Ph.D. Physics
State University of New York - Stony Brook
Stony Brook, NY (1992)

M.A. Physics
State University of New York - Stony Brook
Stony Brook, NY (1989)

B.A. Physics
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI (1986)

B.A. Mathematics
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI (1986)

Senior Faculty Fellow (Res. Assoc. Professor)
T.W. Bonner Nuclear Laboratory
Rice University
July, 2000 - present

Faculty Fellow (Res. Asst. Professor)
T.W. Bonner Nuclear Laboratory
Rice University
November, 1994 - July, 2000

Postdoctoral Research Associate
National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory
Michigan State University
April, 1992 - October, 1994

Research Assistant
Relativistic Heavy-Ion Group
State University of New York - Stony Brook
September, 1987 - March, 1992

Staff
Physics Department
Brookhaven National Laboratory
March, 1987 - September, 1987

HP-RWT-150C - Radiological Worker I
HP-RWT-400 - High/Very High Radiation Area

Publications: 96
Refereed Publications: 75
As first author: 18

Talks: 87
Invited Talks: 27
Other Talks: 60

Papers and Proposals Refereed: 19

"Proposal for the addition of forward TOF rings to the STAR detector," Hongfang Chen, Xin Dong, Geary Eppley, Aoqi Feng, Declan Keane, W.J. Llope, Shao Ming, Grazyna Odyniec, Navneet Kumar Pruthi, Lijuan Ruan, Paul Sorensen, Aihong Tang, Kejun Wu, Nu Xu, Wang Yi, Wei-ming Zhang, December 5, 2007.

DOE Solicitation No. (pending) (SBIR Phase-I) - "Electronics for Fast Vertex Position Measurements and Medical Imaging", Lloyd Bridges (PI), W.J. Llope, B. Burton, J. Schambach (submitted, November 27, 2007).

Rice 07102701 - "Mechanical Structure & Front-End Electronics for the STAR Muon Telescope Prototype," W.J. Llope (PI), T. Nussbaum, G.E. Eppley, and B. Bonner (2006).

Rice 06081703 - "Front-End Electronics for the Large-Area PHENIX TOF Upgrade (Run-6 Full System)," W.J. Llope (PI), G.E. Eppley, T. Nussbaum, and B. Bonner (2005).

Rice 05022031 - "Front-End Electronics for the Large-Area PHENIX TOF Upgrade (Run-5 prototype)," W.J. Llope (PI), G.E. Eppley, T. Nussbaum, B. Bonner, and J. Roberts (2004).

DOE Solicitation No. DOE/SC-0075 (SBIR Phase-I) - "A High-Bandwidth Data Acquisition System for Next Generation Detectors," B.E. Bonner, L. Bridges (PI), G. Eppley, J. Kennington, W.J. Llope, T. Nussbaum, J Roberts, and J. Schambach.

Proposal for a Large Area Time Of Flight System for STAR, The STAR Collaboration (Submitted October 2003; Approved by BNL management February 2004; DOE Review in progress). http://wjllope.rice.edu/~TOF/TOF/Documents/TOF_20031027.pdf.
Technical Design Update:
http://wjllope.rice.edu/~TOF/TOF/Documents/TDRu_20050816.pdf.

DOE DE-FG02-03ER83832 (SBIR Phase-II) - "PicoTOF: A Time-of-Flight Data Acquisition System for Ultra-fast Particle Detectors," B.E. Bonner, L. Bridges (PI), G. Eppley, W.J. Llope, T. Nussbaum, J Roberts, and J. Schambach (2003-2005).

DOE DE-FG03-02ER83373 (SBIR Phase-I) - "PicoTOF: A Time-of-Flight Data Acquisition System for Ultra-fast Particle Detectors," B.E. Bonner, L. Bridges (PI), W.J. Llope, and T. Nussbaum (2002-2003).

BNL 12132 - "STAR Time-Of-Flight Patch (TOFp) Construction," W.J. Llope (PI), (2000-2002).

DOE DE-FG03-96ER40772 - Participant, T.W. Bonner Nuclear Laboratory Medium Energy Grant (1994-present).

		"Walking Tall", Johanna Neumann (contribution from W.J. Llope), Bethesda Magazine, March/April, 2008. http://www.bethesdamagazine.com/
		Rail Strength Tests for Time of Flight (TOF); Donald A. Belknap and W.J. Llope, June, 2007.
		STAR Time of Flight Readout Electronics, DAQ, and Cosmic Ray Test Stand; J. Schambach, L. Bridges, G. Eppley, J. Hoffmann, K. Kajimoto, J. Liu, W.J. Llope, C. Mesa, and T. Nussbaum, Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2006. IEEE Volume 1,Ê 485 (2006).
		TOF Tray Mechanical Design Dimensions & Tolerances; W.J. Llope and Ralph Brown, March 22, 2006.
		MRPC Dimension Analysis; Adam Meier and W.J. Llope, Aug. 10, 2005.
		First analysis of TOF Run-V data taken with the new HPTDC-based electronics; W.J. Llope, Feb. 5, 2005 (additional sections added up to June 14, 2005).
		The large-area time-of-flight upgrade for STAR; W.J. Llope for the STAR TOF Group, Nucl. Inst. and Methods, Section B, 241, 306 (2005).
		Forward Simulations; W.J. Llope, Jan 24, 2005.
		TOFr5 Temperature Test; W.J. Llope, J. Zhou, J. Liu, et al., Sept. 28, 2004.
		PID with respect to High-Pt; W.J. Llope, July 8, 2004.
		The TOFp/pVPD Time Of Flight System for STAR; W.J. Llope et al., Nucl. Inst. and Methods, Section A, 522, 252 (2004).
		Particle-type dependence of azimuthal anisotropy and nuclear modification of particle production in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(snn) = 200 GeV, The STAR Collaboration, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92 (2004) 052302, nucl-ex/0306007.
		A single Time-of-Flight tray based on multigap resistive plate chambers for the STAR experiment at RHIC; B. Bonner et al., Nucl. Inst. and Methods, Section A, 508, 181 (2003).
		Azimuthally sensitive HBT in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 200 GeV, The STAR Collaboration, nucl-ex/0312009.
		Production of Charged Pions and Hadrons in Au+Au Collisions at sqrt(s_NN)=130GeV, The STAR Collaboration, nucl-ex/0311017.
		Azimuthal anisotropy at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider: the first and fourth harmonics, The STAR Collaboration, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92 (2004) 062301.
		Cross Sections and Transverse Single-Spin Asymmetries in Forward Neutral Pion Production from Proton Collisions at sqrt(s) = 200 GeV, The STAR Collaboration, hep-ex/0310058.
		Identified particle distributions in pp and Au+Au collisions at sqrt{snn}=200 GeV, The STAR Collaboration, nucl-ex/0310004.
		Pion, kaon, proton and anti-proton transverse momentum distributions from p+p and d+Au collisions at sqrt(snn) = 200 GeV, The STAR Collaboration, nucl-ex/0309012.
		Event-by-Event (pt) fluctuations in Au-Au collisions at sqrt(snn) = 130 GeV, The STAR Collaboration, nucl-ex/0308033.
		Multi-strange baryon production in Au-Au collisions at sqrt(snn) = 130 GeV, The STAR Collaboration, nucl-ex/0307024.
		Pion-Kaon Correlations in Central Au+Au Collisions at sqrt(snn) = 130 GeV, The STAR Collaboration, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91 (2003) 262302, nucl-ex/0307025.
		rho-0 Production and Possible Modification in Au+Au and p+p Collisions at sqrt(snn) = 200 GeV, The STAR Collaboration, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92 (2004) 092301, nucl-ex/0307023.
		Net charge fluctuations in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(snn) = 130 GeV, The STAR Collaboration, Phys. Rev. C 68 (2003) 044905, nucl-ex/0307007.
		Rapidity and Centrality Dependence of Proton and Anti-proton Production from Au+Au Collisions at sqrt(snn) = 130 GeV, The STAR Collaboration, nucl-ex/0306029.
		Three-Pion Hanbury BrownÐTwiss Correlations in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions from the STAR Experiment, The STAR Collaboration, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91 (2003) 262301, nucl-ex/0306028.
		Evidence from d+Au measurements for final-state suppression of high pT hadrons in Au+Au collisions at RHIC, The STAR Collaboration, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91 (2003) 072304, nucl-ex/0306024.
		Transverse momentum and collision energy dependence of high pT hadron suppression in Au+Au collisions at ultrarelativistic energies, The STAR Collaboration, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91 (2003) 172302, nucl-ex/0305015.
		Erratum: Midrapidity Antiproton-to-Proton Ratio from Au+Au sqrt(snn) = 130 GeV [Phys. Rev. Lett. 86 (2001) 4778], The STAR Collaboration, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90 (2003) 119903(E).
		Narrowing of the Balance Function with Centrality in Au+Au Collisions at sqrt(snn) = 130 GeV, The STAR Collaboration, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90 (2003) 172301, nucl-ex/0301014.
		Strange anti-particle to particle ratios at mid-rapidity in sqrt(snn) = 130 GeV Au + Au collisions, The STAR Collaboration, Phys. Lett. B 567 (2003) 167, nucl-ex/0211024.
		Disappearance of back-to-back high pT hadron correlations in central Au + Au collisions at sqrt(snn) = 200 GeV, The STAR Collaboration, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90 (2003) 082302, nucl-ex/0210033.
		Centrality Dependence of High pT Hadron Suppression in Au + Au Collisions at sqrt(snn) = 130 GeV, The STAR Collaboration, Phys. Rev. Lett. 89 (2002) 202301, nucl-ex/0206011.
		Kaon Production and Kaon to Pion Ratio in Au + Au Collisions at sqrt(snn) = 130 GeV, The STAR Collaboration, nucl-ex/0206008.
		Azimuthal Anisotropy and Correlations in the Hard Scattering Regime at RHIC, The STAR Collaboration, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90 (2003) 032301, nucl-ex/0206006.
		Coherent Rho-zero Production in Ultra-Peripheral Heavy Ion Collisions, The STAR Collaboration, Phys. Rev. Lett. 89 (2002) 272302, nucl-ex/0206004.
		Elliptic flow from two- and four-particle correlations in Au + Au collisions at sqrt(snn) = 130 GeV, The STAR Collaboration, Phys. Rev. C 66 (2002) 034904, nucl-ex/0206001.
		Azimuthal anisotropy of K0s and Lambda + Lambdabar production at mid-rapidity from Au+Au collisions at sqrt(snn) = 130 GeV, The STAR Collaboration, Phys. Rev. Lett. 89 (2002) 132301, hep-ex/0205072.
		K*(892)0 Production in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions at sqrt(snn) = 130 GeV, The STAR Collaboration, Phys. Rev. C 66 (2002) 061901(R), nucl-ex/0205015.
		Mid-rapidity Lambda and Lambda bar Production in Au + Au Collisions at sqrt(snn) = 130 GeV, The STAR Collaboration, Phys. Rev. Lett. 89 (2002) 092301, nucl-ex/0203016.
		Measurement of inclusive antiprotons from Au+Au collisions at sqrt(snn) = 130 GeV, The STAR Collaboration, Phys. Rev. Lett. 87 (2001) 262302, nucl-ex/0110009.
		Antideuteron and Antihelium production in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(snn) = 130 GeV, The STAR Collaboration, Phys. Rev. Lett. 87 (2001) 262301, nucl-ex/0108022.
		Mid-rapidity phi production in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(snn) = 130 GeV, The STAR Collaboration, Phys. Rev. C 65 (2002) 041901(R).
		Multiplicity distribution and spectra of negatively charged hadrons in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(snn) = 130 GeV, The STAR Collaboration, Phys. Rev. Lett. 87 (2001) 112303, nucl-ex/0106004.
		Pion Interferometry of sqrt(snn) = 130 GeV Au+Au collisions at RHIC, The STAR Collaboration, Phys. Rev. Lett. 87 (2001) 082301, nucl-ex/0107008.
		Identified Particle Elliptic Flow in Au+Au Collisions at sqrt(snn) = 130 GeV, The STAR Collaboration, Phys. Rev. Lett. 87 (2001) 182301, nucl-ex/0107003.
		Midrapidity Antiproton-to-Proton Ratio from Au+Au sqrt(snn) = 130 GeV, The STAR Collaboration, Phys. Rev. Lett. 86 (2001) 4778.
		Elliptic Flow in Au+Au Collisions at sqrt(snn) = 130 GeV, The STAR Collaboration, Phys. Rev. Lett. 86 (2001) 402.
		pVPD Simulations; W.J. Llope et al., Star Note 416, March 6, 2000.
		Strange and Multistrange baryon measurement in Au+Au collisions at 11.6A(GeV/c) with the silicon drift detector array from the AGS experiment E896; G. Lo Curto et al., Nucl. Phys. A661, 489 (1999).
		First results from the H0 di-baryon search and hyperon production measurements by the AGS Experiment 896; H. Caines et al., Nucl. Phys. A661, 170 (1999).
		Recent Developments on the STAR Detector System at RHIC; STAR Collaboration, H. Wieman et al., Nucl. Phys. A, 638, 559 (1998).
		Proton and deuteron distributions as signatures for collective particle dynamics and event shape geometries at the RHIC; B Monreal, et al., Phys. Rev. C (accepted).
		An electronic clock for correlated noise corrections; W.J. Llope, et al., nucl-ex/9908016, Nucl. Inst. and Methods, Section A, 443, 451 (2000).
		Deuterons and space-momentum correlations in high energy nuclear collisions; B Monreal, et al., Phys. Rev. C 60, 31901 (1999).
		The Electromagnetic Calorimeter and Shower Maximum Detector Performance In 1997 Testbeam Run at BNL, S. Bennett et al., STAR Note SN0351 (1998).
		Deuteron production and space-momentum correlations in high energy nuclear collisions, S.Y. Panitkin et al., nucl/th-9905051.
		STAR Offline Computing Requirements Task Force Report, G. Eppley et al., STAR Note SN0327 (1998).
		Performance Tests of Russian Mesh Dynode Photomultiplier Tubes; S. Ahmad et al., Nucl. Inst. and Methods, Section A, 400, 149 (1997).
		Evidence for the decay of nuclear matter toroidal geometries in nucleus-nucleus collisions; N.T.B. Stone et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 2084 (1997).
		The Solenoidal Tracker at RHIC; W.J. Llope for the STAR Collaboration, to be published in the Proceedings of the "13th Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics", Marathon, Florida, Feb. 1-8, 1997.
		STAR Offline Simulations and Analysis Software Design, R. Bossingham et al., STAR Note SN0281 (January 1997).
		The Electromagnetic Calorimeter in STAR; W.J. Llope for the STAR-EMC Collaboration, published in the Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Calorimetry in High Energy Physics, Frascati (Roma), Italy, June 8-14, 1996.
		The BNL-AGS Experiment 896; W.J. Llope for the E896 Collaboration, published in the Proceedings of the "12th Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics", Snowbird, Utah, Feb. 3-10, 1996.
		The fragment coalescence model; W.J. Llope et al., Phys. Rev. C 52, 2004 (1995).
		Momentum dependence of the nuclear mean field from peripheral heavy-ion collisions; R. Pak, et al., Phys. Rev. C. 54, 2457 (1996).
		Radial flow in 40-Ar+45-Sc reactions at E=35-115 MeV/nucleon; R. Pak, et al., Phys. Rev. C. 54, 1681 (1996).
		Impact parameter dependence of the disappearance of flow in nuclear collisions; R. Pak, W.J. Llope et al., Phys. Rev. C. 53, 1469 (1995).
		Search for pion-neutron bound states in 14.6A GeV Si+nucleus collisions; J. Barrette et al. (The E814 Collaboration), Phys. Rev. C 52, 2679 (1995).
		The sphericity of central heavy-ion reactions; W.J. Llope et al. (The MSU 4pi Group), Phys. Rev. C 52, 1900 (1995).
		Transverse energy and charged particle multiplicity in p-nucleus collisions at 14.6 GeV/c; J. Barrette et al. (The E814 Collaboration), Phys. Rev. C 52, 2028 (1995).
		STAR-SPEMC test beam results; W.J. Llope for the STAR-EMC Collaboration, RHIC Bulletin, Vol. IV, Number 2 (1995).
		Transitions in Nuclear Disassembly as viewed by Charge Correlations; N.T.B. Stone, W.J. Llope, and G.D. Westfall, Phys. Rev. C 51, 3157 (1995).
		Absence of saturation in energy deposition in 40-Ar+232-Th collisions at E=15-115 AMeV; E.E. Gualtieri et al. (The MSU 4pi Group), Phys. Lett. B 357, 7 (1995).
		Tracking fission-like processes in central collisions of 40-Ar+232-Th collisions at E=15-115 AMeV; J. Yee et al. (The MSU 4pi Group), Phys. Lett. B 356, 191 (1995).
		Autocorrelations and intermediate mass fragment multiplicities in central heavy-ion collisions; W.J. Llope et al. (The MSU 4pi Group), Phys. Rev. C 51, 1325 (1995).
		Production of neutron-rich isotopes from the fragmentation of 28-Si projectiles at Plab=14.6 GeV/c/nucleon; J. Barrette et al. (The E814 Collaboration), Phys. Rev. C 52, 956 (1995).
		Understanding proton emission in central heavy-ion reactions; D.O. Handzy et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 2916 (1995).
		Electromagnetic dissociation of relativistic 28-Si; J. Barrette et al. (The E814 Collaboration), Phys. Rev. C 51, 865 (1995).
		The topology of intermediate mass fragment emission; W.J. Llope and the MSU 4pi Group, published in the Proceedings of the "11th Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics", Key West, Florida, Feb. 11-17, 1995.
		Centrality dependence of longitudinal and transverse baryon distributions in ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions; J. Barrette et al. (The E814 Collaboration), Phys. Rev. C 50, 3047 (1994).
		Production of light nuclei in ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions; J. Barrette et al. (The E814 Collaboration), Phys. Rev. C 50, 1077 (1994).
		High-order azimuthal correlation functions: powerful probes for collective motion in heavy-ion reactions; J. Lauret et al. (The NSCL 4pi Group), Phys. Lett. B339, 22 (1994).
		Two charged particle and transverse energy correlations in Si+Pb collisions at 14.6A GeV/c; J. Barrette et al. (The E814 Collaboration), Phys. Rev. C 49, 1669 (1994).
		Nuclear disassembly in symmetric heavy-ion collisions at intermediate energies; W.J. Llope et al. (The MSU 4pi Group), MSU Preprint MSUCL-915, published in the Proceedings of the "10th Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics", Snowbird, Utah, Jan. 15-21, 1994.
		Event shapes in intermediate energy heavy-ion collisions -- reaction filters; W.J. Llope et al. (The MSU 4pi Group), MSU Preprint MSUCL-900.
		The onset of multifragmentation in intermediate energy heavy-ion collisions; W.J. Llope et al. (The MSU 4pi Group), MSU Preprint MSUCL-907.
		Observation of a saturation in the time scale for multifragment emission in symmetric heavy-ion collisions; E. Bauge et al. (The NSCL 4pi Group), Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 3705 (1993).
		Intermediate mass fragment production in central collisions of intermediate energy heavy ions; T. Li et al. (The NSCL 4pi Group), Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 1924 (1993).
		Et production in reactions with 11.4 AGeV/c 197-Au and 14.6 A GeV/c 28-Si beams; J. Barrette et al. (The E814 Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 2996 (1993).
		Baryon distributions in ultra-relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions; J. Barrette et al. (The E814 Collaboration), Z. Physik C 56, 211 (1993).
		Antiproton production in relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions; J. Barrette et al. (The E814 Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 1763 (1993).
		Multiple electromagnetic excitations of relativistic projectiles; W.J. Llope and P. Braun-Munzinger, Phys. Rev. C 45, 799 (1992).
		Forward baryons in relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions; J. Barrette et al. (The E814 Collaboration), Phys. Rev. C 45, 819 (1992).
		Charged particle multiplicity in 28-Si + Al, Cu, and Pb reactions at Elab=14.6 GeV/nucleon; J. Barrette et al. (The E814 Collaboration), Phys. Rev. C 46, 312 (1992).
		Excitation energy distribution of relativistic 28-Si in electromagnetic dissociation into p + 27-Al; J. Barrette et al. (The E814 Collaboration), Phys. Rev. C 45, 2427 (1992).
		Electromagnetic dissociation of relativistic heavy-ions; W.J. Llope and P. Braun-Munzinger, Phys. Rev. C 41, 2644 (1990).
		Electromagnetic dissociation of 28-Si at Elab/A = 14.6 GeV by nucleon emission; J. Barrette et al. (The E814 Collaboration), Phys. Rev. C 41, 1512 (1990).
		Search for strange quark matter in high energy heavy ion collisions; J. Barrette et al. (The E814 Collaboration), Phys. Lett. B252, 550 (1990).
		Energy flow and stopping in relativistic heavy ion collisions at Elab/A = 14.6 GeV; J. Barrette et al. (The E814 Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Lett. 64, 1219 (1990).
		A fast monte carlo simulation of segmented U/Cu/Scint calorimeters; M. Fatyga, D. Makowiecki, and W.J. Llope, Nucl. Inst. and Methods, A284, 323 (1989).
		Transverse energy distributions in Si-nucleus collisions at 10 GeV/nucleon; P. Braun-Munzinger et al. (The E814 Collaboration), Z. Phys. C 38, 45 (1988)
		Performance of the Wavelength Shifter Bars for the Experiment 814 Uranium Calorimeters, W.J. Llope and M. Fatyga, BNL Report OG-989 (1988).

		W.J. Llope, "TOF Infrastructure Review," STAR TOF Meeting, UT-Austin, Austin Texas, April 29, 2008.
		W.J. Llope, "STAR Run-8 Low Energy Run," STAR TOF Meeting, UT-Austin, Austin Texas, April 28, 2008.
		W.J. Llope, "Run-8 upVPD Calibrations," STAR TOF Meeting, UT-Austin, Austin Texas, April 28, 2008.
		W.J. Llope, "STAR Time-of-Flight," 24th Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics, South Padre Island, Texas, April 11, 2008.
		W.J. Llope, "TOF Start-Detector and Run-8," presented to the STAR Committee on a possible forward conflict, J. Sandweiss (chair), September 13, 2007.
		W.J. Llope, "Time-of-Flight," STAR Experiment Operations Planning Meeting, August 21, 2007.
		W.J. Llope, "TOF Detectors and Mechanical Systems," U.S. Dept. of Energy Review of the STAR TOF Project, BNL, August 2-3, 2007.
		W.J. Llope, "Heavy-Ion E-lab," Summer 2007 Houston QuarkNet Workshop, June 13, 2007.
		W.J. Llope, "Heavy-Ion E-lab," QuarkNet Saturday Physics, October 7, 2006.
		W.J. Llope, "Detectors and Mechanical Systems," U.S. Dept. of Energy Review of the STAR TOF Project, BNL, September 24, 2006.
		W.J. Llope, "TOF Tray Mechanical Design", Review of the STAR-TOF Detectors and Mechanical Systems, UT-Austin, April 24, 2006.
		W.J. Llope, "TOF Tray Assembly", Review of the STAR-TOF Detectors and Mechanical Systems, UT-Austin, April 24, 2006.
		W.J. Llope, "TOF Module Placement Simulation", Review of the STAR-TOF Detectors and Mechanical Systems, UT-Austin, April 24, 2006.
		W.J. Llope, "Detectors and Mechanical," Preliminary Design Review of the STAR-TOF System, BNL, January 26, 2006.
		W.J. Llope, "Installation and Commissioning," Preliminary Design Review of the STAR-TOF System, BNL, January 26, 2006.
		W.J. Llope, "Detectors and Mechanical," U.S. Dept. of Energy Review of the STAR TOF Proposal, BNL, August 22, 2005.
		W.J. Llope, "TOF Status," Plenary Session, STAR Collaboration Meeting, BNL, February 24, 2005.
		W.J. Llope, "The Large Area Time-Of-Flight Upgrade for STAR," CAARI 2004: 18th International Conference on the Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry, Fort Worth, TX, October 13, 2004. [Proceedings also available]
		W.J. Llope, "The STAR (Multigap) Resistive Plate Chambers," PHENIX Muon Physics and Forward Upgrades Workshop, Sante Fe, NM, June 23, 2004.
		W.J. Llope, "TOFp, pVPD, and TOFr in Run-4," STAR Operations Critique Meeting, BNL, June 11, 2004.
		W.J. Llope, "The Present and Future of Time Of Flight," Physics Department Seminar, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, December 10, 2003.
		W.J. Llope, "TOF Status," STAR Analysis Meeting, BNL, November 9, 2003.
		W.J. Llope, "Status of TOFp and pVPD calibrations for d+Au," STAR Collaboration Meeting, MSU, August 16, 2003.
		W.J. Llope, "TOFp, pVPD, and TOFr in Run-3," STAR Operations Critique Meeting, BNL, July 16, 2003.
		W.J. Llope, "TOF Calibrations in Au+Au and d+Au," Spectra Parallel Session, STAR Analysis Meeting, LBL, June 5, 2003.
		W.J. Llope, "TOFp/pVPD/TOFr analysis in RHIC Runs II and III," Spectra Parallel Session, STAR Collaboration Meeting, BNL, February 27, 2003.
		W.J. Llope, "TOFp/pVPD/TOFr in RHIC Run-III," Plenary Session, STAR Collaboration Meeting, BNL, February 26, 2003.
		W.J. Llope, "MRPC Time Of Flight Development," RHIC Detector Advisor Committee Meeting, BNL, December 19, 2002.
		W.J. Llope, "TOFp and pVPD Calibrations Status," Spectra Parallel Session, STAR Analysis Meeting, BNL, October 22, 2002.
		W.J. Llope, "Modern Time-Of-Flight," Cyclotron Institute Colloquium, Texas A&M University, March 5, 2002.
		W.J. Llope, "Recent Progress on Multi-Gap Resistive Plate Chambers for Large-Area Time-Of-Flight for STAR," RHIC Detector Workshop, BNL, October 16, 2001.
		W.J. Llope, "Time of Flight Systems Status," Plenary Session, STAR Collaboration Meeting, Austin, January 10, 2001.
		W.J. Llope, "TOFp Systems Status", STAR Operations Group Video Conference, November 18, 2000.
		W.J. Llope, "Large Area TOF for STAR", STAR Long Range Planning Committee Meetings, BNL, June 8, 2000.
		W.J. Llope, "Relativistic Heavy-Ion Physics at the Bonner Lab", Rice Physics Department Lunch Talk, Houston, April 27, 2000.
		W.J. Llope, STAR-TOFp Review, BNL, October 7, 1999.
		W.J. Llope, "Time of Flight Status," Plenary Session, STAR Collaboration Meeting, BNL, August 3, 1999.
		W.J. Llope, "Time of Flight Software Status," STAR Spectra PWG Session, STAR Collaboration Meeting, BNL, August 2, 1999.
		W.J. Llope for the STAR Spectra Physics Working Group, "Summary of Spectra/High-Pt Meetings during May'99 Computing Week," STAR Physics Analysis Video Conference, June 4, 1999.
		W.J. Llope, "Time of Flight Status," Plenary Session, STAR Collaboration Meeting, BNL, February 4, 1999.
		W.J. Llope, "TOFp Software Status," STAR Spectra Physics Working Group Meeting, STAR Collaboration Meeting, BNL, February 2, 1999.
		W.J. Llope for the T.W. Bonner Nuclear Laboratory, Rice University, in the "Offsite Computing for STAR" session, STAR Collaboration Meeting, BNL, February 1, 1999.
		W.J. Llope for the STAR Spectra Physics Working Group, "Spectra Goals for MDC2," STAR Physics Working Group Workshop, BNL, November 22, 1998.
		W.J. Llope, "(Anti)Fragments in STAR," 1998 Fall Meeting of the APS Division of Nuclear Physics, Santa Fe, October 31, 1998, Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. 43, 1590 (1998).
		W.J. Llope, "An electronic clock for correlated noise measurements," 1998 Fall Meeting of the APS Division of Nuclear Physics, Santa Fe, October 30, 1998, Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. 43, 1555 (1998).
		W.J. Llope for the STAR Spectra Physics Working Group, "Spectra Report," Plenary Session, STAR Collaboration Meeting, LBNL, January 10, 1998.
		W.J. Llope, "PID and coalescence" STAR Spectra Physics Working Group Meeting, STAR Collaboration Meeting, LBNL, January 7, 1998.
		W.J. Llope, "STAR Detector Simulation Status," STAR Software Session, STAR Collaboration Meeting, LBNL, January 5, 1998.
		W.J. Llope, "Status and Plans for TOF, ECD, and BCs," E896 Collaboration Meeting, BNL, November 14, 1997.
		W.J. Llope, "STAR Detector Simulators," STAR Computing Review, BNL, October 20-22, 1997.
		W.J. Llope for the STAR Spectra Physics Working Group, "Trigger Requirements for STAR Spectra Physics in RHIC Year 1," at the Open Discussion on the STAR Trigger, BNL, May 21, 1997.
		W.J. Llope for the STAR Spectra Physics Working Group, "Rate Estimates and Running Scenarios for RHIC Year 1," STAR Run-Time Committee Meeting, BNL, May 19, 1997.
		W.J. Llope et al., "Status of STAR Simulations", STAR Technical Committee Video Conference, April 29, 1997.
		W.J. Llope, "The Solenoidal Tracker at RHIC", 13th Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics, Marathon, Florida, February 5, 1997.
		W.J. Llope, "Prototype and Test Beam Results", STAR EMC Construction Readiness Review, BNL, Dec. 12, 1996.
		W.J. Llope, "STAR Simulations", STAR Technical Advisory Committee Review, BNL, Dec. 10, 1996.
		W.J. Llope, "Status of the E896 TOF System", E896 Collaboration Meeting, BNL, Sept. 27, 1996.
		W.J. Llope, "Status of the E896 ECD", E896 Collaboration Meeting, BNL, Sept. 27, 1996.
		W.J. Llope, "Status of STAR Simulations", STAR Collaboration Meeting, BNL, Aug. 15, 1996.
		W.J. Llope for the STAR-EMC Collaboration, "The Electromagnetic Calorimeter for STAR," 6th International Conference on Calorimetry in High Energy Physics, Rome, June 8-14, 1996.
		W.J. Llope for the E896 Collaboration, "BNL-AGS Experiment 896," 12th Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics, Snowbird, February 3, 1996.
		W.J. Llope for the MSU 4pi Group, University of Texas Physics Department Seminar, Austin, November 9, 1995.
		W.J. Llope for the E896 TOF Group, E896 Collaboration Meeting, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, September 29, 1995.
		W.J. Llope for the STAR-EMC Group, STAR Collaboration Meeting, Brookhaven National Laboratory, August 8, 1995.
		W.J. Llope for the E896 TOF Group, E896 Collaboration Meeting, Brookhaven National Laboratory, May 22, 1995.
		W.J. Llope for the NSCL 4pi Group, 11th Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics, Key West, February 11, 1995.
		W.J. Llope, E896 Collaboration Meeting, University of Texas at Austin, February 2, 1995.
		W.J. Llope for the STAR-EMC Group, Plenary Session - STAR Collaboration Meeting, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, January 18, 1995.
		W.J. Llope for the STAR-TOF Group, Plenary Session - STAR Collaboration Meeting, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, January 17, 1995.
		W.J. Llope for the STAR-EMC Group, Plenary Session - STAR Collaboration Meeting, Brookhaven National Laboratory, August 17, 1994.
		W.J. Llope for the NSCL 4pi Group, Bonner Laboratory Seminar, Rice University, Houston, August 2, 1994.
		W.J. Llope for the NSCL 4pi Group, Cyclotron Institute Seminar, Texas A&M University, College Station, August 4, 1994.
		W.J. Llope for the NSCL 4pi Group, 43rd Gordon Conference on Nuclear Chemistry, New London, June 19-24, 1994.
		W.J. Llope for the NSCL 4pi Group, Vanderbilt University Physics Department Colloquium, Nashville, March 17, 1994.
		W.J. Llope for the NSCL 4pi Group, LBL Nuclear Science Division Seminar, Berkeley, March 3, 1994.
		W.J. Llope for the NSCL 4pi Group, NSCL Seminar, East Lansing, February 16, 1994.
		W.J. Llope for the NSCL 4pi Group, 10th Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics, Snowbird, January 16, 1994.
		W.J. Llope for the NSCL 4pi Group, SUNY - Stony Brook Physics Department Seminar, Stony Brook, November 17, 1993.
		W.J. Llope for the NSCL 4pi Group, Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. 38, 940 (1993).
		W.J. Llope for the NSCL 4pi Group, Kent State University Physics Department Colloquium, Kent, August 10, 1993.
		W.J. Llope for the E814 Collaboration, Iowa State University Physics Department Colloquium, Ames, February 1992.
		W.J. Llope for the E814 Collaboration, Cyclotron Laboratory Seminar, MSU, East Lansing, January 1992.
		W.J. Llope for the E814 Collaboration, Wayne State University Physics Department Colloquium, Detroit, January 1992.
		W.J. Llope for the E814 Collaboration, Notre Dame Workshop on Giant Resonances and Related Phenomena, Notre Dame, October 1991.
		W.J. Llope for the E814 Collaboration, SUNY - Stony Brook Nuclear Structure Laboratory Seminar, Stony Brook, September 1991.
		W.J. Llope for the E814 Collaboration, Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. 36, 2147 (1991).
		W.J. Llope for the E814 Collaboration, SUNY - Stony Brook Relativistic Heavy Ion Journal Club Seminar, Stony Brook, December 1990.
		W.J. Llope for the E814 Collaboration, International Summer School on the Structure of Hadrons and Hadronic Matter, Dronten, August 1990.
		W.J. Llope for the E814 Collaboration, GSI Physics Department Seminar, Darmstadt, August 1990.
		W.J. Llope and P. Braun-Munzinger, Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. 35, 1061 (1990).
		W.J. Llope and M. Fatyga for the E814 Collaboration, Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. 34, 1173 (1989).

Membwr, STAR Internal Review Committee on "STAR Trigger Capital Equipment: QT Electronics," H.J. Crawford et al., March, 2008. Advisor, Master's Thesis of student Jianhang Zhou, "Construction of a New Detector, and Calibration Strategies, for Start Timing in the STAR Experiment at RHIC," October, 2006.

Subsystem Manager, Detectors & Mechanical Systems, STAR TOF Construction Project, June 2004 - present.

Subsystem Manager, STAR TOF (pVPD, TOFp, TOFr), January 2000 - June 2004.

Advisor, Ph.D. Thesis of student Kris Kainz, "Neutral Strange Particle Spectra with Direct Daughter Particle Identification in 11.6A GeV/c Au+Au Collisions," September, 2001.

Leader, STAR TOFp Project, June 1998 - January 2000.

Member, STAR Review Committee for Photon Multiplicity Detector Proposal, BNL, June 29-30, 2000.

Member, STAR Long Range Planning Committee, Summer, 2000.

Session Co-chair, STAR Spectra Physics Working Group meetings, BNL, May 26-27, 1999.

Special Awards Judge, 40th Science and Engineering Fair of Houston, The AstroHall, March 27, 1999.

Judge, St. Thomas High School Science Fair, Houston, Texas, February 18, 1999.

Session Chair, STAR Spectra Physics Working Group meetings, BNL, February 1, 2, and 3, 1999.

Advisor, Master's Thesis of student Chris Stokely, "Design, Construction, and Commissioning of the Time-of-Flight Detector for BNL-AGS Experiment 896," February, 1998.

Session Chair, STAR Spectra Physics Working Group meetings, LBNL, January 7 and 9, 1998.

Advisor, Master's Thesis of student Kris Kainz, "Design, Construction, and Commissioning of the Exit Charge Detector for BNL-AGS Experiment 896," December, 1997.

Member, STAR SoftWare infrastructure Action Task force (SWAT), November 1997.

Member, STAR Computing Requirements Task Force, Fall 1997.

Session Chair, STAR Spectra Physics Working Group meeting, BNL, May 20, 1997.

Committee member, STAR DAQ Review, BNL, February 27-28, 1997.

Judge, St. Thomas High School Science Fair, Houston, Texas, February 19, 1997.

Lecturer, Rice University Continuing Studies Course "A Journey to Inner Space - to the Atom, Nucleus, Proton, and Beyond."; Sessions 1, 2, and 8; Feb-May, 1997.

Session Chair, 13th Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics, Marathon, Florida, February 5, 1997.

Introduced as an Expert Witness on the subject of Physics in U.S. District Court, Beaumont, TX, Jan. 22, 1997, during testimony given during the Criminal Trial: U.S. versus The Quadro Corporation.

Convenor, STAR Spectra Physics Working Group, January 1997 - June 1999.

Session Chair, STAR SAS Working Group, STAR Collaboration Meeting, BNL, Aug. 11, 1996.

Introduced as an Expert Witness on the subject of Physics in U.S. District Court, Beaumont, TX, April 1, 1996, during testimony given during the Hearing: U.S. versus The Quadro Corporation.

Leader, STAR Simulations Group, December 1995 - September 1997.

Judge, St. Thomas High School Science Fair, Houston, Texas, February 22, 1995.

Session Chair, 11th Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics, Key West, Florida, February 14, 1995.

Member, BNL-AGS Experiment E896, February, 1995 - present.

System Manager, VAX-VMS Cluster, T.W. Bonner Nuclear Laboratory, December, 1994 - present.

Event Supervisor, Class B, 1994 Science Olympiad, Michigan State University, April 23, 1994.

Session Chair, Gull Lake Nuclear Physics Conference on Giant Resonances, Gull Lake, Michigan, August 19, 1993.

Elected representative of the NSCL research assistants and research associates for visit by NSF officials, August 10, 1993.

Supervisor, Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) student Imran Khan, June-August, 1994.

Supervisor, National High School Honors Science (NHSHS) student Douglas Friedlander, June-August, 1994. Mr. Friedlander was subsequently awarded semi-finalist honors (top ~7%) in the 1994 Westinghouse Competition.

Member, STAR Collaboration, January, 1993 - present.

Supervisor, National High School Honors Science (NHSHS) student Scott Noble, June-August, 1993. Mr. Noble was subsequently awarded semi-finalist honors (top ~7% in the 1993 Westinghouse Competition.

Member, MSU-NSCL 4pi Group, April, 1992 - June, 1995.

Member, MSU-NSCL Electronics Committee, September, 1992 - October, 1994.

Offline Software Manager, Relativistic Heavy-Ion Group, SUNY - Stony Brook, June, 1990 - March, 1992.

Leader, Uranium Calorimeter Group, BNL-AGS Experiment 814, January, 1990 - March, 1992.

Member, Uranium Calorimeter Group, BNL-AGS Experiment 814, January, 1990 - March, 1992.

Member, BNL-AGS Experiment E814/877, September, 1987 - March, 1992.

Member, Fly's Eye Collaboration, September, 1986 - March, 1987.

Member, Irvine-Michigan-Brookhaven (IMB) Proton Decay Collaboration, January, 1986 - March, 1987.