Public Events
Brookhaven National Laboratory hosts concerts, lectures, and other events throughout the year which are free and open to the public. U.S. citizens age 16 and over must bring government-issued photo-identification for admission.
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JUL
19
Friday
Physics Department Summer Lectures
"Introduction to Statistics in High-Energy Physics"
Presented by Xin Qian
12:30 pm, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510
Friday, July 19, 2019, 12:30 pm
Hosted by: Mary Bishai
In this lecture, I will introduce some basic statistical concepts commonly used in the data analysis of high-energy physics experiments. I will review the basic procedure in setting confidence intervals. Some advanced topics in data unfolding, selection of test statistics, and usage of linear algebra in reducing computation will be touched upon.
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JUL
25
Thursday
Sambamurti Lecture
"Finger-printing a nuclear reactor with neutrinos"
Presented by Thomas Langford, Yale University
3:30 pm, Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510
Thursday, July 25, 2019, 3:30 pm
Hosted by: John Haggerty
Neutrinos have been the most consistently surprising particle of the last few decades. The onset of high-precision experiments has lead to the discovery of neutrino oscillations, possible evidence for beyond the Standard Model sterile neutrinos, and the beginnings of neutrino-based geophysics. Recent measurements of antineutrinos from nuclear reactors have observed flux and spectral discrepancies compared to leading theoretical models. Experiments like Daya Bay and PROSPECT are able to observe the small differences of neutrino emission from different mixtures of nuclear fuel, which may illuminate the origin of this disagreement. These neutrino finger-prints can also be used to investigate the mixture of fuel inside an operating reactor, rekindling interest in neutrino-based reactor monitoring. I will present recent advances which have demonstrated how small-scale experiments utilizing new technologies can advance both fundamental and applied science.
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