Events at Physics |
Events on Tuesday, February 17th, 2015
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar
- The limits to growth or the limits to models?
- Time: 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm
- Place: 4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served)
- Speaker: Jim Blair, Milton and Edgewood College
- Abstract: Thomas Malthus and the Malthusian Trap
The Limits to Growth in 3 iterations (Club of Rome)
The Limits to the Limits to Growth (Ben Bova)
The Bet: Paul Ehrlich vs Julian Simon
2020 Vision (1970), and at the Midway (1995) - Host: Clint Sprott
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum
- Faculty Candidate Seminar
- Using kaons to unlock the secrets of the neutrino
- Time: 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Place: 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Speaker: Joshua Spitz, MIT
- Abstract: More than 80 years after its proposed existence, the neutrino remains
largely mysterious and elusive. Despite this fact, we are closing in
on answers to some of the big questions surrounding the "little
neutral one". After an introduction to the neutrino and neutrino mass,
I will discuss two of the most important open questions in particle
physics and cosmology today: (1) How many neutrinos are there? and (2)
Is there a difference between matter neutrinos and antimatter
neutrinos?
When a charged-kaon decays at rest, it usually produces a
monoenergetic (236 MeV) muon neutrino. Recently, this unique neutrino has been
identified as an important tool in helping to eventually answer these
big questions. I will discuss the "kaon decay-at-rest" concept for
neutrino physics and present a set of experiments that will be able to
perform the relevant measurements in the next few years. - Host: Dasu