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Summer 2025 Training Program
Training program at the University of Houston
(Tu 05/27/2025 - Th 07/03/2025)
Week 1: 5/27-5/30 - Neutrino detection - Hardware and software techniques
Main teachers: Profs. Cherdack and Koerner
o Monday: The Physics of neutrinos
o Tuesday: Neutrino Fluxes, Cross Sections, and Connections with Nuclear Physics
o Wednesday: Neutrino detectors
o Thursday: Neutrino experiments
o Friday: Applied Math, Statistics, and Computing in Neutrino Physics
Week 2: 6/2-6/6 - Nuclear high energy physics at RHIC and the LHC
Main Teachers: Prof. Timmins and Dr. Portillo
o Monday: Big Bang Theory and forces in the universe
o Tuesday: Phase transitions and the QGP
o Wednesday: RHIC and LHC – accelerator and detector technology
o Thursday: Results from RHIC and LHC
o Friday: the GRID: running TB of data around the world
Week 3: 6/9-6/13 – Computational Techniques in relativistic heavy ion physics
Main Teachers: Prof. Vovchenko and Dr. Portillo
o Monday: Introduction to C/C++
o Tuesday: Introduction to C/C++
o Wednesday: PYTHON and modern tools in nuclear and particle physics
o Thursday: Introduction to numerical methods I
o Friday: Introduction to numerical methods II
Week 4: 6/16-6/20 - Introduction to the Standard Model of Particle Physics
Main Teachers: Prof. Ratti and Dr. Portillo
o Monday: Introduction to Mathematica
o Tuesday: Introduction to modern physics
o Wednesday: Introduction to Quantum Chromodynamics
o Thursday: Heavy-Ion Physics and the Quark-Gluon Plasma
o Friday: Introduction to Weak Interactions and Neutrinos
Week 5: 6/23-6/27 – Applications in low energy nuclear physics, space science and medical physics
Main Teachers: Prof. Bellwied and Dr. Portillo
o Monday: Technologies applied at lower energies in fundamental nuclear research
o Tuesday: The intersection between nuclear, space and medical science
o Wednesday: Using nuclear state of the art detectors in space science
o Thursday: Using nuclear state of the art detectors in medical applications
o Friday: The future of high precision, robust detector development
Week 6: 6/30-7/3 - Professional opportunities in Nuclear Physics, networking, presentation skills
Main teachers: Profs. Cherdack and Rigos (MIT)
o Monday: Leadership, self-awareness and the role of personality and personal history
o Tuesday: Opportunities at universities, federal laboratories and at companies related to Nuclear/High Energy Physics
o Wednesday: How to prepare professionally for a talk and a job interview
o Thursday: Opportunities in seemingly unrelated fields
o Friday: Student Presentations
Training program at Brookhaven National Laboratory
(Mo 07/07 - Fr 07/18)
Week 7: 7/7-7/11 – The STAR experiment at BNL
o Monday: Introduction of STAR detector and STAR Live Tour
o Tuesday: National Holiday
o Wednesday: STAR data acquisition system
o Thursday: Forward tracking software
o Friday: STAR forward upgrades -- forward silicon tracker and small-Strip Thin Gap Chamber
Week 8: 7/14-7/18 – STAR and neutrino physics at BNL
o Monday: STAR Muon Telescope Detector
o Tuesday: STAR High-Level Trigger, hypertriton reconstruction
o Wednesday: Introduction to BNL neutrino program
o Thursday: Introduction and tour of BNL liquid scintillator lab
o Friday: Student presentations and discussions
Funding
This program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
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For questions about the program contact the program coordinator, Dr. Israel Portillo (
iportillovazquez[at]me.com
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