Overview
The Experimental Particle Physics (EPP) and Astroparticle Physics (APP) Journal Club emphasizes the experimental nature of high-energy physics (HEP) and particle astrophysics. They are intended for HEP experimental, HEP phenomenology, and particle astrophysics students, postdocs, and faculty, but open to all. These talks are very interactive, and we strongly encourage participation and questions. Sessions are held during lunchtime. You are welcome to bring your own lunch.
Meeting time
Location: GL-328
Time: 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
Occurrence: Thursdays (approx. biweekly)
Organizers
This journal club is currently being organized by Cilicia Uzziel Perez. Please contact her regarding any questions or to inquire about giving a prospective talk. This club is advised by Prof. Conor Henderson.
Schedule
Fall 2019
Date | Speaker | Topic |
---|---|---|
October 3 | Andie Wall | HECOs, Dyons, and Supersymmetry at MoEDAL. |
October 17 | Sarah Deutsch (UA) | The CLIC experiment at CERN |
November 7 | Dr. Sergei Gleyzer (UA) | Machine Learning and HEP |
November 14 | Bhim Bam (UA)
Rafi Sazzad (UA) |
TBA |
November 21 | Aditya Upreti (UA)
Ruole Yi (UA) |
TBA |
December 5 | Keenan Lambert (UA)
Weidong Jin (UA) |
TBA |
Previous Talks
Date | Speaker | Topic |
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February 1 | Dr. Seth Cooper (UA) | Search for pair production of first generation scalar leptoquarks at √s = 13 TeV |
February 15 | Prof. Dawn Williams (UA) | Thinking Outside the Cube: A New Search in IceCube |
March 1 | Prof. Ion Stancu (UA) | MiniBooNE neutrino oscillations experiment I |
March 15 | N/A | Spring Break |
March 29 | Prof. Ion Stancu (UA) | MiniBooNE neutrino oscillations experiment II |
April 12 | Uzziel Perez (UA) | Discoveries, Exclusions and Measurements: Some new ideas and tools in HEP |
April 26 | Rafi Sazzad (UA) | Material Screening for the LZ experiment at UA |
Date | Speaker | Topic |
August 30 | Prof. Conor Henderson (UA) | Collider detectors |
September 13 | Sarah Deutsch (UA)
Uzziel Perez (UA) |
XRF Mapping of Cultural Heritage Objects
Image-based Deep Learning for Event Classification using CMS Detector Data (Review) |
September 27 | Prof. Nobuchika Okada (UA) | Is SUSY dead? The status of supersymmetric models in the absence of new particles.
(Part I) |
October 11 | Prof. Dawn Williams | Multimessenger Astronomy: IceCube High-energy Neutrino Observation coincidence with a blazar |
November 8 | Prof. Nobuchika Okada (UA) | Is SUSY dead? The status of supersymmetric models in the absence of new particles.
(Part II) |
November 30
(off-week) |
Hank Richards | Using Deep Learning in the Search for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay |
December 6 | Weidong Jin (UA)
Prabandha Nakarmi (UA) |
Prototype 9.7m Schwarzschild-Couder telescope for the Cherenkov Telescope Array
Overview of LIXO at UA |
Date | Speaker | Topic |
February 01 | Prof. Jerry Busenitz (UA) | Introduction to dark matter and dark energy searches |
February 15 | N/A | University of South Alabama HEP group visit |
March 01 | Prof. Jerry Busenitz (UA) | Dark matter and dark energy searches |
March 15 | N/A | Spring break |
March 29 | Dr. Yue Meng (UA) | The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Dark Matter Experiment |
April 12 | Digesh Raut (UA) | Enhanced heavy Majorana neutrino pair productions at the LHC in minimal U(1) extended SM |
April 26 | Andrew Buccilli (UA)
Hank Richards (UA) |
Search for large extra dimensions using high-mass diphoton events collected with CMS in 2016
Energy and Position Reconstruction and Event Classification with Deep Learning in EXO-200 |
Date | Speaker | Topic |
September 21 | Prof. Marcos Santander (UA) | Gamma-ray telescopes |
October 05 | Prof. Igor Ostrovskiy (UA) | Magnetic monopole searches |
October 19 | Prof. Conor Henderson (UA) | Introduction to collider physics |
November 02 | Prof. Dawn Williams (UA) | IceCube Neutrino Observatory detector physics |
November 16 | James Parkes (UA) | Search for neutrinoless double-beta decay with the Majorana Demonstrator |
November 30 | Mitchell Hughes (UA) | EXO-200 and nEXO neutrinoless double-beta decay searches |
December 07
(off-week) |
Ya Yin Chang (UA)
Cilicia Uzziel Perez (UA) |
Introduction to low background techniques with EXO-200 for rare event searches
Introduction to machine learning in HEP |