The Beginnings of Neutrino Astronomy at UH

by Prof. John Gregory Learned (UHM Physics)

Thursday May 2, 2024, 3:30 PM → 4:30 PM Pacific/Honolulu

Room 112 (Watanabe Hall)

After about forty years of preparations, high energy neutrino astronomy, viewing the universe in the light of neutrinos, has begun to bear fruit. Locals in the UH Physics Department held (mostly) summer workshops bringing together astronomers, cosmologists, particle physics theorists, astrophysicists, and experimentalists. This activity stimulated interest and produced the dozen published (and now sought after) set of DUMAND Workshop Proceedings.  These gatherings and related documents laid foundations for efforts such as the IceCube project which have only recently begun to reveal a universe with curiously energetic stellar objects.