Nuclear and Particle Physics: Recent Discoveries

Friday, October 12, 2012: 10:15 AM-11:45 AM
616 (WSCC)
Chair:
David Ernst, PhD, Professor, Vanderbilt University

Description: Nuclear and particle physics explore our knowledge of the basic laws of physics. Exciting recent results in the areas of fundamental symmetries, neutrinos, and QCD will be presented.

Sponsored by: National Society of Hispanic Physicists



10:15 AM
Introductory Remarks
10:20 AM
How the Higgs Boson was Discovered
Ayana Arce, PhD , Assistant Professor , Duke University
10:40 AM
Searching for a fourth neutrino
David Ernst, PhD , Professor , Vanderbilt University
11:00 AM
Using nuclei to test fundamental symmetries
Alejandro Garcia, PhD , Professor , University of Washington
11:20 AM
Quantum Chromo-Dynamics via hadron/meso spectroscopy
Carlos Salgado, PhD , Professor , Norfolk State University