NEW ENGLAND PARTICLE PHYSICS STUDENT RETREAT (NEPPSR)


   Craigville Beach, Mass.
   August 22-27, 2004
 

Sponsored by:
Boston University, Brandeis University, HarvardUniversity, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
NortheasternUniversity, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Tufts University, and Yale University


Boston U Brandeis Harvard MIT NEU Tufts UMass-Amherst Yale
* Boston U * Brandeis Harvard * MIT * Tufts * -


Information about NEPPSR 2004




LINK TO NEPPSR I (2002) TALKS

LINK TO NEPPSR II (2003) TALKS
LINK TO ALL NEPPSR TALKS
Link to information and talks from the second workshop (August 2003)
Link to information and talks from the first workshop (August 2002)


 

We invite you to attend the third annual New England Particle Physics Student Retreat (NEPPSR), which will be held August 22-27 on Cape Cod. This retreat is intended for students who have completed their first year of graduate study, and are either committed to or are interested in pursuing a PhD in particle physics. There will be seminars on the hot topical items in the field as well as those topics that never seem to get covered in the usual graduate course curriculum (statistics and detectors!). Faculty from the participating schools will be attending the retreat and leading the seminars. A tentative schedule for the week is under preparation. The schedule and list of topics from our first workshop is available below.

The past two years NEPPSR has been held in New Hampshire's White Mountains, but this year we will be moving to the Cape! NEPPSR III will be held at the Craigville Conference Center near Falmouth, which is run by the UCC denomination and located on a bluff overlooking the beach. For some pictures take a look at http://www.hepl.harvard.edu/~gwb/NEPPSR_Photos/Craigville.html
We will have the use of two large houses (the Lodge and the Manor). There are several very nice meeting spaces with great views. We will have continental breakfast served at the Lodge, and will make a 10 minute walk to the Craigville Inn for lunch and dinner. And of course there is a gorgeous beach a short walk away.
Costs for students are paid for by their institutions.
 
 

         The Organizing Committee,
   Emanuela Barberis
   Craig Blocker
   George Brandenburg
    Peter Fisher
    Colin Gay
    Edward Kearns
    Masahiro Morii
    Meenakshi Narain
    Gabriella Sciolla
    Krzysztof Sliwa
    Stephane Willocq


 NEPPSR POSTER (PDF)
 NEPPSR Letter and Feedback Form (MSWord)
NEPPSR Letter and Feedback Form (PDF)
 NEPPSR Application Form (MSWord)
NEPPSR Application (PDF)
 
 
TenTative Schedule and Topics of Talks August 2004



Monday  -          August 23 Tuesday -         August 24 Wednesday-       August 25 Thursday -        August 26 Friday -        August 27
9am Stats/Data Analysis I
Blocker
Stats/Data Analysis II
Gay
Tracking Detectors
Barberis
Dark Matter Search
Ahlen
LHC Physics
Rohlf
10:10am   Tevatron I
Butler
Tevatron II
Wood
Babar II
Morii
LHC Experiment Bensinger
EWK Summary
Taylor
11:20am    Intro to Symm
Golowich
Cosmology
Zaldarriaga
RHIC overview
Harris
Space Physics
Harris
12:30pm    Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch
2:00pm     Calorimetery
Surrow
Free Time Babar
Dallapiccola
Free Time Extra-Dim Theory
Arkani-Hamed
3:10pm    Neutrino Oscillations
Schneps
Gamma Ray Astro
Blaylock
Extra-Dim Expt
Landsberg
4:20pm    Discussion Discussion Discussion






NEPPSR III Speaker Roster
Astrophysics:
Zaldarriaga, Matias         Harvard  Cosmology
Blaylock, Guy                 UMass   Gamma Ray Physics
Fisher, Peter                   MIT       Space Physics Overview
Detectors/Data Analysis:
Blocker, Craig                Brandeis   Statistics I
Gay, Colin                      Yale         Statistics II
Surrow, Berdt                 MIT         Calorimetry
Barberis, Ela                   NEU     Tracking Detector Overview
Bensinger, Jim Brandeis   LHC    (designing an experiment)
Ahlen, Steve                    BU      Dark matter detection techniques
Particle Physics Experiment:
Dallapiccola, Carlo          UMass   CP violation in B physics
Morii, Masahiro               Harvard Babar/Belle physics overview
Butler, John                      BU       Tevatron results
Wood, Darien                  NEU     Tevatron physics tour
Landsberg, Greg              Brown   Extra Dim/ Black Holes at FNAL & LHC
Rohlf, Jim                         BU        LHC physics overview
Harris, John                     Yale      Quark-Gluon Plasma at RHIC
Schneps, Jack                 Tufts      Neutrino Oscillations
Particle Theory:
Taylor, Frank                   MIT     EWK-SM Overview
Golowich, Eugene            UMass   Intro to Symmetries
Arkani-Hamed, Nima      Harvard  Extra Dimensions and Beyond

 
 
Schedule and Topics of Talks August 2003


Morning 
9:00-10:30am
Morning
11:00am-12:30pm
Afternoon
2:00-3:30pm
Afternoon
4:00-5:30pm
Monday Energy Loss

Peter Fisher 

Detector Design 1

John Butler / Darien Wood

CP Violation Theory

Eugene Golowich

CP Violation Expt

Gabriela Sciola 

Tuesday SuperSymmetry

Witek Skiba

Large Extra Dimensions

Nima Arkani-Hamed

Free Free
Wednesday Detector Design 2

Darien Wood/ John Butler

Signals, Noise & Electronics
for Particle Detectors (PPT)

John Oliver

Tevatron Expt 1 (PDF) 

Meenakshi Narain

Tevatron Expt 2 

Andy Foland 

Thursday Linear Collider (PPT)

Homer Neal

Neutrino Expt 

Chris Walter

Free Free
Friday Neutrino Overview (PDF)
(off-axis beam)

Gary Feldman

LHC 

John Huth 

Cosmology

Matias Zaldarriaga 

Fundamental Physics
with Cosmic Rays 

Kate Scholberg

Schedule and Topics of Talks from August 2002:

Morning 
9:00-10:30am
Morning
11:00am-12:30pm
Afternoon
2:00-3:30pm
Afternoon
4:00-5:30pm
Monday Data Analysis Methods I
 Likelihood

Craig Blocker 

Energy Loss 

Steve Ahlen 

The Standard Model

Ulrich Heintz 

Higgs

Meenakshi Narain 

Tuesday Data Analysis Methods II (part 1)
Data Analysis Methods II (part 2)

Colin Gay

Neutrino Physics

Ed Kearns 

Free Free
Wednesday Drift Chambers (part 1)
Drift Chambers (part 2)
Drift Chambers (part 3)

Ulrich Becker

Apstroparticle Physics Expts
(powerpoint file)

John Huth

AMS Experiment

Kate Scholberg

CP Violation

Stepahne Willocq 

Thursday Silicon Detectors

Andy Fohland

Experimental Cosmology

Scott Burles

Free Free
Friday Calorimeters

Melissa Franklin

Statistics of Small Samples

Gary Feldman

Neutrino Factories

Gary Feldman

A Theorist's View

Ken Lane


 

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