Selected Presentations & Appearances
For the past several years three key anomalies indicating lepton flavor universality violation (LFUV) have been getting a lot of attention as they each have a significance of more than 3 standard deviations. In the past year, in particular, important further progress has come from the LHCb experiment at CERN and current indications are that possibly in the next few months the Flavor Changing Neutral Current (FCNC) anomaly is very likely to move to over 4 standard deviations. In a similar vein the Fermilab g-2 Collaboration has recently indicated that they have been analyzing over an order of magnitude larger dataset beyond what they had used in their first report of 2021 which resulted in a 4.2 standard deviations from the Standard Model. Thus, unless the recently accumulated data uncovers some highly unexpected departure from the past, the muon g-2 anomaly is very likely to move to over 5 standard deviations. With this perspective in mind, the main objective of this workshop is to bring together experts, from both theoretical and experimental communities, working on various aspects and interpretations of the flavor anomalies. This can lead to new ideas in resolving the anomalies, as well as to future directions in the quest for new physics. The workshop will provide a unique platform to explore possible interconnections between flavor anomalies, issues in neutrino and dark sectors, and collider signals. Brainstorming all complementary aspects of the anomalies will help us unravel otherwise obscure links between seemingly disparate pieces of evidence of new physics.
MC4EIC 2022, the next workshop on Monte Carlo event simulation for the EIC, is organized by the CTEQ collaboration, the EIC User Group, the HEP Software Foundation (HSF), and MCnet as a remote meeting from November 16–18.
Following up directly on previous workshops, we will start with in-depth reports on the precision of foreseen measurements and the related MC event generator (MCEG) needs. This will frame a discussion of MCEGs that are currently being developed for the EIC. We are asking developers to submit an abstract to present both the status of their project and the thrust of future R&D. The connection between formal QCD theory and its implementation in MCEGs will also be explored.
Developing precision simulation will require advancements in QCD theory and computational methods, as well as a close dialogue between experimentalists and theorists. We would like to conclude the workshop with a discussion on how to facilitate this dialogue and work together on cross-cutting aspects between theory and experiment in NHEP.
CIPANP is a conference series designed to explore common areas of interest to scientists working in elementary particle physics, nuclear physics, nuclear and particle astrophysics, and cosmology. Topics include research focused on the study of fundamental interactions, elementary particles, nucleons and nuclei, astrophysical phenomena, and cosmic rays. In many cases, these distinct areas are attempting to answer the same fundamental questions about our universe. Experiments in each area typically also require input from the other areas to properly extract and interpret results from their data. CIPANP brings these communities together every three years in a unique setting that fosters collaboration among these scientific disciplines.
Service to the Profession
The four day long joint "20th International Workshop on Hadron Structure and Spectroscopy" and 5th workshop on "Correlations in Partonic and Hadronic Interactions" (IWHSS-CPHI-2024) will take place in Yerevan, Armenia, from September 30th to October 4th, 2024.
IWHSS-2024 is the 20th workshop in the series of annual workshops on Hadron Structure and Spectroscopy, with most recent editions being the IWHSS-2023 (Prague, Czechia) and IWHSS-2022 (CERN, Switzerland).
CPHI-2024 is the 5th workshop in the series of bi-annual workshops on Correlations in Partonic and Hadronic Interactions, with most recent editions being the CPHI-2022 (Duke University, US) and CPHI-2020 (CERN, Switzerland).
The scientific programme of the joint workshop will be focused on the following topics:
Spin and 3D Structure Structure of the Nucleon
TMDs, GPDs and GTMDs
Fragmentation and Fracture Functions
Fixed Target and Collider Experiments
Meson Structure and Spectroscopy
Search for Exotics and Baryon Resonaces
Confinement QCD and fundamental symmetries
Dark matter/dark photon searches
Future Measurements and Experimental proposals
One of the sessions of the workshop will be dedicated to the 50ths anniversary of the "November revolution in particle physics".
The 2023 annual workshop on AI4EIC --- Artificial Intelligence for the Electron Ion Collider, will be hosted by Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., and will take place from November 28 to December 1, 2023.
The 25th iteration of the International Spin Symposium (SPIN 2023) will be held September 24-29 at Duke University. The Symposium is one of the pre-eminent venues bringing together theorists and experimentalists in the field of spin physics. It is held every two years, alternating between the U.S., Europe and Asia.
The conference series has been held jointly since 2000, combining the High Energy Spin Symposia and the Nuclear Polarization Conferences.
The most recent symposia were held in Charlotteville, VA (2008), Jülich, Germany (2010) Dubna, Russia (2012), Beijing, China (2014), Urbana Champaign, IL (2016), Ferrara, Italy (2018) and Matsue, Japan (2021).
The organizing committee of SPIN2023 is co-chaired by Thomas Mehen and Anselm Vossen. They can be contacted using spin2023_contact@duke.edu
The purpose of this workshop is to help students, postdocs, and more senior researchers get started and make progress on Belle II analyses and performance studies, either studying a physics channel or studying detector performance. It will cover physics topics, computing, and Belle II software in a hands-on tutorial format.
This workshop is open to all Belle II collaborators and we welcome attendance from across the collaboration.
The EIC Users Group is organizing the 1st International Workshop on a 2nd Detector for the Electron-Ion Collider. The workshop will be held from May 17-19, 2023, at Temple University in the Science Education and Research Center.
Scientific topics discussed at the workshop include:
Scientific Opportunities with a 2nd Detector
Detector Technologies
R&D Needs & Perspectives
Opportunities for AI/ML
International Perspectives and Community Broadening
The EICUG community's strong preference for two detectors has led to multiple exciting detector initiatives. We invite all interested groups to participate. While we strongly encourage in-person participation, remote connections will be provided. Please register using the "Registration" link by May 12, 2023!
This event will be organized jointly by the EIC User Group, CFNS, and Temple University.
nder the coordination of the Electron-Ion Collider User Group (EICUG), the first meeting on the 2nd Detector at Interaction Region 8 (IR8) will take place Dec 6-8, 2022.
The meeting will be centered on two aspects of complementarity with Detector 1 (EPIC):
Cross checks of key measurements (and potential discoveries).
New opportunities enabled by unique features of a 2nd detector such as the 2nd focus in IR8.
A goal of this "incubator" meeting is to foster open discussions and exchanges in preparation for other upcoming activities, including a larger, in-person "kick-off" meeting in the spring of 2023.
Theorists and computational scientists participation is particularly welcome at this stage as we are looking to enhance theory/computation/experiment intersections and synergetic collaborations.
The meeting will be hosted by the Center for Frontiers in Nuclear Science (CFNS) at Stony Brook University. It will be run in a hybrid mode with remote access on Zoom that will be made available on the indico page
While we have selected a few discussion-leading talks, all members of the community are invited to participate in the meeting and to submit abstracts for 5 minutes flash talks. A program draft is available on indico where your abstracts can also be submitted.
This event follows the productive experience of the first AI4EIC workshop held in 2021 at CFNS and is organized by the EICUG AI WG. The scope of this second workshop is to cover all active and potential areas of applications of AI/ML for the EIC.
The workshop will include sessions on (i) accelerator and detector design (EPIC and potentially detector-2), (ii) connections to theory, (iii) analysis, (iv) reconstruction and particle identification, (v) infrastructure and frontiers in AI/ML and (vi) streaming readout, which will allow discussing different problems, perspectives and leading-edge solutions.
During the workshop we will have AI/ML tutorial sessions provided by experts (academia, national labs, industry). The workshop will also host a Hackathon event (on October 14, whole day event), and a cash prize will be given to the solution winning the competition.
During the first day, we will have talks with perspectives on AI/ML-related research from funding agencies.
AI/ML will be an essential part of all phases of the future EIC and is already contributing to its realization starting from the design and R&D phases. This workshop is a great opportunity to update the community on the progress of ongoing projects and future plans, with discussions on multiple cross-cutting topics that bring together theorists, experimentalists, and AI/ML practitioners.
Academic & Administrative Activities
2022 - present, Member of the EICUG 2nd detector working group
2022 - 2023, Co-convenor of the ePIC working group, Athena Collaboration
2021 - 2022, Co-convenor of the SIDIS working group, Athena Collaboration
2021 - present, Member of the CLAS service work committee
2021 - present, Member of the organizing committee for the IR2@EIC initiative