Abstract: In June of 1998 the Super-Kamiokande Collaboration, a team of some one hundred American and Japanese scientists, announced the detection of neutrino oscillations in their large underground observatory... a story carried on the front page of virtually every major newspaper in the world. Since then we have more than doubled the size of our data set, shedding additional (Cherenkov) light on the nature of atmospheric neutrino oscillations, nucleon decay, and the solar neutrino problem. Super-K's latest results and future plans will be discussed.

Dr. Mark Vagins got his B.S. at the California Institute of Technology, and then went on to receive his Ph.D. in experimental particle physics at Yale University in 1994. He is currently a research physicist at the University of California, Irvine, and is one of the central participants in the Super-Kamiokande experiment, where he is co-convener of the solar neutrino analysis effort. He enjoys scuba diving, flying ultra-light aircraft, eating raw pufferfish, loitering in high radiation areas, public speaking, and other life-threatening activities.