Physics Research Talks and Presentations
Below, I have listed slides for publicly available talks I have given. For a complete list of my academic research talks, please see my CV.
Technology and Instrumentation in Particle Physics (TIPP) - Virtual. May 2021. Electronic vs. nuclear recoil discrimination and single electron emission in PIXeY. [link]
American Physical Society April Meeting - Virtual. April 2021. Electronic and nuclear recoil discrimination in xenon TPCs with the PIXeY experiment. [link]
CPAD Instrumentation Frontier Workshop - Virtual. March 2021. Modeling xenon and argon physics with the Noble Element Simulation Technique (NEST). [link]
American Physical Society April Meeting - Virtual. April 2020. Discrimination of electron recoils from nuclear recoils in two-phase xenon time projection chambers. [slides] [video] [session recording]
American Physical Society April Meeting - Denver, CO. April 2019. Contributed poster. Simulating Liquid Xenon Interactions with the Noble Element Scintillation Technique (NEST). [link]
American Physical Society April Meeting - Denver, CO. April 2019. Projected Performance of Future Liquid Xenon Detectors. [link]
New Technologies for Discovery IV: The 2018 CPAD Instrumentation Frontier Workshop - Providence, RI, December 2018. Probing Sub-GeV Dark Matter with Superfluid He-4. [link]
Identification of Dark Matter - Brown University, July 2018. ER/NR Discrimination in Liquid Xenon with the LUX Experiment. [link]
American Physical Society April Meeting - Columbus, OH, April 2018. Signal Yields in Liquid Xenon with the LUX Experiment. [link]
Experimental Seminar - SLAC National Lab, January 2018. Probing Sub-GeV Dark Matter with Superfluid Helium. [link]
NorCal HEP-EXchange - Stanford University, December 2017. Recombination in liquid xenon using the Large Underground Xenon (LUX) Experiment. [link]
My virtual talk at the APS April Meeting 2020. My Zoom background is what it looks like underground at our facility! I have uploaded a recording of my talk here.
Science Communication for a General Audience
Below, I have listed physics-oriented talks I have given to a general audience. This list does not include talks and presentations of a policy nature—those can be found in “Science Policy.”
Dark Matter with Vetri Velan. The Graduates (Podcast), October 2020. [link]
Dark Matter Chats with Vetri Velan. Physics After Hours (Podcast) [link]
Dark Matter: A Hidden Sea. Science At Cal / LBNL Midday Science Cafe, October 2020. [link]
Dark Matter: A Cosmic Mystery. Popping the Science Bubble, July 2017. [link]