NEW ENGLAND PARTICLE PHYSICS STUDENT RETREAT (NEPPSR)

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Our first workshop ended succesfully
A proof of how much fun we had:  Click here for the pictures

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We are planning a New England wide week-long retreat for new graduate  students in experimental high energy particle physics. It will take place in New Hampshire's White Mountains at the Lexington Ski Club Lodge in North Woodstock NH. 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 available.

The retreat is being held at the rustic Lodge of the Lexington Ski Club in North Woodstock NH. There will be a welcoming reception Sunday evening, August 18, and breakfast, lunch and dinner will be served at the lodge on Monday through Friday. There will be time off for outings at various times during the week: there are many beautiful hiking trails in the area or one can ride a gondola to the top of Canon Mountain and a steam train to the top of Mount Washington (NE's highest peak). Other nearby attractions are a water slide and a microbrewery.

Accommodations at the lodge range from private rooms to shared rooms with several bunks. Although linens and towels will be provided we'll be expected to make our own beds and do our own meeting space setup. As a result we will be able to keep the cost of the week low. Currently we are estimating that the retreat will cost approximately $250 per student for the entire week.

Whether you are a student or a faculty member we hope you will plan to attend the retreat. Although it is targeted towards graduate students between their first and second years, it may also be appropriate to invite incoming students. At this point we are looking for solid expressions of interest so that we can better estimate numbers and fill out our list of seminar leaders. The capacity of the lodge is about 75 people, and we think somewhere around 25 students and 10 faculty will be a critical mass. Actual signups for the retreat together with a deposit will be requested early next year. If you are interested please contact your local member of the organizing committee.

We hope that this event will be an exciting one for both students and faculty! And our hope is that this will not be a one time occurrence, but that it will become an annual tradition.
 

   Craig Blocker
   George Brandenburg
    Peter Fisher
    Andy Foland
    Colin Gay
    Meenakshi Narain
    Kate Scholberg
    Krzysztof Sliwa
    John Swain
    Stephane Willocq

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 NEPPSR Registration Form (MSWord)
NEPPSR Registration Form (PDF)

Topics and Schedule:

	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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