Where: University Library, Level 2, Lobby
Description
Join us for the official opening of the LHC CERN Interactive Tunnel with CERN Professor John Ellis and Yale Professor Priyamvada Natarajan.
What is the universe made of? How did it start? Physicists at The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) are seeking answers, using some of the world's most powerful particle accelerators.
CERN is a European research organization that operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world. At CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, physicists and engineers are probing the fundamental structure of the universe. They use the world's largest and most complex scientific instruments to study the basic constituents of matter – the fundamental particles. The particles are made to collide together at close to the speed of light. The process gives the physicists clues about how the particles interact, and provides insights into the fundamental laws of nature.
LHC Interactive Tunnel
How can we shorten the distance between complex scientific knowledge and wide public understanding? Concepts like “the influence of Higgs Field on matter” and “particle acceleration and collision” can lead to explanations which are quite often hard to understand and even harder to retain. By immersing yourself in this fully interactive gaming experience, the LHC Interactive Tunnel will manage to bridge the gap between science education, interactive media and information visualization, creating an entertaining and memorable tool for learning.
Related Events
What are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going?
A Conversation with John Ellis
Chasing After The First Black Holes
Film Screening and Discussion: A Brief History of Time (1991)
We value your feedback and welcome any comments you may have to help us improve our programs. Make sure you submit the survey after you have attended this event!
John Ellis
John Ellis holds the Clerk Maxwell Professorship of Theoretical Physics at King's College in London. After his 1971 PhD from Cambridge University, he worked at SLAC, Caltech, and CERN (Geneva), where he was Theory Division Leader for six years. Much of his work relates directly to interpreting results of searches for new particles. He was one of the first to study how the Higgs boson could be produced and discovered. He is currently very active in efforts to understand the Higgs particle discovered recently at CERN, as well as its implications for possible new physics such as dark matter and supersymmetry. John Ellis was awarded the Maxwell Medal and the Paul Dirac Prize by the Institute of Physics. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of London and of the Institute of Physics, and is an Honorary Fellow of King's College Cambridge and of King's College London.
Priyamvada Natarajan
Priyamvada Natarajan, Professor in the Departments of Astronomy and Physics at Yale University, is a theoretical astrophysicist interested in cosmology, gravitational lensing and black hole physics. Her research involves mapping the detailed distribution of dark matter in the universe exploiting the bending of light en-route to us from distant galaxies. In particular, she has focused on making dark matter maps of clusters of galaxies, the largest known repositories of dark matter. Her work has demonstrated that cluster strong lensing offers a unique and potentially powerful laboratory to test evolving dark energy models.
No resources found.
No links found.
