The 2020 SAP Summer Lecture Series

Contribution List

14. General help with computers (click title for log in information)

Thomas McElroy (McGill University)

05/05/2020, 16:00

Orientation

An online session where I will be available to help as much as I can on computer issues. Please try to receive help from your supervisor and other senior members of your research groups if you can.

https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/5315899956?pwd=aTJoSmczUm1MTHhTYVFzMXYyUWVlQT09

6. UNIX and HPC (click on title for log in information)

Thomas McElroy (McGill University)

06/05/2020, 12:00

Orientation

https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/5315899956?pwd=aTJoSmczUm1MTHhTYVFzMXYyUWVlQT09

13. Programming in C++ (click on title for log in information)

SUMANTA PAL (UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA)

07/05/2020, 12:00

Orientation

https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/5315899956?pwd=aTJoSmczUm1MTHhTYVFzMXYyUWVlQT09

12. ROOT (click on title for log in information)

Chris Jillings (SNOLAB/Laurentian University)

08/05/2020, 12:00

Orientation

https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/5315899956?pwd=aTJoSmczUm1MTHhTYVFzMXYyUWVlQT09

11. GEANT4 (click on title for log in information)

Aleksey Sher (TRIUMF)

11/05/2020, 12:00

Orientation

https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/5315899956?pwd=aTJoSmczUm1MTHhTYVFzMXYyUWVlQT09

The GEANT4 lecture will touch upon the following aspects:

• Why use Geant4
• How does Geant4 work
• How to create your own Geant4 simulation
• How to change things in the simulation (Geometry, materials, Physics, SteppingAction, output, PrimaryEventGenerator)
• Do we trust the output?
• Where to get Help?
• Concluding...

10. Python (click on title for log in information)

Dr Pietro Giampa

12/05/2020, 12:00

Orientation

https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/5315899956?pwd=aTJoSmczUm1MTHhTYVFzMXYyUWVlQT09

5. LabVIEW (click on title for log in information)

Christopher Chambers (McGill University)

13/05/2020, 12:00

Orientation

https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/5315899956?pwd=aTJoSmczUm1MTHhTYVFzMXYyUWVlQT09

15. PyROOT

13/05/2020, 14:00

Orientation

7. SolidWorks by Xiao (click on title for log in information)

Mr Xiao Shang (McGill)

14/05/2020, 12:00

Orientation

https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/5315899956?pwd=aTJoSmczUm1MTHhTYVFzMXYyUWVlQT09

9. Statistics and Error Analysis (click on title for log in information)

Scott Oser (UBC)

15/05/2020, 12:00

Orientation

https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/5315899956?pwd=aTJoSmczUm1MTHhTYVFzMXYyUWVlQT09

16. Dark Matter

Ken Clark (Queen's University)

20/05/2020, 16:00

Lecture

ZOOM Link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/5315899956?pwd=aTJoSmczUm1MTHhTYVFzMXYyUWVlQT09

17. Nuclear Astrophysics

Dr Iris Dillmann

27/05/2020, 16:00

Lecture

https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/5315899956?pwd=aTJoSmczUm1MTHhTYVFzMXYyUWVlQT09

19. Neutrinos

Dr Erica Caden

03/06/2020, 16:00

Lecture

https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/5315899956?pwd=aTJoSmczUm1MTHhTYVFzMXYyUWVlQT09

20. Nuclear Calculations

Dr Jason Holt

24/06/2020, 16:00

Lecture

22. TRIUMF Lectures

03/07/2020, 13:00

Lecture

18. Neutrino Telescopes and Multi-messenger Astronomy

Dr Elisa Resconi

08/07/2020, 12:00

https://zoom.us/j/91719018227

23. Neutron Skin Measurements and Neutron Star Radii

Juliette Mammei (University of Manitoba)

22/07/2020, 16:00

Lecture

https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/5315899956?pwd=aTJoSmczUm1MTHhTYVFzMXYyUWVlQT09

21. The Higgs Boson from the Discovery to Precision Measurements

Dr Pierre Savard

29/07/2020, 16:00

Lecture

Abstract:  In July of 2012, the ATLAS and CMS Experiments announced a major scientific breakthrough: the discovery of a new particle consistent with the Higgs boson predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics.  In the last 8 years, a lot of progress has been made in understanding the properties of this special particle.  In this seminar, I will give an introduction to the Higgs boson...