Please join the Physics & Astronomy Department for our next Seminar Speaker Series event!

High-precision Neutrino Oscillation Measurements with the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) with Professor Brooke Russell, Assistant Professor of Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Snacks at 4:30 pm, talk begins at 4:45 pm.

Neutrinos are the most abundant massive particle in the universe. Ubiquity notwithstanding, much remains unknown about their underlying properties. Neutrinos created in one flavor eigenstate can be observed in a different flavor eigenstate. This phenomena is known as neutrino oscillation and is the subject of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics. Observing neutrino oscillation implies that flavor and mass eignestates mix and the neutrino masses are different. The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is a next generation long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment designed to observe neutrino and antineutrino oscillation patterns in order to precisely measure neutrino mixing parameters. In this talk, we will discuss DUNE's capability to stress test the three-flavor neutrino mixing paradigm with high-precision neutrino oscillation measurements.

About our Speaker:
Brooke Russell earned her AB in physics from Princeton University in 2011 and her PhD in physics from Yale University in 2020. She was an Owen Chamberlain Postdoctoral Fellow at Lawrence Berkeley Lab from 2020 through 2023. In 2024, she joined MIT as the Neil and Jane Pappalardo Special Fellow in Physics. Brooke joined the MIT Physics faculty in July 2025 as an Assistant Professor.