Annual PIRE Workshop

17 Sept 2009, 09:00 → 18 Sept 2009, 19:00 US/Central

UNL Student Union

Aaron Dominguez (University of Nebraska), Ken Bloom (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

This is the second annual PIRE workshop. This year it's in Nebraska; last year it was in Kansas.

pictures PIRE09.JPG PIRE_Group_at_Student_Union.jpg

Thursday, 17 September

Project Status

This session is devoted to the status of the project and students' experiences

1 Welcome

Speaker: Harriet Turner (UNL International Affairs)

2 Project status

Speaker: Alice Bean

Slides PIREUNL-09-09.pdf

3 Studying at ETH

Speaker: Chris Martin

Slides Study_Abroad_Experience.pdf

10:25 Coffee Break

4 Student panel: the PSI/ETH study abroad experience

12:00 Lunch

Lunch will be in the Student Union on your own.

Study Abroad

This session is devoted to experiences and information related to study abroad programs. We will also have a department colloquium.

5 Meeting America's Global Education Challenge: Promoting Study Abroad in Science and Technology

We are planning to share data on science and engineering study abroad participation at each of the U.S. institutions in the partnership, with more detailed data on UNL's participation, as well as on the national level. In addition, we will provide links to several articles that address the topic of attracting science and engineering students to studying abroad.

Speakers: Christa Joy, Peter Levitov, Sarah Barr, Susan Burton

Slides PIRE09.pdf PIRE09.pptx

6 Student evaluations and UNL facilities tour

15:30 Department Colloquium

Hans-Christian Kaestli will give the Physics Department Colloquium

18:00 Group Dinner

Dinner at the Blue Orchid Restaurant

Friday, 18 September

Future Directions

Future directions of PIRE group over the next year

7 Future Directions

Speaker: Lazo-Flores Jose (Department of Physics and Astronomy - College of Arts and Scienc)

Slides JosePIRE_Conference09_0.pdf

Student Presentations

This session is devoted to the science of the project and student presentations.

slides 18.9.2009_presentation.pdf

8 Interpixel Capacitance

Speaker: Radicci Valeria (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN))

Slides UNLValeria_17-09-09.pdf

9 ADC Simulation and Testing

Speaker: Dane Oleson (UNL)

Slides 18.9.2009_presentation.pdf

10 PLL Simulation and Testing

Speaker: Shruti Shrestha (Kansas State University-Unknown-Unknown)

Slides

• sep18PIRE.pdf
• sep18PIRE.pdf
• sepPIRE.pdf

11 Charge Collection Efficiency on Highly Irradiated Sensors

Speaker: Natalie Krzyzanowski (UIC)

Slides Natalie_-_PIRE_Conference.pdf

12 Address by Vice Chancellor

Speaker: Prem Paul

13 Module Trimming at Low Thresholds: Procedure

Speaker: Luis Y Rivera (UPRM)

Slides Trimming.pdf

14 Module Trimming at Low Thresholds: Results

Speaker: Ali McVea

Slides Ali_-_PIRE_Conference.pdf

12:40 Lunch

Lunch will again be in the Student Union on your own.

Student Presentations Continued

This session continues the student presentations of the morning session

15 Irradiated Readout Chips: Procedure

Speaker: Samvel Khalatyan (University of Illinois at Chicago-Unknown-Unknown)

Slides 090918.pdf

16 Irradiated Readout Chips: Results

Speaker: Eric Stachura (UIC)

Slides Study_of_Irradiated_ROCs._Pire_Conference_September_18_2009.pdf

17 Study of Cal-Inject as a Function of Temperature

Speaker: Tony Kelly (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

Slides Kelly_Tony.pdf

18 Micro-twisted Pair Cables

Speaker: sandra oliveros (CMS)

Slides Micro-twisted_pair_cable.pdf

19 Implementation of the TMB in an FPGA

Speaker: Christopher Blake Martin (Department of Physics and Astronomy-University of Kansas-Unknown)

Slides Pire_Conference_2009.pdf