Conveners
Plenary - Underground Science & Native American Heritage
- David Martinez Caicedo (South Dakota School of Mines and Technology)
Many physics experiments requiring low-background environments are carried out in the underground laboratories worldwide. In this theoretical overview physics being probed in those experiments will be reviewed with particular emphasis on core-collapse supernovae, particle dark matter, both two-neutrino and neutrinoless double beta decays as well as laboratory nuclear astrophysics.
The Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) has been operating for 15 years as an international facility dedicated to advancing compelling multidisciplinary underground scientific research, including physics, biology, geology, and engineering. Seven primary underground levels at SURF offer a unique environment that allows researchers the opportunity to explore an array of important...
The Black Hills of South Dakota is known as He Sapa or Paha Sapa to my ancestors, my people, the Lakota. The Lakota and other Tribal Nations have had special ties to this area for thousands of years. We continue this special connection. For the Lakota, the Black Hills are the heart of everything that is, the center of our universe, where special sites remain vital to our existence. It is the...
