developing next generation Internet architectures and global software-defined networked systems, together with many university, laboratory, research and education network and corporate partners.

In 2016, Newman received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the DOE Office of Science, with the citation: "In recognition of your leadership role in architecting, developing and operating state-of-the-art international networks and collaborative systems serving the high energy and nuclear physics communities in the past 3 decades, and in particular your leadership in developing and promoting the worldwide computing model for the Large Hadron Collider at CERN that was crucial for the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012."