NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forums |
Organized by: Prof. Lu Lu
Events During the 2017 Spring Semester
January 2017
- Thursday, January 19th
- David Green, University of Maryland/Goddard
- Cosmic-ray proton measurements with the Fermi-LAT
- 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Stefan Westerhoff
- Tuesday, January 24th
- Adam Aurisano, UC Cincinnati
- Hunting for Sterile Neutrinos at Long and Short Baselines
- 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Sridhara Dasu
- Thursday, January 26th
- Foteini Oikonomou, Penn State University
- Multi-messenger searches for astrophysical sources at ultra-high energies
- 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Stefan Westerhoff
- Marcelle Soares-Santos, Fermi Lab
- Discovering a new approach to cosmology with the Dark Energy Survey and Gravitational Waves
- 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Sridhara Dasu
February 2017
- Tuesday, February 7th
- Daniel Jacobs, Arizona State
- Cosmology with the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array
- 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Sridhara Dasu
- Thursday, February 9th
- Minerba Betancourt, Fermilab
- Neutrinos: From idea to discovery to precision measurements
- 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Sridhara Dasu
- Tuesday, February 14th
- Alexander Radovic, William and Mary
- Studying Neutrino Oscillations at NOvA: From Experimental Design to Pioneering Analysis
- 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Sridhara Dasu
- Thursday, February 16th
- Keith Bechtol, Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
- Physics with a 10-year Color Movie of 40 Billion Stars and Galaxies
- 1:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Sridhara Dasu
- Chris Backhouse, Caltech
- Unlocking neutrino mysteries with the NOvA experiment
- 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Sridhara Dasu
- Tuesday, February 21st
- Taritree Wongjirad, MIT
- A Deep Look for New Physics with Neutrino Oscillations
- 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Sridhara Dasu
March 2017
- Thursday, March 9th
- Michelle Stancari, Fermilab
- Neutrinos, DUNE, and Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers
- 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; Physical Sciences Lab, Stoughton, WI, hosted by Physical Sciences Lab (PSL)
- Thursday, March 30th
- Antonia Hubbard, Northwestern
- Micro-X: A Sounding Rocket Dark Matter Search
- 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Kim Palladino
April 2017
May 2017
June 2017
- Friday, June 16th
- Nahee Park, University of Chicago
- STUDIES OF GALACTIC COSMIC RAYS WITH DIRECT AND INDIRECT MEASUREMENTS
- 2:00 pm; WIPAC (222 W Washington, 5th floor, Supernova Conference Room), hosted by Westerhoff
July 2017