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Events During the Week of June 28th through July 5th, 2026
Monday, June 29th, 2026
- Graduate Program Event
- Seeing the unseen: Passive frequency upconversion imaging of incoherent near-infrared light
- Time: 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
- Place: Chamberlin 5290
- Speaker: Justin Edwards
- Abstract: TBD
- Host: Mikhail Kats
Tuesday, June 30th, 2026
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum
- Searching for Sterile Neutrinos with KM3NeT/ORCA
- Time: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
- Place: WIPAC supernova
- Speaker: Rogan Clark, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
- Abstract: Since the late 1990's, a number of experiments have reported results that deviate from the standard model picture of neutrino oscillation, suggesting the presence of a 4th neutrino state with large mass splitting of ~ 1eV2. These results have been contradicted by other experiments, which place upper bounds on the existence of a potential fourth neutrino that conflict with the allowed phase space of the first group. KM3NeT/ORCA is a water cherenkov neutrino detector under construction in the Mediterranean Sea, which is optimised to detect oscillations of atmospheric neutrinos at O(10 GeV). This can be used to search for oscillations into sterile neutrinos, and thus provides another pathway to determining their existence, or lack thereof. The latest search for sterile neutrinos, using the latest ORCA dataset comprising 1.4 Mton-yr of data, will be reported and the future for sterile neutrino searches discussed.
- Host: Lu Lu
Wednesday, July 1st, 2026
- Social Gathering
- Summer Recess
- Time: 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm
- Place: Lawn in front of Birge Hall
- Speaker: Everyone is welcome
- Abstract: If the weather is nice, we'll meet on Bascom Hill (in front of Birge Hall). Feel free to bring your lunch. We will borrow cornhole and ladder toss from the L&S Dean's Office and play outside for 30 minutes. Some of us will probably walk up together, meeting in the courtyard between Chamberlin and Sterling ~12:25. Feel free to walk with us! No need to sign up. Just come join us!
- Host: Sharon Kahn
Thursday, July 2nd, 2026
- No events scheduled
Friday, July 3rd, 2026
- No events scheduled
Saturday, July 4th, 2026
- Academic Calendar
- Independence Day
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