Janet Conrad

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

How to catch a wild neutrino

There is much to love about the neutrino. It is the most independent of all of the known fundamental particles, interacting with us (or any other material) very rarely. But when it does interact - it has something to say! It is the first particle to show unexpected behavior in many years! That's a good reason for it to be beloved by physicists. Another reason is that neutrinos show the behavior of quantum mechanics - that particles behave like waves - on human-sized scales. This talk will introduce you to how we observe neutrino interactions in our detectors, in preparation for the talks that follow, that will describe the secrets we have learned from them.

Janet Conrad is an American Physicist and a professor at MIT. She is involved with several experimental collaborations such as MicroBooNE and IceCube. (more information)