During the last week, University of Mississippi physics graduate students have successfully defended their Theses and Dissertations. The are:

Masters:

Azwad Adnan successfully defended his MS thesis, “Branching fraction measurements of Ξ_c⁺ → Σ⁺ h⁺ h^– and Λ_c⁺ → p⁺ h⁺ h^– using Belle II Monte Carlo” on Wednesday July 10, 2024.

Paul Gebeline successfully defended his MS thesis, “Measurement of the branching ratios of Ξ_c⁺ → Ξ⁰π⁺π⁺π^–, Σ⁺K^–π⁺, Σ⁺K⁺K^–, and Σ⁺π⁺π^– and the lifetime of the Ξ_c⁺ ” on Tuesday July 23, 2024.

Dinura Hettiarachchi successfully defended his MS thesis, “Measurements of Charge Parity asymmetries in Λ_c⁺ → p⁺ h⁺ h^– ” on Thursday July 11, 2024.

Wil Stacy successfully defended his MS thesis, “Inclusive measurement of Υ(4S) decays to Υ(1S) at Belle II” on Tuesday July 23, 2024.

Ph.D:

Akshay Khadse successfully defended his Ph.D.dissertation, “Data driven approaches to study gravitational waves from binary black hole mergers” on Wednesday July 17, 2024.

Saroj Pokharel successfully defended his Ph.D.dissertation, “An amplitude analysis of Ξ_c⁰ decays to Λ⁰ K^– π⁺ ” on Thursday, July 11, 2024.

Joe Rivest successfully defended his Ph.D.dissertation, “Tidal perturbations of Kerr spacetime and their impact on orbits” on Saturday, July 13, 2024.

Prof. Jake Bennett and Prof. Leo Stein have received a promotion to Associate Professor.

UM team seeks answers to questions about Standard Model, dark matter.

Pushing the boundaries of what is known about the universe, a team of University of Mississippi students and postdoctoral researchers has contributed to one of the world’s premier particle physics experiments, Muon g-2, at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. See this page for more details.

Roy Arnold, a longtime faculty member in this department and member of NCPA, passed away peacefully on April 28, 2024. Details of his funeral and Obituary can be found here: https://www.colemanfuneralhome.com/obituaries/Roy-Arnold-3/  .

The 2024 US Belle II Summer Workshop will be held from June 17 – 21, 2024.

This workshop will be primarily face-to-face with a SpeakApp connection for those who are unable to attend in person.

The purpose of this workshop is to give students, postdocs, and more senior researchers the tools and knowledge needed to get started and make progress on Belle II physics analysis and performance studies. Topics will include Belle II physics, software, and computing in a hands-on tutorial format.

This workshop is open to all Belle II collaborators and we welcome attendance from across the collaboration.