Rising Stars in Experimental Particle Physics Symposium

Sep 22, 2021, 9:30 AM → Sep 23, 2021, 5:00 PM America/Chicago

Zoom (sent by email to registered participants)

Dave Schmitz (University of Chicago), David Miller (University of Chicago), Mel Shochet (University of Chicago), Young-Kee Kim (University of Chicago)

The UChicago Rising Stars Symposia 2021 are a platform for exceptional early-career scientists in the broad field of physics to present their work.

These Symposia are intended to promote early-career development of researchers working in exciting new directions in soft and biological materials, quantum science and technology, and experimental particle physics.

Another goal is to increase the diversity of researchers in these fields; we particularly welcome applications for the symposium from researchers who come from under-represented groups.

This Rising Stars in Experimental Particle Physics Symposium will highlight a range of topics in experimental particle physics by a diverse group of rising stars in the community!  We’ll hear about cutting-edge research happening at the LHC, in determining the nature of dark matter, and in searching for evidence of new physics in muons and neutrinos.

Wednesday, September 22

Technical Setup and Checks

Convener: David Miller (University of Chicago)

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Rising Stars Presentations: Morning Session

Convener: David Miller (University of Chicago)

Open Questions Before Lunch

1 Neutrinos and Neural Networks

Speaker: Jessie Micallef (Michigan State University)

Micallef_NeutrinosAndNeuralNetworks.pdf

Neutrinos and Neural Network Slides

Portrait of a Scientist Facebook

Recording

2 Probing dark sectors with the Higgs Boson

Speaker: Christian Weber (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

2021-09-22 - Rising Stars - Draft 2.pdf

Recording

3 WIMP Hunting in the Black Hills: The LZ Dark Matter Experiment

Speaker: Sally Shaw (UCSB)

Recording

WIMPHunting_SShaw_RisingStars2021.pdf

11:15 AM Coffee / Tea / Water Break

4 MicroBooNE: Searching for nu-Physics with LArTPC

Speaker: Jay Hyun Jo (Yale University)

20210922_JHJ_RisingStars_uBooNE.pdf

Recording (recorder crashed--ending short)

5 Off the Beaten Track: Unconventional Searches at the LHC

Speaker: Karri Folan Di Petrillo (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

2021.09.22.kdp.RisingStars.pdf

12:20 PM Discussion with Speakers

12:45 PM Lunch

Rising Stars Presentations: Afternoon Session

Convener: Young-Kee Kim (University of Chicago)

Open Questions Before Lunch

6 Winds of change in the search for wave-like dark matter

Speaker: Chelsea Bartram (University of Washington)

Recording

RisingStars2021_Bartram.pdf

7 Machine Learning Based Anomaly Detection at the LHC

Speaker: Oz Amram (Johns Hopkins University)

anomaly_detection_chicago_symposium_Amram.pdf

Recording

8 Muon g-2 experiment: first results and future prospects

Speaker: Hannah Binney (University of Washington)

Recording

risingStars_hannahbinney_g2muon.pdf

3:00 PM Coffee / Tea / Water Break

9 Tools for Discovery at High Energy Colliders

Speaker: Julia Gonski (Columbia University/Nevis Laboratories)

0922_jgonski_risingstarsuchicago.pdf

Recording

10 SBND-PRISM: Sampling Multiple Off-Axis Neutrino Fluxes with the Same Detector

Speaker: Marco Del Tutto (Fermilab)

Recording

uchicago_rising_stars_symposium_deltutto_2021.pdf

4:05 PM Discussion with Speakers

Thursday, September 23

Rising Stars Presentations: Morning Session

Convener: David Schmitz (University of Chicago)

Open Questions Before Lunch

11 Searching for Sterile Neutrinos at IceCube

Speaker: Alejandro Diaz (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Diaz-SterileAtIceCube-UChicagoSymposium.key

Diaz-SterileAtIceCube-UChicagoSymposium.pdf

Recording

12 Uncovering New Massive Particles through Boosted Object Tagging at the LHC

Speaker: Dr Johan Bonilla (University of California, Davis)

Recording

UChicagoRisingStars2021.key

UChicagoRisingStars2021.pdf

13 Exploring the neutrino sector with long-baseline experiments

Speaker: Zoya Vallari (Caltech)

08232021_RisingStar_ZV.pdf

Recording

11:15 AM Coffee / Tea / Water Break

14 Searching for rare Higgs processes with the CMS detector

Speaker: Irene Dutta (Caltech)

Recording

RisingStars_IreneDutta_23Sep2021.pdf

15 Accelerator Driven Dark Sector Probes

Speaker: Emrys Peets (Stanford University)

Accelerator Driven Dark Sector Probes

Recording

12:25 PM Discussion with Speakers

12:45 PM Lunch

Rising Stars Presentations: Afternoon Session

Convener: Mel Shochet (University of Chicago)

Open Questions Before Lunch

16 Critical Measurements and Technological Advancements on the path to DUNE

Speaker: Elena Gramellini (Fermilab)

Recording

RisingStars_Gramellini.pdf

17 Mu2e: The Muon-to-Electron Conversion Experiment at Fermilab

Speaker: Sophie Middleton (Caltech)

Recording

RisingStars_20mins.pptx

RisingStarsMu2e.pdf

2:35 PM Discussion with Speakers

Experimental Particle Physics Topical Discussions

These topical discussions will be guided by questions submitted by Symposium attendees to the Google Doc circulated by email. Topical discussion leaders will then use these as prompts to be followed-up in the relevant topical discussion.

Conveners: Carlos Wagner (University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory), David Miller (University of Chicago), David Schmitz (University of Chicago), Mel Shochet (University of Chicago)

Recording

18 Dark Sectors and New Searches (Directed Discussion)

19 AI and New Tools (Directed Discussion)

20 Big Science and Future Directions (Directed Discussion)