Add to Calendar 2025-03-06T16:00:00 2025-03-06T17:00:00 The Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment Event Information: Abstract: Every time researchers have pushed the energy boundary in particle physics we have found something new about our Universe. Recently, IceCube has demonstrated that Neutrino Telescopes can use neutrinos from the cosmos as excellent tools to continue this exploration. To unlock the true potential of this field, advanced detectors are needed that will push the forefront of the cosmic frontier, revealing new knowledge of extreme astrophysical phenomena, including through multi-messenger follow-up programs, and testing fundamental physics at scales well beyond those reachable by Earth-bound accelerators. We aim to construct one of the largest neutrino telescopes deep in the northern Pacific Ocean off the coast of British Columbia, the Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment (P-ONE). The first detector line is planned to be deployed this year - marking the start of an exciting phase for this new project. In this talk I will cover results from early pathfinder missions and discuss the status of P-ONE. Bio: Matthias Danninger is an Assistant Professor at Simon Fraser University. In his research, he uses the ATLAS detector to search for signs of long-lived new particle signatures. This is challenging because these particles have a tendency to avoid interactions and can easily elude detection. Against this backdrop, he and his research team are trying to shed light on the universe’s biggest remaining mysteries: why matter prevailed over anti-matter in the early universe and what exactly dark matter is. Matthias received his first physics education at the University of Canterbury. He completed a Diploma in Physics in 2008 (equivalent to MSc) at the Technical University of Munich, received his PhD in 2013 from Stockholm University, and worked as a postdoctoral fellow at UBC from 2013-19. He is currently Canada Research Chair Tier 2 in Experimental Particle Physics. His research interests include subatomic particle physics, the high energy frontier (ATLAS experiment), searches for physics beyond the Standard Model (Dark Matter and Long-Lived Particles), tracking detectors (track-, vertex-, and event-reconstruction techniques), Astroparticle physics and neutrino physics, and global statistical fits. Learn More: See his SFU faculty webpage here: https://www.sfu.ca/physics/people/faculty/mdanning.html Read SFU news article, "SFU scientists working to build neutrino telescope to provide a new window into the universe": https://www.sfu.ca/sfunews/stories/2024/09/sfu-scientists-working-to-build-neutrino-telescope-to-provide-a-.html See him speak on the Saturday Morning Lectures here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk7GrPcQTiU What is the Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzmCbos0RNU   Event Location: HENN 201