Science Cafe

 

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Date/Time:

February 1, 2012 -  6:30pm

Location:

Science & Engineering Library - Room 090/070 (basement)

Speaker:

Gordon Aubrecht, OSU Professor of Physics

Topic:

Why is the search for the Higgs boson important?

Summary:

Two experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN recently announced indications--not certainty--that the so-called Higgs boson may exist at a CERN colloquium. Most major news outlets had stories about this development of varying accuracy. This talk will, we hope, give enough background for people to understand why the search is under way and understand its importance to particle physics.

About our Speaker:

Aubrecht’s Ph.D. is from Princeton University (Woodrow Wilson Fellow) in particle physics. He was a Humboldt Fellow. He is a member of the Contemporary Physics Education Project, secretary of IEEE Stds Coord. Comm. 14, & Exec. Sec. of the InterAmerican Council on Physics Education. Aubrecht is a fellow of APS and AAAS. He received the AAPT Distinguished Service Citation, the Hart Award of the S. Ohio Sect-AAPT, the Maxwell Award from the Ohio Sect-APS and the Nemzer Award from OSU AAUP.

 

Location Information:

Science & Engineering Library (see on campus map)- Room 090/070 (basement).  Food/drinks available via Terra Byte Cafe or vending on first floor.

The Tuttle Park Place Garage has visitor parking.  See costs and location information.

No RSVP is needed - just show up!


Upcoming Speakers (6:30pm unless otherwise noted):

We are working on our speaker list for the 2011-12 academic year.  Contact us at scicafe@osu.edu with speaker suggestions or to volunteer!

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