Hunting for Dark Matter with Neutrinos
August 26, 3:00pm - 4:30pm Manoa Campus, Wat. 112
The Department of Physics and Astronomy Colloquium: Dr. Carsten Rott, Ohio State University, to speak on "Hunting for Dark Matter with Neutrinos."
Abstract
: There is overwhelming evidence for the existence of dark matter, however its nature remains unknown. Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) are theoretically well motivated particle candidates for dark matter. Neutrinos could be produced as part of the self-annihilation of WIMPs leading to unique signatures in neutrino telescopes.
The construction of the IceCube neutrino observatory is nearly completed with 79 strings of optical modules deployed out of 86 foreseen. In this way the detector already instruments a volume of about one gigaton of Antarctic ice. The partially instrumented detector has been taking data since 2006, which has been searched for evidence of dark matter annihilations in the Sun and in the Galactic center and halo, in the form of an excess neutrino flux over the predicted backgrounds from those directions. I will review the results of these searches and discuss the future physics potential of the detector. A particular focus will be put on the low-energy extension of IceCube, Deep-Core, which is taking data since June 2010 and offers exciting opportunities for dark matter searches down to candidate masses in the physically interesting region of about 50 GeV.
Event Sponsor Physics and Astronomy, Manoa Campus
More Information Dr. Gary Varner, 956-2987, varner@phys.hawaii.edu
Move with Aloha Bike Ride
August 27, 11:00am - 11:45am Manoa Campus
Front of Hawaii Hall facing Varney Circle Join us for the public launch of UH Manoa's Move with Aloha campaign on Friday, August 27, at 11 a.m. in front of Hawai‘i Hall facing Varney Circle. Bring your bike, helmet, and aloha for a short ride to view the very first sharrow lanes in the State of Hawai‘i and shared zones on campus.
Bike route map:
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&ll=21.30001,-157.818754&spn=0.007677,0.019462&t=h&z=16&msid=111461577347983799671.00048d6c99a31da5c995d
Move with Aloha is comprised of the following three initiatives to ensure the welfare and safety of the campus community engaged in mixed modes of transportation and to promote a pedestrian-friendly campus:
1) sharrow lanes (lanes shared by bicyclists and motorists)
2) share zones (walk your wheels during high pedestrian traffic)
3) bicycle routes (designated to ensure a safe commute to and from campus)
Event Sponsor OVCAFO, Manoa Campus More Information 956-5658,
http://www.manoa.hawaii.edu/ovcafo/MoveWithAloha/index.html
Filmmaking for Change: Building Online Community
August 28, 9:00am - 4:00pm Manoa Campus, Krauss 012 (Yukiyoshi Room)
Want to excite and energize 21st century students? Want to spark social change to mobilize a community? Filmmaking is a highly collaborative team-building, educational, and empowering experience that can be used to supplement an existing curriculum or to inspire an online community.
In this one-day workshop participants learn strategies to effectively integrate socially responsible content creation into the classroom through the process of filmmaking. Review basic social network campaign strategies to employ filmmaking as a community mobilizer. Become a content creator today and participant in shaping how we image the world tomorrow!
Guess speakers include George David DeLuca, director of Bess Press, and George del Barrio, social media expert.
Henry Mochida, a fifth generation kamaaina born and raised in Hawaii, has a BA in Economics, a masters in Urban & Regional Planning, attended the Academy for Creative Media, and is currently a PhD student in Planning at UH Manoa. He has worked on over 100 productions in the states and internationally, with award winning works premiering at film festivals around the world. Along with his passion for writing and directing short and feature narratives, he aspires to collaborate in pioneering a 'social media planning' field to foster social change through the re-imaging of our communities.
Kimberlee Bassford is an independent filmmaker with a passion for social issue and cultural stories. She produced, directed, wrote and co-edited the award-winning documentary Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority and produced Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?, a four-hour national PBS documentary series, and the three-hour national PBS series The Meaning of Food. Bassford has a BA in psychology from Harvard University and a Masters in Journalism from the University of California Berkeley. She owns Making Waves Films LLC, a documentary production company in Honolulu.
Ticket Information $35, call 956-8400 to register
Event Sponsor Pacific New Media, Outreach College, Manoa Campus
More Information Susan, 956-8244, pnm@hawaii.edu,
www.outreach.hawaii.edu/pnm
Memorial service for Vincent K. Pollard
August 30, 9:45am - 10:15am Manoa Campus, rainbow shower tree near Henke Hall
Vincent Kelly Pollard, a lecturer with Asian Studies and a cooperating graduate faculty member at UH Mānoa, died on June 1 at Straub Hospital after a stroke. He was 65.
Pollard earned a PhD in political science from UH Mānoa, and taught many courses as a lecturer in that department, as well as in Asian Studies, the Liberal Studies Program, at UH West O‘ahu and the community colleges. He was a faculty affiliate at the Center for Philippine Studies, School of Pacific and Asian Studies.
Pollard conducted extensive field research work in the Philippines and taught many related courses about the country. Pollard was a popular teacher, and a prodigious scholar and writer with worldwide reputation in all aspects of Asian contemporary affairs, including film and popular culture.
Event Sponsor Political Science, Manoa Campus
More Information 956-6601
