Physics Department Summer Lectures 2025

Jun 9, 2025, 1:15 PM → Jul 31, 2025, 2:30 PM US/Eastern

Large Seminar Room and Zoom (Hybrid)

Mateus Carneiro (BNL)

The Physics Department Summer Lecture series introduces the latest research in nuclear and particle physics being pursued at Brookhaven Lab at a level appropriate for advanced undergraduate STEM students and beginning graduate students.  The series will include lectures on the Standard Model of particle physics, Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), current and future nuclear and particle physics experiments and introductory cosmology.  The lectures will cover both theoretical concepts  as well as detector technologies and the latest experimental and computational techniques.

Lectures for summer 2025 will be held Hybrid  and recorded. To attend the lectures please use this Zoom Link .

Monday, June 9

1:15 PM → 1:25 PM Welcome Remarks

Speaker: Hong Ma (BNL)

Welcome-Summer-Lectures-2025.pdf

1:30 PM → 2:30 PM Standard Model: Necessary but not Sufficient.

Hosted by: Robert Szafron

Speaker: Hooman Davoudiasl (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

SULI-lecture-2025.pdf

Monday, June 16

2:00 PM → 3:00 PM Re-Engineering the Big Bang: The Physics of Heavy Ion Collisions

Hosted by: Rachid Nouicer

Speaker: James Dunlop (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

recording

Monday, June 23

1:30 PM → 2:30 PM Introduction to Flavor Physics

Hosted by: Robert Szafron

Speaker: Michel Hernandez Villanueva (BNL)

Monday, June 30

1:30 PM → 2:30 PM Introduction to QCD and spin physics

Hosted by: Peter Petreczky

Speaker: Yoshitaka Hatta (BNL)

Monday, July 7

1:30 PM → 2:30 PM Introduction Neutrino Physics

Hosted by: Mateus Carneiro

Speaker: Jay Hyun Jo (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Monday, July 14

1:30 PM → 2:30 PM Cosmology

Hosted by: Robert Szafron

Speaker: Anze Slosar (BNL)

Monday, July 21

1:30 PM → 2:30 PM Physics of the Beauty (quark) and the Higgs (boson) at the LHC

Hosted by: Stefania Stucci

Speaker: Giacinto Piacquadio (SBU)

Monday, July 28

12:30 PM → 1:30 PM Pizza Party

1:30 PM → 2:30 PM EIC

Hosted by: Rachid Nouicer

Speaker: Thomas Ullrich (BNL)

Thursday, July 31

1:30 PM → 2:30 PM Sambamurti Lecture

Hosted by: Mateus Carneiro

https://sambamurti.phy.bnl.gov/