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Workshop: Scientific Ballooning Technologies
Friday, May 19, 2023, 9:20 a.m. through Friday, May 19, 2023, 5:50 p.m.
The workshop will be held Keller Hall rooms 3-180 and 3-176, 200 Union Street, Minneapolis, MN.
Following on the successful format of the last four workshops, the scope of the 2023 workshop includes (but is not limited to) gondola design, experiment-wide data acquisition and control systems, attitude control systems, on-board control software both for the attitude control and for the entire experiment, on-board computer hardware, power systems, telemetry systems, and thermal design and control.
This workshop should be particularly appealing for those who are designing and building hardware, and those interested in synergies between the activities of different ballooning groups. It is intended to provide an opportunity for all hands-on ballooning practitioners, from graduate students to senior investigators, to discuss the technologies we are all using to carry out our scientific investigations.
Full details on the Conference website.
Workshop: 50 Years of Supersymmetry
Friday, May 19, 2023, 9 a.m. through Friday, May 19, 2023, 4:30 p.m.
The workshop will be held in Keller Hall 3-180 (street level)
200 Union Street Se, Mpls
Participation in the workshop is by invitation only. If you would like to participate, please contact ftpi@umn.edu.
Workshop: 50 Years of Supersymmetry
Thursday, May 18, 2023, 9 a.m. through Thursday, May 18, 2023, 4:30 p.m.
The workshop will be held in Keller Hall 3-180 (street level)
200 Union Street Se, Mpls
Participation in the workshop is by invitation only. If you would like to participate, please contact ftpi@umn.edu.
Workshop: Scientific Ballooning Technologies
Wednesday, May 17, 2023, 8 a.m. through Wednesday, May 17, 2023, 5:30 p.m.
The workshop will be held Keller Hall rooms 3-180 and 3-176, 200 Union Street, Minneapolis, MN.
Following on the successful format of the last four workshops, the scope of the 2023 workshop includes (but is not limited to) gondola design, experiment-wide data acquisition and control systems, attitude control systems, on-board control software both for the attitude control and for the entire experiment, on-board computer hardware, power systems, telemetry systems, and thermal design and control.
This workshop should be particularly appealing for those who are designing and building hardware, and those interested in synergies between the activities of different ballooning groups. It is intended to provide an opportunity for all hands-on ballooning practitioners, from graduate students to senior investigators, to discuss the technologies we are all using to carry out our scientific investigations.
For a better idea of the content expected at this event, please check out the previous workshops and presentations, available under the Past Events tab.
Wednesday, 5/17/2023, Times are CST | Topic / Title | |||||||
Chair: | Wednesday Morning 1 - Agency Reviews | Presenter | Affiliation | Abstract | ||||
0:50 | 8:00 | 8:50 | Breakfast | |||||
0:10 | 8:50 | 9:00 | Opening Remarks | Hanany | UMN | None | ||
0:20 | 9:00 | 9:20 | NASA Scientific Balloon Program, HQ Perspective | Hams | NASA HQ | Abstract Link | ||
0:20 | 9:20 | 9:40 | Updates from the NASA Balloon Program Office | Roth | BPO | Abstract Link | ||
0:15 | 9:40 | 9:55 | NASA's Balloon Working Group | Kogut | Goddard | Abstract Link | ||
0:15 | 9:55 | 10:10 | BPIRT update | Jones | Princeton | To Be Posted | ||
0:20 | 10:10 | 10:30 | Break | |||||
Chair: | Wednesday Morning 2 - Multi-Purpose Platforms | Presenter | Affiliation | Abstract | ||||
0:20 | 10:30 | 10:50 | An update of the CNES stratospheric balloon projects | Dubourg | CNES | Abstract Link | ||
0:20 | 10:50 | 11:10 | NASA’s Flight Opportunities Program: Leveraging Flight Tests with Commercial Flight Providers to Advance Science and Technology | deLeon |
NASA Flight Opportunities |
Abstract Link | ||
0:20 | 11:10 | 11:30 | Panel (Young moderates): GHAPS (Tibor Kremic), BLAST (Erin Cox), SuperBit (Bill Jones), HASP (Chris Groppi/ASU), ESBO (Maier); Laflamme (CSA) | |||||
0:20 | 11:30 | 11:50 | ||||||
0:10 | 11:50 | 12:00 | ||||||
1:10 | 12:00 | 13:10 | Lunch Break | |||||
Chair: | Wednesday afternoon 1 - Flight Programs | Presenter | Affiliation | Abstract | ||||
0:20 | 13:10 | 13:30 | Developing GUSTO within the Explorer program | Walker | UArizona | Abstract Link | ||
0:20 | 13:30 | 13:50 | Developing PUEO within the Pioneer program | Vieregg | UChicago | Abstract Link | ||
0:15 | 13:50 | 14:10 | What's new in Timmins | Vincent | CSA | Abstract Link | ||
0:15 | 14:10 | 14:25 | Esrange Space Center for Scientific Balloning | Abrahamsson | SSC | Abstract Link | ||
0:20 | 14:25 | 14:45 | Opportunities for Middle to Lower Stratosphere Flights | Smith | Aerostar | Abstract Link | ||
0:30 | 14:45 | 15:15 | Break + Posters | |||||
Chair: | Wednesday afternoon 2 - Atmosphere | Presenter | Affiliation | Abstract | ||||
0:20 | 15:15 | 15:35 | Polar Mesospheric Clouds - potential problems and opportunities for polar balloon experiments | Kjellstrand | ASU | Abstract Link | ||
0:20 | 15:35 | 15:55 | Radiative Consideration of Earth’s Stratosphere Modeled with MODTRAN and SAMM | Corlies | Spectral Sciences | Abstract Link | ||
0:20 | 15:55 | 16:15 | A Study on the Effects of Ambient Radiation on COTS Balloon-borne Instrumentation | Romualdez | StarSpec | Abstract Link | ||
0:20 | 16:15 | 16:35 | The effects of atmospheric scattering on balloon-borne X-ray/gamma-ray observations | Shih | Goddard | Abstract Link | ||
0:20 | 16:35 | 16:55 | An update on a balloon Trajectory Control System (TCS) for NASA standard balloons | Yoder | BPO | Abstract Link | ||
0:40 | 16:55 | 17:35 | Summary + Discussion (Moderator: Kierans) |
Physics Force in Rochester
Friday, May 12, 2023, 7 p.m. through Friday, May 12, 2023, 8 p.m.
Mayo Civic Auditorium, Rochester, MN
The Physics Force is an outreach program run through the University of Minnesota. Our greatest success is generating an interest in science in K-12 students. We go above and beyond to educate and entertain. The Physics Force does performances on a grand scale to bring excitement and wonder to the thousands of students who attend our shows every year. The show lasts approximately one hour and is appropriate for people of all ages.
Event is free and open to the public, but registration is required.
Clone of Quark Confiement Workshop
Wednesday, May 3, 2023, 8:50 p.m. through Wednesday, May 3, 2023, 4:30 p.m.
Keller Hall 3-180/Tate Hall B50
Wednesday, May 3rd
9:00 am – 9:30 am Grant Remmen
9:30 am – 9:40 am Questions
9:40 am – 10:10 am Coffee
10:10 am – 11:10 am Four 10+5 talks:
(1) TBD
(2) Gabriel Cuomo
(3) Maria Neuzil
(4) Yuan Xin
11:10 am – 11:25 am Short talk questions
11:25 am – 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 pm – 2:00 pm Georg Bergner
2:00 pm – 2:10 pm Questions
2:10 pm – 2:40 pm Coffee
2:40 pm – 3:10 pm Etsuko Itou
3:10 pm – 3:20 pm Questions
3:20 pm – 3:50 pm Coffee
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Colloquium by David Gross
John T. Tate Hall
116 Church St SE
Room - B50
Registration is required for workshop and registration is now closed.
Erikson Lecture: David Gross, Kavli Institute, UCSB
Wednesday, May 3, 2023, 4 p.m. through Wednesday, May 3, 2023, 5 p.m.
B50 Tate/Remote option:
Zoom: https://umn.zoom.us/j/99621284022
ABSTRACT: Quantum Chromodynamics is fifty years old this year. I shall discuss the past, present and future of this remarkable theory.
The strong nuclear force is responsible for existence and masses of the building blocks of matter, protons and neutrons. Protons and neutrons are made of quarks, and the nuclear force between quarks is that it grows with distance, so that quarks are confined to be inside of protons and neutrons. This phenomenon was first understood in a famous paper on April 27, 1973, and its groundbreaking nature led to a 2004 Physics Nobel Prize for its authors David Gross and Frank Wilczek, along with David Politzer. On May 3, 2023, which is 50 years later, almost to the day, Professor David Gross will give a talk about Quark Confinement here at UMN, reviewing the present and future of quantum chromodynamics, the quantum field theory of the strong nuclear force.
Quark Confiement Workshop
Tuesday, May 2, 2023, 8:50 p.m. through Tuesday, May 2, 2023, 4:30 p.m.
Keller Hall 3-180/Tate Hall B50
Tuesday, May 2nd
8:50 am – 9:00 am Welcome Remarks
9:00 am – 9:30 am Raju Venugopalan
9:30 am – 9:40 am Questions
9:40 am – 10:10 am Coffee
10:10 am – 11:10 am Four 10+5 talks:
(1) Shi Chen
(2) TBD
(3) Fedor Popov
(4) Bastain Brandt
11:10 am – 11:25 am Short talk questions
11:25 am – 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 pm – 2:00 pm Theo Jacobson
2:00 pm – 2:10 pm Questions
2:10 pm – 2:40 pm Coffee
2:40 pm – 3:10 pm Ross Dempsey
3:10 pm – 3:20 pm Questions
3:20 pm – 3:50 pm Coffee
3:50 pm – 4:20 pm Martin Kruczenski
4:20 pm – 4:30 pm Questions
Registration is required for workshop and registration is now closed.
Methods of Experimental Physics Poster Session
Friday, April 28, 2023, 2:30 p.m. through Friday, April 28, 2023, 4:30 p.m.
Tate Basement Atrium
Everyone is invited!
Colloquium: Nuh Gedik, MIT
Thursday, April 27, 2023, 3:35 p.m. through Thursday, April 27, 2023, 4:35 p.m.
B50 Tate
Student scholarship/fellowship award ceremony before colloquium.
Abstract: Materials typically undergo phase changes as a function of external parameters such as temperature, pressure or magnetic field. Light can also be used to both switch between equilibrium phases and to create new photo-induced states that may have no equilibrium counterparts. Even though there are fascinating examples of photoinduced phase transitions, the detailed microscopic mechanisms and overarching principles that govern these are still not known. In this talk, I will describe how we used ultrashort laser pulses to capture light induced melting and recovery of a charge density wave phase with femtosecond time resolution. During this process, a new state that does not exist in equilibrium is also transiently created. In a different material, I will show how circularly polarized light can induce and detect a chiral phase of electrons. Understanding light induced phase transitions could pave the way for optical engineering of new quantum states of matter.
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