Rakitha started following the work of Karina Avila, Ohio University of Zanesville, Physics and Astronomy.
Rakitha started following the work of Buddhi Tilakaratne, University of Houston, Department of Physics and Texas center for Superconductivity.
Rakitha started following the work of Nivanthi Mihindukulasooriya, Kent State University, Geology.
Graduate Student, Physics and Astronomy
Research Assistant
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Julie Roche
Paul King |
About
Rakitha Beminiwattha is currently working with the Qweak collaboration (http://www.jlab.org/qweak/) at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF) (Newport News, Virginia) as a research assistant mentored by Julie Roche and Paul King. He is a second year graduate student studying for his PhD in particle physics wanting to be an experimental physicist one day. His research interest includes Precision tests of the Standard Model (SM), search for new physics beyond the SM and developing Data Acquisition (DAQ) and data analysis software for the Qweak experiment, a precision particle physics experiment at TJNAF.
Rakitha enrolled in the Ohio University in 2007 fall as graduate student after completing the bachelor degree in science with physics major and chemistry and mathematics as minor subjects from University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka where he is native. His experimental background as a undergraduate science major includes developing and programming electronic modules, experience with programming languages, for his undergraduate project that involved developing a active noise control system. This background has been helping him in his thesis research work.
Apart from being a hard working physics graduate student, Rakitha like to do hiking, bicycling and camping. He also likes to travel and visit national parks. So in that sense most beautiful place in the Athens for Rakitha is the Dow Lake at the Strouds Run State Park. One of the best things to do in the lake is to kayaking during the fall. It is so beautiful and peaceful. Now that he has moved out from the Athens, Rakitha misses People at Ohio University, Ohio University itself and the Athens city a lot.
