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  • Public lecture: “How to Know a Neutrino from a Hole in the Ground!” by Nobel Laureate Professor Emeritus Art McDonald, SNOLab

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    Bildger Hall 152

    To understand what’s above, some particle physicists are seeking answers below the Earth. Nobel Laureate and Queen’s Professor Emeritus Arthur McDonald will lecture on the topic of how researchers are uncovering the nature of the Universe and neutrinos from underground laboratories including  SNOLAB in Sudbury, Canada. Dr. McDonald received the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics ... Read more

  • Workshop on Ghost Particle Hunting: Neutrino Physics and its Applications to World Peace

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    Feature

    Workshop on Ghost Particle Hunting: Neutrino Physics and its Applications to World Peace With a Tribute to Professor John Learned Advances in neutrino physics in the last decades have brought breakthroughs in Beyond Standard Model Physics with the discovery of neutrino oscillations and mass; detection of supernovae, extragalactic and galactic neutrinos that shone light on ... Read more

  • ML4FE Workshop, University of Hawaii

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    Organizers: Jennifer Ott (University of Hawaii Manoa), Julia Gonski (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) We aim to connect HEP physicists and engineers interested in front-end ML developments and applications to share latest results, brainstorm future directions, build new collaborations, pursue funding, and share infrastructure. The workshop will take place at Holmes Hall on the campus of ... Read more

  • Mineral Detection of Neutrinos and Dark Matter

    Room 420 (Watanabe Hall)
    Journal Club

    Speakers: Patrick Stengel (Jozef Stefan Institute) Minerals are solid state nuclear track detectors - nuclear recoils in a mineral leave latent damage to the crystal structure. Depending on the mineral and its temperature, the damage features are retained in the material from minutes to timescales much larger than the age of the Solar System. The ... Read more

  • 1-minute Colloquium

    Watanabe 112
    Colloquium

    A series of department-wide talks during the regular colloquium time slot (3:30-4:30 pm). Everyone will have exactly one minute (sharp) to introduce themselves and present their research to the entire department. Everyone (students, postdocs, staff, faculty) is encouraged to participate! It is a great way to meet new people in the department and see all the different things we are working on.

  • On spikes and sound: debating the physical nature of action potentials

    Room 112 (Watanabe Hall)
    Colloquium

    Speakers: Matan Mussel (University of Haifa, Israel) Abstract: Excitable cells generate a characteristic transient change in transmembrane potential that propagates along the cell membrane in response to suitable stimuli. These signals are called action potentials (APs), and are principally associated with behavioral activities of many organisms. Thus, an understanding of the mechanism of APs, as ... Read more

  • Cortical decision-making with non-equilibrium steady state activity

    Room 112 (Watanabe Hall)
    Colloquium

    Speakers: Jochen Braun (Otto-von-Guericke University) Abstract: Sensory perception continually searches for interpretable structure in a dynamic world. How does the sensory cortex of primates make these perceptual decisions rapidly and reliably? In contrast to current theories that invoke equilibrium dynamics and assume stable decision states, and predict no post-choice events, I propose that the basic ... Read more

  • Target Normal Sheath Acceleration at Jupiter LASER Facility for Qubit Synthesis

    WAT 422A
    Colloquium

    Speakers: Alice Koniges and group (UH Manoa) Abstract: The goal of this project is to identify which color centers and host materials are most suitable and efficient for qubit synthesis. At the Jupiter Laser Facility (JLF), we employed the Titan Laser, which delivers 1–10 picosecond pulses with energies up to 300 Joules, to perform Target ... Read more

  • X-ray Free-Electron Lasers: Past, Present and Future

    Room 112 (Watanabe Hall)
    Colloquium

    Speakers: Zhirong Huang (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) The world’s first hard X-ray Free Electron Laser (FEL), Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), started its operation 16 years ago and ushered in a new era of ultrafast X-ray science. More recently, the world’s first continuous-wave X-ray Free Electron Laser (FEL), LCLS-II, began lasing and user operation. In ... Read more

  • Learning Quantum Systems through Physics-Inspired Artificial Intelligence

    Colloquia
    Room 112 (Watanabe Hall)
    Colloquium

    Speakers: Bo-Han Wu (UHM) Quantum technologies, including sensing, communication, and computing, are reshaping modern science by exploiting nonclassical resources such as coherence, entanglement, and squeezing. Despite significant progress, their advancement remains limited by the lack of system-level co-optimization that connects physical hardware and algorithmic design. Conventionally, quantum hardware and information processing have been developed independently, ... Read more

  • Ice on the Moon

    Colloquia
    Colloquium

    Speakers: Norbert Schorghofer (PSI) Abstract: The classical theory of lunar ice posits that permanently shadowed craters in the lunar polar regions have accumulated moderate amounts of ice over billions of years. The theoretical predictions are in agreement with the sparse observational data available to date. This presentation will review theoretical ideas about ice on the ... Read more

  • Black Holes and Dark Matter

    Seminar
    Journal Club

    Speakers: Stefano Profumo (University of California, Santa Cruz) The possibility that some of the black holes in the universe have a non-stellar origin and that they play a significant role in cosmology - including being some or all of the dark matter - is both timely and intriguing. I will review the status of the ... Read more