{"id":699,"date":"2018-09-19T08:53:15","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T13:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/?page_id=699"},"modified":"2018-09-20T11:50:50","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T16:50:50","slug":"erin-conley","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/erin-conley\/","title":{"rendered":"Erin Conley"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Erin Conley<\/strong><\/div>\n
Graduate student researching supernova neutrino studies<\/strong>
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At my first major DUNE talk, it was so scary. I was presenting to 30 or 40 people \u2014 literal experts in the field. I was about to start my second year of grad school. I wanted to make my working group proud, and I wanted to highlight my area of physics because it’s important. I had two days to prepare. My advisor was very excited about it, and I was just terrified. It was a daunting moment when I first stood in front of the crowd, and it seemed no words came out for the first 10 seconds. I eventually said, ‘Hi. My name is Erin.’ It took a long time to get that first ‘hello’ out. But I made it through. I’d like to think I’m stronger because of it. Now I’m on the collaboration working on studies to prepare the DUNE detector for the moment that a supernova shows up and lots of neutrinos come out of it. I love working for DUNE \u2014 I love working with people on various problems and projects, the travel opportunities, and the exposure that comes with it. I enjoy the questions we’re asking and seeing the way we answer them. I feel grateful and fortunate. What a life \u2014 it feels like a dream.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Curious about the project? Learn more about DUNE, LBNF and PIP-II<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Erin Conley Graduate student researching supernova neutrino studies Duke University, United States At my first major DUNE talk, it was so scary. I was presenting to 30 or 40 people \u2014 literal experts in the field. I was about to start my second year of grad school. I wanted to make my working group proud,… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-699","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1120,"href":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/699\/revisions\/1120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}