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Phymaths podcast # 51 || Guest: Dr. Daniel Whiteson
Description
Dr. Daniel Whiteson is an experimental high-energy physicist at UC Irvine and works in the ATLAS collaboration. He is also a science communicator, who made the Daytime Emmy nominated series Elinor Wonders Why, and he also hosts a podcast named Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe. The link of this podcast and his works are given below.
Some links
1) His podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daniel-and-kellys-extraordinary-universe/id1436616330
2) His works: https://inspirehep.net/authors/1020448
3) Link to the high energy physics resources page on my website: https://hassaansaleem.com/graduate-level-theoretical-physics-resources-in-progress/
Contact Info
My website: hassaansaleem.com
Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hassaan.3142/
Join the Whatsapp channel: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Va9DkjmAzNbs7IlGuv1X
Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Hassaan_PHY
Email Queries: [email protected]
Time stamps
(0:00) Coming Up
(0:33) Intro of guest
(0:58) His interest in Physics
(5:24) His active projects
(7:46) Single event discoveries
(12:04) Hiding the data from other collaborations
(14:26) Credit sharing in big collaborations
(20:34) Being an independent researcher
(27:26) Media coverage of LHC and Higgs discovery
(32:46) The 5σ benchmark for discovery
(41:23) Machine Learning for Particle Physics
(45:58) Working with Phenomenologists
(47:44) Theorists/Experimentalists' relation
(53:27) Phenomenological models
(56:14) His preference for phenomenology research
(58:37) The politics of getting funding
(1:05:44) Challenges of making a children's TV series
(1:16:29) Science communication through podcasts
(1:18:36) Effects of having a podcast on me
(1:21:37) PhD comics
(1:22:02) His most favourite guests
(1:25:33) If he could invite Issac Asimov
(1:27:56) Using humor in science communication
(1:30:30) How to engage science skeptics
(1:34:45) The APS story and crackpots
(1:38:40) Balancing time (research & scicomm)
(1:42:11) Selecting a Ph.D student
(1:43:47) Dealing with failure & rejection
(1:49:01) (People's question) LHC upgrades
(1:50:30) (People's question) Collider on the Moon
(1:52:38) (People's question) "We have no idea" title
(1:53:53) (People's question) Investing in research
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By Hassaan SaleemDescription
Dr. Daniel Whiteson is an experimental high-energy physicist at UC Irvine and works in the ATLAS collaboration. He is also a science communicator, who made the Daytime Emmy nominated series Elinor Wonders Why, and he also hosts a podcast named Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe. The link of this podcast and his works are given below.
Some links
1) His podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daniel-and-kellys-extraordinary-universe/id1436616330
2) His works: https://inspirehep.net/authors/1020448
3) Link to the high energy physics resources page on my website: https://hassaansaleem.com/graduate-level-theoretical-physics-resources-in-progress/
Contact Info
My website: hassaansaleem.com
Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hassaan.3142/
Join the Whatsapp channel: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Va9DkjmAzNbs7IlGuv1X
Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Hassaan_PHY
Email Queries: [email protected]
Time stamps
(0:00) Coming Up
(0:33) Intro of guest
(0:58) His interest in Physics
(5:24) His active projects
(7:46) Single event discoveries
(12:04) Hiding the data from other collaborations
(14:26) Credit sharing in big collaborations
(20:34) Being an independent researcher
(27:26) Media coverage of LHC and Higgs discovery
(32:46) The 5σ benchmark for discovery
(41:23) Machine Learning for Particle Physics
(45:58) Working with Phenomenologists
(47:44) Theorists/Experimentalists' relation
(53:27) Phenomenological models
(56:14) His preference for phenomenology research
(58:37) The politics of getting funding
(1:05:44) Challenges of making a children's TV series
(1:16:29) Science communication through podcasts
(1:18:36) Effects of having a podcast on me
(1:21:37) PhD comics
(1:22:02) His most favourite guests
(1:25:33) If he could invite Issac Asimov
(1:27:56) Using humor in science communication
(1:30:30) How to engage science skeptics
(1:34:45) The APS story and crackpots
(1:38:40) Balancing time (research & scicomm)
(1:42:11) Selecting a Ph.D student
(1:43:47) Dealing with failure & rejection
(1:49:01) (People's question) LHC upgrades
(1:50:30) (People's question) Collider on the Moon
(1:52:38) (People's question) "We have no idea" title
(1:53:53) (People's question) Investing in research