This page contains the archived information for the 2018 Frontiers and Careers Workshop
2018 Organising Committee
- US Chair: Ethan Cline (cline@physics.rutgers.edu)
- EU Chair: Cristina Collicott (cristina.collicott@gmail.com)
- Co-organiser: Shujie Li (shujie@jlab.org)
Welcome!
The Frontiers and Careers conference aims to provide Ph.D. students and postdoctoral researchers in the field of Nuclear and Particle physics a place to discuss research and career perspectives in a friendly environment.
Participants are provided the opportunity to present their work, develop soft skills, network with peers, and interact with a panel of experienced faculty members and physicists, all with the express purpose of preparing themselves for their future careers.
In even years, this conference is timed to lead into the Gordon Research Conference, GRC. We highly encourage any grad students and postdocs attending the GRC to also consider attending Frontiers and Careers.
What you need to know:
- Conference dates: August 2nd – August 4th, 2018.
- The 2018 conference was held in Boston, Massachusetts.
- Registration deadline: July 1st, 2018
- Abstract submission deadline: July 7th, 2018.
- This conference was free to attend! (no conference fee).
- We organised a hotel-deal near the conference center.
Schedule
Thursday, August 2nd 2018
We invite you to join us for an informal welcome dinner at Hopsters Brewing Company at 7:30 PM in the Seaport district of Boston.
Friday, August 3rd 2018
08:30 – 09:00: Registration
09:00 – 09:30: Welcome Talk
Student/Postdoc Talks:
09:30 – 09:50: Efrain Segarra – First Fully Inclusive Measurement of SRC Pairs at JINR
09:50 – 10:10: Peter Klassen – The Crystal Barrel Trigger Upgrade
10:10 – 10:30: Karsten Spieker – Measurement of the Double Polarization Observables G and E in the reactions $\gamma p \to p\pi^0 / n\pi^+$
10:30 – 11:00: Coffee
11:00 – 11:20: Edoardo Mornacchi – Measurement of the Proton Scalar Polarizabilities at MAMI
11:20 – 11:40: Victoria Owen – Weak Parity-Violating Electrons to Probe the Distribution of Neutrons in Lead
11:40 – 12:00: Field Rogers – Antinucleus Signatures of Dark Matter in Cosmic Rays with GAPS
12:00 – 01:00: Lunch
Industry/Academic Speakers:
01:30 – 02:00: Kalyan Allada – Liberty Mutual
02:00 – 03:30: Luis and Andrey – Fortune Research
03:30 – 04:30: Guided Discussion on Job Prospects in Physics
04:30 – 06:00: Tour of Lab at MIT
Saturday, August 4th 2018
Student/Postdoc Talks:
09:00 – 09:20: Afroditi Papadopoulou – Electrons for Neutrinos
09:20 – 09:40: Travis Dore – Convergence of Characteristic Temperatures as a Probe of the Quantum Chromodynamic Critical Point
09:40 – 10:00: Bishoy Dongwi – Search for Light Neutral Bosons in the TREK/E36 Experiment
10:00 – 10:30: Coffee
10:30 – 10:50: Lin Li – The Scattered-Particle-Scintillators in MUSE
10:50 – 11:10: Frank Vera – Electron Scattering from a Deeply Bound Nucleon on the Light-Front
11:10 – 11:30: Group Photo
Industry/Academic Speakers:
11:30 – 12:30: Joost Verburg – Medical Physics
12:30 – 01:30: Lunch
01:30 – 02:00: Seamus Riordan – Argonne
02:00 – 02:30: Elena Long – UNH
02:30 – 03:00: Axel Schmidt – MIT
03:00 – 03:30: Discussion Session
03:30 – 04:00: Closing Remarks
Conference Venue
Conference Venue
We are pleased to host the conference in the historic Seaport District of downtown Boston, MA:
Room 212, UUA
24 Farnsworth St.
Boston, MA
We have arranged a block of double rooms (queen + bunk) at the Yotel Boston hotel:
YOTEL Boston
65 Seaport Blvd.
Boston, MA
Price (per room, per night) = 209 USD + tax/fees
(when used as a double room, this works out to 104.5 USD per person, per night + t/f)
Availability of 20 double rooms (first come first serve).
Please note: After you register for the conference, you will be sent a link to access your hotel deal.
Archive of Conference Talks and Photos
All the talks given at the 2018 Frontiers and Careers can be accessed at this google drive link: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1EKygngjInhGIpas4XpV2_VpIsmh4if3v
Some photos from out visit to the MIT Tokamak reactor and the Nuclear Physics Labs can be found here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1yifEBpCS6Qwc3tCsvBk-hOg_xvEcKIF9