A small group of Division of Particles and Fields Program Committee members went to Washington D.C. to sort abstracts and create sessions for the April American Physical Society Meeting. It’s always great to do some good for the field while reconnecting with colleagues.
Author: Stephen Sekula
Professor of Physics. Department Chair. Higgs Hunter. Computational Physicist. Ph.D. from University of Wisconsin-Madison. B.S. from Yale University.

Congratulations to Matthew Feickert on his successful PhD defense! — I am so proud of Matthew, who successfully defended his PhD thesis on the study of the Higgs, at high momentum, using the bottom-quark final state of its decay. Matthew will now move forward in the field into a post-doctoral position at the University of […]

Congratulations to Jared Burleson on earning an SMU Hamilton Research Award and one of the inaugural US ATLAS SUPER awards! — SMU physics major and undergraduate researcher, Jared Burleson, earned a summer SMU Hamilton Research Scholar award and an inaugural US ATLAS SUPER (Summer Undergraduate Program for Exceptional Researchers) award. The Hamilton award is matched […]