Harkay, Katherine C.
Oral history interview with Katherine Harkay, 2021 May 17.
Interview with Katherine Harkay, Senior Scientist at the Advanced Proton Source (APS) at Argonne National Laboratory. Harkay describes the APS upgrade and how the APS informs her broader views about the interplay of theory and experiment in accelerator physics. She recounts her childhood in New York City, the importance of her Hungarian heritage, and her early interests in science. Harkay describes her undergraduate work at St. Johns and her attractions to experimental physics before entering the PhD program at Purdue. She describes her work at Fermilab and the opportunities that led to her work with Yanglai Cho at Argonne and the origins of the APS. Harkay explains the broad range of experiments done at the APS and she describes the investigation of high-intensity limits and the safety considerations that ensure its proper operation. She discusses her work on cathode research and development and she explains the administrative responsibilities she took on after being named accelerator physics group leader. Harkay surveys Argonnes efforts to bring more women into leadership positions and the broader value of a diversity of perspectives in science. At the end of the interview, Harkay emphasizes the importance of public outreach, and she cites the value of the APSs value in X-ray imaging of the SARS-CoV-2 protein to exemplify the point.
Katherine C. Harkay, American physicist. Concentration has been in the areas of high-intensity collective effects and machine coupling impedance, with the goal of improving the performance of particle accelerators. Another major research thrust has been the electron cloud effect, a growing concern in high-intensity, high-energy rings. Long-term research interests include: storage-ring FELs, coherent synchrotron radiation and nonlinear effects in beams, and plasma-based light sources. Electron cloud studies have lead to collaborations at LANL, LBNL, SLAC, SNS, IHEP (China), and Cornell (biography from the Advanced Proton Source at Argonne National Laboratory: https://ops.aps.anl.gov/staffPages/harkay/).
Colestock, P. L. (Patrick L.), 1948-
Galayda, John N. (John Nicolas), 1948-
Rosenberg, Richard Allen
Advanced Photon Source (Research facility)
Argonne National Laboratory
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Purdue University. Department of Physics
St. John's University (New York, N.Y.)
Accelerators.
Cathodes.
Diversity in the workplace
Radiation -- Safety measures -- Research.
Spallation (Nuclear physics) -- Research.
Women physicists -- United States.
X-rays -- Research.
Interviews. aat
Oral histories. aat
Transcripts. aat
Cho, Yanglai
Gutay, Laszlo
Nm̌eth, Karoly
Zierler, David, 1979-, interviewer.
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA