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Events on Friday, April 4th, 2014
- Physics Department Colloquium
- Looking for Dark Matter, Here, There and Everywhere
- Time: 3:30 pm
- Place: 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Speaker: Patrick Fox , Fermilab
- Abstract: The hunt for physics beyond the standard model at the LHC is in full swing. We already know of the existence of (at least) one new particle that is not in the standard model, dark matter. The existence of dark matter was first inferred from astrophysical observations and later confirmed by cosmological measurements. There is considerable ongoing effort to see the effects of dark matter, which makes up the majority of the matter in our galaxy, in a more terrestrial setting. I will outline what is, and what is not, known about dark matter, and explain how we may soon learn a lot more, as well as explaining how the conventional search methods can be complemented by searches at the LHC, and elsewhere.
- Host: Bai
- Public
- Digital Planetarium show & tell
- Time: 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm
- Place: Sterling Hall Planetarium
- Speaker: Jim Madsen, WIPAC, UW-River Falls
- Abstract: Join colleagues from the Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center (WIPAC) and others for a drop-in “show and tell” of a digital planetarium system from 4 to 6 pm in the Sterling Hall planetarium on Friday, April 4.
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