May 05, 2017
1st Informal Round Table: Women in Science
Initiated by: Dr. Monica Dunford (Universität Heidelberg Kirchhoff Institute for Physics) currentlyTrefftz Professor at IKTP, TU Dresden
Dr. Monica Dunford is a lecturer in physics and Akademische Rätin at the University of Heidelberg. Dr. Dunford did her PhD at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia (USA) and then researched as Enrico Fermi Fellow at the University of Chicago (USA).
Twice during the course of her career, she has been involved in research which later led to Nobel Prizes for Physics:
At the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) between 2002 and 2004, she made important contributions to publishing on neutrino oscillations. In 2015, Prof. Arthur McDonald was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for this work.
At the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, she laid the foundations for the operation of the trigger and the understanding of the hadronic calorimeter in the ATLAS detector. Based on the discovery of the Higgs boson at ATLAS in July 2012, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Prof. Peter Higgs and Prof. Francois Englert in 2013.
Monica Dunford is known to the general public through her starring role in the feature film "Particle Fever" from 2014, which chronicled her work as a young scientist in the years before and during the discovery of the Higgs boson at CERN.
When: Tue 09.05.2017 18:15 Uhr,
Where: “Old Library” REC/B202 (Recknagel building)
What: exchange on women in science with beverages and snacks
No registration required.
NB: Following the Physikalisches Kolloquium, 9.5.17, 16:40 REC/C213
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