Astronomy On Tap-ABQ: Discovering New Particles!

Get excited for Astronomy on Tap at Bow & Arrow Brewing at 6pm on Tuesday May 19th! Each FREE Astronomy on Tap event features accessible, engaging science presentations on topics ranging from planets to black holes to the beginning of the Universe. Events always start off with trivia and prizes to test and reward your new-found knowledge! There is always lots of time to ask questions and interact with the presenter and other scientists who inevitably stick around for the beer. Be sure to follow us on Instagram (@AoTABQ) and on Facebook to get updates on future events! ———————————————— Speaker Bio: Sally Seidel received her Ph.D. in experimental particle physics from the University of Michigan on a search for nucleon decay using the IMB water Cherenkov detector. As a postdoctoral fellow with the University of Toronto on the ARGUS Experiment, she participated in the development of a novel drift chamber and published a study of charmed baryon decay. Seidel joined the University of New Mexico faculty in 1991. On the CDF experiment at Fermilab, she co-led the upgrade silicon tracker sensor design team and carried out a study of multi-jet final states. Since 1995 she has been a member of the ATLAS experiment at the LHC where her contributions include development of new particle tracking technologies and the search for New Physics with heavy quark signatures. On ATLAS she has co-led the pixel sensor group and developed a program for evaluating the radiation hardness of proposed new technologies for the LHC detectors. In 2014 her team discovered the new particle called the Bc(2S). Seidel’s work has been supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation, NASA, the Fulbright Foundation, the Vietnam Education Foundation, Sandia National Laboratories, the European Commission, the University of New Mexico, and the Universities Research Association. She has served as co-director of the Los Alamos Summer School in Physics, as chair of the DOE High Energy Physics Advisory Panel, and as a member of the Fermi Research Alliance Board of Directors. She has also served on the American Physical Society (APS) Committee on International Freedom of Scientists and the Fermilab, LANSCE/Los Alamos, and US-LHC Users Executive Committees, as well as the APS Topical Group on Hadronic Physics, the APS Four Corners Section Executive Committee, and the Executive Committee of the APS Division of Particles and Fields. ———————————————— Upcoming Astronomy on Tap Events are on the third Tuesday of the month! June 16th: Dr. Rick Perley (NRAO) July 21st: Dr. Samantha Garza (NRAO) August 18th: Dr. Chenoa Tremblay (NRAO/SETI/UNM) September 15th: Luis Contreras-Vidal (NMT) October 20th: TBD November 17th: TBD December15th: TBD ———————————————— Passionate about astronomy and want to share it with the public? Volunteer to be an AoT-ABQ Speaker! https://forms.gle/enBY2cK4MZQCLejV8