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Winter 2014:
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Jan. 30th |
1pm |
Tim Andeen |
The ATLAS Experiment, from Nevis to CERN |
Columbia University has a large team of scientists working on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. Scientists from Nevis have been involved in every aspect of the experiment. Significant components of ATLAS were developed and built at Nevis and work continues upgrading the detector. The latest searches for physics beyond the Standard Model will be discussed as we look forward to even higher energy collisions in 2015 and beyond. |
Lunch at 12:30 pm |
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Feb. 18th |
1pm |
Jose Alonso |
Pushing the Envelope of Cyclotron Technology: from Medical Applications to Neutrino Sources |
The Cyclotron, patented by E.O. Lawrence in 1934, has traditionally been a tool for nuclear physicists to study properties of nuclei. Even from the earliest days, however, applications of the beams from these machines in other fields have played an important role. Glenn Seaborg, in 1938 proposed the first use of an iodine isotope he discovered at the 27” cyclotron as a medical tracer, and in that same year Ernest's brother John Lawrence developed a program of treating tumors with neutrons from cyclotron beams hitting beryllium targets. Today cyclotrons are in widespread use: for radioisotope production, for cancer therapy with proton beams, and for increasingly-diversified programs in nuclear and particle physics research. This talk will cover the range of applications, and the evolution of machines optimized for each, and will explore new developments, from compact superconducting machines tailored for medical uses, up to and including a new project for development of very high-current cyclotrons as compact, cost-effective neutrino sources. |
Lunch at 12:30 pm |
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Feb. 27th |
1pm |
Mike Hahn |
Evidence for Wave Heating in the Solar Corona |
One of the major problems in astrophysics is to understand how the solar corona is heated to over a million degrees. In this talk I will review the coronal heating problem, its possible solutions, and present our results indicating that waves carry energy into the corona from lower layers of the Sun. |
Lunch at 12:30 pm |
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Mar. 27th |
1pm |
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Lunch at 12:30 pm |
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Apr. 24th |
1pm |
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Lunch at 12:30 pm |
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Thursday Jan. 30th |
1pm |
Tim Andeen |
The ATLAS Experiment, from Nevis to CERN |
Columbia University has a large team of scientists working on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. Scientists from Nevis have been involved in every aspect of the experiment. Significant components of ATLAS were developed and built at Nevis and work continues upgrading the detector. The latest searches for physics beyond the Standard Model will be discussed as we look forward to even higher energy collisions in 2015 and beyond. |
Lunch at 12:30 pm |
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Tuesday Feb. 18th |
1pm |
Jose Alonso |
Pushing the Envelope of Cyclotron Technology: from Medical Applications to Neutrino Sources |
The Cyclotron, patented by E.O. Lawrence in 1934, has traditionally been a tool for nuclear physicists to study properties of nuclei. Even from the earliest days, however, applications of the beams from these machines in other fields have played an important role. Glenn Seaborg, in 1938 proposed the first use of an iodine isotope he discovered at the 27” cyclotron as a medical tracer, and in that same year Ernest's brother John Lawrence developed a program of treating tumors with neutrons from cyclotron beams hitting beryllium targets. Today cyclotrons are in widespread use: for radioisotope production, for cancer therapy with proton beams, and for increasingly-diversified programs in nuclear and particle physics research. This talk will cover the range of applications, and the evolution of machines optimized for each, and will explore new developments, from compact superconducting machines tailored for medical uses, up to and including a new project for development of very high-current cyclotrons as compact, cost-effective neutrino sources. |
Lunch at 12:30 pm |
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Thursday Feb. 27th |
1pm |
Mike Hahn |
Evidence for Wave Heating in the Solar Corona |
One of the major problems in astrophysics is to understand how the solar corona is heated to over a million degrees. In this talk I will review the coronal heating problem, its possible solutions, and present our results indicating that waves carry energy into the corona from lower layers of the Sun. |
Lunch at 12:30 pm |
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Thursday Mar. 27th |
1pm |
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Lunch at 12:30 pm |
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Thursday Apr. 24th |
1pm |
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Lunch at 12:30 pm |
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Fall 2013:
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