Title: First Oscillation Results from NOvA

Speaker: Satish Desai (Univ. of Minnesota)

Abstract: NOvA is an off-axis long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment studying electron neutrino appearance and muon neutrino disappearance using the Fermilab NuMI beam.  It consists of functionally identical tracking calorimeters, one located at Fermilab, the other 810 km away in Ash River, Minnesota.  The NOvA collaboration has recently released its first oscillation results, including evidence for electron neutrino appearance and measurements of muon neutrino disappearance.  I will describe the NOvA detectors, the calibration and analysis methods and finally present our first results.