Department of Physics, Syracuse University
Postdoctoral researcher Monica Nunes was recently elected to the Fermilab Users Executive Committee (UEC), which is a group that helps look after quality of life at the lab, organizes the annual Users Meeting, and makes an annual trip to Washington D.C. to advocate for particle physics research funding. She’s in good company, as former Syracuse postdoc Jonathan Asaadi is also on the current UEC. Congratulations Monica!
Continuing with the theme of highlighting group activities in the past year… Three of our graduate students presented posters at this past summer’s Neutrino 2020 conference! This is the most significant conference in the field of neutrino physics, and even though it was completely virtual due to the covid pandemic, it managed to be as engaging and interesting as ever. The posters were given by:
Avinay Bhat – MeV Scale Physics in MicroBooNE. (Bonus reading: MICROBOONE-NOTE 1076-PUB)
Ohana Benevides Rodrigues – Novel Ion Trap Design Concept as a LAr Purity Monitor
Abhilash Yallappa Dombara – Wrong Sign Contamination in NOvA
Great job all around!
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:
Here's a list of all of our sweet sweet #BlackInPhysics week events! First up our summary professional and social events calendars! pic.twitter.com/43yoOyWwkh
— BlackInPhysics (@BlackinPhysics) October 14, 2020
We’ve been very bad about posting updates to this page, so over the next weeks I’ll be posting some group highlights from the past year.
Let’s start with some very recent good news. Ohana was elected to the Fermilab Student and Postdoc Association. Congratulations Ohana! She joins good company, as current group members Monica and Abhilash, and former group member Jessica Esquivel, have served on the FSPA. Fermilab’s young people are in good hands with these excellent folks representing.
Graduate Student, Ohana Benevides Rodrigues was elected to be a @fermilab Student and Postdoc Association (FSPA) officer. She'll represent the community of early career researchers at Fermilab, including all students, postdocs, summer students, and interns. Congrats, Ohana! pic.twitter.com/O3u8mCJirS
— phycuse (@phycuse) October 12, 2020
Graduate student Abhilash Yallappa Dombara has received an award from the Universities Research Association Visiting Scholars Program. He’ll be relocating to Fermilab soon to focus on the NOvA test beam program, including detector commissioning, operations, and data analysis to better understand systematic uncertainties in NOvA’s long-baseline neutrino oscillation program.
Congratulations, Abhilash!