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Faculty Mentoring of Undergraduates, Part 2

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Syllabus: Introduction Questions and Poll Question Window Poll Career Stages Question Fostering Independence What is Independence Growth vs Fixed Mindset Growth Mindset Growth Mindset Ideas Mental Health Mentoring Resources Poll Question Final Scenario M…

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Weak Decays as a Window to New Physics

Syllabus: Intro The Standard Model Beyond Standard Model Flavor Problem New Physics Evidence Neutral Measures CP Violations J SciFi Summary Conclusions New Experiments Beta Equation

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The Nuclear and Particle Physics of Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay

Syllabus: Introduction History Neutrino List Type Isotopes Nuclear Pairing Force Neutrino Mode vs Neutrino Mode Neutrino Mode Guide Parity lepton number the weak interaction the two possibilities the Dirac equation the mass matrix neutrino mass standard…

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Cosmic Neutrinos in the IceCube Detector

Syllabus: Intro Energy Argument Outline Charged Particles Cosmic Neutrinos Gamma Rays Why High Energy Neutrinos IceCube Astrophysical Neutrinos Neutrinos vs Muons Cosmic neutrino astrophysics diffuse flux Marcos Summary Looking Forward Neutrino Astronomy…

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The Discovery and Characterization of a Higgs Boson

Syllabus: Intro Discovery and early characterization of a Higgs boson The Standard Model (SM) Why do we need the Higgs? Like Swiss chocolate Accelerator & Detectors Narrow Peaks Emphasis on its properties Is it Higgs boson? Two important fingerprints' Do…

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The Quest for Dark Matter

Syllabus: Intro Big Bang Nucleosynthesis Cosmic Microwave Background Structure Formation Cluster Mergers, e.g. Bullet Cluster Typical Rotation Curve: M33 Dark Matter Has Been Discovered have evidence at all time scales and vast length scales have no clue…

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Magnetism as the emergent phenomena

Syllabus: Magnetism as the emergent phenomena Spin-orbital superstructures Case of Colossal Magnetoresistance (CMR) Bicrticality enhances the response. Phase Control of Correlated Electrons Transverse spiral spin structure produces ferroelectricity Polar…

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Deciphering Electron Matter in Novel Superconductors

Syllabus: Deciphering Electron Matter in Unconventional Superconductors Outline Power Grid: 20th Century Engineering History - BCS Theory (1957) Notes Superconductivity originates in an attractive phonon- induced quas particle (QP) interaction Bardeen an…

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Ultracold Atoms and Molecules - Deborah Jin

Syllabus: Intro Outline The quantum atom A ultracold gas of atoms Uses for ultracold gases Why? Many-body quantum physic Many-body quantum physics 1995 Ultracold quantum gases Cooling a gas of atoms Apparatus Many-body quantum physics • Study strongly in…

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Bohr's Creation of his Quantum Atom - John Heilbron

Syllabus: Introduction Pluck Joseph John Thompson Rutherford Nicholson Contemplation Debt Sage Smile

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Precision Studies at the Neutrino Frontier - Karsten M. Heeger

Syllabus: Intro From Anomalies to Precision Studies Solar Neutrinos Solar Neutrino Deficit 8B and the Solar Neutrino Spectrum Solar Neutrino Problem and SNO Terrestrial Neutrino Oscillations KamLAND Highlights Measurement of Fundamental Oscillation Param…

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Superposition, Entanglement, and Raising Schroedinger's Cat - David Wineland

Syllabus: Intro Erwin Schrödinger's Cat (1935) On to Hans Dehmelt's lab: trapped electrons/ions Single electrons precursor to measurement of Isolating individual ions Single Hg ion experiments at NIST 1981 On to quantized motion Cooling to the ground sta…

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Creating the Primordial Quark-Gluon Plasma at the LHC - John W. Harris

Syllabus: Creating the Primordial Quark-Gluon Plasma at the LHC Behavior of OCD at High Temperature Modifications to QCD Coupling Constanta BIG PICTURE Questions Dynamics & Evolution of RHI Collisions System Size & Lifetimes Particles Formed at Universal…

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Superposition, Entanglement, and Raising Schroedinger's Cat - David J. Wineland

Syllabus: Introduction Schrodingers Cat High Resolution Spectroscopy Electron G Factor NIST Laser Cooling Ions Storage Group Single Ions Mercury Quantum jumps The spectrum The lambda ki regime Clocks Quantum Computing Ion Groups Electron Gas Experiments…

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Controlling photons in a box and exploring the quantum to classical boundary - Serge Haroche

Syllabus: Introduction Thought experiments Nobel Prize In vivo physics How all this started Lasers and microwaves Improving the cavity QED The Holy Grail The photon box Counting photons Current state cavity QED Acknowledgement Nobel Prize 1966 Room where…

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