It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, getting out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.
Particle astrophysics lies at the rich interface between astrophysics, cosmology and fundamental physics. It aims to find answers for the most fundamental questions about our universe, its origin and evolution, using the complementary information provided by the cosmic messengers that arrive to us: cosmic rays, neutrinos, photons and gravitational waves.
This lecture aims at telling the story...
Title: Canada and the Square Kilometre Array
Abstract: The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is a next-generation radio astronomy observatory being built by 16 partner countries that will enable transformational science about the history, contents, and extreme conditions in the Universe. It is one of the largest science projects in history, and Canada will soon be a full member! This talk will...
A beginner’s guide to Radio Telescopes and Interferometers.
In this talk I will be giving an overview of how radio telescopes operate and why we use them. I will start by giving a basic overview of single-dish telescopes and interferometers as well as their applications in radio astronomy. I will continue by introducing Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI), the most extreme form of...
C++ is an object-oriented successor to the programming language C and has become one of the most common programming languages used today. It sees widespread commercial use in video games, web services, robotics, and many other areas. In physics research, it is commonly used in simulation software packages like GEANT4, or analysis packages like CERN ROOT.
In this talk, it is assumed that...
In this two-hour whirlwind session, I'll introduce basic principles of frequentist and Bayesian statistics and illustrate the most common statistical techniques used in particle physics.
Title: Neutrinos: past, present and future
Abstract: I will present a brief history of neutrino physics to give context to the current experimental and theoretical pursuits in the field. I will highlight the story of the solar neutrino problem and its resolution in Canada.
Managing a project is fun when it's just you. Once two or more people all need to collaborate on a project - a software package, a paper, a poster - it's very easy to begin stepping on each other's toes as you pursue ideas separately and together. Git is a collaborative project management system, designed for software developers, that allows for asynchronous collaborative development. In this...
Title: The Super-Kamiokande and the Hyper-Kamiokande Experiment
The discovery of neutrino oscillation in atmospheric neutrinos by the Super-Kamiokande (Super-K) and solar neutrinos by the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) led to the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics. Super-K has been a long-running neutrino experiment using Water Cherenkov Detector for more than 20 years using ultra-pure water...
The Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS) is an array of four 12 m Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs), located at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory in Arizona, USA, that has been in full array operation since 2007. VERITAS conducts research in a variety of areas including galactic science such as supernova remnants, pulsar wind nebulae, binary...
Through the telling of historical facts and stories, you'll learn
about how particle accelerators work and some of the ways accelerators
are used for fundamental research. In this talk, I'll also introduce some
of the well-known particle accelerators used for discovery research
around the world, and some of the future ideas!
The degree of matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe is currently unexplained by the Standard Model. While the required forms of symmetry breaking are present in the standard model, in particular CP symmetry breaking, the observed systems are not enough to explain the current asymmetry. A particle with a permanent electric dipole moment (EDM) breaks CP symmetry, and so precision EDM...
A tutorial on programming with ROOT!
ROOT is a c/c++ environment developed at CERN to provide tools for manipulating, analysing and displaying high energy physics data. It includes a lot of advanced systems.
This will be an introduction to basic routines to simulate some data, process it and display useful graphs. There will be a short presentation, followed by tutorial exercises. It will...
