Contact Information Email: ignacio.taboada [at] physics.gatech.edu Phone: (404) 385-7679 Fax: (404) 894-9958 Skype: ignaciojosetaboada Office: 1-62 Boggs Bldg Lab: B-70 Boggs Bldg Lab phone: (404) xxx-xxxx

Ignacio Taboada, Assistant Professor

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Astrophysical sources can accelerate particles up to ten million times more than human-made accelerators. These subatomic particles, typically electrons, protons and nuclei, are called high energy cosmic rays and have energies as high as that of a tennis ball served by a professional player! Because cosmic rays, being charged particles, are deflected in galactic and extra-galactic magnetic fields, we still do not know where they come from. Using secondary radiation produced by the cosmic accelerators, such as neutrinos or gamma-ray rays we will discover the sources of high energy cosmic rays. I am a member of two large international collaborations that use neutrinos and gamma-rays as an astrophysical messengers. IceCube is a cubic kilometer neutrino all-sky telescope being built at the south pole. HAWC is a panoptic gamma-ray telescope proposed for construction in Mexico. Both IceCube and HAWC will study the northern hemisphere for TeV (10¹² eV) or higher sources of neutrinos and gamma-rays. Objects of interest include supernova remnants, gamma-ray bursts, active galactive nuclei, micro-quasars and more.

Professional Experience

• 2008 - Assistant Professor of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology
• 2005 - 2008 Research Scientist, University of California at Berkeley
• 2002 - 2005 Assistant Professor of Physics, Universidad Simón Bolívar
• 1996 - 2002 PhD, Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania
• 1989 - 1994 BSc Cum Laude, Physics, Universidad Simón Bolívar