Inga Karliner

Inga Karliner, a high energy physicist, has done physics research in theoretical and experimental physics. She received her PhD in 1974 at Stanford, working on the relation between constituent quarks and current algebra. She was a member of the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton before coming to the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana in 1976. With John Ellis, she developed a test for the vector character of the gluon in e+e- collisions, later confirmed by the experiment. Following this, she worked on the Free Quark Search experiment at SLAC, the CDF experiment at Fermilab, the SLD experiment again at SLAC. At present, she is a member of the CLEO collaboration which has been studying b and c quarks produced at the CESR colliding ring facility at Cornell.

Although most of her work has been in high energy physics, since 1993 she has also led the faculty of the UIUC Physics Department in an effort to build an outstanding outreach program.

In 2002, she joined the Physics Education Research group where she has concentrated on the development of Interactive Examples for the Physics 100, a transition course created to improve the success rate of engineering student who lack experience in problem solving.