Training program at the University of Houston
(Mo 05/20/2024 - Fr 06/28/2024)

Week 1: 5/20-5/24 - Introduction to the Standard Model of Particle Physics
Main Teachers: Prof. Ratti and Dr. Portillo
o Monday: Introduction to Mathematica
o Tuesday: Introduction to Quantum Electrodynamics
o Wednesday: Introduction to Quantum Chromodynamics
o Thursday: Introduction to Weak Interactions and Neutrinos
o Friday: Heavy-Ion Physics and the Quark-Gluon Plasma

Week 3: 6/3-6/7 –Nuclear high energy physics at RHIC and the LHC
Main Teachers: Prof. Timmins and Dr. Portillo
o Monday: Big Bang Theory and forces in the universe
o Tuesday: Phase transitions and the QGP
o Wednesday: RHIC and LHC – accelerator and detector technology
o Thursday: Results from RHIC
o Friday: Results from LHC



Week 5: 6/17-6/21 – Neutrino detection - Hardware and software techniques
Main teachers: Profs. Cherdack and Koerner
o Monday: The Physics of Neutrinos
o Tuesday: Neutrino Fluxes, Cross Sections, and Connections with Nuclear Physics
o Wednesday: Neutrino detectors
o Thursday: Neutrino experiments
o Friday: Applied Math, Statistics, and Computing in Neutrino Physics
                                                              

Week 2: 5/27-5/31 - Computational Techniques in relativistic heavy ion physics
Main Teachers: Profs. Timmins, Vovchenko and Dr. Portillo
o Monday: Introduction to C/C++
o Tuesday: Introduction to C/C++
o Wednesday: ROOT: an analysis platform for heavy ions
o Thursday: PYTHON and modern tools in nuclear and particle physics
o Friday: the GRID: running TB of data around the world 


Week 4: 6/10-6/14 - Applications in low energy nuclear physics, space science and medical physics 
Main Teachers: Prof. Bellwied and Dr. Portillo
o Monday: Technologies applied at lower energies in fundamental nuclear research
o Tuesday: The intersection between nuclear, space and medical science
o Wednesday: Using nuclear state of the art detectors in space science
o Thursday: Using nuclear state of the art detectors in medical applications
o Friday: The future of high precision, robust detector development


Week 6: 6/24-6/28 - Professional opportunities in Nuclear Physics, networking, presentation skills
Main teachers: Profs. Bellwied and Rigos (MIT)
o Monday: Leadership, self-awareness and the role of personality and personal history
o Tuesday: Opportunities at universities, federal laboratories, and at companies related to       Nuclear/High Energy Physics
o Wednesday: How to prepare professionally for a talk and a job interview
o Thursday: Opportunities in seemingly unrelated fields
o Friday: Student Presentations

Training program at Brookhaven National Laboratory and Sanford Underground Research Facility 
(Mo 07/08 - Fr 07/19)

Week 7: 7/8-7/12 – Particle Physics at SURF and Underground Lab facilities

o Monday: Underground training and lab Safety
o Tuesday: Active experiments at SURF and Q&A with staff scientist
o Wednesday: introduction to researchers working on LZ, MJD, and CASPAR
o Thursday: Participation in Science Operations Meetings
o Friday: Python , basic data handling and student presentations & discussions
o Saturday: Participation in Neutrino Day (city-wide science festival)

Week 8: 7/15-7/19 – STAR and neutrino physics at BNL
o Monday: STAR Muon Telescope Detector
o Tuesday: STAR High-Level Trigger, hypertriton reconstruction
o Wednesday: Introduction to BNL neutrino program
o Thursday: Introduction and tour of BNL liquid scintillator lab
o Friday: Student presentations and discussions


Funding

This program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

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