Bulletin of the American Physical Society
2016 Fall Meeting of the APS Division of Nuclear Physics
Volume 61, Number 13
Thursday–Sunday, October 13–16, 2016; Vancouver, BC, Canada
Session KB: Award SessionInvited
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Sponsoring Units: DNP Chair: Gordon Cates, University of Virginia Room: Pavilion Ballroom D |
Saturday, October 15, 2016 2:00PM - 2:36PM |
KB.00001: Mentoring is a Lifelong Activity Invited Speaker: Joseph Hamilton One of the greatest personal benefits of mentoring and working with graduate students and postdoctoral fellows is the life-long journey together. Having graduate students who keep up with you, ask advice and sometimes get it when they haven't asked for it, being able to help them find a job, and in some cases, continuing to do research together for over 50 years is a real gift. Seeing the success of your students in their own research programs, or as Professors, or in industry, makes me feel proud like I do in my children, and when we gather at conferences, it does seem like a family. [Preview Abstract] |
Saturday, October 15, 2016 2:36PM - 3:12PM |
KB.00002: Extreme Cold and the Slowest Process Ever Measured Invited Speaker: Jonathan L. Ouellet Why is there something instead of nothing? How did the Universe come to be dominated by matter over anti-matter? This is the question of the baryon asymmetry of the Universe, and it is one of the great unanswered questions in modern physics. Can neutrinos --- the most elusive particles in the Standard Model --- shed any light on this question? CUORE is a ton scale bolometric detector operating a mile underground in Gran Sasso, Italy, searching for a process called Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay. If observed, this would give concrete evidence that the neutrino is its own anti-particle --- unique amongst the fermions in the Standard Model --- and open the possibility that neutrinos played a role in the dominance of matter in our Universe. In this talk, I will give a brief outline of the physics involved in the CUORE experiment, and summarize the achievements made during the first phase of CUORE, called CUORE-0. [Preview Abstract] |
Saturday, October 15, 2016 3:12PM - 3:48PM |
KB.00003: Barriers in the Physics Pipeline from K-12 to Tenure Invited Speaker: Micha Kilburn The lack of diversity in physics is a known problem, and yet efforts to change our demographics have only had minor effects during the last decade. I will explain some of the hidden barriers that dissuade underrepresented minorities in becoming physicists using a framework borrowed from sociology, Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. I will draw from current research at the undergraduate to faculty levels over a variety of STEM fields that are also addressing a lack of diversity. I will also provide analysis from the Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics Center for the Evolution of Elements (JINA-CEE) outreach programs to understand the likelihood of current K-12 students in becoming physicists. Specifically, I will present results from the pre-surveys from our Art 2 Science Camps (ages 8-14) about their attitudes towards science as well as results from analysis of teacher recommendations for our high school summer program. I will conclude with a positive outlook describing the pipeline created by JINA-CEE to retain students from middle school through college. [Preview Abstract] |
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