Stephen Sekula steve@hub.polari.us
Dallas, TX, USA
Husband; Associate Professor of Physics; I teach at SMU in Dallas, TX; I study the Higgs Particle with the ATLAS Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN; writer and blogger; drummer; programmer; teacher; scientist; traveler; runner; gardener; open-source aficionado.
2017-10-17T11:01:18Z via NavierStokes To: Public
Went outside this morning to get the mail. What a beautiful morning to look at Orion and Sirius. https://twitter.com/drsekula/status/920242225157521408/photo/12017-10-17T01:21:15Z via NavierStokes To: Public
First cosmic event seen in gravitational waves and light! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFxLA3RGjnc&feature=youtu.be via @YouTube2017-10-16T22:47:23Z via The Hub Web To: Public CC: Followers
"The Hub" was down briefly for a power supply replacement, but is back up now. Long live the #pumpiverse!George Standish, Charles Stanhope, Scott Sweeny likes this.
2017-10-16T20:53:24Z via NavierStokes To: Public
From Twitter: Scientists saw the explosive counterpart of LIGO/Virgo’s latest #gravitationalwaves using the Dark Energy Camera! http://news.fnal.gov/2017/10/scientists-spot-explosive-counterpart-ligovirgos-latest-gravitational-waves/ https://twitter.com/Fermilab/status/919927848084885504/photo/1Charles Stanhope likes this.
2017-10-16T20:52:49Z via NavierStokes To: Public
From Twitter: .@LIGO spokesperson David Shoemaker is explaining how we detect #GravitationalWaves using interferometers. Tune in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtLPKYl4AHs&feature=youtu.be2017-10-16T20:52:39Z via NavierStokes To: Public
From Twitter: Scientists both see and “hear” a dramatic cosmic explosion for the first time. #GravitationalWaves https://twitter.com/novapbs/status/920000573432324096/video/12017-10-16T20:52:33Z via NavierStokes To: Public
From Twitter: For 1st time, experiments have seen gravitational waves AND light from a single celestial crash: https://t.co/1fD0S1tpDS #GravitationalWaves2017-10-14T23:08:39Z via The Hub Web To: Public CC: Followers
Migrated the management of my work website from CVS to GIT today. Very easy, very satisfying. A small weekend task accomplished.Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠), Charles Stanhope, George Standish likes this.
2017-10-14T19:01:55Z via NavierStokes To: Public
From Twitter: Raymond Davis Jr., who won the Nobel Prize for the first observation of solar neutrinos, was born on this date in 1914. https://twitter.com/Center4NuPhys/status/919201129208188928/photo/12017-10-14T19:01:52Z via NavierStokes To: Public
From Twitter: Wondering where to watch @LIGO announcement on Monday? Stream it live from https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/news/ligo20171011 at 10am ET/ 7am PT #GravitationalWaves2017-10-14T15:11:24Z via NavierStokes To: Public
I am all out of Dark Matter! https://twitter.com/drsekula/status/919217542794584064/photo/12017-10-14T15:01:46Z via NavierStokes To: Public
From Twitter: 1st to predict global warming: Nobel Laureate Svante Arrhenius. Paper from 1896 (pdf): http://www.rsc.org/images/Arrhenius1896_tcm18-173546.pdf https://twitter.com/NobelPrize/status/919129207208316928/photo/12017-10-14T01:51:55Z via NavierStokes To: Public
From Twitter: Beautiful new images from my colleagues @CERN: inside a prototype for a #neutrino detector https://cds.cern.ch/record/2288139 #ProtoDune https://twitter.com/amarsollier/status/918612498852601859/photo/12017-10-14T01:51:52Z via NavierStokes To: Public
Timely, given our brief look at sterile neutrinos at the end of #PHYS5380 today. https://twitter.com/DMHunters/status/9188781188106158112017-10-13T22:02:25Z via NavierStokes To: Public
From Twitter: Xenon-xenon collisions in the ATLAS detector! #XeXEatLHC https://twitter.com/ATLASexperiment/status/918896622502858752/photo/12017-10-13T21:43:53Z via NavierStokes To: Public
From Twitter: Spotted by satellite on Oct. 12: Hurricane Ophelia sporting an open eye, surrounded by powerful thunderstorms. More: https://t.co/KywnFBGTA0 https://twitter.com/NASA/status/918951850623324160/photo/12017-10-13T21:43:34Z via NavierStokes To: Public
Finished sketching my spring 2018 #PHYS1303 course. Lots not final, but move to shooting lecture videos next. https://t.co/GOFlLrxhW72017-10-13T21:22:47Z via NavierStokes To: Public
Had good chats with #PHYS1010 students about grand challenge problem and solutions. Looking forward to status report on Tuesday night! https://twitter.com/drsekula/status/918949068537253893/photo/12017-10-13T21:22:10Z via NavierStokes To: Public
From Twitter: Read all our #AdaLovelaceDay stories of inspiring #womeninscience from across the globe https://t.co/XdYe07mp1H https://twitter.com/royalsociety/status/918854269201199104/photo/12017-10-13T21:22:02Z via NavierStokes To: Public
Hooking a wireless lavaliere mic into an iPad is wicked tricky. I solved the problem with the right hardware, but finding it took time.
