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Christopher Walter

Professor of Physics
Physics
Box 90305, Durham, NC 27708-0305
120 Science Drive, Office 271, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Presentations & Appearances


Studying Dark Energy at the Rubin Observatory - First LSST Latin American Meeting · June 2024 Invited Talk La Serena, Chile
What we talk about when we talk about neutrinos - Lesson for the Dark Energy School of the LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration · January 2020 Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium University of Arizona
Colloquium: An Introduction to Dark Energy Science and the LSST · December 2019 Invited Talk Boston University
Colloquium: Introduction to Dark Energy Science and the LSST · October 2018 Invited Talk NC State University, NC
The Dark Energy Science Collaboration LSST Commissioning plans - LSST2018 Project and Community Workshop · August 2018 Other Tucson, AZ

Also Led, co-organized and/or presented ‘Sensor Characterization, Analysis and Simulation’, and ‘Visualization tools for Analysis and commissioning’

Status of the LSST Image Simulations - Presentation to the LSST Science Collaboration Chairs and Project Science Team, · October 2017 Other
Colloquium: Neutrino Physics · March 2017 Invited Talk Wake Forest, NC
Seminar: An Introduction to LSST and Dark Energy · February 2017 Invited Talk University of Rochester
Round table moderator at: Foreground Physical Effects on LSST Weak Lensing Science · December 2016 Other UC Davis, California
Invited talk: Success of the international collaboration, Symposium for the 20th Anniversary of Super-Kamiokande · June 2016 Invited Talk Toyama, Japan
Colloquium: A Neutrino Mass Story · April 2016 Invited Talk UC San Diego
Colloquium: Hunting Ghosts - Natural Sciences in the 21st Century Colloquium Series · April 2016 Invited Talk Duke University, Durham, NC
The Dark Energy Science Collaboration Simulation Plans - LSST2015 Project and Community Workshop · August 2015 Other Bremerton, WA
Invited Talk: Brighter-fatter and other sensor effects in simulations - Precision Astronomy with Fully Depleted CCDs · December 2014 International Meeting or Conference Brookhaven National Laboratory, NY
Colloquium: Shooting neutrinos across a country for fun and profit · October 2014 Invited Talk Eastern Carolina University
Invited Talk: Results from T2K - XXVI International Conference on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics, Boston, MA, USA · June 2014 International Meeting or Conference Boston, MA
Colloquium: Shooting neutrinos across a country for fun and profit · March 2014 Invited Talk University of Delaware
Invited talk: Accelerator Neutrino Physics II: Long-term Vision · September 1, 2013 Lecture The 13th International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics (TAUP 2013), Asilomar, California
Invited talk: Accelerator Neutrino Physics I: Present Decade · September 1, 2013 Lecture The 13th International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics (TAUP 2013), Asilomar, California
Invited talk: Atmospheric Neutrino Results in SK and Prospects for Hyper-Kamiokande · May 1, 2013 Lecture The International Symposium on Opportunities in Underground Physics, Asilomar, California
Invited Talk: Atmospheric Neutrinos: Overview and Opportunities · March 1, 2013 Lecture XV International Workshop on Neutrino Telescopes, Venice, Italy
Invited Talk: WCSim: A Geant4-based Water Cherenkov Detector Simulation · August 1, 2012 Lecture International Open Meeting for the Hyper-Kamiokande project, IPMU, Kashiwa, Japan
Invited talk: Review of Accelerator Neutrino Results · July 1, 2012 Lecture GGI Neutrino Workshop, Florence, Italy
Invited Lecturer:Atmospheric Neutrinos I & II (talk series) · July 1, 2012 Lecture The 4th International Summer School on Neutrino Physics (INSS2012), Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
Invited Seminar: T2K electron neutrino appearance seminar · December 1, 2011 Lecture Michigan State University
Invited short talk/poster: A new kind of Neutrino Oscillation · November 1, 2011 Lecture The Chinese/American Frontiers of Science Meeting, Shenzhen China
Invited Seminar: T2K electron neutrino appearance seminar · October 1, 2011 Lecture University of Maryland
Invited Seminar: T2K electron neutrino appearance seminar · October 1, 2011 Lecture Yale University
Invited Seminar: T2K electron neutrino appearance seminar · October 1, 2011 Lecture Virginia Tech
Invited Seminar: T2K electron neutrino appearance seminar · September 1, 2011 Lecture Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Invited Seminar: T2K electron neutrino appearance seminar · September 1, 2011 Lecture Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, USA
Water Cherenkov Simulations · April 1, 2011 Lecture Stanford, USA
Invited talk: Cross-Section Effects in the Super-Kamiokande Tau Appearance Analysis · March 1, 2011 Lecture Seventh International Workshop on Neutrino-Nucleus Interactions in the Few-GeV Region (NuInt11) Dehradun, India
Colloquium: Neutrinos at the cutting edge of intensity, distance and depth · September 1, 2010 Lecture Duke University
Invited talk: Neutrinos at the Intensity Frontier · February 1, 2010 Lecture The April meeting of the American Physical Society
Invited Colloquium: Experimental Neutrino Physics · November 1, 2009 Lecture Wake Forest University
Neutrino Oscillations and Scattering Working Group Summary · July 1, 2009 Lecture Eleventh International Conference on Neutrino Factories, Superbeams and Betabeams (NuFact09) IIT, Chicago Illinois
Invited Talk: The physics impact of proton track identification in future megaton-scale water Cherenkov detectors. · July 1, 2009 Lecture Eleventh International Conference on Neutrino Factories, Superbeams and Betabeams (NuFact09) IIT, Chicago Illinois
Invited Talk: Kinematic reconstruction of atmospheric neutrino events in a large water Cherenkov detector with proton identification · May 1, 2009 Lecture Sixth International Workshop on Neutrino-Nucleus Interactions in the Few-GeV Region (NuInt09), Sitges, Spain
Invited Speaker to Special Lecture Series: Neutrino detectors, current techniques future challenges · May 1, 2009 Lecture Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL
Invited Colloqium: Super-K and Neutrino Physics · September 1, 2008 Lecture UNC Wilmington
Invited Colloqium: Neutrino Physics · August 1, 2008 Lecture Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL
Invited Plenary Talk: Experimental Neutrino Physics · August 1, 2008 Lecture XXXIV International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP08), University of Pennsylvania, USA
PMT Coverage in large Water Cherenkov Detectors · August 1, 2008 Lecture DUSEL Meeting, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL
Neutrino Oscillations and Scattering Working Group Summary · July 1, 2008 Lecture Tenth International Conference on Neutrino Factories, Superbeams and Betabeams (NuFact08) Valencia, Spain

Outreach & Engaged Scholarship


Data+ Project Leader - Data+ · 2020 Projects & Field Work Information, Society & Culture

Service to the Profession


Organization and Program Committee Member : ICFA Neutrino Panel Community Meeting for the Americas · January 2014 Event/Organization Administration Fermilab
Proposal Reviewer for NSERC · December 20, 2013 Editorial Activities
Reviewer for the Journal of High Energy Physics · December 20, 2013 Editorial Activities
DOE Intensity Frontier Panel Member · December 20, 2013 Editorial Activities
DOE Grant and Meeting Proposal reviewer · December 20, 2013 Editorial Activities
NSF/DOE Joint Dark Matter panel reviewer · December 20, 2013 Committee Service
NSF PNA Grant Proposal Reviewer · December 20, 2013 Committee Service
Proposal Reviewer for STFC · December 16, 2012 Editorial Activities
NSF PNA Grant Proposal Reviewer · December 16, 2012 Committee Service
Organizing Committee Member : Eighth International Workshop on Neutrino-Nucleus Interactions in the Few-GeV Region (NuInt12) · October 2012 Event/Organization Administration Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
DOE Grant Reviews · December 15, 2011 Editorial Activities
NSF Physics Frontier Center Panel Member · June 2011 Committee Service
NSF PNA grant Panel member · January 2011 Committee Service
Reviewer for New Journal of Physics · December 19, 2010 Editorial Activities
DOE Grant Reviews · 2010 Editorial Activities
Organizing Committee Member : Seventh International Workshop on Neutrino-Nucleus Interactions in the Few-GeV Region (NuInt11) · 2010 - 2011 Event/Organization Administration Dehradun, India
DOE Grant Reviews · December 20, 2009 Editorial Activities
NSF PNA Grant Proposal Reviewer · November 2009 Committee Service
NSF Grant Career Proposal Reviewer · September 2009 Committee Service
Organizing Committee Member : 22nd International Workshop on Weak Interactions and Neutrinos · September 2009 Event/Organization Administration Perugia, Italy
Organizing Committee Member and Session Organizer : 11th International Workshop on Neutrino Factories, Superbeams and Betabeams (NuFact09) · July 2009 Event/Organization Administration IIT, Chicago Illinois
Organizing Committee Member : 6th International Conference on Neutrino-Nucleus Interactions in the few-Gev Region (NuInt09) · May 2009 Event/Organization Administration Sitges, Spain
Organizing Committee Member and Session Organizer : 10th International Workshop on Neutrino Factories, Superbeams and Betabeams (NuFact08) · July 2008 Event/Organization Administration Valencia, Spain
DOE Grant Reviewer · April 2008 Editorial Activities
Jeffress Memorial Trust Grant Reviewer · April 2008 Editorial Activities