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Mark Lang

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 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4641-4201

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Biography

Associate Professor in Physics at the University of Galway.

BSc in Experimental Physics in University College Dublin in 1987. Harvard-Smithsonian pre-doctoral fellow 1988-90. Awarded PhD from UCD in 1991. In 1992 joined the Physics staff at University of Galway, appointed College Lecturer in 1996 and Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in 2009. Elected as a Fellow Institute of Physics in 2010. Head of the School of Physics from 2009-13. President's Teaching Award 2013-14. Union of Students in Ireland/National Forum for Teaching & Learning Teaching Hero 2014 and 2020. Chair of the Institute of Physics in Ireland 2015-17. Visiting Scientist at the Whipple Observatory in Arizona on regular occasions over the last three decades. Member of the VERITAS gamma-ray astronomy collaboration.

Research Interests

Main research interest is in gamma-ray astronomy. Member of the VERITAS Collaboration which operates an array of four atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes at the Whipple Observatory in Arizona. Member of the UG Centre for Astronomy , the Astronomical Society of Ireland and International Astronomical Union.

For a list of publications on NASA/SAO ADS see PUBLICATIONS.

Was also also interested in industrial applications of computational physics, including radiation processing.

Teaching Interests

Have taught a wide range of physics courses over three decades. Old fashioned, love overhead projectors and at least some rote learning. Also like Jupyter notebooks, Webwork and vevox.

Education/Academic qualification

B.Sc.,Ph.D,C.Phys.,F.Inst.P

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  • The spectrum of tev gamma rays from the crab nebula

    Hillas, A. M., Akerlof, C. W., Biller, S. D., Buckley, J. H., Carter-Lewis, D. A., Catanese, M., Cawley, M. F., Fegan, D. J., Finley, J. P., Gaidos, J. A., Krennrich, F., Lamb, R. C., Lang, M. J., Mohanty, G., Punch, M., Reynolds, P. T., Rodgers, A. J., Rose, H. J., Rovero, A. C. & Schubnell, M. S. & 5 others, Sembroski, G. H., Vacanti, G., Weekes, T. C., West, M. & Zweerink, J., 1998, In: Astrophysical Journal. 503, 2 PART I, p. 744-759 16 p.

    Research output: Contribution to a Journal (Peer & Non Peer) › Article › peer-review

    Open Access
    229 Citations (Scopus)

  • Multimessenger observations of a flaring blazar coincident with high-energy neutrino IceCube-170922A

    Icecube Collaboration, Fermi-LAT collaboration, MAGIC Collaboration, AGILE, ASAS-SN, HAWC, H.E.S.S., INTEGRAL, Kanata, Kiso, and Subaru observing teams, Kapteyn, Liverpool telescope, Swift/NuSTAR, VERITAS & VLA/17B-403 team, 13 Jul 2018, In: Science. 361, 6398, eaat1378.

    Research output: Contribution to a Journal (Peer & Non Peer) › Article › peer-review

    Open Access
    1189 Citations (Scopus)

  • A connection between star formation activity and cosmic rays in the starburst galaxy M82

    Acciari, V. A., Aliu, E., Arlen, T., Aune, T., Bautista, M., Beilicke, M., Benbow, W., Boltuch, D., Bradbury, S. M., Buckley, J. H., Bugaev, V., Byrum, K., Cannon, A., Celik, O., Cesarini, A., Chow, Y. C., Ciupik, L., Cogan, P., Colin, P. & Cui, W. & 72 others, Dickherber, R., Duke, C., Fegan, S. J., Finley, J. P., Finnegan, G., Fortin, P., Fortson, L., Furniss, A., Galante, N., Gall, D., Gibbs, K., Gillanders, G. H., Godambe, S., Grube, J., Guenette, R., Gyuk, G., Hanna, D., Holder, J., Horan, D., Hui, C. M., Humensky, T. B., Imran, A., Kaaret, P., Karlsson, N., Kertzman, M., Kieda, D., Kildea, J., Konopelko, A., Krawczynski, H., Krennrich, F., Lang, M. J., Lebohec, S., Maier, G., McArthur, S., McCann, A., McCutcheon, M., Millis, J., Moriarty, P., Mukherjee, R., Nagai, T., Ong, R. A., Otte, A. N., Pandel, D., Perkins, J. S., Pizlo, F., Pohl, M., Quinn, J., Ragan, K., Reyes, L. C., Reynolds, P. T., Roache, E., Rose, H. J., Schroedter, M., Sembroski, G. H., Smith, A. W., Steele, D., Swordy, S. P., Theiling, M., Thibadeau, S., Varlotta, A., Vassiliev, V. V., Vincent, S., Wagner, R. G., Wakely, S. P., Ward, J. E., Weekes, T. C., Weinstein, A., Weisgarber, T., Williams, D. A., Wissel, S., Wood, M. & Zitzer, B., 10 Dec 2009, In: Nature. 462, 7274, p. 770-772 3 p.

    Research output: Contribution to a Journal (Peer & Non Peer) › Article › peer-review

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    256 Citations (Scopus)

  • GAMMA-RAYS from the QUASAR PKS 1441+25: STORY of AN ESCAPE

    Abeysekara, A. U., Archambault, S., Archer, A., Aune, T., Barnacka, A., Benbow, W., Bird, R., Biteau, J., Buckley, J. H., Bugaev, V., Cardenzana, J. V., Cerruti, M., Chen, X., Christiansen, J. L., Ciupik, L., Connolly, M. P., Coppi, P., Cui, W., Dickinson, H. J. & Dumm, J. & 86 others, Eisch, J. D., Errando, M., Falcone, A., Feng, Q., Finley, J. P., Fleischhack, H., Flinders, A., Fortin, P., Fortson, L., Furniss, A., Gillanders, G. H., Griffin, S., Grube, J., Gyuk, G., Hütten, M., Håkansson, N., Hanna, D., Holder, J., Humensky, T. B., Johnson, C. A., Kaaret, P., Kar, P., Kelley-Hoskins, N., Khassen, Y., Kieda, D., Krause, M., Krennrich, F., Kumar, S., Lang, M. J., Maier, G., McArthur, S., McCann, A., Meagher, K., Moriarty, P., Mukherjee, R., Nieto, D., De Bhróithe, A. O. F., Ong, R. A., Otte, A. N., Park, N., Perkins, J. S., Petrashyk, A., Pohl, M., Popkow, A., Pueschel, E., Quinn, J., Ragan, K., Ratliff, G., Reynolds, P. T., Richards, G. T., Roache, E., Rousselle, J., Santander, M., Sembroski, G. H., Shahinyan, K., Smith, A. W., Staszak, D., Telezhinsky, I., Todd, N. W., Tucci, J. V., Tyler, J., Vassiliev, V. V., Vincent, S., Wakely, S. P., Weiner, O. M., Weinstein, A., Wilhelm, A., Williams, D. A., Zitzer, B., Smith, P. S., Holoien, T. W. S., Prieto, J. L., Kochanek, C. S., Stanek, K. Z., Shappee, B., Hovatta, T., Max-Moerbeck, W., Pearson, T. J., Reeves, R. A., Richards, J. L., Readhead, A. C. S., Madejski, G. M., Djorgovski, S. G., Drake, A. J., Graham, M. J. & Mahabal, A., 20 Dec 2015, In: Astrophysical Journal Letters. 815, 2, L22.

    Research output: Contribution to a Journal (Peer & Non Peer) › Article › peer-review

    Open Access
    87 Citations (Scopus)

  • Radio Imaging of the Very-High-Energy gamma-Ray Emission Region in the Central Engine of a Radio Galaxy

    Lang, M. & Moriarty, P., 1 Jul 2009, In: Science. 325, 5939, p. 444-468 5 p.

    Research output: Contribution to a Journal (Peer & Non Peer) › Article › peer-review

    Open Access
    240 Citations (Scopus)
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