Data In Every Direction--Welcome to my life as a particle physicist

University of the Pacific Analytics professor, Jim Hetrick (http://www.pacific.edu/Academics/Schools-and-Colleges/College-of-the-Pacific/Academics/Departments-and-Programs/Physics/Our-Faculty/Directory/Hetrick.html), is a particle physicist with lots of experience analyzing data. A regular visitor to the Large Hadron Collider (http://www.businessinsider.com/cern-large-hadron-collider-explained-2015-6) at CERN, he is currently exploring models of what the Higgs particle might really be.

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In this Meetup, Dr. Hetrick will give us an overview of some of the Big Data challenges at the most complex experiment ever built--literally operating at the speed of light (well, at 99.9999988% of it), as well as talk about his work doing large scale, massively parallel supercomputer calculations of the quantum field theory underlying these experiments.