Ayana Holloway Arce

{{Infobox scientist

| name= Ayana Holloway Arce

| image = Ayana Arce on Phil Up On Science.jpg

| caption = Arce in 2017

| workplaces = Duke University

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

| alma_mater = Harvard University

Princeton University

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Ayana Tamu Arce ({{nee}} Holloway) is an American physicist and professor of physics at Duke University. She works on particle physics, using data from the Large Hadron Collider to understand phenomena beyond the Standard Model.

Early life and education

Arce was born in Lansing, Michigan{{cite web|last1=Basgall|first1=Monte|title=Tracing Family Threads Toward Superstrings|url=https://today.duke.edu/2010/01/arce.html|website=Duke Today|language=en|date=January 6, 2010}} and studied physics at Princeton University, graduating with honors and a bachelor's degree in 1998.{{Cite web|url=https://phy.duke.edu/people/ayana-t-arce|title=Ayana T. Arce {{!}} Department of Physics|website=phy.duke.edu|language=en|access-date=2018-05-12}}

She moved on to Harvard University for her PhD, working as the Collider Detector at the Fermilab (CDF) detector at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. She completed her PhD in 2006.{{Cite web|url=http://aawip.com/ayana-holloway-arce/|title=Ayana Holloway-Arce – AAWIP|website=aawip.com|language=en-US|access-date=2018-05-12}}

Family

Her mother, Karla, is James B. Duke Professor of English and Law at Duke University, with special interest in African American culture. Her father, Russell Holloway, is a computer scientist and Pratt School of Engineering's Associate Dean for Corporate and Industrial Relations.{{Cite web |date=2010-01-06 |title=Tracing Family Threads Toward Superstrings |url=https://today.duke.edu/2010/01/arce.html |access-date=2024-01-12 |website=Duke Today |language=en}}

Research

After her Ph.D., Arce completed a Chamberlain post-doctoral fellowship at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where she worked on experimental techniques to measure the properties of heavy unstable particles.{{Cite web|url=https://phy.duke.edu/news/ayana-arce-heps-newest-faculty-member|title=Ayana Arce: HEP's Newest Faculty Member {{!}} Department of Physics|website=phy.duke.edu|language=en|access-date=2018-05-12}} Arce joined Duke University in 2010 and was made a Woodrow Wilson Foundation Fellow in 2012.{{Cite web|url=https://woodrow.org/about/fellows/arce-ayana/|title=Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation {{!}} Arce, Ayana|website=woodrow.org|language=en|access-date=2018-05-12}} Arce is working on the calorimeter detector at the ATLAS experiment.{{Cite web|url=https://www.learner.org/courses/physics/scientist/transcripts/arce.html|title=Interview - Ayana Arce|website=learner.org|access-date=2018-05-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306043759/https://www.learner.org/courses/physics/scientist/transcripts/arce.html|archive-date=2019-03-06|url-status=dead}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/july-2015/something-goes-bump-in-the-data|title=Something goes bump in the data|work=symmetry magazine|access-date=2018-05-12|language=en}} She is working on jet substructure reconstruction, and the use of jet tagging in diboson resonances.{{Cite web|url=https://physics.yale.edu/event/nuclear-particle-astrophysics-npa-seminar-ayana-arce-duke-university-hidden-structure-and-high|title=Nuclear Particle Astrophysics (NPA) Seminar: Ayana Arce, Duke University, "Hidden structure and high-mass diboson resonance searches at ATLAS" {{!}} Department of Physics|website=physics.yale.edu|language=en|access-date=2018-05-12}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.physics.umass.edu/events/2016-04-13-dirty-dibosons-and-hidden-structure-large-hadron-collider|title=Dirty dibosons and hidden structure at the Large Hadron Collider {{!}} Physics Department {{!}} UMass Amherst|website=Physics Department at UMass Amherst|language=en|access-date=2018-05-12}}{{Cite web|url=https://wlab.yale.edu/sites/default/files/npa-arce.pdf|title=Hidden structure and high-mass diboson resonance searches at ATLAS|website=Yale University|access-date=2018-05-11}}{{Cite web|url=http://theory.fnal.gov/events/event/results-from-atlas-2/|title=Diboson Resonance Searches at ATLAS {{!}} Theoretical Physics Department|website=theory.fnal.gov|language=en-US|access-date=2018-05-12}}

In 2017 Arce and her mother, Karla, were involved in Duke University's commemorations of 50 years of Black faculty scholarship.{{Citation|last=Trinity College Duke|title=Generations: A Conversation with Karla Holloway, Ph.D. & Ayana Arce, Ph.D.|date=2017-12-05|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUKiyWjLk28|accessdate=2018-05-12}} She was excited by the film Hidden Figures and has taken part in national discussions looking at how to engage more people of colour in scientific careers.{{Cite web|url=https://home.cern/cern-people/updates/2017/03/hidden-figures-light|title=Hidden Figures into the light {{!}} CERN|website=home.cern|language=en|access-date=2018-05-12}}{{Citation|last=Duke University|title=Duke Physicist Reflects on Success of "Hidden Figures"|date=2017-02-23|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0HwATRgNeI|accessdate=2018-05-12}} She is part of the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory research consortium, which supports undergraduate students to complete summer research projects in nuclear and particle physics.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1757783|title=NSF Award Search: Award#1757783 - REU Site: Undergraduate Research in Nuclear and Particle Physics at TUNL/Duke University|website=nsf.gov|access-date=2018-05-12}}