Outreach

School Presentations


Presentation at Delhi University to local high school students, Delhi, India, Mar. 1, 2019, “High Energy Particle Physics”

M. Slizeski’s 8th Grade Science Classes (Periods 6 and 7), Emerson Jr High, Davis, CA, Jan. 19, 2018, “Beyond Atoms: The Higgs Boson and the Universe”, with Grace Haza

Mr. Cox’s 5th Grade Class, Two Rivers Elementary, Natomas, CA, Sept. 29, 2017, “The LHC: Really really small stuff and the Universe”

Presentation to Dixon High School AVID class, Nov. 10, 2014, “College, Majors, Physics and the Higgs”

Presentation to Dixon High School AVID class, May 23, 2013, “The Higgs Boson: or, Why Study Physics?”

Presentation to all jr. high and high school science teachers in Davis, CA, Oct. 18, 2012, “The Higgs particle discovery”

M. Slizeski’s 8th Grade Science Classes (Periods 1,2,3, and 8), Emerson Jr High, Davis, CA, Dec 14, 2011, “2011: A Higgs Odyssey”

Mr. Cox’s 5th Grade GATE Class, Bannon Creek Elementary, Sacramento, CA, May 12, 2011, “The LHC: Really really (really!) small stuff”

Ms. Gill’s 4th Grade Science Class, Willett Elementary, Davis, CA, April 2, 2010, “The LHC Turns On: Really really small stuff”

Mr. Cox’s 5th Grade Class, Two Rivers Elementary, Natomas, CA, October 12, 2009, “Really really small stuff”

Public talks


“The Higgs Boson and Beyond”, UC Davis Picnic Day, Apr. 18, 2015.

Public lecture: “The Higgs Boson: Discovery of the Millennium (So Far)”, UC Davis HEFTI Frontiers of Physics Symposium, Davis, CA, Apr. 6, 2013.

“The Higgs Particle Discovery”, UC Davis Deans’ Advisory Council Meeting, Davis, CA, Nov. 1, 2012.

“The Higgs Particle Discovery”, UC Davis Physics Colloquium, Oct. 29, 2012.

“The Higgs Particle Discovery”, Sacramento State University Physics Colloquium, Oct. 25, 2012.

“Colliding Particles at the Energy Frontier”, Sonoma State University ‘What Physicists Do’ Colloquium, 10/25/10

Departmental overview and High Energy Physics at UC Davis, presentation to the Society of Physics Students, Davis, CA, 5/1/10

Miscellany


I’ve been interviewed regarding the LHC startup and unfounded safety concerns:

  • KCRA Sacramento nightly news 9/08/08
  • WJBC Radio 9/10/08
  • KXJZ Radio (with J. Gunion) 9/15/08

Sacramento Bee Article about our group’s research: 8/12/07