Organizers

Heather Gray

Assistant professor at UC Berkeley working on the ATLAS experiment; development new methods to study the Higgs boson.

Elodie Resseguie

Chamberlain Fellow at LBL working on the ATLAS experiment; searching for new physics and testing electronics for the detector upgrade

Elisabetta Pianori

Staff scientist at LBL working on the ATLAS experiment; studying the Higgs boson and working on the upcoming upgrade of the tracker detector


Andrea Herman

Graduate student at UC Berkeley, studying neutrinos

Panelists

Aashrita Mangu

Graduate student at UC Berkeley working in experimental cosmology; building, testing, and deploying telescopes for the Simons Observatory and Simons Array experiments to observe the Cosmic Microwave Background.

Eleanor Hall

Graduate student at the Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics studying baryogenesis, quantum chromodynamics, and collider physics

Vetri Velan

Graduate student at UC Berkeley working on direct detection of dark matter particles using liquid xenon and helium experiments; advocate for science-literate government policy

Greg Ottino

Graduate Researcher at LBL, working on the ATLAS experiment. Studying precision tests of the Standard Model of particle physics through W bosons and charm quarks.