J. Mark Sowers Distinguished Lecture Series with Emeritus Professor of Physics Arthur B. McDonald
Venue: McBryde Hall (VT), Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Date: Thursday, April 27, 2017
Time: 7:30 - 8:30 PM
Event Types: Speaking Engagements
Cost: Free

Description:
The College of Science at Virginia Tech presents the J. Mark Sowers Distinguished Lecture Series featuring Emeritus Professor of Physics Arthur B. McDonald on Thursday, April 27, 2017 in room 100 inside McBryde Hall.

Emeritus Professor of Physics Arthur B. McDonald at Queen's University presents the lecture titled "How unusual: Going 1.2 Miles Underground to Study the Sun and the Space Between the Stars". He is also the Director of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Collaboration and a co-recipient of the 2007 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics, the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics, and the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.

By going more than a mile underground and creating an ultra-clean laboratory it is possible to address some very fundamental questions about our universe: How does the sun burn? What are the dark matter particles making up 27 percent of our universe? What are the properties of neutrinos, elusive particles that are one of the fundamental building blocks of nature? How do these particles influence how our universe evolves?

With the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, we were able to observe new properties of neutrinos that go beyond the standard model of elementary particles and also confirm that the models of how the sun burns are very accurate. We are welcoming the world in collaborative experiments that are looking for the properties of dark matter particles (present in the spaces between the stars) and looking for neutrino signals from supernovae in our galaxy, from the Earth and from the sun. The advantages created by the development of one of the lowest radioactivity laboratories in the world and the resulting fundamental science will be described by McDonald during his talk.

All talks are free and open to the public.

To view the event flyer, visit: http://i.imgsafe.org/013b5df2b7.jpg.

For more information, visit: http://www.science.vt.edu/sowers.html or call 540-231-8706.

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