Bulletin of the American Physical Society
Annual Meeting of the Four Corners Section of the APS
Volume 57, Number 11
Friday–Saturday, October 26–27, 2012; Socorro, New Mexico
Session K1: Plenary Session III -- Closing |
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Chair: Shufang Su, University of Arizona Room: Macey Center Main Auditorium |
Saturday, October 27, 2012 2:35PM - 3:11PM |
K1.00001: The Higgs Boson: What Do We Know, and How Do We Know It? Invited Speaker: Erich Varnes For several decades, the Standard Model of particle physics appeared to be both accurate (confirmed repeatedly by experiment) and incomplete (in the that Higgs Boson, one of its necessary components, had not been detected). This situation changed dramatically this past summer, when the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the Large Hadron Collider discovered a new particle that had many of the characteristics expected of the Higgs Boson. I will discuss the importance of the Higgs Boson in the Standard Model, the experimental techniques used to search for it, our current level of understanding, and the steps to be taken to improve that understanding. [Preview Abstract] |
Saturday, October 27, 2012 3:11PM - 3:47PM |
K1.00002: Materials @ LANL: Solutions for National Security Challenges Invited Speaker: David Teter Materials science activities impact many programmatic missions at LANL including nuclear weapons, nuclear energy, renewable energy, global security and nonproliferation. An overview of the LANL materials science strategy and examples of materials science programs will be presented. Major materials leadership areas are in materials dynamics, actinides and correlated electron materials, materials in radiation extremes, energetic materials, integrated nanomaterials and complex functional materials. Los Alamos is also planning a large-scale, signature science facility called MaRIE (Matter Radiation Interactions in Extremes) to address in-situ characterization of materials in dynamic and radiation environments using multiple high energy probes. An overview of this facility will also be presented. [Preview Abstract] |
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