07 April 2025 Monday

  setup
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9 Teach
  Teach
10 setup / Ables / Marina / dad
  FNAL Trip
11 FNAL Housing
  Townhall
12 Hoops
  Hoops
1 Hoops
  Hoops
2 Heather Gray
  Heather Gray
3  
  Colloq
4 Colloq
  Reception / Chat

W: 6 DW: 1 OT: 1 ex

Up at 7

M & T to school

setup

Taught

  • Schrodinger Eq solutions… start infinite square well

Pinged dad re:taxes

Chat ables:

  • [>>] Send resignation letter from Josh

Start CMU HGC MAC Meeting 8 April 2025

FNAL Trip April 2025

  • see logs above

CMU Townhall:

  • Culture of Excellence: Rachel
  • Collaborative Research: Curtis
  • Optimizing Infrastructure: Sharon McCarl / Gordon Rule
  • "Will be told to cut budget even though we've been running a deficit"

Hoops

  • Good runs… Played well, bad shooting

Chat Heather

  • Chat
  • Showed her the lab

Colloq

  • Heather Gray Higgs coupling to quarks
  • Neutrino is grain of salt compared to whale for top-Higgs
  • ttH: bb channel is the most sensitive
  • "most optimistic assumptions are 50%" —> now 70 - 85%!
  • Hbb was published twice on the same data in ATLAS
  • Heather did first VH(cc) , µ 110 -> 26 -> 11
  • b-tagging Areas where performace has changed the most : ML has had biggest impact

Lei Zhao Accepts for masters programĀ !

Colloq dinner

  • Heather / Valentina / Tae / Peter / Pritam