DiscoverPhymaths podcastPhymaths podcast # 51 || Guest: Dr. Daniel Whiteson
Phymaths podcast # 51 || Guest: Dr. Daniel Whiteson

Phymaths podcast # 51 || Guest: Dr. Daniel Whiteson

Update: 2025-02-06
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Dr. Daniel Whiteson is an experimental high-energy physicist at UC Irvine and works in the ATLAS collaboration. He is also a science communicator, who made the Daytime Emmy nominated series Elinor Wonders Why, and he also hosts a podcast named Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe. The link of this podcast and his works are given below.

Some links
1) His podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daniel-and-kellys-extraordinary-universe/id1436616330
2) His works: https://inspirehep.net/authors/1020448
3) Link to the high energy physics resources page on my website: https://hassaansaleem.com/graduate-level-theoretical-physics-resources-in-progress/

Contact Info
My website: hassaansaleem.com
Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hassaan.3142/
Join the Whatsapp channel: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Va9DkjmAzNbs7IlGuv1X
Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Hassaan_PHY
Email Queries: greatestmight@gmail.com

Time stamps
(0:00 ) Coming Up
(0:33 ) Intro of guest
(0:58 ) His interest in Physics
(5:24 ) His active projects
(7:46 ) Single event discoveries
(12:04 ) Hiding the data from other collaborations
(14:26 ) Credit sharing in big collaborations
(20:34 ) Being an independent researcher
(27:26 ) Media coverage of LHC and Higgs discovery
(32:46 ) The 5σ benchmark for discovery
(41:23 ) Machine Learning for Particle Physics
(45:58 ) Working with Phenomenologists
(47:44 ) Theorists/Experimentalists' relation
(53:27 ) Phenomenological models
(56:14 ) His preference for phenomenology research
(58:37 ) The politics of getting funding
(1:05:44 ) Challenges of making a children's TV series
(1:16:29 ) Science communication through podcasts
(1:18:36 ) Effects of having a podcast on me
(1:21:37 ) PhD comics
(1:22:02 ) His most favourite guests
(1:25:33 ) If he could invite Issac Asimov
(1:27:56 ) Using humor in science communication
(1:30:30 ) How to engage science skeptics
(1:34:45 ) The APS story and crackpots
(1:38:40 ) Balancing time (research & scicomm)
(1:42:11 ) Selecting a Ph.D student
(1:43:47 ) Dealing with failure & rejection
(1:49:01 ) (People's question) LHC upgrades
(1:50:30 ) (People's question) Collider on the Moon
(1:52:38 ) (People's question) "We have no idea" title
(1:53:53 ) (People's question) Investing in research

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Phymaths podcast # 51 || Guest: Dr. Daniel Whiteson

Phymaths podcast # 51 || Guest: Dr. Daniel Whiteson

Hassaan Saleem