Resources

This is a collection of links that get added as they come up. Please send me links you think are useful and I will add them.

• Table of Contents

  • Experiments
  • @Yale
  • Dark Matter
  • Neutrinos
  • Antarctica & South Pole
  • Detectors
  • Computing & Tools
  • Statistics
  • Students & Postdocs Fellowships & Funding Opportunities
  • Career & Professional Development
  • On being a Scientist
  • Anti-Racism
  • On Women in Physics
  • Resources for BIPOC Physicists
  • Advising & Being Advised

• Experiment Homepages

  • HAYSTAC
  • COSINE
  • DM-Ice
  • Official CUORE Page
    • CUORE at Yale
  • IceCube

• @Yale University

  • Physics Department
    • For Undergraduate Students
    • For Graduate Students
  • Astronomy Department
  • Yale Wright Lab - where my lab is located
  • Instrumentation at Yale - for detector and hardware enthusiasts!
  • Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Yale Faculty Demographics

• Dark Matter

  • “TASI lectures on dark matter models and direct detection”: good set of introduction to models and direct detection of dark matter by Tongyan Lin 
  • “WIMP dark matter candidates and searches - current status and future prospects” by Roszkowski, Sessolo, and Trojanowski. A great summary as of 2017. 

  • “School on Dark Matter” at Sao Paulo, June 27 - July 8, 2016. Geared toward graduate students. Look for videos and slides for lectures.

  • Popular Press

    • Symmetry Magazine: WIMPs in the dark matter wind

  • Dark Matter: A Brief Review by Annika H. G. Peter:: Great review of dark matter candidates and the search methods used for each

  • The Pooltable Analogy to Axion Physics by Pierre Sikivie: A helpful and accessible analogy for understanding the axion’s role in solving the strong CP problem and as a dark matter canditate 

  • A New Era in the Quest for Dark Matter by Gianfranco Bertone and Tim M. P. Tait: A review of the fall of WIMP dark matter candidacy and a discussion of other possible sources of dark matter. 

• Neutrinos

  • Resource Letter ANP-1: Advances in Neutrino Physics by Maury Goodman, American Journal of Physics 84, 907 (2016)
  • The Neutrino Matrix, by the Members of the APS Multi-Divisional Neutrino Study
    • A good overview on the field of Neutrino Physics from Nov. 2004. A little outdated but still pretty good.
  • “Celebrating the Neutrino” from 1997, written during the time when people were trying to figure out whether neutrinos oscillate. 
  • For the general public (there are many more out there, this is just a sampling)
    • Is the neutrino their own antiparticle? by Signe Brewster, Symmetry Magazine
    • Nobel Prize in 2015 for the discovery of neutrino oscillation and therefore mass
  • “The Hunt for No Neutrinos” a good piece by Jonathan Engel and Petr Vogel on the neutrinoless double beta decay searches. 

• Antarctica & South Pole

  • First search for a dark matter annual modulation signal with NaI(Tl) in the Southern Hemisphere by DM-ICE17 by E. Barbosa de Souza et al.
  • Meet the South Pole’s Dark Matter Detective by Matthew Sedacca
  • Disputed dark-matter result gets put to the test by Andrew Grant
  • Just Chilling: Yale researchers share some of their coldest moments by Jim Shelton
  • Celebrating IceCube’s first decade of discovery
  • Probing neutrino emission at GeV energies from compact binary mergers with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory by the IceCube Collaboration
  • Detection of a particle shower at the Glashow resonance with IceCube by the IceCube Collaboration

• Detectors

  • Scintillators
    • Scintillation Properties from LBL
    • Saint-Gobain
    • Alpha Spectra
  • PMTs
    • RCA Photomultiplier Handbook
    • Hamamatsu Handbook
  • Data Acquisition & Electronics
    • Tutorials by Helmuth Spieler
    • Horowitz & Hill
  • Low Temperature
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  • Basic Research Needs Report on Instrumentation, 2020

• Computing & Tools Used in My Lab

  • Basics of what you need to get started at Wright lab from Vincent Balbarin (pdf)
  • Yale Center for Research Computing Resources
  • Root: Data analysis framework widely used in high energy physics
  • Python:
    • Introduction to Python
    • Jupyter notebooks
    • Learn Python the Hard Way
    • Programming with Python
    • Plotting and Programming in Python
    • Python Tools:
      • Getting started with Conda

      • Intro to Data Analysis / Visualization with Python, Matplotlib and Pandas | Matplotlib Tutorial

      • Data Analysis with Python

      • Python Data Science Handbook

  • Linux/Unix

    • Practical Introduction to Linux

    • The Unix Shell

  • Git
    • What is git and how do I get started?
    • Version control with Git
    • Wright Lab Git
    • GitHub, GibLab, Bitbucket
  • Matlab
    • See for Yale software licence
  • Grace
    • Grace OnDemand

• Statistics

  • Particle Data Group: Statistics review section in Review of Particle Physics
  • PHYSTAT conference for statistics in particle physics. Great resource.
  • A classic by Feldman & Cousins: arXiv:physics/9711021
  • Lectures on Statistics in Theory: Prelude to Statistics in Practice by Robert D. Cousins, arXiv:1807.05996
  • DMSS: Dark Matter Summer School 2018, lecture by Dr. Alex Himmel “Statistical Methods used in Dark Matter”
  • Chi-Squared Data Analysis and Model Testing for Beginners by Witkov and Zengel

• Student & Postdoc Fellowships and Funding Opportunities

  • For Postdocs
    • UC Berkeley Miller Fellowship
    • MIT Pappalardo Fellowships in Physics
    • American Association of University Women Fellowships
    • California Alliance Research Exchange & Postdoctoral Fellowship
    • L’Oréal USA For Women in Science Fellowship
  • For Graduate Students
    • NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
    • DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program
    • DOE NNSA Stewardship Science Graduate Fellowship
    • American Association of University Women Fellowships
  • For Undergraduate Students
    • Applying to grad schools
      • Grad School Shopper
    • National/International
      • Research Experience for Undergraduate Students (REU), National Science Foundation
      • Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships (SULI) by Department of Energy
      • Department of Energy Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists
      • For students at Yale:
        • Summary of available fellowships
        • Student Fellowships and Grants
        • Tetelman Tetelman Fellowship for International Research in the Sciences
        • Yale College Dean’s Research Fellowship
        • Yale Science Scholars Program
        • STARS: Science, Technology and Research Scholars (STARS) Program
        • For First years: Yale College First-Year Summer Research Fellowship in the Sciences & Engineering
        • Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships (SULI)

• Career and Professional Development

  • Students and postdocs:
    • Yale Physics Professional Development Organization
    • Working Smarter, Not Just Harder: Three Sensible Strategies for Succeeding in College… and Life: Karl W. Reid, EdD
  • Faculty
    • FacultyDiversity.org: National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity
    • Tomorrow’s Professor Postings

• On Being a Scientist

  • Adivce from professionals, and a professional development timeline for Careers in Academia at research/teaching/combination institions, national labs, etc. from California AllianceNational Center for Faculty Development and Diversity
  • • An independent professional development, training, and mentoring community for graduate students, post-docs, and faculty.  An excellent, excellent, resource.
  • Tips for writing, reading, time management, making graphs, etc.
  • Tomorrow’s Professor
    • I highly recommend signing up for their newsletters. The eNewsletter seeks to foster a diverse, world-wide teaching and learning ecology, an excellent resource for graduate students, post-docs, and faculty.
  • Dark Matter in the Universe by Vera Rubin
  • Resources from AstroBetter - Tips and tricks on computing, analysis tools, career, teaching, project and team management, equity and inclusion, and other useful information. Put together for astronomers but totally applicable for physicists.
  • On Writing
    • Publish and Flourish: Become a Prolific Scholar by Tara Gray
    • Writing your Academic Journal in 12 Weeks by Wendy Laura Belcher
    • Scientific Writing and Communication by Angelika H. Hofmann
  • Reference letter guide
    • For Applicants:
      • On the Art of Procuring Reference Letters, by David Keyes.
      • A Developmental Strategy to Write Effective Letters of Recommendation, by Drew C. Appleby, Association for Psychological Science.
      • Request for Letter of Reference, by Rebecca Brannon
    • For Letter Writers:
      • Writing a Letter of Recommendation. Addendum to Making the Right Moves: A Practical Guide to Scientific Management for Postdocs and New Faculty, Burroughs Wellcome Fund and Howard Hughes Medical Institute
      • How to Write an Effective Letter of Recommendation, by Ira Mellman, American Society of Cell Biology
      • A Developmental Strategy to Write Effective Letters of Recommendation, by Drew C. Appleby, Association for Psychological Science.

• Anti-Racism with focus on Academia

  • One of my favorite pieces: “I wanted to know what white men thought about their privilege. So I asked” by Claudia Rankine
  • https://www.shutdownstem.com/resources
  • Anti-racism resources by by Sarah Sophie Flicker, Alyssa Klein in May 2020
  • dRworks: Dismantling Racism Works Web Workbook
  • APS-IDEA Network: American Physical Society Inclusion Diversity, and Equity Alliance
  • Start Talking: A handbook for Engaging Difficult Dialogues in Higher Education
  • Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks
  • Superior: the Return of Race Science by Angela Saini

• On Gender and Women in Physics

  • Yale Women in Physics
  • wikiProject:Women Scientists
  • Female Scientist Professor Blog (she’s been doing this a long time but still relevant as ever!)
  • APS Women in Physics (don’t forget to sign up for their email list!)
  • Misc. articles

• Resources for BIPOC Physicists

  • National Society of Black Physicists
  • SACNAS: Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science
  • Mental health resources from Sunshine Behavioral Health

• Resources for LGBTQ+ Physicists

  • Yale Office of LGBTQ Resources
  • Yale LGBTQ Affinity Group
  • Trans@Yale
  • All Gender Restroom Map
  • W{holy} Queer

• Advising/Being Advised

• • On being advised 

• Misc.

  • FormsPal.com: legal templates