JHU in CMS The JHU CMS group consists of professors Barnett, Blumenfeld, Chien, Gritsan, Maksimovic, and Swartz; postdocs Giurgiu, Guo, Lae and Rappoccio; and students Fehling and Tran. The group is currently contributing to the hardware and software associated with the CMS Forward Pixel Detectors: The barrel and forward pixel detectors comprise a 66 million element tracking system that provides 3 accurate space point determinations of charged tracks near the interaction point. This information is crucial for controlling the combinatorics of the track finding and for the identification of B-mesons and tau-leptons. The JHU group has been quite active in the testing and development of the pixel sensors. It is currently engaged in the development of new algorithms for the reconstruction/simulation of pixel hits and for the alignment of the detector. (Recent Publications) The goal of our work on pixel tracking is to improve the identification of 3rd generation quarks/leptons and to use it in the search for new physical processes. New collaborators are welcome!