Summer School 2024
Registration
Register here! Registration fee: 300 dollars, 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.
Survey
- general survey for the school: https://forms.gle/1zxQio4RAFRifEqQ9
- feedback survey for A nuclear physics puzzle: https://forms.gle/a9cPeijkmGQEVQx77
Location and Timetable
Classroom: CB 205 unless specified otherwise
Coffee break: CB 206W
Lunch: Surbeck Center
Anonymous Q&A form: https://forms.gle/CgUtamkDHF5LJ18GA
- May 12, Sunday, arrival
- May 13, Monday,
- 8:30 ~ 10:00 Prof. Dongming Mei, Working principles of HPGe detectors
- 10:00 ~ 10:30 Coffee break
- 10:30 ~ 12:00 Prof. Matthias Plum, Machine learning, https://playground.tensorflow.org
- 12:15 ~ 14:00 lunch
- 14:00 ~ 15:30 Prof. Mary Kidd, A nuclear physics “puzzle”, part 1
- 15:40 ~ 16:20 Coffee break
- 16:30 ~ 18:00 Prof. Jing Liu, 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 Geant4 Monte Carlo Simulation from zero to hero, 2 (CB 203)
- 15:40 ~ 16:20 Poster session & coffee break
- 16:30 ~ 18:00 A nuclear physics “puzzle”, part 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, live demonstration of HPGe detectors in action
- May 18, Saturday
- 8:30 ~ 10:00 A nuclear physics “puzzle”, part 4
- 10:00 ~ 10:30 coffee break
- 10:30 ~ 12:00 Geant4 Monte Carlo Simulation from zero to hero, 4
- 12:15 ~ 14:00 lunch
Excursion
May 15. Enjoy a day trip to Mount Rushmore National Memorial and other Black Hills’ must sees.
- 9:30 am, Mount Rushmore
- 11:00 pm, Lunch break, drive to Hill City
- 12:30 pm, Black Hills Institute of Geological Research
- 2:30 pm, ice cream break, drive to Custer
- 3:30 pm, Custer State Park
- 5 pm, Blue Bell Lodge Hayride & Chuck Wagon Cookout
- 8:30 pm, return to Rapid City
May 17. A unique 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:
- 8:30 am, leave Rapid City
- 10 am, Arrive at the Visitor Center for unloading and some exploration
- 10:15 am, Underground Livestream in the Visitor Center Classroom
- 11 pm, Hoistroom
- 12 pm, Lunch at the Sanford Visitor Center
- 2:30 pm, Black Hills Mining Museum
- 4 pm, return to Rapid City
Organizing Committee
- Brianna Mount, Black Hills State Unversity, Spearfish, SD, USA
- Jing Liu, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD, USA
- Dongming Mei, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD, USA
The school is co-organized with CoSSURF 2024. Big thanks to the CoSSURF 2024 organization committee!
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.