[phas-dept] Sep. 21 (Thursday) 4 PM - Physics and Astronomy Colloquium

[Heungman Park]

Fall 2017 Colloquium

Department of Physics & Astronomy

9/21 Thursday, 4-5 PM in Science Building 127

(coffee and cookies will be served at 3:50 PM)

Nuclear and Particle Physics

Knowing what you don’t know: effective field theory, uncertainty quantification, and nuclear physics
Dr. Daniel Phillips

Ohio University

[https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__lh5.googleusercontent.com_0hzcVfrSNUh0xkKUzqA4kzIPK-2DGt5Jlfx9c3B1Sj52vLYiBhR50qC1qavhi7uyUhFiIzbzuayRalqba0sorEmQJQBkSNzewk9asdUCSmGL6MpAvL2QvUepnD-5FdE9n1CF-2Dd5JYSDb&d=DwIF-g&c=oqyuZuih6ykib6aKiBq22_bich4AVfYGoLertJN0bEc&r=hjwEO_XYlnwAQWUGeaCrW47w4mK-Al28-BKyRvaivBs&m=p2jWwQm_zS4J3dYzRNQLRKPjyG5-AH_NG5ClEWqtKXw&s=qCcI7WkLGKxlJSAhBkS4LJGvpLuRHIRdN-XwhJmDIEo&e= ]


Professor Daniel Phillips earned his B.Sc. (1990), B.Sc.(Hons.) (1991), and Ph.D. (1995) degrees in Theoretical Physics at the Flinders University of South Australia in Adelaide, Australia. He then spent time as a post-doc at the University of Maryland at College Park and the University of Washington in Seattle. In 2000 he took up a position as an Assistant Professor at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, being promoted to Associate Professor in 2004, and Full Professor in 2009. His research specialty is theoretical nuclear physics, with a particular emphasis on systems that can be described in terms of a few effective degrees of freedom. From 2012-5 he served  in the Chair line of the American Physical Society Topical Group on Few-body Systems. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a member of the Nuclear Science Advisory Committee. More information about Professor Phillips can be found at  https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.ohio.edu_cas_physastro_faculty_profiles.cfm-3Fprofile-3Dphillid1&d=DwIF-g&c=oqyuZuih6ykib6aKiBq22_bich4AVfYGoLertJN0bEc&r=hjwEO_XYlnwAQWUGeaCrW47w4mK-Al28-BKyRvaivBs&m=p2jWwQm_zS4J3dYzRNQLRKPjyG5-AH_NG5ClEWqtKXw&s=1MAp_ZP0Nof49lHDhR2him3BIsWYBxA4pGxJEgu2a2g&e= 



Abstract:

For almost a century physicists have devoted intense attention to teasing out the nature of the nuclear force. But there remains much that we do not know about the way neutrons and protons interact, and the way that they come together to form nuclei. In this talk I will show how two tools–effective field theory and Bayesian probability theory — can provide quantitative assessments of the impact of the things that we don’t know about nuclear physics on the observables that are measured in experiments.







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