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.
2019-05-22T21:11:22Z via NavierStokes To: Public
From CHIPP_news on Twitter: L’esperimento XENON1T nei Laboratori Italiani del Gran Sasso ha misurato il decadimento più lento mai osservato @Xenon1T @lbaudis @UZH_en @ScnatCH @BenediktVogel1 @hp_beck @GSSI_LAQUILA Intervista alla Prof. Laura Baudis (Università di Zurigo) https://scienzenaturali.ch/service/news/114173-l-esperimento-xenon1t-nei-laboratori-italiani-del-gran-sasso-ha-misurato-il-decadimento-piu-lento-mai-osservato?_ga=2.235972424.832224372.1558368509-1784448466.1501839974 https://twitter.com/CHIPP_news/status/1130873734909300736/photo/12019-05-22T21:11:21Z via NavierStokes To: Public
From CHIPP_news on Twitter: L’esperimento XENON1T nei Laboratori Italiani del Gran Sasso ha misurato il decadimento più lento mai osservato @Xenon1T @lbaudis @UZH_en @ScnatCH @BenediktVogel1 @hp_beck @GSSI_LAQUILA Intervista alla Prof. Laura Baudis (Università di Zurigo) https://scienzenaturali.ch/service/news/114173-l-esperimento-xenon1t-nei-laboratori-italiani-del-gran-sasso-ha-misurato-il-decadimento-piu-lento-mai-osservato?_ga=2.235972424.832224372.1558368509-1784448466.1501839974 https://twitter.com/CHIPP_news/status/1130873734909300736/photo/12019-05-22T21:01:11Z via NavierStokes To: Public
From PhysicsToday on Twitter: Andrei Sakharov, Soviet theoretical physicist and outspoken advocate for nuclear disarmament and human rights, was born #OTD 1921 in Moscow http://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.881252 https://twitter.com/PhysicsToday/status/1130826528022040577/photo/12019-05-22T18:31:15Z via NavierStokes To: Public
HOORAY! My office has achieved a stable, acceptable temperature! Thanks to the facilities experts who rescued us from this building. https://twitter.com/drsekula/status/1131265673437634560/photo/12019-05-21T20:31:44Z via NavierStokes To: Public
Today I wrote a draft of an internal ATLAS note. So happy academic summer is here. Next up: undergrad research proposal, edit a PhD thesis, and finish two teaching guides.2019-05-21T20:31:44Z via NavierStokes To: Public
Moar beauty from the backyard! Now, off to deploy more NAS on the house. :-) https://twitter.com/drsekula/status/1130931967577526272/photo/12019-05-21T20:31:43Z via NavierStokes To: Public
From pracucci on Twitter: Kudos to these two guys from @CERN, doing a live demo processing in real time 70TB of data on a 25.000 cores Kubernetes cluster 👏👏👏 Now try to beat them in your next live demo! #KubeConEU #KubeCon https://twitter.com/pracucci/status/1130862864196096000/photo/12019-05-21T20:31:42Z via NavierStokes To: Public
From ValerieH137 on Twitter: #OnThisDay 26 years ago: @Fermilab's Proton Pagoda. You can learn more about this structure, which opened in 1976, here: https://history.fnal.gov/proton.html https://twitter.com/ValerieH137/status/1130509510832009216/photo/12019-05-21T20:21:07Z via NavierStokes To: Public
From HEPfeickert on Twitter: So cool to see @CERN colleagues @lukasheinrich_ and @ahcorporto giving their #kubecon2019 keynote "Reperforming a Nobel Prize Discovery on Kubernetes" on the livestream! https://kccnceu19.sched.com/event/MRyv https://twitter.com/HEPfeickert/status/1130862689092341760/photo/12019-05-21T20:21:05Z via NavierStokes To: Public
From HEPfeickert on Twitter: So cool to see @CERN colleagues @lukasheinrich_ and @ahcorporto giving their #kubecon2019 keynote "Reperforming a Nobel Prize Discovery on Kubernetes" on the livestream! https://kccnceu19.sched.com/event/MRyv https://twitter.com/HEPfeickert/status/1130862689092341760/photo/12019-05-21T13:51:12Z via NavierStokes To: Public
From uw_icecube on Twitter: IceCube’s winterovers just sat down to take in the view after finishing up some outdoor IceAct snow accumulation measurements. It was a view worth sitting down for. Read more 👉🏽 https://icecube.wisc.edu/news/view/653 https://twitter.com/uw_icecube/status/1130830310097281024/photo/12019-05-20T23:31:13Z via NavierStokes To: Public
I first met Olga on the Babar Experiment. In a sense, both of us "grew up together" on that project, and then both of us eventually moved to the LHC and @ATLASexperiment. She is dearly missed. https://twitter.com/_nikhef/status/11305175317924864022019-05-20T23:31:13Z via NavierStokes To: Public
Clearly, facilities got to work today! I was cooking in my office until about noon, when suddenly the cooling system in the building came back to life. Approaching acceptable now! I love data. https://twitter.com/drsekula/status/1130615001671245824/photo/1Eye eye, Captain
2019-05-20T23:13:49Z via AndStatus To: Public
Annual eye exam complete, and my optic nerves and macula look amazing.2019-05-02T00:00:58Z via NavierStokes To: Public
Thursday is my last teaching day of the semester, and will also be my last “Last Lecture” for introductory mechanics for a while. Let’s talk about the lives of stars and the death of a universe. 09:30, Fondren Science 123. https://twitter.com/drsekula/status/1123737958195048450/photo/12019-04-25T22:00:59Z via NavierStokes To: Public
After days of climate drama in my work office... problem solved? :-) https://twitter.com/drsekula/status/1121533500384075776/photo/12019-04-25T12:01:55Z via NavierStokes To: Public
Hahahahaha! My building hates me. Physics question: which law of thermodynamics is our building thumbing its nose at when it heats my office to 82F in the middle of the night? :-) https://twitter.com/drsekula/status/1121382555889078272/photo/12019-04-25T11:54:13Z via NavierStokes To: Public
From lbaudis on Twitter: For the first time, we observed the two-neutrino double electron capture process in 124-Xe with @Xenon1T data, with an incredibly long half-life of 1.8 x 10^22 years. This half-life is many orders of magnitude larger than the age of our Universe, which is about 1.4 x 10^10 years. https://twitter.com/lbaudis/status/1121098153216835584/photo/12019-04-25T11:54:11Z via NavierStokes To: Public
From AstroTunnell on Twitter: On @XENON1T, we just made a discovery by measuring the process of double-electron capture with a half-life longer than the age of the Universe (18,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years). Front page of Nature. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1124-4?error=cookies_not_supported&code=1f2a98c7-9c7a-47b3-976b-563f10ba18eb https://twitter.com/AstroTunnell/status/1121099178757771264/photo/12019-04-25T01:20:47Z via NavierStokes To: Public
Victory! Much gratitude to the facilities team that has been working on this. (work office temperature in the green and stable!) https://twitter.com/drsekula/status/1121221086191005696/photo/1