Events on Friday, September 27th, 2024
- Black and Brown in Physics
- BBiP Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration
- Time: 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
- Place: Chamberlain 5310
- Abstract: The Black and Brown in Physics (BBiP) group would like to invite you to our first Heritage month celebration! This month we are celebrating Hispanic Heritage month. We plan on having a catered lunch (featuring Peruvian food – courtesy of the Physics department), followed by a couple of student-led presentations, and group activities (we request that you stay for both portions of the event if you plan on joining us).
The event will take place on September 27th at 1 PM in Chamberlain 5310. We also have a Zoom link for anyone who is unable to attend the event in-person:
We plan our Heritage month events to be an opportunity to learn more about a particular Heritage in a light-hearted setting (compared to our General Meetings, which tend to be more formal). We hope to see many of your there next Friday! This event is open to everyone, including allies, so please don’t hesitate on joining us! - Host: Faizah Siddique
- Physics Department Colloquium
- FASER: New Eyes for the LHC
- Time: 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
- Place: Chamberlin 2241
- Speaker: Jonathan Feng, University of California-Irvine
- Abstract: Particle colliders have been the workhorse tool of particle physics for over 60 years, and the Large Hadron Collider at CERN has been the focus of attention for decades. Despite this, in recent years, it has become clear that the physics potential of the LHC is far from being fully explored. In particular, the existing billion dollar detectors are blind to forward collisions, which produce particles along the beamline. We now know that these collisions are a treasure trove of physics, containing the highest-energy neutrinos ever produced by humans and possible evidence for dark matter, dark sectors, milli-charged particles, and other new particles and forces. FASER, the Forward Search Experiment, was designed to cover this blind spot. Beginning in 2022, FASER detected the first neutrinos in the history of particle colliders, opening a new window on the high-energy frontier, and started searching for a variety of new particles with world-leading sensitivity. This talk will describe FASER's recent results, how they complement the traditional LHC program, and the Forward Physics Facility, a proposal to fully realize the potential of forward physics in the coming decade.
- Host: Lu Lu