Summer School 2024
Registration
Register here! Registration fee: $300, including coffee, lunch, day excursion to black hills’ attractives, day trip to SURF, Lead, SD.
NOTE: Hotel rooms are not included. Participants are expected to arrange their own hotel rooms. If they are not in the hotel suggested on the CoSSURF 2024 accommodation web page, one may need to arrange his/her own transportation to the campus of South Dakota School of Mines and Technologies.
Topics
- Sciences in deep underground laboratories
- Overview of underground laboratories in the world
- Overview of dark matter theories and experiments
- Overview of neutrino physics and underground neutrino experiments
- HPGe technology
- Working principles of HPGe detectors
- Application of HPGe detectors
- live demonstration of HPGe detectors in action
- Monte Carlo simulation and data analysis
- Geant4 crash course
- HPGe energy spectrum analysis
Classroom: CB 205 unless specified otherwise
Coffee break: CB 206W
Lunch: Surbeck Center
- May 12, Sunday, arrival
- May 13, Monday,
- 8:30 ~ 10:00 Working principles of HPGe detectors
- 10:00 ~ 10:30 Coffee break
- 10:30 ~ 12:00 Machine learning
- 12:15 ~ 14:00 lunch
- 14:00 ~ 15:30 A nuclear physics “puzzle”, part 1
- 15:40 ~ 16:20 Coffee break
- 16:30 ~ 18:00 Geant4 Monte Carlo Simulation from zero to hero, 1
- May 14, Tuesday,
- 8:20 ~ 12:00 CoSSURF Schedule
- 12:15 ~ 14:00 lunch
- 14:00 ~ 15:30 A nuclear physics “puzzle”, part 2 (CB 203)
- 15:40 ~ 16:20 Poster session & coffee break
- 16:30 ~ 18:00 Geant4 Monte Carlo Simulation from zero to hero, 2 (CB 203)
- May 15, Wednesday,
- 9:00 ~ 21:00 excursion (Mount Rushmore, T-rex in Black Hills Institute, Custer State Park)
- May 16, Thursday,
- 8:30 ~ 12:00 CoSSURF Schedule
- 12:15 ~ 14:00 lunch
- 14:00 ~ 15:30 A nuclear physics “puzzle”, part 3
- 15:40 ~ 16:20 Coffee break
- 16:30 ~ 18:00 Geant4 Monte Carlo Simulation from zero to hero, 3
- May 17, Friday,
- 9:00 ~ 19:00 tour to SURF & Deadwood
- May 18, Saturday
- 8:30 ~ 10:00 live demonstration of HPGe detectors in action
- 10:00 ~ 10:30 coffee break
- 10:30 ~ 12:00 data analysis
- 12:15 ~ 14:00 lunch
Excursions
May 15. Enjoy a day trip to Mount Rushmore National Memorial and other Black Hills’ must sees.
May 17. A uinique excursion to the deepest underground facility in US, The Sanford Underground Research Facility hosting world-leading research experiments in physics, biology, geology and engineering.
NOTE: an underground trip may not be possible due to construction. But there is a lot to see and do on surface:
Organizing committee
- Brianna Mount, Black Hills State Unversity, Spearfish, SD, USA
- Mary Kidd, Tennessee Tech University, Cookeville, TN, USA
- Jing Liu, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD, USA
The school is co-organized with CoSSURF 2024. Big thanks to the CoSSURF 2024 organization committee!
LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/company/pire-gemadarc/ is a webpage about our school in LinkedIn, which can be referred to in your LinkedIn profile.
Code of Conduct
We adopt the Code of Conduct for APS Meetings for our summer school. Please make sure that you are familiar with it before you join the school.