TIGER - The Inaugural Workshop of Exploring the Frontiers of Nuclear, Particle, and Astrophysics

9 Apr 2025, 08:00 → 11 Apr 2025, 17:00 US/Central

AUDITORIUM (EDUCATION BUILDING)

Ketevi Adikle Assamagan (BNL), Mateus Carneiro (BNL), Mounia Laassiri (BNL), Niseem (Magdy) Abdelrahman (University of Tennessee, Knoxville), Niseem Abdelrahman (Texas Southern University)

This workshop will cover US-ATLAS, EIC / ePIC, Neutrino Physics, Astrophysics, and Cosmology to explore research and education strategies in these areas of interest at BNL and Texas Southern University. It is open to all people interested in these subjects.

Zoom Link

Code of Conduct.pdf

TIGER.pdf

Wednesday, 9 April ¶

1 TSU Administrators Welcome¶

2 BNL Science Overview¶

3 Nuclear Physics Research at BNL¶

Speaker: Dr Mickey Chiu (Brookhaven National Lab)

10:20 Coffee Break

4 Nuclear Data & Applied Nuclear Science at the National Nuclear Data Center¶

Speaker: Emanuel Chimanski (BNL)

5 The Universe Primordial Soups¶

Speaker: Dr Niseem (Magdy) Abdelrahman (Texas Southern University)

12:00 Lunch

6 TSU COSET Seminar "Programmable quantum matter at ultracold temperatures"¶

https://coset.tsu.edu/research-seminar-23/

April 9, 2025
Location: SB 145
Time: 12:00 pm
Presenter: Kaden Hazzard
Programmable quantum matter at ultracold temperatures
Abstract:
Physicists are using highly controllable quantum systems of ultracold atoms and molecules to explore quantum states of unprecedented complexity. I will discuss our theory work and collaborations with experimentalists to control and understand these systems both in real space and in “synthetic dimensions.” We use atoms in laser-sculpted potential landscapes to study strongly correlated fermions, whose behavior is key to understanding major mysteries in real materials, such as the nature of high-temperature superconductors. Further controlling the internal degrees of freedom — for example molecules’ rotational states — allows one to create “synthetic dimensions,” in which rotational states act analogously to lattice sites in new spatial dimension and microwave radiation drives transitions between these sites, analogous to tunneling. I will discuss the resulting exotic behaviors as well as experiments probing them, from fluctuating quantum strings to paraparticles — a type of particle beyond the conventional bosons and fermions that was thought impossible until recently.
Prof. Hazzard is a theoretical physicists at Rice University studying the properties of interacting quantum matter. He is interested in fundamentally novel emergent properties, such as new phases of matter and types of nonequilibrium dynamics, as well as how to harness these systems for applications in quantum computation and sensing. He obtained his BS from The Ohio State University, his PhD from Cornell, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Colorado and NIST from 2010-2014, and then started his faculty position at Rice in 2014. He was elected as an American Physical Society Fellow in 2023.

7 Introduction to particle physics & applications¶

Speaker: Ketevi Adikle Assamagan (BNL)

8 Physics and computing with ATLAS and US-ATLAS¶

Speaker: Peter Onyisi (U. Texas Austin)

15:20 Coffee Break

9 ATLAS inner Tracker Upgrade¶

Speaker: Mounia Laassiri (BNL)

10 Discussion on Nuclear and Particle Physics & Applications¶

Speakers: Ketevi Adikle Assamagan (BNL), Dr Mickey Chiu (Brookhaven National Lab), Mounia Laassiri (BNL), Dr Niseem (Magdy) Abdelrahman (Texas Southern University), Peter Onyisi (U. Texas Austin)

17:30 Dinner

Thursday, 10 April ¶

11 Environmental, Biological, and Nuclear Physics Research at TSU: A Brief Overview¶

Speaker: Prof. Mark C. Harvey (Texas Southern University)

12 From the Early Universe to Machine Learning: A Brief Overview¶

Speaker: Prof. Daniel Vrinceanu (Texas Southern University)

13 Application of Control Theory Methods to Quantum Edge Dislocation Problems¶

Speaker: Prof. Carlos Handy (Texas Southern University)

14 An intro to neutrino physics and the BNL Neutrino program¶

Speaker: Mateus Carneiro (BNL)

10:25 Coffee Break

15 DUNE experiment physics and computing¶

Speaker: Aaron Higuera Pichardo (faculty@rice.edu;member@rice.edu)

16 Searching new physics with neutrino data¶

Speaker: Dr Daisy Kalra (Columbia University)

12:10 Lunch

17 MASERs: From Protostars to Blackholes¶

Speaker: Prof. Victor Migenes (Texas Southern University)

18 Simulating the Early Universe¶

Speaker: Prof. David Garrison

19 Beyond the Equations, The Universe Round Table¶

This podcast is designed to complement our two-day workshop, where experts from astronomy, nuclear physics, and particle physics collaborate to narrate the fascinating story of our universe. Through in-depth discussions on topics such as the Big Bang, particle creation, galaxy formation, and cosmic discoveries, students will gain a preview of what to expect from the workshop and a thoughtful summary of key insights afterward.

Speaker: Dr Niseem (Magdy) Abdelrahman (Texas Southern University)

20 Closing Remarks¶

Friday, 11 April ¶

Meeting with TSU Administrators¶