Bulletin of the American Physical Society
2012 Annual Meeting of the California-Nevada Section of the APS
Volume 57, Number 13
Friday–Saturday, November 2–3, 2012; San Luis Obispo, California
Session F1: Plenary Session II |
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Room: Phillips Hall 006-0124 |
Saturday, November 3, 2012 9:00AM - 9:45AM |
F1.00001: Energy, Sustainability, Collaboration: Learning it, Teaching it, and Living it -- At Cal Poly, in Guatemala, and at Home Invited Speaker: Pete Schwartz Three questions have become important to me: \begin{enumerate} \item ``What is the future of our energy dilemma, and how can I participate toward a solution?'' Since 2007, I have been teaching ``Energy, Society, and the Environment'' at Cal Poly as well as developing and analyzing renewable energy technologies. In the process I have learned as much as my students. This interest was initially sparked by making ``sustainable'' changes to my home and lifestyle, and has since fueled constant domestic experimentation. \item The above question extends to ``Environmental Justice'', which is essentially a question of ``who benefits and who suffers as a result of our societal choices?'' For the past three years, I've developed and directed a collaborative (Guatemalan/Cal Poly) appropriate technology field school. Students from both countries learn together during the two-month summer program in a small mountain village in Guatemala (www.guateca.com). \item ``What happens to learning efficacy when students become friends?'' For the past three years, I've been actively engaged with a group of Cal Poly instructors in a quest to create community in the learning environment (www.sustainslo.org). Additionally, I've begun to teach all my classes ``inside out'', consistent with the advice of Physics Nobel Prize Laureate Carl Weiman (\textit{Science}, 13 May \textbf{2011, } VOL 332 862 -- 864). Students learn the material at home by reading or watching videos available on the web. This opens up class time for guided discussion, experimentation, and calculations. The Guateca field school provides an extreme example of this principle, as all the students \textit{do} become friends{\ldots}. with very interesting results. \end{enumerate} [Preview Abstract] |
Saturday, November 3, 2012 9:45AM - 10:30AM |
F1.00002: Search for Extremely High Energy Neutrinos Invited Speaker: Steven Barwick Dedicated high-energy neutrino telescopes based on optical Cherenkov techniques have been scanning the cosmos for about a decade. Consequently, neutrino flux limits have improved by several orders of magnitude in the TeV-PeV energy interval. At higher energies, detectors using radio Cherenkov techniques have produced aggressive limits on the neutrino flux. In this talk, we summarize current efforts to search for sources of high energy neutrinos and describe a novel concept for the next generation of astrophysical neutrino detection, called ARIANNA, which takes advantage of unique geophysical features of the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica. ARIANNA, based on the radio Cherenkov technique, is designed to improve the sensitivity to neutrinos with energies in excess of 10^17 eV by at least a factor of 10 relative to current limits. We describe the physics motivation for ARIANNA, which includes a measurement of the GZK neutrino flux, whose existence is relatively secure but frustratingly small, and the search for non standard particle physics. We outline our progress in the development of the Hexagonal Radio Array, the first stage of ARIANNA that was approved by the US NSF in 2010. [Preview Abstract] |
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