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Dr. Tony A. Forest Associate Professor of Physics

Department of Physics Idaho State University e-mail: tforest@physics.isu.edu Pocatello, ID, 83209-8106 Phone: (208) 282-4426 FAX: (208) 282-4649

(a) Professional Preparation: Univ. of Il. at Champaign-Urbana , Urbana, IL Experimental Nuclear Physics , Ph.D. May 1998 Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI Theoretical Nuclear Physics , M.A. June 1991 Colorado State University, Pueblo, CO Mathematics and Physics. B.S. May 1987

(b) Appointments Experience: Idaho State University Pocatello,ID Associate Professor 9/06 – present

Louisiana Tech University Ruston, LA Assistant Professor 9/00 – 8/06

Old Dominion University Norfolk, VA Postdoctoral Associate 6/98 - 8/00

Univ. of Ill. at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL Research Assistant 8/91- 5/98

(c) Selected Publications:

• First measurement of target and double spin asymmetries for polarized e- polarized p à e p pi0 in the nucleon resonance region above the Delta(1232)”, A. Biselli et al. (The CLAS Collaboration), Submitted to Phys. Rev. C, April 2008. arXiv:0804.3079 [nucl-ex]

• Quark-Hadron Duality in Spin Structure Functions g1p and g1d”, P.E. Bosted, K.V. Dharmawardane, G.E. Dodge, T.A. Forest, S.E. Kuhn, Y.Prok, for the CLAS Collaboration, Phys Rev. C 75, 035203 (2007). http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRC/v75/e035203 (arXiv:hep-ph/0607283v1). .

• Measurement of the x- and Q2- dependence of the spin asymmetry A1 of the Nucleon, To be published in Phys. Lett. B, 2006, K.V. Dharmawardane, P.E. Bosted, G.E. Dodge, T.A. Forest, S.E. Kuhn, Y.Prok, for the CLAS Collaboration.

• Measurement of the Spin Structure Function g1(x,Q2) from 0.15 to 1.6 GeV2 with CLAS, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 222002, 2003, Fatemi for the CLAS Collaboration.

• Measurement of Inclusive Spin Structure Fuctions of the Deuteron with CLAS, Phys. Rev. C67, 055204 (2003) , J. Yun, S. Kuhn, G. Dodge, T.A. Forest for the CLAS Collaboration.

• First Measurement of the Double Spin Asymmetry in e(pol)p(pol)->e'pi+n in the Resonance Region, Phys.Rev.Lett. 88, 082001 (2002) , R. DeVita for the CLAS Collaboration.

• First observation of exclusive DVCS in polarized electron beam asymmetry measurements, Phys.Rev.Lett. 87, 182002 (2001) , S. Stepanyan for the CLAS Collaboration.

Instrumentation Papers

A high power liquid hydrogen target for parity violation experiments, E. J. Beise, D. H. Beck,E. Candell, R. Carr, F. Duncan, T. Forest, W. Korsch, J. W. Mark, R. D. McKeown, B. A. Mueller, M. Pitt, and S. Wells, Nucl. Instrum. Methods A378, 383 (1996).

(d) Synergistic Activities:

Technology Transfer: Collaborating with the Idaho Acelerator Center (IAC) Homeland Security efforts. The IAC has a full scale cargo container scanner which they use to test the effectiveness of their active interrogation program. My role has been to investigate the use of a GEM based neutron detector for their system.

Outreach:

2001: First year of REST program 2007: Intern program for Highschool students and teachers. 2008 Physics Demos at Syringa Elementary

(e) Collaborators & Other Affiliations:

• Collaborators during the past 48 months:

A list of collaborators in the CLAS and Qweak is provided as a supplemental document due to its length.

• Graduate and Postdoctoral Advisors

Tamar Didbaridze, Physics Ph.D. , In Progress

Masters: Jena Kraft, " A Study of the Pressure Effects on the Gain and Quantum Efficiency of a Triple GEM Detector", M.S. Physics, 2004; Marija Novovic, "The Position Dependence of Cerenkov Light Production within Lucite", M.S. Physics 2003

• Thesis Advisor and Postgraduate Scholar Sponsor

Doctoral: Prof. Douglas H. Beck, Univ. Ill, Urbana-Champaign Thesis: "A Measurement of the Proton Weak Magnetic Form Factor GZM at Q2 = 0.1 GeV2/c2"

Postdoctoral: Prof. Sebastian Kuhn, Old Dominion University

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