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NPA Seminar, Daniel Pablos, INFN, "Deep Learning Jet Modifications in Heavy Ion Collisions"

High-energy jets experience severe modifications along their passage through the quark-gluon plasma (QGP), a new state of matter created in ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions. Due to the steeply falling jet spectrum, when we measure jets we are typically looking at the jets that lost the least energy. This selection bias hinders our ability to study true jet modifications, resulting in a more limited knowledge of the way the QGP interacts with the energetic partons.

YPPDO Workshop: Preparing for Faculty Positions with Bonnie Fleming and David Moore

Professors Bonnie Fleming and David Moore will guide participants in how to prepare for faculty positions in physics.
This event is only open to members of the Yale community. Email the host for the Zoom connection.
Host:
Victoria Misenti

EHS Orientation for Wright Lab Shop Users - Fall 2021

Wright Lab will host 1-hour Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Shop Orientations. The EHS shop orientation is offered each semester and is required to be taken once by anyone who would like to gain access and make use of the research and teaching shops at Wright Lab.
For more information on the shop facilities at Wright Lab see: https://wlab.yale.edu/facilities
Register here: https://forms.gle/MzVDERoSrtmwp8579

EHS Orientation for Wright Lab Shop Users - Fall 2021

Wright Lab will host 1-hour Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Shop Orientations. The EHS shop orientation is offered each semester and is required to be taken once by anyone who would like to gain access and make use of the research and teaching shops at Wright Lab.
For more information on the shop facilities at Wright Lab see: https://wlab.yale.edu/facilities
Register here: https://forms.gle/MzVDERoSrtmwp8579

EHS Orientation for Wright Lab Shop Users - Fall 2021

Wright Lab will host 1-hour Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Shop Orientations. The EHS shop orientation is offered each semester and is required to be taken once by anyone who would like to gain access and make use of the research and teaching shops at Wright Lab.
For more information on the shop facilities at Wright Lab see: https://wlab.yale.edu/facilities
Register here: https://forms.gle/MzVDERoSrtmwp8579

NPA Seminar, Lee McCuller, MIT, "Wielding the Quantum Correlations in advanced LIGO"

Optical interferometers have begun a new era of astrophysics by measuring vast lengths to such precision that gravitational waves from distant collisions of black holes and neutron stars are now regularly observed. This past run, the global gravitational wave network itself entered a new era, whereby every detector’s sensitivity is enhanced using quantum squeezed states of light. Manipulating profound measurement precision has profound consequences – measurement back action, in LIGO taking the form of quantum radiation pressure noise on 40kg mirrors.

NPA Seminar, Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign , "From Little Bangs in the Laboratory to Neutron Star Mergers"

Unlike phase diagrams in condensed matter that can be probed in the laboratory, the Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) phase diagram can only be mapped out through both experiments and astrophysical phenomena. At low baryon densities and high temperatures it is explored both through the big bang and the little bangs produced in heavy-ion collisions. At large baryon densities, either low-energy heavy-ion experiments or neutron star mergers can be used to map out its potential phases.

CANCELLED Introduction to Scientific Computing at Wright Lab

Introduction to Scientific Computing at Wright Lab, led by Thomas Langford, will cover:
In-house computing resources
YCRC HPC systems: how-to and why-to
Examples of common work-flows at Wright Lab
Support available at Wright Lab and YCRC
Register here: https://tinyurl.com/wlab-intro-computing
In-person attendance will be capped at 20 people on a first-come, first-served basis, according to the current Yale policies.

NPA Seminar, Steven Prohira, Ohio State University, "Toward Detection of UHE Neutrinos with the Radar Echo Telescope"

Detection of ultra-high-energy (UHE) neutrinos is the key to understanding the most energetic processes in the universe, namely, the sources of UHE cosmic rays which have been detected at earth with energies exceeding 1 Joule per nucleon. As UHE cosmic messengers, neutrinos are unparalleled for their ability to travel from source to Earth. Unfortunately, however, they are very difficult to detect, owing to their low flux and small interaction cross section.

NPA Seminar, Christian Wittweg, University of Zurich, "Recent Results and Status of the XENON Dark Matter Project"

The XENON Dark Matter Project uses xenon dual-phase time projection chambers for direct Dark Matter detection. With steadily growing target masses the XENON detectors set world-leading limits on WIMP-nucleon interactions over a broad mass range – most recently with XENON1T. Its unprecedentedly low backgrounds coupled with the tonne-year exposure also enabled searches for rare nuclear processes, the coherent elastic scattering of solar neutrinos and alternative Dark Matter candidates.

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