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Group Alumni News

We’re very happy to highlight the success stories of a few of our group alumni!

Former postdoctoral researcher Jonathan Asaadi is now an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, doing great things with pixel readout for LArTPCs, and we were happy to have him back last week for the SU Physics Department colloquium.  It was a great presentation, and gave everyone lots of fun ideas to consider for the possibilities with pixels in future huge LArTPCs.

Former graduate student Jessica Esquivel is now a postdoctoral researcher at Fermilab, working on g-2, and aside from the awesome science she is doing she is also one of the organizers of the Black In Physics group which is organizing a week of great events NEXT WEEK.  Check it out:

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Avinay wins a Prize!

Avinay Bhat took home the 3rd place prize for his entry in the poster session at the 52nd Annual Fermilab Users Meeting last week.  Congrats to Avinay!

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Second SBND APA Complete!

The wiring team has finished the 2nd US-made SBND APA!  See a time-lapse video below.  We are now working on packing everything, and everyone, up and moving things to Fermilab for detector construction.   We are extremely appreciative of everyone at Wright Lab who has contributed to this project and helped us along the way.

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Syracuse joins NOvA

Syracuse University has now officially joined the NOvA experiment.  Prof. Whittington has been a member of NOvA since 2013 when he joined through Indiana University as a postdoctoral researcher.  This weekend, Whittington successfully petitioned the collaboration to add Syracuse University to its ranks.  He and graduate student Abhilash Yallappa Dombara are the first NOvA collaborators from the neutrino group.  They will initially focus on understanding the neutrino and antineutrino composition of NOvA’s antineutrino-mode data, crucial to improving the precision of neutrino oscillation physics measurements.