Premio Nacional de la Juventud 2008

Juan Pedro Ochoa Ricoux

Distinción I. Logro académico
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Distrito Federal

Juan Pedro Ochoa Ricoux, nació en el Distrito Federal el 27 de febrero de 1980. Ingeniero Físico Industrial por el Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Monterrey (ITESM). Master of Science (2007), y, candidato a Doctor, por el California Institute of Technology (Caltech).

Estudió la primaria en el “Colegio Francés Albert Camus” en Guadalajara, Jalisco. Cursó la secundaria y preparatoria en el “Liceo Franco Mexicano” en la Ciudad de México.

Premios y Distinciones
2009: Chamberlain Fellowship – Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, el cual está administrado por la Universidad de California en Berkeley, por su trabajo de investigación en neutrinos.

2007: Nominado y seleccionado para participar en el Curso 2007 del Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture, International School of Subnuclear Physics (Italia), recibiendo las siguientes distinciones: Best Student Award; Bruno Pontecorvo Diploma; y, New Talent Award por su trabajo Explaining the physics frontier with … MINOS, su trabajo se incluyó en las publicaciones de la conferencia. También participó en la edición 2005, en la cual no hubo concursos.

2006: “John Stager Stemple Memorial Prize” por el año académico 2005-2006, por un sobresaliente progreso en investigación, demostrado por una excelente exposición en el examen oral de candidatura al Doctorado, con su trabajo “Antineutrinos in MINOS” (Caltech Physics Department).

2004: La Asociación Nacional de Facultades y Escuelas de Ingeniería le otorgó el Reconocimiento a la Excelencia Académica por haber sido el mejor egresado de Ingeniería Física Industrial en el ITESM.

2003: el Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Campus Monterrey, le otorgó una Mención de Excelencia por haberse distinguido en su actividad académica durante sus estudios profesionales.

2002: Participó en un intercambio académico, estudiando en la University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.

2002: Seleccionado, mediante un concurso organizado por la Sociedad Mexicana de Física en el Instituto Politécnico Nacional, en el Programa de Verano para Estudiantes en el CERN-European Organization for Nuclear Research (Ginebra, Suiza).

Experiencia en Investigación
Investigación doctoral, Caltech, septiembre 2003 – presente, bajo la supervisión del Dr. Harvey Newman.

Asistente de Investigación en el Departamento de Física del ITESM, Campus Monterrey, dos estudios, uno de ellos bajo la supervisión del Dr. Julio Gutiérrez, el segundo bajo la supervisión del Dr. Oliver Probst.

Asistente de Investigación el Departamento de Ciencias Atmosféricas de la University of Illinois at Urbana Chapaign, bajo la supervisión del Dr. Walter Robinson.

Asistente de Investigación en el CERN, bajo la supervisión del Dr. Arno Straessner.

Ponencias en Congresos y Seminarios.
Del año 2005 a 2009, ha participado en Estados Unidos, Nueva Zelanda, Rusia e Italia.

Publicaciones Científicas
Contribución en Publicaciones de Conferencias (“proceedings”) y Revistas Científicas (“peer- reviewed”.

Juan Pedro, menciona en su expediente que las presentaciones y publicaciones han sido a la comunidad científica en general. A lo largo de su trabajo en MINOS ha elaborado y/o participado hasta el 12 de marzo de 2009 en 123 estudios y/o trabajos de investigación, los cuales se han presentado dentro del grupo de aproximadamente 150 personas que conforman el experimento en las juntas que hacen a través de Internet o presencialmente en los más de 21 congresos que se han llevado a cabo en diferentes universidades del mundo.

Enseñanza
2007-2009: Instructor de Física del programa “Young Engineering and Science Scholars”, enfocado a estudiantes de preparatoria y pertenecientes a alguna minoría con trayectorias académicas sobresalientes. En el año 2009 es el Coordinador del Curso de Física y de cuatro instructores.

2000-2001: Tutor en Física y Matemáticas en el Sistema de Estudiantes Asesores, en el ITESM, Campus Monterrey.

Asociaciones
American Physical Society, desde el año 2003.
Club de Oratoria “Caltech Campus Toastmasters”, donde se desempeña como Tesorero.

Idiomas
Francés e Inglés.

Juan Pedro:
“En el 2007 mi asesor de tesis me nominó para participar en la International School of Subnuclear Physics. La entrada a dicha conferencia es difícil ya que participan investigadores de la talla del Dr. Pier Oddone (director de Fermilab), Dr. Robert Aymar (director del CERN), Dr. Lisa Randall (de Harvard), Dr. Gerardus ‘t Hooft (Premio Nobel de Física 1999), entre otros” …

Cartas de Apoyo.

1. Harvey B Newman, SC. D, D.H.C, D.H.C. Professor of Physics- / California Institute of Technology. Charles C. Lauritsen Laboratory of High Energy Physics: …”Two recent major results for which Mr. Ochoa is chiefly responsible are: (1) a study of the experiments’s ability to test one of the most fundamental symmetries of nature by comparing neutrino and anti-neutrino oscillations, and (2) as above, a new method to treat the data that will maximize the ability of the experiment to find oscillations between the first and third neutrino families, whis is (as mentioned above) the next great frontier in this field. … His great sense of responsibility: to his country, to the international scientific community, to youth and to society at large, is a model for all of us, at every career stage, and an important aspect os his character that will serve him well for the rest of his career.” …
2. Stanley Wojcicki, Professor of Physics, Stanford University, MINOS Co-spokesperson: … “MINOS is a … 150 member collaboration from about 30 institutions from 6 countries. …Besides the nue analysis Pedro has also worked originally on several other physics topics. I will mention the two that are most noteworthy. One was the analysis of the numubar component in our beam with a goal of obtaining an independent, data driven, estimate of our beam nue background. The other one was analysis of MINOS capabilities to do oscillation analysis for antineutrinos, initially based on numubar component in our beam and eventually on an exposure to a numubar optimized beam. The first work is being written up for publication; the second one forms the basis of our potential future proposal. Pedro was quite instrumental in both of these efforts and already at that early stage of his career showed capability for independent and original thinking” …
3. Luz M. Rivas. Assistant Director, Minority Student Education. Program Director, Young Engineering and Science Scholars. California Institute of Technology: … “Pedro’s ablity to make difficult concepts easy to understand along with his teaching style and easy-going manner made students feel comfortable asking him questions during the program. For many of the 30 students, this course is their first introduction to physics and can be a very challenging experience. Pedro went out of his way to make sure that students understood the material and seemed to genuinely care about the students. He spent a lot of time of class getting to know the students and talking to them about his own career path as a scientist. This type of interaction is invaluable to the program and I’m glad he was willing to serve as a role model. … Thanks to the relentless work of Pedro and his co-instructors, the YESS physics course was very successful and is now a model for future YESS courses and for other universities. A paper written by Pedro and his colleagues describing the structure fo the YESS physics course was accepted and presented at the 2008 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference. This was the first time that the YESS program’s work was shared with other educators. Recently, a second paper for was again accepted by ASEE.” …
4. Dr. Ted Trisler. Pastor / Puente Hills Baptist Church. . “About two and a half years ago Pedro got concerned that, due to economical, cultural and linguistic barriers, the latino people in the Los Angeles metropolitan area was being left out of many of the good things that our community and our church had to offer. Because of this and with my support Pedro decided to start a group within the church targeted specifically to the latino community. The group started from scratch but thanks to Pedro’s dedication has grown to abourt 25 members, and has had a very significant impact in the community. … In addition, Pedro and his wife even taught free English classes for some time to a group of about five people, in an effort to help them get better work and education opportunities” …