Departmental Colloquium

Title: Scintillator Detector for Neutrino Physics Speaker: Minfang Yeh (Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY11973, USA, yeh@bnl.gov)   Abstract: The liquid scintillator detector is known to have low energy threshold, high light yield, and adequate attenuation length with efficient background discrimination in many years of operation for low-energy neutrino detection.  Besides the pulse shape discrimination, an improvement

Speaker: Dr. Breese Quinn (University of Mississippi) Title: Latest Results from the Fermilab Muon g-2 Experiment   Abstract: Two years ago, the Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab published its first measurement of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon, aμ = (g-2)/2, based on its first year of data representing roughly 6% of the total data

Speaker: Jeyhan Kartaltepe (Rochester Institute of Technology) Title: Pushing the Edge of the Cosmic Frontier with JWST   Abstract: The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) launched in December 2021, first started collecting data in June 2022,  and is already revolutionizing our understanding of the distant Universe. With its large, segmented mirror, and optimization for infrared

Speaker: Jeremy Lewis Smallwood (Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan) Title: The stellar environment’s influence on protoplanetary discs and planet formation Note different date and venue   Abstract: The majority of stars born in dense stellar clusters are part of binary star systems. Circumbinary discs of gas and dust commonly surround binary star

Speaker: Jenna Samuel (UT Austin) Title: Simulating our Intergalactic Neighborhood and Beyond Abstract: Low-mass or dwarf galaxies far outnumber the more massive Milky Way (MW) and Andromeda (M31) within our intergalactic neighborhood, the Local Group (LG). These low-mass galaxies are  some of the most dark matter-dominated systems known, making them excellent astrophysical objects for small-scale

Speaker: Jaehan Bae (University of Florida) Title: Witnessing the formation of giant planets and their moons Abstract: With over 5,000 exoplanets discovered, it is clear that planet formation is a robust and widespread process. However, the astonishing diversity between observed exoplanetary systems suggests that environmental factors - the physical conditions present during birth of the