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Demers, Sarah
Oral history interview with Sarah Demers, 2021 February 17.
Interview with Sarah Demers, Horace D. Taft Associate Professor of Physics at Yale University. Demers explains her academic lineage connection to Taft, and she surveys the challenges of remote work in the pandemic. She recounts her Vermont childhood growing up in the church as the daughter of a United Methodist minister and how her family discussed the compatibility of science and religion. Demers discusses her undergraduate experience at Harvard and her early struggles with physics. She describes her relationship with Melissa Franklin and her first experiences with the CDF detector project at Fermilab. Demers explains her decision to go to the University of Rochester for graduate school where she studied under the direction of Kevin McFarland, and she describes plotting the Z boson at Fermilab. She describes her first job teaching at Roberts Wesleyan College and her subsequent appointment as part of SLACs team for ATLAS at CERN, where she developed an infinity for the triggers of experiments. Demers explains the opportunities that led to her faculty appointment at Yale, and she describes the interests that led to her book on physics and dance. She discusses her ongoing collaboration with ATLAS, the tenure process at Yale, and her work on Mu2e. Demers describes the aesthetic hints that may prove to be physics beyond the Standard Model, and she explains why the LHC can play a pivotal role in the search for dark matter. At the end of the interview, Demers discusses her current interest in tau leptons, she describes the issue of bias as a blockage to improving diversity in the field, and she reflects on the technological improvements that have propelled her field forward.
Sarah Demers is the Horace D. Taft Associate Professor of Physics at Yale University. She completed her graduate studies at the University of Rochester. Demers previously taught at Roberts Wesleyan College and spent time at SLAC. She is involved in the ATLAS experiment at CERN.
Demers, Sarah
Fleming, Bonnie,
Franklin, Melissa Eve Bronwen
Georgi, Howard
Handelsman, Jo
Urry, Claudia Megan
European Organization for Nuclear Research
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Harvard University.
Roberts Wesleyan College
University of Rochester.
Yale University
Dance.
Dark matter (Astronomy)
Higgs bosons.
Large Hadron Collider (France and Switzerland)
Leptons (Nuclear physics)
Particle physics. gtt
Standard model (Nuclear physics)
Women in physics
Z bosons
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Zierler, David, 1979- interviewer.
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American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
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