User:Duber1

Richard (Ricky) Dube
Undergraduate (Class of 2024)
Physics Department, University of Connecticut
email: richardddube@gmail.com

Projects:

• Particle Identification (PID) using Boosted Decision Trees (BDTs)
• Particle Identification Playground (Particle Identification Educational Resource)

Talks/Posters/Presentations:

• Demystifying Particle Detectors with Interactive Learning Tools, Richard Dube - poster, AAPT Summer Meeting, Boston, MA, July 6-10, 2024.
• Introducing Particle Identification to Algebra-Based Physics Students, Richard Dube - invited talk, GlueX Collaboration meeting, Newport News, VA, May 14-16, 2024.
• PID Playground: Teaching Particle Identification Using Jupyter Notebooks, Richard Dube - poster, AAPT Winter Meeting, New Orleans, LA, January 6-9, 2024.
• PID using Boosted Decision Trees on Particle Gun Data (Powerpoint) (pdf), Richard Dube, GlueX Particle Identification Working Group, November 12, 2023.

Papers:

• An Educational Resource for Particle Identification (PID) in Experimental Particle Physics Data, May 2024.

Website: https://duberii.github.io/pid-playground/