Free lecture
There's a free public lecture (translation: it's for real humans, not physicists) at Carleton University this Thursday evening on the discovery of the Higgs boson, a feat as complex and important as the landing on the moon. Carleton designed and built a key component of the Atlas detector (the forward calorimeter) right here in Ottawa and are a key player in the analysis of the Atlas data. If you have or know kids that are interested in science, this might be good to drag them out to as well (older kids at least).
I found out that there's a possibility I might be doing my honours project on Higgs data analysis and phenomenology (the bridge between theory and what to look for in real experiments) in between integrating and developing analysis code for a high resolution pixel detector (possibly to test ideas for the nascent International Linear Collider project) and continuing the work I've been doing on cosmic ray science (in my "spare" time, I'm also building a functional desktop proof-of-concept of the satellite-based detector that I proposed and designed last year with the help of some aerospace students). Still too early to say, but we shall see...
Click the image for the lecture information.
I found out that there's a possibility I might be doing my honours project on Higgs data analysis and phenomenology (the bridge between theory and what to look for in real experiments) in between integrating and developing analysis code for a high resolution pixel detector (possibly to test ideas for the nascent International Linear Collider project) and continuing the work I've been doing on cosmic ray science (in my "spare" time, I'm also building a functional desktop proof-of-concept of the satellite-based detector that I proposed and designed last year with the help of some aerospace students). Still too early to say, but we shall see...
Click the image for the lecture information.