Selected Talks
James E. Brau
University of Oregon

This list of selected talks is also posted here with grouping into categories (public, colloquia, detectors, others).

Selected Presentations

Monolithic active pixel detectors for tracking and calorimetry at e+e- colliders
APS Global Physics Summit
Denver, Colorado, March 18, 2026

Higgs Factory Digital MAPS Electromagnetic Calorimeter
Linear Collider Workshop (LCWS) 2025
Valencia, Spain, October 22, 2025

Future Colliders
2025 U.Oregon Quarknet, June 20, 2025

The SiD Digital ECal based on Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors
US Higgs Factory Planning Workshop
SLAC National Accerator Laboratory, California, December 19, 2024

The SiD Digital ECal based on Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors
Coordinating Panel for Advanced Detectors (CPAD) Workshop
University of Tennesse, Knoxville, November 19, 2024

The Beginning, the Future and the Higgs Boson
2024 U.Oregon Quarknet, July 2, 2024

The SiD Digital ECal Based on Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors
International Workshop on Future Linear Colliders
Tokyo, Japan, July 20, 2024

The SiD Digital ECal based on Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors
CALOR 2024
Tsukuba, Japan, May 20, 2024

Digital ECAL (DECAL) based on MAPS
DRD-on-Calorimetry Collaboration Meeting
CERN, April 10, 2024

Simulated Performance of the SiD Digital ECal based on Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors
Coordinating Panel for Advanced Detectors (CPAD) Workshop
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, November 8, 2023

The Higgs Boson as a Tool for Discovery
2023 U.Oregon Quarknet, June 21, 2023

The SiD Digital ECal based on Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors
Particle Physics Community Planning Exercise
U. Washington, Seattle, July 19, 2022

The SiD Digital ECal Based on Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors
2022 U.Oregon Quarknet, June 22, 2022

The SiD Digital ECal based on Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors
Future Colliders Workshop: Cool Copper Collider R&D
Fermilab, May 17, 2022

The SiD Digital ECal based on Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors
CALOR 2022
University of Sussex, UK, May 16, 2022

Age of the Universe, And How We Know It
Eugene Rotary Club, February 1, 2022

The SiD Digital ECal based on Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors
ILC Workshop on Potential Experiments (ILCX 2021)
October 27, 2021

Muon g-2
2021 U.Oregon Quarknet
June 30, 2021

The Electromagnetic Calorimeter System for the SiD Detector at the ILC
Snowmass Instrumentation Frontier/Calorimetry Monthly Meeting, September 11, 2020

High Granularity Calorimetry for the ILC
Electron-positron self education lecture series, September 9, 2020

Higgs Factories, talk for a general audience,
Lake Tahoe Community College, February 12, 2020

SiD and the International Linear Collider
Martin Breidenbach Symposium
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, February 7, 2020

The International Linear Collider
Invited Talk, IAS Program on High Energy Physics
Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology, January 20, 2020

ILC Detector Requirements
Invited Talk, IAS Program on High Energy Physics, Mini-Workshop
Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology, January 16, 2020

Chronopixel CMOS Sensor Development for the ILC
CPAD Instrumentation Frontier Workshop
University of Wisconsin, Madison, December 10, 2019

The International Linear Collider
Physics Colloquium
Brookhaven National Laboratory, December 3, 2019

The International Linear Collider
Invited Talk, CEPC Workshop
University of Chicago, September 16, 2019

Report on a Journey to the Beginning of Time, talk for a general audience,
Florence City Club, Florence, OR, June 6, 2019

Report on a Journey to the Beginning of Time, talk for a general audience,
Yachats Academy of Arts and Sciences, Yachats, OR, May 4, 2019

The potential of Higgs factories
Invited talk, APS Meeting
Denver, CO, April 15, 2019

Report on a Journey to the Beginning of Time, talk for a general audience,
Siuslaw Public Library, Florence, OR, November 9, 2018

Violence in the Universe, talk for a general audience,
Eugene Public Library, September 12, 2018

Einstein's Warped Universe - Riding Gravity Waves Through Spacetime, talk for a general audience,
Science Pub, Eugene, August 9, 2018

The ILC250: First Stage of the International Linear Collider
UO Institute of Theoretical Science Seminar
University of Oregon, April 24, 2018

The ILC250: First Stage of the International Linear Collider
Joint Particle Physics/John Adams Institute Seminar
Oxford, UK, March 12, 2018

Particle Colliders:
The Large Hadron Collider
and the International Linear Collider, talk for a general audience,
Lake Tahoe Community College, February 26, 2018

How Solar Eclipses Enable Scientific Discovery, talk for a general audience,
OMSI Solar Eclipse Viewing Party,
Oregon State Fairgrounds, August 22, 2017

2017 Solar Eclipse, talk for a general audience,
Eugene Public Library, August 16, 2017

2017 Solar Eclipse, talk for a general audience,
Eugene Rotary, Eugene, August 15, 2017

2017 Solar Eclipse, talk for a general audience,
Siuslaw Public Library, Florence, OR, August 5, 2017

Terascale Physics and the International Linear Collider,
Banquet speaker,
Northwest APS Meeting, Forest Grove, CA, June 2, 2017

Exploring Nature With Neutrinos, talk for a general audience,
Eugene Public Library, November 30, 2016

ILC: The technological challenges for Higgs physics
Invited talk
Coordinating Panel for Advanced Detectors (CPAD) workshop, New Technologies for Discovery
Caltech, Pasadena, CA, October 8, 2016

First Direct Detection of Gravitational Waves:
New Window on Black Holes and Other Astrophysical Phenomena,
Guest Lecture, 2016 Hertz Foundation Summer Workshop,
Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, CA, July 10, 2016

Higgs physics at ILC and CLIC with the ILD/SiD/CLICdp detectors,
Invited talk
ECFA Linear Collider Workshop
Santander, Spain, June 3, 2016

Einstein's Warped Universe: Riding Gravitational Waves Through Space-time, talk for a general audience,
Yachats Academy of Arts and Science
Yachats, OR, May 7, 2016
video recording

Vibrations in the Structure of Spacetime
Fannie and John Hertz Foundation
San Mateo, CA, April 1, 2016
reviews

An Introduction for the OMSI Opening of "Another Earth", talk for a general audience,
Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI)
Portland, Oregon, March 29, 2016

First Direct Detection of Gravitational Waves
Oregon State University Physics Colloquium
Corvallis, Oregon, March 28, 2016

Einstein's Warped Universe
- Riding gravity waves through Spacetime, talk for a general audience,
Eugene Public Library, March 23, 2016

Higgs Boson & Gravitational Waves, talk for a general audience,
Lake Tahoe Community College, CA, February 16, 2016

The International Linear Collider and Terascale Physics
University of Oregon, Physics Colloquium
Eugene, Oregon, October 22, 2015

Why Antimatter Matters, talk for a general audience,
Eugene Public Library, July 15, 2015
preview on Jefferson Public Radio
poster

The International Linear Collider and Terascale Physics
University of California, Santa Cruz, Physics Colloquium
Santa Cruz, California, June 4, 2015

Physics Slam, program for a general audience,
University of Oregon, Eugene, April 8, 2015
video recording
poster

Report on a Journey to the Beginning of Time, talk for a general audience,
Keynote Speech at Oregon Mensa BeaveRG XV
Vancouver, Washington, May 10, 2014

The Higgs Boson: An Introduction for the OMSI Opening of "Particle Fever", talk for a general audience,
Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI)
Portland, Oregon, April 15, 2014

The Higgs Boson: Its Discovery and Meaning, talk for a general audience,
Science Pub, Eugene, February 13, 2014
OMSI event web page

The Higgs Boson: Window on the Big Bang, talk for a general audience,
Wright State University
Dayton, Ohio, February 7, 2014
Wright State announcement

The Higgs Boson: Window on the Big Bang, talk for a general audience,
Air Force Museum
Dayton, Ohio, February 8, 2014

The Hidden Universe:
Dark Matter, Dark Energy and Gravitational Waves , talk for a general audience,
Eugene Public Library, January 18, 2014
poster
preview

The Higgs Boson: How It Was Discovered and What It Tells Us About the Universe, talk for a general audience,
University of Oregon Alumni Association, Portland Science Night
Portland, Oregon, August 21, 2013

The Higgs Boson: Window on the Big Bang, talk for a general audience,
Eugene Public Library, July 8, 2013
preview on Jefferson Public Radio

The Higgs Boson and the Puzzle of Electroweak Symmetry
Oregon State University Physics Colloquium
Corvallis, Oregon, January 28, 2013

Report on a Journey to the Beginning of Time, talk for a general audience,
Lane County Medical Society, Eugene, OR, January 8, 2013
newsletter

Report from a Journey to the Beginning of Time, talk for a general audience,
Eugene Rotary, Eugene, November 6, 2012

The Higgs Boson: Window on the Big Bang, talk for a general audience,
Inaugural Presidential Research Lecture
University of Oregon, Eugene, October 29, 2012
announcement
video recording of lecture

Lepton Collider Detectors -
Confronting the Challenges of Lepton Collider Experiments
Invited plenary talk
2012 Excellence in Detector and Instrumentation Technologies Symposium
Fermilab, February 24, 2012

Particle Physics Slam, program for a general audience,
University of Oregon, Eugene, March 22, 2011
Full program video recording
Youtube recordings of individual presentations

The Mysterious Universe: Exploring Our World With Particle Accelerators, talk for a general audience,
Jefferson Lab, Newport News, VA, November 23, 2010
video recording of lecture
Slide show prelude

Basic considerations on LC lumi & energy needs (up to 3 TeV) (invited)
Int'l. Workshop on Linear Colliders 2010, Geneva, October 19, 2010

The Mysterious Universe: Exploring Our World With Particle Accelerators, talk for a general audience,
University of New Mexico, October 1, 2009
description
poster

Recent Developments in Detector Technology
2009 Division of Particles and Fields Meeting
invited plenary talk
Detroit, MI, July 31, 2009

Advances in Detector Technology
2009 European Physical Society HEP Conference
invited plenary talk
Krakow, Poland, July 21, 2009

Exploring the Energy Frontier; Understanding LHC Discoveries (invited DPF talk)
APS Meeting, Denver, May 3, 2009

Cracking Open the Universe, talk for a general audience,
Columbia Hall, UO, Eugene, Oregon, September 12, 2008

Particles, Energy, and Cosmology, talk for a general audience,
"Topics on Tap", Roseburg, Oregon, July 10, 2008

Particles, Energy, and Cosmology, talk for a general audience,
Eugene Rotary, Eugene, Oregon, February 5, 2008

Physics and Detectors for the International Linear Collider
2007 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium
invited plenary talk
Honolulu, HI, October 29, 2007
written version for Conference Record

Physics and Detectors of the International Linear Collider
Second International Accelerator School for Linear Colliders
Erice, Italy, October 9, 2007

Particles, Energy, and Our Mysterious Universe, talk for a general audience,
"Science Pub", Eugene, Oregon, September 13, 2007

The Mysterious Frontiers of Our Universe, BIG and small, talk for a general audience,
Rose City Astronomers, Portland, Oregon, July 16, 2007

Charge to the 2007 Linear Collider Workshop
DESY, Hamburg, Germany, International Linear Collider Workshop 2007 (opening LCWS talk), May 30, 2007

Electroweak Physics and the International Linear Collider
Purdue Univ. Physics Colloquium, April 18, 2007

The Mysterious Frontiers of Our Universe, BIG and small, talk for a general audience,
Lane County Medical Society, Eugene, Oregon, March 6, 2007

Recent Progress Toward the International Linear Collider
Colliders to Cosmic Rays 2007
Granlibakken, CA, March 1, 2007
written version

Designing a Detector for Linear Collider Physics
Aspen Winter Conference
Aspen, CO, January 12, 2007

Silicon Detectors at the ILC
6th International "Hiroshima"` Symposium on the Development and Application of Semiconductor Tracking Detectors
Carmel, CA, September 11, 2006 ("Abefest")
written version

Realizing Einstein's Dream: Exploring Our Mysterious Universe, talk for a general audience,
public lecture given in Bend, Oregon, on August 10, 2006
at the Friends of Pine Mountain Observatory Star Party

Electroweak Physics and the International Linear Collider
Univ. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Physics Colloquium, May 1, 2006

The Science and Challenges for Future Detector Developments in High Energy Physics
invited opening talk at the 2006 The International Symposium
on the Development of Detectors for Particle, Astro-Particle and Synchrotron Radiation Experiments,
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, April 3, 2006.
written version

Why SiD for an ILC Detector?
Linear Collider Workshop 2006 (LCWS 2006), Bangalore, India, March 11, 2006.

Monolithic CMOS Pixel Detectors for ILC Vertex Detection
Linear Collider Workshop 2006 (LCWS 2006), Bangalore, India, March 10, 2006.
written version

An ECAL for the SiD Detector
Linear Collider Workshop 2006 (LCWS 2006), Bangalore, India, March 10, 2006.
written version

Detector R&D for the International Linear Collider
Journal Club seminar at Cornell University, February 10, 2006.

SiD: A Robust, Optimized ILC Detector
seminar at Brookhaven National Laboratory, October 12, 2005.

Realizing Einstein's Dream: Exploring Our Mysterious Universe, talk for a general audience,
public lecture given at the Central Oregon Community College on October 7, 2005.

Realizing Einstein's Dream: Exploring Our Mysterious Universe, talk for a general audience,
public lecture given at the Univ. of Oregon on May 19, 2005.
Slide show which preceded the May 19 public lecture.

The International Linear Collider
high energy physics seminar, UCLA, February 9, 2005

R&D for Future Detectors
Beijing, International Conference on High Energy Physics (invited plenary talk), August 22, 2004
written version

Charge to the Workshop
Paris, International Linear Collider Workshop 2004 (opening talk), April 19, 2004

Planning for and Progress Toward the Linear Collider
Santa Barbara, Loopfest III (invited talk), April 1, 2004

Linear Collider Planning - pdf
Aspen, Aspen Winter Meeting on Particle Physics (invited talk), February 7, 2004

Particles, Mysteries, and Linear Colliders
Reed College, APS Northwest Section Meeting (invited talk), May 30, 2003

The Other Detectors and Associated R&D
Amsterdam, ECFA Linear Collider Workshop (invited talk), April 4, 2003
write-up- pdf - - ps

The Next Linear Collider and the Origin of Electroweak Physics
Univ. California Riverside, Physics Colloquium, October 31, 2002

Future Plans for the Linear Collider Working Groups
Santa Cruz Linear Collider Retreat, June 29, 2002

R&D Persepectives
Santa Cruz Linear Collider Retreat, June 28, 2002

Gravity Waves: A new way of searching for black holes and other exotic astrophysical oddities (LIGO), talk for a general audience,
Lane Community College, Physics Club, June 11, 2002

Linear Collider Detectors, part 1
. . part 2
Fermilab, Workshop on Linear Collider R&D, April 5, 2002

Linear Collider Detectors
SLAC, Workshop on Linear Collider R&D, May 31, 2002

The Next Linear Collider and the Origin of Electroweak Physics
Oregon State University, Physics Colloquium, May 6, 2002

The Next Linear Collider and the Origin of Electroweak Physics, talk for a general audience,

University of Puget Sound, Science Seminar, March 7, 2002

The Next Linear Collider and the Origin of Electroweak Physics
University of Oregon, Physics Colloquium, February 21, 2002

Flavor tagging with a CCD vertex detector: Higgs BRs as a benchmark
CHICAGO LINEAR COLLIDER WORKSHIP
University of Chicago, January 7-9, 2002

Gravity Waves: A new way of searching for black holes and other exotic astrophysical oddities (LIGO), talk for a general audience,
River Road Community Center, November 13, 2001

The Higgs Mechanism and Electroweak Symmetry Breaking at e⁺e^- Colliders
Snowmass Workshop on the Future of Particle Physics, July 1-20, 2001

The Standard Model Higgs at the Linear Collider
Snowmass Workshop on the Future of Particle Physics, July 1-20, 2001

CCD Vertex Detectors (IEEE NPPS Tutorial)
Snowmass Workshop on the Future of Particle Physics, July 1-20, 2001

Detectors for the Next Linear Collider
Snowmass Workshop on the Future of Particle Physics, July 1-20, 2001

Vertex Detector Studies for the Linear Collider
Snowmass Workshop on the Future of Particle Physics, July 1-20, 2001

Detectors for the Next Linear Collider
WORKSHOP ON PHYSICS AND DETECTORS FOR FUTURE e+e- LINEAR COLLIDERS
Johns Hopkins University, March 19-21, 2001

Higgs Branching Ratio Measurements at a Future Linear Collider
WORKSHOP ON PHYSICS AND DETECTORS FOR FUTURE e+e- LINEAR COLLIDERS
Johns Hopkins University, March 19-21, 2001

The Search for Gravitational Radiation from Distant Astrophysical Sources (LIGO)
Univ. of Idaho Physics Department Colloquium, Oct. 13, 2000

Vertex Detectors for the Future Linear Collider
2000 International Linear Collider Workshop, Fermilab

Higgs Branching Ratio Measurements at a Future Linear Collider
2000 International Linear Collider Workshop, Fermilab

Linear Collider Vertex Detector Optimization for Higgs Branching Ratio Measurements
2000 International Linear Collider Workshop, Fermilab

American Linear Collider Detector Study Status
The Second ACFA Workshop on Physics/Detector at the Linear Collider, November 4 - 6, 1999, Korea University, Seoul, Korea

Operation of a CCD particle detector in the presence of bulk neutron damage
presented by N. Sinev at the IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, Seattle, Oct. 28, 1999

Overview of the American Detector Models
American Linear Collider Detector Simulation Study Meeting, August 4, 1999, SLAC

Vertex Detectors for the LCD
American Linear Collider Detector Simulation Study Meeting, August 4, 1999, SLAC

Electroweak Precision Measurements with Leptons
1999 International Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics, Tampere, Finland, July 15, 1999

Overview of the American Detector Models
International Workshop on Linear Colliders, Sitges, Spain, May, 1999
paper. .

CCD Vertex Detector
International Workshop on Linear Colliders, Sitges, Spain, May, 1999
paper

Linear Collider Vertex Detector R&D Issues
Workshop on Physics and Detectors for Future e+ e- Linear Colliders, Keystone, CO, October, 1998

Detector R&D Issues
NLC/NLD Meeting, 11-12 June 1998, Boulder, Colorado

ILC Calorimetry
New Directions for High Energy Physics, 1996, Snowmass, Colorado
contribution to proceedings