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April 11, 2024 – April 12, 2024 past

Neutrino Focus Session

Davey 339, Whitmore 320

Neutrino Focus Session

Recently the Particle Physics Prioritization Panel report emphasized the importance of neutrino physics, building on the recommendation of the Astro2020 Decadal Survey to explore multimessenger astrophysics. During the meeting we will explore the strengths in the CMA and IGC related to neutrino physics and astrophysics and look for areas of commonality. The goal is to develop a vision for joint projects, perhaps building on existing projects like AMON or developing new ones.

Program

Date Time Speaker Title
2024-04-11 9:00 Stephanie Wissel Overview and goal setting
2024-04-11 9:15 Irina Mocioiu, Kayla DeHolton, Doug Cowen, Stephanie Wissel Flavor physics and oscillations
2024-04-11 10:15 Luiz de Viveiros, Sarah Shandera, Kohta Murase Fundamental properties and interactions of neutrinos
2024-04-12 9:00 Kohta Murase, Hugo Ayala Solares, Tetyana Pitik Multimessenger astrophysics with neutrinos
2024-04-12 10:15 Jimmy DeLaunay, Stephanie Wissel Neutrino searches, experiments/missions & MMA connections
2024-04-12 11:00 Mainak Mukhopadhyay, Mukul Bhattacharya, Yi Qiu, David Radice MeV-GeV neutrinos
2024-04-12 12:15 Stephanie Wissel Close out and action items
About our wordmark
Monica Rincon Ramirez

The IGC wordmark was created by Monica Rincon Ramirez while she was a graduate student at the Institute. Monica enjoys drawing new connections between fundamental theory and observations. Her graduate work included general relativity, loop quantum gravity, and quantum fields in cosmological backgrounds; her thesis focused on effective quantum corrections to gravitational phenomena from spinfoams and applications to cosmology. She received her PhD in 2024.

The wordmark symbolizes the scope of research at the IGC. The base represents quantum gravity, evoking the quantum geometrical picture from spinfoams and loop quantum gravity — approaches studied at the Center for Fundamental Theory. The middle shows galaxies embedded in a smooth surface characteristic of spacetime in general relativity and the larger physical scales studied at the Center for Theoretical and Observational Cosmology. The top curves to an extreme representing a supermassive black hole accompanied by an energetic jet, with a binary black hole pair nearby — the high-energy phenomena studied at the Center for Multimessenger Astrophysics.