PHYS 588A: Particle Astrophysics Seminar
Schedule for
Autumn Quarter 2008

Meets: A114 PAB, Fridays at 3:30 pm (check schedule below)

        *** Note changed room: this term only ***

Convener:  R. J. Wilkes


Updated: 10/25/2008

We meet Fridays at 3:30 pm, but ONLY WHEN WE HAVE A SPEAKER, not every week. If you want to give a talk, if possible tell me at least 10 days in advance so we can get onto the weekly notices. 

Students: you are welcome to attend any time, but please contact J. Wilkes in advance if you want to register for credit. Students registered for credit must contribute a presentation to the group.

This term we will continue to focus on the physics of neutrino oscillations. This is an alpha test for a new course concept: read this prospectus. Registered students will be expected to participate, if possible by making a short presentation. Any interested parties welcome! Students are invited to join, learn, and teach us what you have learned.  Notes from past sessions are posted here.

If you gave a talk, write up your notes and send me pdf and tex (or Word) files to post. Be sure to include auxiliary files for figures, etc. If you need help with the mechanics of Latexing, see http://www.emerson.emory.edu/services/latex/latex2e/latex2e_toc.html .

You are strongly encouraged to maintain a website containing your own notes and links to references - best way to retain info for the future!  To learn how, see http://catalyst.washington.edu/web_tools/simplesite.html. If you do create such a website, send me the URL so others can share your resources.

Add your contributions to the Neutrino Wiki Page (thanks to Kevin Connolly): http://staff.washington.edu/hbar/neutrino_wiki

General references (more to be added as we go):

  1. hep-ph/0001264 (Akhmedov review paper)
  2. giunti-2006-hql06.pdf   (Giunti review talk slides)
  3. Seminar presentations - posting directory (same link as above)
  4. relevant papers - review papers about topics we discuss

 

Date  Speaker  Topic 
9/26/08  Frank Garcia and Rob Thompson Go to HUB East Ballroom: SURP reception
10/3/08 Mike Dziomba, UW What I Did This Summer: the Super-K DAQ upgrade
10/10 Prof. Toby Burnett, UW First-light surprises from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
(formerly known as GLAST)
10/17 TBA TBA
10/25 TBA TBA
10/31 TBA TBA
11/7 TBA TBA
11/14 Scott Davis, UW Measuring Pi0s at the T2K near detector
11/21 R. J. Wilkes Super-K and T2K updates
11/28 HOLIDAY --
12/5 No meeting (neutrino group busy attending US-T2K Collaboration meeting, all day)

Speakers:

 If possible please send your talk's title to reception@phys.washington.edu no later than Tuesday of the week before your talk, i.e. 10 days in advance. (If you send your title later, it can still appear on the daily email list of seminars, but will not be on the weekly posters).

If you would like to be on our mailing list for announcements, pls send email (address below).


Convener:
wilkes@u.washington.edu