Bulletin of the American Physical Society
17th Annual Meeting of the APS Northwest Section
Volume 61, Number 7
Thursday–Saturday, May 12–14, 2016; Penticton, British Columbia, Canada
Session A1: Plenary Session I |
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Chair: James Imamura, University of Oregon Room: PC 113 |
Friday, May 13, 2016 8:30AM - 8:45AM |
A1.00001: Welcome Welcome remarks will be made by the Local Organizing Committee, the president of Okanagan College (Jim Hamilton), and the chair of the NW-APS (James Imamura). [Preview Abstract] |
Friday, May 13, 2016 8:45AM - 9:20AM |
A1.00002: The sun shines brightest at night: Reflections on the solar neutrino problem. Invited Speaker: Hamish Robertson The flux of neutrinos from the sun's core depends on the rate at which the sun produces energy, a testable prediction as Ray Davis realized in the early 1960s. How that test turned out is one of the best-known and most dramatic stories in physics. With the hindsight of our current understanding, it is interesting to look back at the experimental and theoretical steps that led to the disclosure of new properties of nature. It was a truly international adventure, but the US played a particularly strong role in these achievements. The study of solar neutrinos continues to offer tantalizing scientific rewards, and we conclude with a look at what the future might hold. [Preview Abstract] |
Friday, May 13, 2016 9:20AM - 9:55AM |
A1.00003: Discovery of Neutrino Oscillation by Super-Kamiokande Invited Speaker: Akira Konaka At the Neutrino 98 Conference in Takayama, Japan, Super-Kamiokande collaboration announced an evidence of neutrino oscillation observed in atmospheric neutrinos. The discovery indicated that neutrinos has mass and their flavours mixes, which was beyond the standard model which assumed neutrinos to be massless. The discovery followed by an era of series of neutrino oscillation measurements. Prof. Takaaki Kajita received~ Nobel prize with Art McDonald for the discovery of neutrino oscillation last year. In this talk,~ I will review this discovery measurement, in particular how the collaboration was convinced that the neutrino oscillation exists under significant uncertainties in atmospheric neutrino flux and their interaction cross sections. [Preview Abstract] |
Friday, May 13, 2016 9:55AM - 10:30AM |
A1.00004: Probing Physics at the Energy Frontier with the Large Hadron Collider Invited Speaker: Alison Lister The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) located at CERN in Switzerland is colliding beams of protons at the energy frontier, currently running at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. Both the ATLAS and CMS experiments as well as the LHC accelerator are performing well, allowing us to probe a wide range of knew physics scenarios, hoping to unveil some of the mysteries of our universe. Both direct searches for new particles and interactions as well as precision measurements of known processes will be presented, providing a broad overview of the physics highlights from the ATLAS and CMS experiments, including many recent results from the 2015 data run. [Preview Abstract] |
Friday, May 13, 2016 10:30AM - 11:00AM |
A1.00005: COFFEE BREAK
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Friday, May 13, 2016 11:00AM - 11:35AM |
A1.00006: Gravity and Entanglement Invited Speaker: Mark Van Raamsdonk The AdS/CFT correspondence from string theory provides a quantum theory of gravity in which spacetime and gravitational physics emerge from an ordinary non-gravitational system with many degrees of freedom. In this talk, I will explain how quantum entanglement between these degrees of freedom is crucial for the emergence of a classical spacetime, and describe progress in understanding how spacetime dynamics (gravitation) arises from the physics of quantum entanglement. [Preview Abstract] |
Friday, May 13, 2016 11:35AM - 12:10PM |
A1.00007: Spin impurities and interactions in graphene Invited Speaker: Joshua Folk Graphene was once hailed as the material of the future for spintronics applications, both classical and quantum, with the potential for extremely high coherence while offering the chance to tailor spin interactions for efficient spin control. Very quickly, experimental data put a damper on these high hopes. Measurement after measurement has indicated that graphene, in practice, is not the dream material for spintronics that it should, in principle, be: it is hard or impossible to generate long spin coherence times, while at the same time it is much more difficult than anticipated to engineer interactions for deterministic spin control. The difficulty of spintronics in graphene has the silver lining of offering a fascinating testbed for understanding how spins interact in what should be a ``simple'' physical system. This talk will describe a set of experiments that uncover, in graphene, many of the effects that have highlighted spin physics in metals for the last several decades, from Kondo effect to RKKY interaction to dephasing from local moments. Where the local moments come from, and how to control them, are questions that we are just turning to now. [Preview Abstract] |
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