Summer Training Program

Week 2: 5/27-5/31 - 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: ROOT: an analysis platform for heavy ions
o Thursday: PYTHON and modern tools in nuclear and particle physics
o Friday: the GRID: running TB of data around the world

Week 4: 6/10-6/14 - 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 5: 6/17-6/21 – 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 6: 6/24-6/28 - 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

Week 7: 7/8-7/12 – 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

This program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

For questions about the program contact the program coordinator, Dr. Israel Portillo (iportillovazquez[at]me.com)