Events at Physics |
Events on Tuesday, October 1st, 2019
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar
- Building the American Family Insurance Data Science Partnership
- Time: 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm
- Place: 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Speaker: Brian Yandell, UW Departments of Statistics and Horticulture
- Abstract: The partnership between AFI and UW-Madison around data science projects led to the creation of the American Family Insurance Data Science Institute this Spring. The institute’s mission is to perform cutting-edge research in the fundamentals of data science and to catalyze the translation of this research into practice to advance scientific discovery in collaboration with researchers across campus and beyond. I will describe progress in creating an exciting collaborative space, with a vision to broadly elevate data science research to our mutual benefit.
- Host: Clint Sprott
- Council Meeting
- Physics Council Meeting
- Time: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
- Place: 2314 Chamberlin Hall
- Speaker: Sridhara Dasu, UW-Madison
- Host: Sridhara Dasu, Department Chair
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum
- Electroweak probes of the nucleus and the era of precision neutrino physics
- Time: 3:00 pm
- Place: 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Speaker: Dan Ruterbories, University of Rochester / MINERvA
- Abstract: Neutrino oscillation experiments such as NOvA and T2K search for the disappearance and appearance of muon and electron flavor neutrinos in a predominately muon-type beam. These experiments are currently measuring the oscillation parameters to greater precision but will not be able to measure the CP phase with enough significance to pin down CP violation in the lepton sector. The next generation of experiments, DUNE and Hyper-Kamiokande, will push the field into its precision era, requiring precise predictions of the flux and neutrino interactions used to measure CP violation.
The MINERvA experiment is a dedicated neutrino interaction experiment set in the NuMI beamline at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. The purpose of the experiment is to measure neutrino interactions off a variety of nuclear targets to probe nuclear effects and inform modeling of neutrino interactions. The experiment measures interactions over a wide range of Q2 and W including interactions in the quasi-elastic, resonant, and shallow to deep inelastic scattering regions. The experiment has run with two beam energies peaked at ~3 and 6 GeV in both neutrino and anti-neutrino enhanced modes.
In this seminar, I will describe the current state of neutrino oscillation physics and how MINERvA data will be used in future experiments. I will specifically describe the extensive tuning exercise MINERvA has done to describe interactions in the quasi-elastic into the resonant pion regions of kinematic phase space. I will also discuss the lessons learned and a description of the next generation measurements to prepare for the DUNE experiment. - Host: Tianlu Yuan